From Duane Turner
Gas City, IN — (June 6, 1998) — Mark Long scored his first SOD victory of the year at the Gas City/I-69 Speedway during the series first of two trips to the 1/4 mile clay racing surface.
After being the fast qualifier, and winning his heat race, he had to move to the front of the field from his third row starting position. The start of the main event saw Mark Broughman leading with Carl Fry Jr. trailing close behind. On lap 10, the red flag was shown for the number 10 sprinter of Mike Ulman as he tipped his sprinter over in turn 4. On the lap 10 restart, Mark Long moved by Fry to claim second.
That is how the leaders stayed until lap 18 when Steve Kraig took a hard flip down the frontstreach. Steve was O.K., however his sprinter was not.
After the restart, Long was able to get past Broughman for the lead and was able to pull away to claim the 25 lap feature. Broughman, Fry, Kurt Brewer, and Steve Irwin, back in the “Flying 0”, rounded out the top five.
Qualifying:
1)Mark L0ong 35, 12.58 2)Mark Broughman 52, 12.69 3)Kurt Brewer 15, 12.70
4)Steve Irwin 0, 12.83 5)Jody Hunt 00, 12.87 6)Jimmy Turner 75t, 12.90 7)Dain
Naida 6n, 12.91 8)Heath Miller 2m, 13.01 9)Mike Miller 82, 13.09 10)Sean
Robinson 1r, 13.19 11)Carl Fry Jr. 5d, 13.28 12)Mike Shaw Jr. 96, 13.35
13)Steve Kraig 3, 13.41 14)Jerry Whitney, 2w, 13.52 15)Jeff Hoying 61, 13.65
16)Scot Quintel 14, 13.66 17)Bill Johnson 33, 13.72 18)Greg Dalman 49t, 13.95
19)Randy Donaldson 22, 13.99 20)Mike Ulman Jr 10, 14.33 21)Mark Irwin, 14, NT
Heat 1 (10 laps): 1)35 Long 2)3 Kraig 3)14 Quintel 4)6n Naida 5)0 S.Irwin 6)22 Donaldson 7)1r Robinson
Heat 2: 1)5d Fry 2)00 Hunt 3)52 Broughman 4)2m H.Miller 5)2w Whitney 6)33 Johnson 7)10 Ulman
Heat 3: 71)82 M.Miller 2)75t Turner 3)15 Brewer 4)61 Hoying 5)96 Shaw 6)49t Dalman 7)14 M.Irwin DNS
“A” Main: 1)35 Long 2)52 Broughman 3)5d Fry 4)15 Brewer 5)0 S.Irwin 6)82 M.Miller 7)00 Hunt 8)2m H.Miller 9)1r Robinson 10)75t Turner 11)6n Naida 12)22 Donaldson 13)49t Dalman 14)61 Hoying 15)33 Johnson 16)3 Kraig 17)2w Whitney 18)14 Quintel 19)10 Ulman 20)96 Shaw