Southern Maryland Nationals-October 2-3, 2009

“Corbin Superb In Potomac’s Southern Maryland Nationals”

By Doug Watson

Budds Creek, MD- Winchester Va.’s Mike Corbin, The 2009 Winchester Speedway pure stock champion, capped off his stellar season winning the 18th annual Southern Maryland Nationals last Saturday night at the Potomac speedway. The $2000 win was not only his first-ever at Potomac, but made him the 14th different driver to score a victory in Potomac’s marquee event on the schedule.

Walt Homberg and Mike Corbin brought the field down to the initial waving of the green flag. Corbin wasted little time as he would blast into the race lead by the completion of the events first circuit. Despite the repeated challenges by eventual runner-up Walt Homberg, who pulled alongside Corbin on several occasions, Corbin was not to be denied as he would eventually lead all 35-laps to post the biggest win of his career. “This is amazing.” Corbin stated from Potomac’s victory lane. “This has been a great weekend I just cant believe how everything came together tonight we’re just fortunate to be here.” Walt Homberg was the only serious challenge Corbin had to face the entire night. “This is Walt’s home track, and he’s really fast down here.” Corbin replied. “He ran me really clean and I have to th ank the entire team for a great season, this is a big win for us and it really hasn’t sunk in yet.” Thirteenth starting Troy Kassiris would take third, Mike Reynolds had a nice run taking fourth and Scotty Nelson would complete the top-five. In Friday’s qualifying Kyle Nelson set fast time over the 40-car field with a time of 18.591. Heats went to John Sellner, Chuck Bowie, Homberg and Reynolds with twin consolations going to Mike Rose and Eric Johnson.

Mechanicsville Maryland’s Derrick Quade defended his nationals win from 2008 with a convincing win in the limited late model divisions 30-lap main event. Quade wrestled the top-spot from Steven Axtell Jr. on lap-six and then would have to repel the repeated advances from former track champion Sommey Lacey to post his second Potomac feature win of the season. “The track was great tonight.” Quade said. “I knew that was Sommey back there, but I knew he’d run me clean, and I can’t thank the whole team enough we need this win real bad.” Dale Hollidge would take third, Stevie Long was fourth and Jonathon DeHaven rounded out the top-five. Heats for the 26-cars on hand went to Kyle Lear, Steven Axtell Jr. and Quade.

In the 35-lap four-cylinder event Richard Gwizdale made it a clean sweep of the weekend as he set fast time in time trials on Friday, won his heat and the dash, and would then lead all 35-laps of the race to post his second feature win of the se ason. Track champion Greg Gunter was second, Mark Digges was third, Jimmy Meek took fourth and Tommy Whitt completed the top-five.

Other winners over the weekend included, Brett Hamilton who scored his third win of the season in the 25-lap modified headliner, Jimmy Randall who collected his first-career win in the 25-lap hobby stock main and Kyle Vantassel who annexed win number five in the 50-lap strictly stock feature.

10/2/09 Modifieds: 1. Brett Hamilton, 2. Dan Arnold, 3. Tony Garber, 4. John Ferguson, 5. Joey Polevoy, 6. Rich Marks, 7. Chet Gagnon, 8. Russell Irwin, 9. Kevin Fletcher, 10. Tony, 11. Craig Ramich, 12. James Marshall, 13. Eric Erwin (DNS) Art Goode

 

10/3/09

Late Models: 1. Derick Quade, 2. Sommey Lacey, 3. Dale Hollidge, 4. Stevie Long, 5. Jonathan Dehaven, 6. Roland Mann, 7. Paul Cursey, 8. Brandon Long, 9. Ed Pope, 10. Jimmy Richards, 11. Leon Lloyd, 12. Tommy Wagner, 13. Richard Harrison, 14. Roy Scaggs, 15. Dan Zechman, 16. Tim Shelton, 17. Bruce Kane, 18. Kyle Lear, 19. Scott Merryman, 20. Walter Crouch, 21. Chris Stacy, 22. Barry Lear Sr, 23. Steven Axtell, 24. Moe Harden, 25. C.J. Brown ( DNS Mike Latham)

 

Street Stocks: 1. Mike Corbin, 2. Walt Homberg, 3. Troy Kassiris, 4. Mike Reynolds, 5. Scottie Nelson, 6. Eric Johnson, 7. Sam Archer, 8. Dave Stouffer, 9. Craig Tankersley, 10. Micheal Carter, 11. Chris Nelson, 12. Joey Carter, 13. Mike Rose, 14. Kevin Cooke, 15. Ricky Edmonds, 16. James Gray, 17. John Sellner, 18. Brain Kerns, 19. Kyle Nelson, 20. David Kaiser, 21. Donnie Smith, 22. Jimmy Jesmer, 23. Stephen Quade, 24. Chuck Bowie, 25. Kurt Zimmerman (DNQ) Scott Gray,Dale Smith,Scott Wilsom, Paul Quattro,Charkes Wyant, Walt Lemmon, Teddy Dickson,Dale Reamy,Randy Zechman,Rick Stouffer, Greg Breeden Sr,Josh Williams,Ray Priest,Ben Oliver

 

Hobbystocks: 1. Jimmy Randall, 2. Thomas Pickeral, 3. Rusty Alton, 4. Kevin Nelson, 5. Brandon Coats, 6. John Burch, 7. Jeremy Wicks, 8. Ronald Meador, 9. Jimmy Suite (DNS) Danny Wood

 

4 Cylinders: 1. Rich Gwizdale, 2. Greg Gunter, 3. Mark Digges, 4. Jimmy Meeks, 5. Tommy Whitt, 6. Jerry Dick, 7. Billy Hill, 8. Will Nelson, 9. Rob Hitt, 10. Buddy Dunagan, 11. Leroy Long, 12. Scott McCartney, 13. Larry Fuchs, (DNS) Butch Mayo, Kevin Oates

 

Strictly Stocks: 1. Kyle Vantassel, 2. J.T Bowie, 3. Ronald Meador, 4. Mark Wroble, 5. Shane Roloff, 6. Ray Hutchins, 7. Justin Meador, 8. Bob Kolbe, 9. Nabil Guffy, 10. Jonathan Raley, 11. C.J. Pannuty, 12. Justin Gilroy, 13. Scott Hobbs, 14. Greg Morgan, 15. Ed Pope Sr, 16. Zach Mattingly, 17. James Gass, 18. John Hardisty, 19. Ary Joliff, 20. James Sparks, 21. Ray Bucci, 22. Kevin King, 23. Larry Fuchs, 24. Kevin Lear, (DNS) Rusty Jones

 
   
 


LATE MODELS

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HOBBY STOCKS

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4 CYLINDERS

 

 

 
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