Ice Claims Carter Lumber Main Event at Kil-Kare

By Jerry Wahl

 

Xenia, OH - The Main Event Racing Series (MERS) made their first of two 2009 visits to Kil-Kare Speedway and it was Tim Ice winning the Carter Lumber 100 lap event and the $2,500 pay check.

Twenty four super late models lined up for the start of the century grind with Tim Ice and Jimmy Carter leading the pack to the green with Ice in the Fast Racing Engines sponsored machine taking the lead, however, the first caution came out on lap two to slow the field when John Crumrine and John Sandquist tangled in turn one and were out of competition. Ice set sail again as Don Mahaffey shot around Donnie Hill for third as the field stated to move up on slower cars

Ice began lapping cars while Dick Dunlevy went to work on Hill for fifth but ahead of him Shawn Stroble took over third from Mahaffey and then Stroble dropped Carter to third as he stole second spot. Drew Charlson brought the caution out on lap twenty seven when he spun in turn two. For the restart it was Ice the leader followed by Stroble, Carter, Mahaffey, and Dunlevy. The first six cars were running bumper to bumper with sixth place running Hill trying the inside of Dunlevy for fifth as they ran side by side behind Mahaffey, Ice continued to lead as he pulled away from Stroble as they moved through lapped traffic and then here came top qualifier Rich Rohrer out of nowhere to claim fourth with his sights on the front runners but lap forty four brought the third caution out when five cars piled up on the frontstretch bringing the red flag out. Unfortunately, Rohrer was involved and out of action.

For the restart it was Ice, Stroble, Carter, Dunlevy and now Doug Summers in fifth. Dunlevy went to the topside as he tried to catch carter but Carter shook him off as Ice continued to hold the front spot. At the halfway it was Stroble, Carter, Dunlevy, Doug Sommers, Jamie Hunt, Drew Charlson, Glenn Gault, Jr., Gary Whipkey, and Don Mahaffey.

Ice was really hooked up as he continued to put quite a distance on the second place running Stroble who had about an equal distance over third place running Carter and the same for Dunlevy in fourth. By lap seventy Ice had a half lap lead and was still pulling away as Stroble, Carter, and Dunlevy had bunched up bumper to bumper with Carter trying the inside of Stroble when the caution came out on lap seventy nine. Carter stayed glued to Ice's rear bumper after the restart with Dunlevy in third and Stroble riding fourth with Sommers right behind him.

With ten laps to go Ice again was starting to pull away from Carter as Dunlevy still held on to third but Sommers was closing in on Stroble. As the laps wound down Ice showed he definitely was on a mission as he led every lap of the hundred lapper to take the win over Carter, Dunlevy, Stroble, and Sommers.

Main Event Racing Series
    Top Qualifier - Rich Rohrer 12.792
    Lap Leaders - Tim Ice 1-100
    Carter Lumber 100 - Tim Ice, Jimmy Carter, Dick Dunlevy, Jr., Shawn Stroble, Doug Sommers, Drew Charlson, Jamie Hunt, Gary Whipkey, Don Mahaffey, Jr., Donnie Hill, Charlie Schultz, John Stroble, John Flynn, Brian Short, Burgess White, Glenn Gault, Jr., Rich Rohrer, Rick Sibila, Scott Drake, Bill Cantley, Ken White, John Crumrine, John Sandquist, Jr., Don Harvey, Jr., Shawn Stansell