2016 Gateway Dirt Nationals Modified Race Results – Thursday

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)

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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.

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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)

 

2016 Gateway Nationals Results

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