2016 Gateway Dirt Nationals Modified Heat Race Results – Thursday
While you were asleep I was at the Gateway Dirt Nationals. View the Gateway Dirt Nationals modified race results posted below.
I only have a handful of sub-par photos from the night posted. I’m tired, it’s 4AM. I’ll have to sift through the other 2000 images tomorrow. I’m too tired to even find the good ones.
Related: 2016 Gateway Dirt Nationals Photos – Modifieds (Thursday)
The race of the night was the last chance qualifier. Christopher Winters and Jeff Yates tangles at the Gateway Dirt Nationals as they came to the white flag. As you can see Jeff Yates is ‘all but’ upside-down.
However, the yellow never came out. The cars landed and resumed racing for the win. The two ended up finishing first and 2nd.
Both winners of the last chance qualifier race were given an option of taking home $750 or starting in the back of one of the mains. Both winners elected to the take the money and watch the race from the stands, beer in hand.
The track was a bottom feeder race-track. Though, the staff are putting in a plan to edit the racetrack design. The plan is to promote side-by-side racing. They watered the track in the middle of several heat races, only the top. They were trying to get things going on the top.
Not a single drop of water went to the bottom.
Kenny Wallace was one of the very few cars I saw make a pass on the high side. While everyone else was glued to the bottom, Kenny avoided the traffic jams on entry and went to the high side.
Scott Bloomquist made a somewhat surprise appearance in the dirt modified division. However, we was involved in a crash early on in his heat race. He will be buried in the mains.
When the mods lined up for thir heat races so did the yellows. Most of the heat races were caution filled. People fighting for the bottom, put their car in a whole that didn’t exist. I think a big part of this has to do with the modified drivers themselvesand an over-excetited right foot. Which I understand, given this is a history making event.
The last modified heat race race of the night at The Dome was actually very exciting. It was like a completely different night of racing. This was after multiple visits from the water track. The top had just come in, few were running it. But that race had a long green flag run of side-by-side racing. I see that at wonderful signs to come once they work on the track a bit more.
The Gateway Dirt modifieds were the only ones to run races at The Dome on Thursday. Late Models only ran two qualifying runs, per car. In fact, that’s a big part of why the show ended so late. I left The Dome at 2:30.
The initial plan was to run one qualifying session for each car. one turned into two. 3 cars on track per run, across both classes. So, qualifying wasn’t over until somewhere near midnight.
That added session of qualifying put them way behind schedule. But with so many cars it was probably very fair to the drivers to do that, not sure much fair to the fans. But I do understand, the entire weekend is based on your qualifying runs. It will make or break your weekend.
Again… I’m tried. I’m positive I have many grammatical errors in this, all over this. I honestly I don’t care to even check for them, or fix them right now. I’m sorry for that though, just wanted to get the results out with some info.
View the Gateway Dirt Nationals modified race results posted below.
Author: Shane Walters
Heat Race 1
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 2 | Nick Hoffman |
2 | 96M | Mike McKinney |
3 | 110 | Chase Copeland |
4 | 10Y | Trent Young |
5 | 01X | Beau Davis |
6 | 44KC | KC Burdette |
7 | 4M | Scott Jarrett |
8 | 01W | Derrick Black |
9 | 81B | Paul Bailey |
