Regional Notes - Aug. 20, 2008
Jesse Hockett returned from the Knoxville Nationals and captured his 100th-career sprint-car victory. Hockett’s milestone win came Aug. 10 at Missouri’s Double-X Speedway . . . Wade Tirrel’s Aug. 10 WISSOTA street-stock victory at Madison (Minn.) Speedway ended a winless drought at the track that had lasted for 19 years. His last victory there came in 1989. . . Jordan Anderson rallied from an 87-point deficit with a pair of victories over the final three weeks of the Quaker Steak & Lube Summer Shootout Series to win his second-straight series title in the Legends pro division. . . Members of the Childs family won four of 11 features Aug. 13 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway, including David Childs (outlaw and runnin’ rebel), Josh Childs (runnin’ rebel), Guy Childs, Sr. (outlaw). The victories also gave the Childs clan 188 total, one better than the Rowe family’s previous mark. . . Ross Kenseth, the 15-year-old son of NASCAR Sprint Cup driver Matt Kenseth, won for the first time at Wisconsin’s Madison Int’l Speedway Aug. 8. Earlier this season, Kenseth broke through with a Big 8 Series victory. . . Frank Paul won the first IMCA-sanctioned hobby-stock feature on pavement held in Wisconsin Aug. 9 at 141 Speedway. . . Running third, Tom Flippo, Jr. capitalized on a late spin that took out the leaders and motored to his first feature victory in more than two years Aug. 7 at Rockford (Ill.) Speedway. . . Nic Bidinger captured his ninth feature victory of the season Aug. 8 in Lakeside Speedway’s (Kansas City, Kan.) grand-national division. . . Greg Skaggs raced to his 12th feature victory of the season Aug. 8 in the modified division at Outlaw Motor Speedway in Oktaha, Okla. . . Brothers Chris and Brian Rye notched victories in the IMCA Southern Sportmod and IMCA modified divisions, respectively Aug. 8 at I-37 Raceway in Pleasanton, Texas. Brian Rye’s victory also ended Greg Dinsmore’s winning streak at the track at eight. . . Blane Heimbach’s 358 sprint-car victory Aug. 9 at Selinsgrove (Pa.) Speedway — his fifth of the season — gave him 26 for his career at Selinsgrove, making him the track’s winningest driver in the division. Chad Layton previously held the mark with 25 victories. . . On Aug. 9, Kevin Claborn won both the late-model and thunder-car features at Mt. Lawn (Ind.) Speedway for the second-straight week.