By Bill W
Jerrod Hull won the LOS 360 Nationals Saturday. Here’s Bill’s report.
9/5/10
Lake Ozark Speedway
Eldon, MO
7th Annual LOS 360 Nationals
40 360s
25 305s
360s
Heat one (started): 1. Brian Brown 21 (8) 2. Ben Wagoner 84 (1) 3. Tyler
Blank 75 (2) / 4. Eric Todd 21T (3) 5. Randy Martin 14 (5) 6. Brad Graham
04 (6) 7. Lanny Carpenter 24 (7) 8. Eric Schrock 7 (4) 9. Chris Coleman 10
(8)
8-lap heats transferred the top three to the main event. Heat winners
transferred to the dash, joining Tim Crawley, Jerrod Hull, Austin
Alumbaugh and Cody Baker, who locked themselves in with top four finishes
on Saturday. Coleman needed two pushes, so he surrendered his starting
spot outside of row two. Brown, who underwent a motor change after a
broken rocker arm, was battling with R. Martin for fourth when the caution
came out for a stopped Coleman on lap five. Brown hit the high side on
the restart and was second by the time the white flag flew. A spun
Schrock brought a caution and set up a green, white, checker finish.
Brown circled around Wagoner on the restart for the win.
Heat two (started): 1. Anthony Nicholson 16 (2) 2. Mark Shirshekan 3 (5)
3. Evan Martin 4 (1) / 4. Don Young 7Y (3) 5. Brian McClelland 87 (4) 6. J
Kinder 88 (6) 7. Bryan Grimes 6 (7) 8. Jordan Goldesberry 65 (8) 9. Dennis
Moore Jr. D12 (9)
E. Martin led the first two laps before Nicholson took over. Intense
action for second third and fourth started between E. Martin, Young,
Shirshekan and Goldesberry. Young and Goldesberry came together late,
sidelining Goldesberry. Shirshekan took second on the white flag lap,
while E. Martin narrowly held onto the final transfer.
Heat three (started): 1. Jason Martin 36 (2) 2. Jonathan Cornell 28 (4) 3.
Kyle Hirst 5H (6) / 4. Aaron Berryhill 97B (5) 5. Adam Jones 1A (3) 6.
Kyle Carpenter 17 (7) 7. Dakota Carroll 11c (1) 8. Kyle Bellm 14K (8) DNS
– Ryan Schlender 48
Martin led flag to flag. Bellm brought out the only caution when he
stopped on lap four. Cornell made a couple of late sliders at Martin, but
came up short.
Heat four (started): 1. Jon Corbin 44 (1) 2. Tony Bruce Jr. 18 (2) 3.
Rusty Potter 3P (3) / 4. Josh Fisher 86 (8) 5. Dustin Barks 22 (7) 6. Mike
Trent 86x (5) 7. Tony Crank 9c (4) 8. Curtis Boyer 72 (6) 9. Rusty Quick
29 (9)
Corbin led throughout on the bottom of the track, while Bruce constantly
pressured from the high side, but came up just short. Fisher also pushed
Potter for the last transfer, but would head to the B.
Dash (started): 1. Cody Baker 9m (1) 2. Jerrod Hull 12 (2) 3. Austin
Alumbaugh 33 (4) 4. Tim Crawley 88T (3) 5. Brown (7) 6. Corbin (5) 7. J.
Martin (8) 8. Nicholson (6)
Brown stopped with a lap in the books, but restarted, and gained three
spots in the 8-lapper. Baker did well to lead throughout, with Hull
breathing down his backside.
B main one (started): 1. Young (2) 2. R. Martin (3) / 3. McClelland (4) 4.
Kinder (6) 5. Todd (1) 6. Grimes (8) 7. L. Carpenter (7) 8. Graham (5) 9.
Moore Jr. (11) 10. Coleman (9) 11. Goldesberry (10) DNS – Schrock
Young squeezed between the wall and R. Martin in turn four to complete the
first lap and led it for the entire 12 laps. Goldesberry had advanced to
sixth by lap nine, but spun. R. Martin made a late bid for the lead, but
settled for the second and final transfer.
B main two (started): 1. Berryhill (1) 2. Barks (4) / 3. Fisher (2) 4.
Jones (3) 5. Crank (8) 6. K. Carpenter (5) 7. Trent (6) 8. Carroll (7) 9.
