Valley Speedway

8/10/2019

RacinBoys

A.J. Gilbert, Dakota Foster score at Valley Speedway

RACINBOYS EXCLUSIVE By Ray Cunningham (Kansas City, KS) -- It was a great Birthday Celebration for Darren Gilbert Friday night at Valley Speedway. First older son Dustin won his heat race in POWRi Valley Outlaw Midget Action. And then younger son A.J. took the night cap winning the Midget feature to celebrate Father Darren’s 54th Birthday in style.

PHOTO: AJ Gilbert--CREDIT: John Lee of High-Fly'n Photos -- http://www.highfly-nphotos.com

For A.J. it was his second feature win of the year in Valley Midget Action giving the young Tonganoxie, Kansas, racer a strangle hold on the season championship with two races remaining in 2019. In this one Gilbert driving the Nussbaum Consulting/Renner Wraps #2 came back strong after a 5th place heat race finish to win the feature coming from 5th.

Teammate Heath Murry would run a career best 2nd place Friday, while Chad Shields returning behind the wheel for the first time since 2018 ran a strong 3rd. “Smokin” Joe Walker brought home a 4th place result in his second outing for 2019. With 2017 Champ Dustin Gilbert rounding out the top 5. The POWRi Valley Outlaw Midgets return to action in two weeks on August 30th.

RESULTS

8/9/2019 at Valley Speedway

B Modifieds

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 5-Dakota Foster, 06:38.163[3]; 2. 7B-Gunner Martin, 06:40.677[5]; 3. 17-Rod Cordon, 06:48.017[8]; 4. 81A-Austin Charles, 06:48.636[7]; 5. 03-Chris Brockway, 06:37.211[2]; 6. 96-Cody Brill, 06:52.613[11]; 7. 42-Gene Claxton, 06:52.650[1]; 8. 71-Tony Layne, 06:54.887[6]; 9. 11P-Jeremy Price, 06:56.856[12]; 10. 29C-Bobby Cochran, 06:47.103[14]; 11. 02-Donald Johnston, 07:08.987[13]; 12. (DNF) 117-Tim Galvin, 06:22.267[9]; 13. (DNF) 37-Wes Brown, 04:10.373[10]; 14. (DNF) 7-Tyler Wood, 01:43.475[4]; (DNS) 11-John Murray, 01:43.475

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 03-Chris Brockway, [2]; 2. 5-Dakota Foster, [4]; 3. 81A-Austin Charles, [1]; 4. 117-Tim Galvin, [3]; 5. 17-Rod Cordon, [7]; 6. 96-Cody Brill, [5]; 7. 11P-Jeremy Price, [8]; 8. 29C-Bobby Cochran, [6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 7-Tyler Wood, 02:36.427[1]; 2. 42-Gene Claxton, 02:39.470[6]; 3. 7B-Gunner Martin, 02:38.705[5]; 4. 71-Tony Layne, 02:40.640[7]; 5. 37-Wes Brown, 02:40.266[3]; 6. 02-Donald Johnston, 02:50.993[2]; 7. (DNF) 11-John Murray, 02:50.993[4]

Valley Powri Outlaw Midgets

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 2-A.J. Gilbert, [5]; 2. 7-Heath Murry, [2]; 3. 2H-Chad Shields, [3]; 4. 51-Joe Walker, [6]; 5. 3-Dustin Gilbert, [1]; 6. 96-Mike Higley, [8]; 7. 5H-Casey Hicks, [7]; 8. (DNF) 4F-Chad Frewaldt, [4]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Dustin Gilbert, [1]; 2. 7-Heath Murry, [2]; 3. 4F-Chad Frewaldt, [3]; 4. 2H-Chad Shields, [6]; 5. 2-A.J. Gilbert, [7]; 6. 51-Joe Walker, [8]; 7. 5H-Casey Hicks, [5]; 8. 96-Mike Higley, [4]

E Mods

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 33-Jeremy Curless, 04:10.406[6]; 2. 74-Justin Asher, 04:09.846[2]; 3. 14P-Josh Paul, 04:11.820[3]; 4. 33X-Bobby Woods, 04:15.033[5]; 5. 81-Jeff Jackson, 04:19.755[8]; 6. 67-Brandon Beam, 04:21.775[7]; 7. 55-Rick Couch, 04:21.927[4]; 8. 10-Ronnie Miles, 04:25.685[10]; 9. 7-Danny Thompson, 02:28.668[9]; 10. 00-Jason Ensley, 02:01.678[1]; (DNS) J55-Josh Marshall, 02:01.678

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 74-Justin Asher, 01:38.350[1]; 2. 14P-Josh Paul, 01:41.151[3]; 3. 33-Jeremy Curless, 01:41.640[2]; 4. 81-Jeff Jackson, 01:44.220[4]; 5. 10-Ronnie Miles, 01:44.220[5]

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 00-Jason Ensley, 01:41.609[4]; 2. 55-Rick Couch, 01:43.320[1]; 3. 33X-Bobby Woods, 01:43.100[3]; 4. 67-Brandon Beam, 01:45.242[5]; 5. 7-Danny Thompson, 01:47.213[6]; (DNS) J55-Josh Marshall, 01:47.213

Pure Stocks

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 23X-Terry Cole, [3]; 2. 10-David Schirlls, [6]; 3. 38-Bobby Russell, [1]; 4. (DNF) 31-Josh Crump, [5]; (DQ) 23F-Logan Headley, [2]; (DQ) 03-Jimmy Smith, [4]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 38-Bobby Russell, 01:43.773[3]; 2. 23F-Logan Headley, 01:46.846[1]; 3. 23X-Terry Cole, 01:48.730[2]; 4. 03-Jimmy Smith, 01:48.722[4]; 5. 31-Josh Crump, 01:49.454[5]; 6. 10-David Schirlls, 01:51.587[6]

ATV Open Money

A Feature 1 (6 Laps): 1. 337-Mark Lee, [1]; 2. 11-Chris Stout, [2]; 3. 219-Jake Wayne, [4]; 4. 008-Zach Kapp, [5]; 5. 19-Garrett Feller, [3]

Heat 1 (5 Laps): 1. 337-Mark Lee, [4]; 2. 11-Chris Stout, [5]; 3. 19-Garrett Feller, [1]; 4. 219-Jake Wayne, [3]; 5. 008-Zach Kapp, [2]

ATV Open Amateur

A Feature 1 (6 Laps): 1. 24-Samantha LaRae, [1]

Submitted By: Kirk Elliott

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