Wednesday, September 8, 2010

A Bit Of Late Model News and Barry's Photos

My Wednesday morning started off with a call from Lynn Richard, owner of the Richard Realty and Auction GRT Late Model #15 based here in my hometown of Mount Pleasant, Iowa. Lynn is excited to announce that he will have a nationally known crew chief and driver in action for next week's Pepsi USA Late Model Nationals at 34 Raceway near Burlington as GRT owner Joe Garrison and driver Jack Sullivan will partner with Richard in the quest for the $10,000 top prize. With Darren Miller also stating his intentions to be in Burlington next week that will be two "nationally known" contenders and Richard noted that there just might be a couple of more show up.

Of course the field will already be stacked with talent and names that all of us around the Midwest know pretty darn well including Guss, Aikey, Eckrich, Burgtorf, Toland, DeFrance, McLaughlin, etc., etc. Once again it should be a huge field of IMCA Late Models that pull into 34 Raceway next weekend and with names such as Sullivan and "The Thriller" Miller joining in, it can only add to the reputation of the event throughout Late Model Nation.

Our own Barry Johnson was at the opening night of the IMCA Super Nationals in Boone on Monday night and he snapped the following during the Deery Brothers Summer Series action.
Kevin Sather (3) races with Craig Roberts. Sather has picked up a couple of feature wins during his first season in a Late Model.

Jason Rauen goes for a tumble making some contact with Boone McLaughlin as well, wile Tyler Bruening (16) slips by on the inside.

Ray Guss Jr. (58) continued his dominating 2010 season adding the Super Nationals trophy to his three track championships, the Deery Brothers Summer Series title and the IMCA National Championship.

Andy Eckrich (56) has sewn up the Rookie-of-the-Year title on the Deery series for 2010. Here he races with another RoY contender Todd Malmstrom.

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