Ed,

Major congrats on hitting 100 new tracks for two years
in a row. That is excellent.

Randy

--- "Edward J. Esser" <ejesser@...> wrote:

>
> Hi All,
> I finally got on the road again. My manager said I
> must hit 100 new
> tracks again this year to maintain respect, so I
> should leave the
> family Thanksgiving shopping to the kids and head
> west. The race was
> the second annual Oklahoma Arena Cup and this year
> held in the rodeo
> building at the Claremore Expo. It appears that they
> would usually have
> seats all around the arena but today the removed all
> but one side and
> had a 10 row bleacher set up the full length of the
> building thus
> allowing for a larger track and banked turns. The
> track was very smooth
> and probably too hard but the micros were fast
> indoors and very loud as
> the metal building echoed well. The track got dry
> and took on rubber as
> the inside groove became the fast lane. They watered
> and tried to dig
> up a second groove during intermission but it just
> wasted 45 minutes.
> The bottom was so fast and traction so good on the
> rubber that Kevin
> Bayer was doing wheelies in the A-class feature.
> Thank God for websites
> and forums as I could not hear anything the
> announcer said all evening.
> It wasn't until I got home that I found out the
> racers were :11
> restrictor, 14 non-wing turf tire, 20 non wing, 15
> A-class, 16 multi
> and 5 junior sprints. I knew some of the cars as
> they were the same
> ones I saw race so good at Port City a few weeks
> ago. The night started
> on time at 4PM with warmups and then heats at 5:15
> after a small delay
> to construct a roof for the scorers ( I think they
> were getting glare
> from the light above). The heats and dashes were
> done by 6:45 but the
> night didn't finish until 10:20. Eric Edwards won
> the restrictor from
> the pole with Travis Smith second from 6th starting
> spot. The non-wing
> feature took six tries to start as everyone was
> trying to get to the
> pole on the first turn! Ronnie James started 7th and
> won over 6th
> starter Chris Andrews. In the A-class Chris Berreth
> took off from the
> front and withstood numerous restarts to pull away
> each time and win
> over the wheelies of Kevin Bayer. Larry Wickham won
> the turf tire class
> from the front but 8th starter Randy Seabolt was
> right on his tail at
> the finish. In the multi class Brady Bacon started
> on the pole and had
> his hands full in holding back Chris Berreth who
> tried many times to
> pass on the inside. Jimmy Wood was listed as a
> visitor from US 24
> Speedway and won the juniors ahead of Blake Hahn.
> The racing was not
> anything like the action at Port City but it was
> pretty good for
> indoors although we got dusty and black from the
> rubber in the air.
>
> #728 11/27/04 Claremore Expo Arena - Claremore, OK -
> 1/10 dirt - Micro
> sprints
>
> Ed.
>




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