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Kevin McNicholas Memorial Short Track Series Round 1: Timonium Fairgrounds :I: f;l w ilS z W McGrane Tops Timonium ST Opener Babcock a little precarious, Sweeten went to the outside and gradually took the lead on the sixth lap. Once in front, he added several lengths to his margin. Nick Taylor took the 500cc TwoValve lead from Jack Stedding and Jim Chapman. While Taylor stayed in front, Chapman used the outside to gradually take second from Stedding on the sixth lap. Chapman got close to Taylor in the closing laps, but not close enough to make any challenges. Bailey Spence had an easy time in the 50cc (4-6) and 50cc Oil-Injected classes, lapping up to the thirdplaced rider. His only problem was carrying the checkered flag, as he got up into the loose stuff in tum one and fell down; luckily, he was unharmed. Joe Dohm racked up a somewhat dubious average: He crashed in half of the races in which he competed during the night. He crashed in the heat and the final of the Over 40 class; then he easily won the 600cc B final, over John Kraft and Ryan Babcock; and then he got into a spirited battle with his buddy Mark Stambaugh in the 125cc final. Dohm grabbed the lead from Stambaugh, Ed Hyde and William Speleos. Stambaugh slipped under Dohm off the second turn on the third lap, but Dohm tried to hold on to the lead, and they ran side by side for another two laps, until Stambaugh was clear. However, losing to your buddy isn't fun, so Dohm tried one more time on the final lap - but managed to crash in the third tum. Thomas Webb won the 50cc (7-8) class. Tom Mudgett Jr. ruled the 65s. Austin Greenland took the 85cc final wire to wire, and Rick Price won the 250cc B class. The Women's class win went to Kelly Bell, and Bob Babcock easily won the 400cc class. eN By LEN BREECH TIMONIUM, MD, JULY 25 om McGrane Jr. started the 2001 version of Wednesday Night Wildness with a pair of wins in the 600cc and 250cc A classes. This was the sixth annual Baltimore County Trail Riders/Cockeysville Optimists Clubsponsored event, held for the benefit of the Cystic Fibrosis Association and named in the memory of a Trail Riders member who died of the disease, Kevin McNicholas. While the races are normally run on Wednesday nights, with things usually over by 10 p.m., this year circumstances caused the schedule to be changed twice from the originally posted one. Instead of four or five Wednesdays and a Friday, the races are running on three straight Wednesdays, and the following Friday on the last two weeks. Of course, the two Fridays are the night before the Harrington and Hagerstown Nationals. The race is held at the Timonium Fairgrounds, within throwing distance of their famous indoor series venue, in a place called the Pony Show Ring. The sandy surface was scraped down to the base, which was groomed to a beautiful cushion surface. While the Youth and B riders tended to pole-putt, the Experts used every inch of the track surface (and a few areas beyond the track). The track is bigger than the indoor one, but not by that much. The 600cc A class was more an exhibition of racing skiU, as McGrane, Don Mullen, David Reeves, Corey Hormes and Jim Hollister did battle one lap, riding the hay bales; the next, right on the rail - as they traded positions several times per lap. McGrane was in front of the extremely crowdpleasing final when the flag fell. Most of the same cast of characters returned for the 250cc A final. Mullen led Bob Sweeten, Reeves, McGrane and Hormes. While Sweeten drifted back, McGrane put his Diem's Cycle/Rizzons/Paradise Truck & Tiresponsored Honda to the outside. Reeves followed and they both got by Mullen by halfway as they battled for the lead. McGrane won. Hollister took the Over 30-class lead from pamian Kocovinos, Sweeten and David Smith and gradually styled his way to a several-length margin. Sweeten returned in the Over 40 contest, gating second behind Bob Babcock, Rick Price and Richard Foard. After finding going inside of T 60 SEPTEMBER 5, 2001 • cue TilnHiulB f8lrgl1lll11ds n-.i-.1bryWu! IleSlIIts: July 25, ZlDl llloand II WMN: 1. Kelly Bell (Hon): 2. Nicole Henderson (Hon): 3. Heather Bell (Hon); 4. Megan Bell (Yam). 