09/23/2005 Sherman County Speedway
Goodland,
KS. Write up by Chris Martinez/
Big West Racing:
We (Bellm Motorsports) unloaded 3 cars.
#73 driven by Joe Bellm was fast out of the box and showed it in the heat race.
In the “Pole Dash” the crew threw a change to the car and it was not a good
change, so we went back to original starting set-up.
In the Main event Joe started on the outside but was able to get to the
bottom quick to start his march to the front. #98 Eddie Edwards had a fast car
but it was not exactly handling good for Eddie making him come out of the
corners sideways more than usual, unfortunately that resulted in Bellm and Eddie
getting together a few times before Joe was able to make the pass.
Now with Joe in 4th Joe was moving in on David Murray Jr. as David was
making a move to the inside of second place Holzmeister, Bellm dove under Murray
only to get pushed down by Murray into the tires, that resulted in a ripped
brake line sending the car out of control into the outside tire barrier
destroying the car, Chassis is broke and bent, rear clip is a taco, rear-end
housing is in 2 pieces, front uppers are gone, shocks, rear links, body,
interior etc. etc.
After learning that Eddie Martin was Dq’ed for being 30 lbs light it was salt in
the wound, the pass we were making was for 2nd. Oh well, who knows, after 50
laps of caution we might have been light also. Car will be on the Chassis jig
and will be in action this weekend.
#06 driven by Adam Hilton was fast out of the box as well and showed it in
the qualifier but unfortunately Adam spun while running in second down the
backstretch keeping the car out of the infield and was able to keep going before
bringing out the caution and marched back to 3rd but only the top 2 transferred
so it was last chance time for the “C-Town Hustler” and the damn pull bar broke
in his race as he was in a transferring position ending his weekend of racing.
#6 Dominic Ursetta was competing in only his 3rd event and
did well, stayed out of trouble but was unable to transfer through his last
chance. Dominic will be a good addition to modified racing as he showed he is
not afraid to run with the best of em.
Off the track the weekend was a blast as well with some good friends, new
and old partying hardy both nights back at the hotel. The Flatlander festival
downtown on Saturday morning was cool, lots of nice street rods and some good
country carnival grub.
