Riley Hickman
Returning to his home track for the first time in six weeks, “The Hustler” Riley Hickman dominated the Late Model 25 lap feature Saturday night at Cleveland Speedway to the delight of his fans.
Hickman of Ooltewah, just down the road from the track, set the fast time before laying waste to the 13 other competitors in the #R1 “Hickman Manufacturing, American Billet, Austin Trucking, A-1 Towing, Stealth Racing Carburetors, BIF Mtorsports, Chip Vineyard Racing" sponsored Chevrolet 604 / CVR Racecar.
Spencer Singleton delighted the kids at Cleveland Speedway after his win in heat #2 over Kevin Gibson with autograph pictures of his #71. Unfortunately for Singleton, Gibson and Heath Hindman came for blood in the feature regulating the “North Georgia Wildman” to a fourth-place finish. Paul Tims narrowly (by inches) passed rookie “Downtown” Jimmy Brown to finish fifth behind Singleton.
In an odd and huge field 22-car Crate Late Model turn-out, David Doss introduced himself (not only as the new Doss) to A-1 Towing Victory Lane with 2 laps remaining in the feature. Booger Brooks set the stage setting fast time and dominating the first of the feature. With contact in separate incidents with outside pole sitter Jason Deal and then Jerry Coffman, on the starts, Brooks would be eventually the victim while trying to distance himself from Craig Burrows. Brooks made contact with a back-marker car on the front straight-away and got thrown into the concrete wall, thus ending his chances at 3-in-a-row.
Burrow inherited the lead and pulled away from Doss, but multiple cautions later and Burrows would blow his power plant giving the lead to the #28 “Doss Motors, S&S Trucking, Mayo Racing Components, Paul Doss Memorial, Shriners” sponsored Crate GM 604 race car within the final laps. Doss held back Jimmy Elliott for his first win, coming importantly with now less than two races until the Chase for the Dirt Cup begins in September.
In other racing action “same ole, same ole” as Brandon Stanfield is quickly becoming the next sensation in his # 28 “S&H Erectors, Chattanooga Barricade, CRS Close Race Supply, Outlaw Graphics” sponsored Danny Warren’s Backyard Race Engines powered Chevy Camero winning his sixth overall feature of the season.
Mitch Brady Jr. threw everything at Stanfield he could but would settle for the runner-up position in front of Robbie Greene.
In the B-Hobby “Heavy Metal Monster of the Midway” class Jimmy Smith came to race. Making his debut last week the track decided to P&G the Top 3 finishers, which unfortunately would disqualify the performance of the Red Bank racer, thus handing the win to Cleveland’s Richard Dixon.
The win yanks Dixon back to the top of the B-Hobby points lead as both he and runner-up Ricky Wagner have three victories apiece. In the Road Warriors the K-9 of Jason Lewis of Soddy Daisy picked up a backwards victory narrowly defeating Jonathan Huff.
Cleveland Speedway owners and management have decided to re-write the 2015 Fall Schedule of races and will be racing “every” Saturday night, weather permitting up til the “Gobbler” weekend in November. Visit www.ClevelandSpeedwayLLC.com for more details.
RESULTS
Late Models:
1. Riley Hickman R1
2. Kevin Gibson M45
3. Heath Hindman 9
4. Spencer Singleton 71
5. Paul Tims 84
Crate:
1. David Doss 28
2. Jimmy Elliott J39
3. Griffin Kinsey 94
4. Josh Fields 11
5. Scottie Hogan 15
A-Hobby:
1. Brandon Stanfield 28
B-Hobby:
1. Richard Dixon 3
Road Warriors:
1. Jason Lewis K9
Doss in front