10 | 19CH | Colby Heishman |
11 | 14C | Rick Conoyer |
12 | 30T | Larry Bratti |
13 | 43 | Brent Gregory (DNS) |
Heat Race 2
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 24H | Mike Harrison |
2 | 3E | Robbie Eilers |
3 | 5S | Todd Shute |
4 | 2M | David Mitchell |
5 | 15C | Chris Smith |
6 | 51 | Timmy Hill |
7 | A1X | Gary Bentley |
8 | 10S | Rick Standridge |
9 | 8K | Brody Pompe |
10 | 37JR | Morgan Ward |
11 | 71 | Jessie Hoskins |
12 | 27M | Dan Morris |
13 | 11 | Zane Oedewaldt |
Heat Race 3
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 18 | Jeffery Ledford |
2 | 9S | Tommie Seets Jr |
3 | 25W | Allen Weisser |
4 | 25 | Tyler Nicely |
5 | 3L | Jeff Leka |
6 | 7M | Clay Money |
7 | 1D | Dean Hoffman |
8 | 76 | Eric Goetter |
9 | 9G | Erny Gingerich |
10 | 10M | Chris Morefield |
11 | 54 | Shaun Horstmann |
12 | 48 | Gabe Menser |
13 | 2F | Ryan Eilers |
Heat Race 4
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 99W | Christopher Arnold |
2 | 10X | Jim Black |
3 | 15K | Justin Kay |
4 | 18L | Michael Long |
5 | 36E | Danny Ems |
6 | 10L | Nathon Loney |
7 | 98 | Joe Walsh |
8 | 85G | Joseph Giesler |
9 | 19 | Terry James |
10 | 3G | Wade Glover |
11 | 16C | John Clippinger |
12 | 21 | Seth Daniels |
13 | 05 | David Wietholder |
Heat Race 5
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 89 | Bobby Bittle |
2 | 1R | Ryan Mikkelson |
3 | E55 | Chad Sellers |
4 | 16X | Kyle Steffens |
5 | D1 | Lance Dehm |
6 | 1Z | Zach Hoffman |
7 | 113 | Rick Gumm |
8 | 33J | Jeff Vernier |
9 | 128 | Zach Schantz |
10 | 52 | Denny Tribout Jr |
11 | 517 | Rick Hamilton |
12 | 70Y | Jeff Yates |
13 | 0X | Scott Bloomquist |
14 | 14J | Hunter Jessup |
Heat Race 6
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 41M | Brent Mullins |
2 | C8 | Timothy Culp |
3 | 12L | Lucas Lee |
4 | 84 | Tyler Deibert |
5 | 36 | Kenny Wallace |
6 | 99S | Jesse Sobbing |
7 | 15M | Shane Demey |
8 | 2% | Nicholas Clubb |
9 | 4B | Cody Bauman |
10 | 96 | Matt Koch |
11 | 3M | Tres Mehler |
12 | 147 | Kyle Stolzer |
Heat Race 7
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 18C | Matt Cooper |
2 | 15 | Clayton Miller |
3 | 8B | Brendan Bittle |
4 | 7 | Matt Maier |
5 | 1W | Ray Walsh |
6 | 61 | Butch Weisser |
7 | 2J | Jason Russell |
8 | 14 | Billy Smith |
9 | 37 | Dave Crawley |
10 | 32Z | Nate Zimmer |
11 | 84B | Stan Beadles |
12 | 360 | BJ Seets (DNS) |
Heat Race 8
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 92 | Tyler Droste |
2 | 10R | Curt Rhodes |
3 | T6 | Tommy Sheppard Jr |
4 | 31 | Mark Anderson |
5 | 70 | Brian Bielong |
6 | 27R | Craig Roden |
7 | 5T | Rob Timmons |
8 | 63 | Bret Eilerman |
9 | 101 | Jeff Buss |
10 | 4D | Doug Tye |
11 | 77 | Ray Bollinger |
12 | 25K | Brett Korves |
Last Chance Qualifier  1
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 21X | Christopher Winters |
2 | 70Y | Jeff Yates |
3 | T | Jason Zobrist |
4 | 3D | Kevin Lee |
5 | 21S | Kenny Shaw |
6 | 97 | John Rathgeber |
7 | 1B | Douglas Beier |
8 | 6 | John Trowbridge |
9 | 88P | Joe Puricelli |
10 | 7T | Blake Thompson |
11 | 99 | Bobby Burrows |
12 | 11H | John Stanton |
13 | 94 | Mark Clary |
14 | 33 | Stephen Muilenburg |
15 | 1SS | Nathan Seale |
16 | 22 | Len Garson |
Last Chance Qualifier  2
Pos | Car # | Driver |
1 | 45D | Matt Dotson |
2 | 52 | Denny Tribout Jr |
3 | 36W | Gary Williams |
4 | 18D | Matt Dickerman |
5 | 19C | Aaron Canterberry |
6 | 34B | Brett Beier |
7 | 127 | Andy Morris |
8 | 50 | Robert Johnson Jr |
9 | 73B | Shad Badder |
10 | 11K | Wyatt Kennedy |
11 | 24J | Michael Jessup |
12 | 47 | Brad Paquet |
13 | 48J | Jacob Murray |
14 | 5 | Joe Dresch (DNS) |
15 | 10F | Todd Ferber (DNS) |
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