50 OIL-INJ: 1. Bailey Spence (Yam); 2. Colin Webb (Yam): 3. Josh Standiford (Yam): 4. Brian Webb (Yam); 5. Cody Woods (Yam). 50 STK (4-6): I. Bailey Spence (Lem): 2. Bradley VrDnkovich (Act); 3. Jimmy Parris (YDm); 4. Stephen Patte""n (Cob); 5. R.J. Schilling (Hon). 50 STK (7-9): I. Thomas Webb (Cob); 2. Anthony Smith (Cob): 3. Stephen Haigley (Cob): 4. Dolson Starling. (Lam): 5. Lake Shukert (Hu.). 65: I. Tom Mudgett Jr. (KTM): 2. Mike Stllndiford (Kew); 3. Joey Parks (KlIw): 4. Joseph Maste (Kaw); 5. Brian Myers (Kaw). 80: 1. Austin Greenland (Hon); 2. Brandon Robinson (Yam); 3. Jeff McManus (Hon): 4. Joey Parks (Kaw); 5. Mike Standiford (Yam). 125; I. Mark Stambaugh (Hon); 2. Ed Hyde (Hon); 3. Nick Henderson (Hon); 4. Bill Krait (Yam); 5. William Speleos (Hon). 250 A: 1. Tom McGrane Jr. (Hon); 2. David Reeves (Hon); 3. Don Mullen (Yam): 4. Corey Harmes (Han): 5. Damian Kocovinos (Hon). 250 B: 1. Rick Price (Hon); 2. Bill Krait (Yam); 3. Ryan Babcock (Hon); 4. M.Ichaei Haven (Hon). I • n e _ • lC in ~ :I: a. Timonium Fairgrounds: Tom McGrane Jr. (99) and Don Mullen (75) do battle in the 600cc A class at the opening round of the Kevin McNicholas Memorial Short Track Series In TImonium, Maryland. 400: I. Bob Babcock (Yam); 2. John Kraft (Hon); 3. Bill Krait (Yam); 4. Bryan Bemi.derfer (Yam). 500 2-VALVE: 1. Nick Taylor (Yam); 2. Jim 600 B: 1. Joe Dohm (Yom); 2. John Krait (Hon); 3. Ryan Henderson (Rtx); 4. Ryan Babcock (Yam); 5. Bill Kraft (Yam). 750 A: 1. Mike Keane (Yam). Chapman (Yam); 3. Jack Sledding (Yam); 4. Bill Krait (Yam); 5. Ed Romecki Jr. (Yam). 600 A: 1. Tom McGrane Jr. (Hon); 2. Corey Hormes (Rtx); 3. David Reeves (Rtx); 4. Donnie Mullen (W-R); 5. Jim Hollister (Rtx). (Hon); 3. Bob Sweeten Jr. (Hon); 4. David Smith (Ra); 5. Ed Hyde (Han). 40.: 1. Bob Sweeten Jr. (Han); 2. Bob Babcodt (Yam); 3. Richard Foard (Rtx); 4. Rick Price (Han); 5. Mike Keane (Hbg). 30+: 1. Jim Hollister (Rtx); 2. Damian Kocovinos VDTRA All-Stars National Flat Track Series Round 10: Aitkin County Fairgrounds School's Out For Summer By TIM McBRIDE AITKIN, MN, JULY 28-29 loomfield, Iowa, native Monte Hill asked his boss for a few days off, saying he that he was going to Minnesota. Hill didn't tell him exactly what he was going to do, so his boss naturally assumed he was going fishing and wished him luck. Well, it just so happens that Monte Hill is the principle of Moravia High School in Iowa, and his boss is the superintendent. Hill made the trip a successful one by landing the VDTRA 600 Open Proclass win, and as far as the race fans who witnessed it were concerned, luck had nothing to do with it. It all happened when The VDTRA All-Stars National Flat Track Series made its annual stop at the Aitkin County Fairgrounds, where B&R Promotions hosted round 10 of the 16race championship season. A former Expert who cut his teeth battling the likes of Chris Carr during the mid1980s, Hill not only won the VDTRA Open Pro class, he also took home the first-place prize money in the AMA District 23 Open Pro main event. B The VDTRA Open Pro final featured a race-long battle for the lead that came right down to the wire, as Hill and Evergreen, Colorado's Mark Gibson hashed it out. As they approached turns three and four, Hill pulled to the outside of Gibson and went on to the checkers to score the upset. The Coors Light-sponsored Dan Jacobson from North Dakota finished third, ahead of the Waco, Texas' J.R. McNamara and Gillette, Wyoming's John McCleland. "My sponsor, Mike Fitzgerald, and bike owner, Pat Orman, set me up with a two-race deal," explained the DP Solutions/TT Cycle/Lynch Racing-backed Hill, "so I got the time off and we came up just to race for fun." As far as his boss is concerned, Hill can tell him that he had a good time while he caught "the big one." Earlier in the program, Gibson scored the win in the Pro-Twins division as he raced off into the distance ahead of local favorite Billy Hofmeister, aboard his Crown Mortgagesponsored Harley-Davidson 750. McCleland, McNamara and Bellwood, Nebraska's Leo Ostankowski