Cottle Cruises To Victory at Gas City Speedway

Photo By: Dave Merritt (www.davespitpassphotos.com)

Written By: Matt "Night" Rider
Thursday, August 6, 2008

GAS CITY, IN.- Current Gas City Speedway sprint car points leader and Kokomo native Shane Cottle came away with the feature win on Friday night.

After the victory, Cottle said, "It feels pretty good. I just tried to pick the right line and time to pass." Coming in second was No. 21x Casey Shuman. Shuman said, "We were up there leading for awhile. You can't give Cottle too many spots here. We'll try to do better tomorrow night." Huntington Beach, CA. racer Nic Faas had a rough start but was able to turn it around for a strong third place finish in the 25 lap feature. "Well, third is pretty good considering we spun out on the first lap of the feature", said Faas.

The 2009 Hoosier Hundred winner Shane Hollingsworth stayed up front all night to take a fourth place finish, while West Terre Haute native Blake Fitzpatrick rounded out the top five, finishing his night in fifth place.

In UMP Late Modified action, No. 25 Bub Patrick brought home another feature win this season. Following Patrick was the No. 20x Steve Hughes, while No. 46E J0sh Eads raced to a top three finish.

Ervin Turner won yet another UMP Street Stock feature in his white No. 1 UMP Street Stock. Taking second place honors was No. 37 Scott Hubbard, while third belonged to No. 56 Tony Bowman.

No. 12x Josh Owens collected the final feature of the night, winning the Thunder Car feature. No. 73J Jeff Baldauf stayed up front the whole race, ending his night in second place. Third went to No. 41F Ron Flaugh.

The Gas City Speedway returns to life Friday August 7th, as they race their regular program of Nonwing Sprints, UMP Modifeds, UMP Street Stocks, and Thunder Cars.

NOTE: There will be no article covering the racing for Miami County Speedway on Saturday, August 1st. The rain closed in and rained out the Kreiser Engines $1000.00 race along with the Jr. feature. The Kreiser Engines $1000.00 race will be run first along with the Junior feature and then the regular program of five micro sprint features. All the action in one night. It all kicks off this Saturday night, August 8th at 7 p.m. live from the Miami County Speedway.