Boyer (10) 10. Quick (9) DNS – Bellm, Schlender
Fisher led early, and stuck to a bottom that was blackening. Some rubber
developed on the cushion too, and Berryhill stayed true to it. He was
pulling wheelies down the frontstretch and rode second, trying to hold off
Barks. On lap eight, Berryhill shot around Fisher for the lead, and with
two laps to go, Barks did the same to earn the final transfer in a great
race.
A main (started): 1. Hull (2) 2. Crawley (4) 3. Brown (5) 4. J. Martin (7)
5. Alumbaugh (3) 6. Corbin (6) 7. Cornell (11) 8. Blank (13) 9. R. Martin
(19) 10. Shirshekan (10) 11. Hirst (15) 12. E. Martin (14) 13. Berryhill
(18) 14. Bruce Jr. (12) 15. Baker (1) 16. Fisher (21, pr.) 17. Barks (20)
18. Todd (19, pr.) 19. Wagoner (9) 20. Potter (16) 21. Nicholson (8) DNS –
Young
The 30-lapper went non-stop. Hull got the jump on Baker at the start, and
shot out front. He spent a couple of laps up top, but settled into a
bottom groove that had slightly been reworked. Crawley followed him into
second, and Brown was able to get by Alumbaugh for third. By the halfway
point, it was Hull, Crawley, Brown, J. Martin and Alumbaugh. The track
became one-lane, and that is the way they would finish. Hull picked up
$4,000 for the win to go along with his $6,000 the previous week in ASCS
National action at Granite City. R. Martin was the hard-charger.
305s
Heat one (started): 1. Austin Alumbaugh 63 (2) 2. Haley Arnold 165 (7) 3.
Brian Beebe 37 (1) 4. JD Black 7J (4) 5. Robert Black 3B (3) / 6. Jordan
Weaver 92 (6) 7. Chad Tye 88T (5) 8. Terry Lindsey 51x (8) 9. Lacy
Harrison 99 (9)
Heat two (started): 1. Jerrod Hull 14s (1) 2. J Kinder 88 (3) 3. Matt
Close 5 (2) 4. John Draper 44 (4) 5. Casey Baker 9 (5) / 6. Andrew Turley
14 (6) 7. Mike Schouten 27 (7) DNS – Lane Stone 81a
Heat three (started): 1. Zach Clark 2 (1) 2. Kenny Potter 55 (3) 3. Ryan
Schlender 15s (2) 4. Miranda Arnold 5m (5) 5. Mitchell Moore 51 (8) / 6.
Tony Davis 3 (7) 7. Melody Simpson 02 (4) 8. Randy Roberts 1 (6)
B main (started): 1. Turley (2) 2. Weaver (1) 3. Davis (3) 4. Tye (4) 5.
Simpson (6) / 6. Harrison (8) 7. Schouten (5) 8. Lindsey (7) 9. Roberts
(9) DNS – Stone
Weaver led early in the 8-lapper. Roberts was charging and up to third
when he tried to go outside of Turley on the backstretch in a battle for
second. The resulting contact sent him into the wall and upside down. He
was unhurt. Weaver led Turley, Davis, Tye and Schouten back to green.
Two laps later, Schouten spun. On lap seven, Turley shot around Weaver
for the win.
A main (started): 1. Kinder (5) 2. Hull (2) 3. Alumbaugh (1) 4. H. Arnold
(4) 5. M. Moore (15) 6. M. Arnold (12) 7. Clark (3) 8. Draper (11) 9.
Schlender (9) 10. Close (8) 11. Tye (19) 12. Turley (16) 13. Davis (18)
14. Casey Baker (14) 15. Simpson (20) 16. JD Black (10) 17. Weaver (17)
18. Potter (6) 19. Beebe (7) 20. R. Black (13)
Alumbaugh led early in the 25-lapper, but Hull snuck by him on lap three.
On lap 10, contact between M. Arnold and Beebe, resulted in the latter
smacking the wall and ending up on the hook. On the restart, Schlender
spun and collected Potter, who was running sixth. Hull led Alumbaugh,
Kinder, H. Arnold and Clark back to green. Kinder hit the high side to
advance on the bottom running leaders. It looked like he would take the
lead on lap 17, but a caution flew for Davis who spun. After getting the
signal from his crew, Hull took to the high side to block Kinder. It
looked like it would work until Kinder got a good run to slide in front
for the lead with five to go. He was able to hold on for the win. M.
Moore was the hard-charger.