Posted by Rockford Speedway on 9/6/2005, 10:45 am
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DICKINSON CAPTURES ROADRUNNER FEATURE, JESTER CROWNED WWOW CHAMP AT ROCKFORD By: Kevin Ramsell Monday, September 05, 2005 (Loves Park, IL) - Larry Dickinson II, Shonna Frisch, Michael Bilderback, Ken Jones, Vern Brown, Pat Smith, Tom Schnabel and Steve Talley captured YellowBook Monday Funday feature wins at the Rockford Speedway. Vachenzia Jester was also crowned the 2005 Champion in the Winged Women on Wheels division. Dickinson won the Coca-Cola RoadRunner feature event. Dickinson battled with Michael Meyers for the top spot in the early going of the 20-lap main event. Dickinson would pull away from Meyers on lap 2. The only caution flew on lap 4 when Rick Nielsen spun on the front stretch and lost his right rear tire. Dickinson would lead the field to the re-start and would hold off to win the event. Gene Marocco was second with Kelly Barclay coming home third. Pat Smith and David Lignell rounded out the top five. Wanda Dobbs easily took home the first Winged Women on Wheels feature event. Dobbs took over the top spot after an early challenge from Elizabeth Weigelt. Amy Flippo moved from her eighth starting position to take over second by lap 5 from Latasha Hillary. Flippo would spend the last ten laps trying to run down Dobbs but came up short at the checkers. Hillary would hold on to third with Jennifer Erickson and Linnea Weerda rounding out the top five. Candy Schultz grabbed the lead in the second 15-lap WWOW feature event. Vachenzia Jester moved to the inside Schultz to take over the top spot on lap 3. Flippo had to start at the back of the pack and quickly worked her way to the front. On lap 9, Flippo got on the inside of Jester to take over the top spot. Flippo would go on to win. Dobbs came home second with Jester in third. Flippo's top finish in the second race gave her the overall win in the WWOW division. Jester celebrated her first Rockford Speedway Winged Women on Wheels Championship in front of the Labor Day crowd. Michael Bilderback captured another feature win in the Legends division. Nick Shutkas grabbed the early lead in the 15-lap feature event. Bilderback started fifth and quickly worked his way to the front. On lap 3, he moved on the inside of Kyle LaPier to take over second and he set his site on Shutkas. Three laps later, he got on the inside of Shutkas and took over the top spot on lap 7. Bilderback would go on to the win with Shutkas holding on to second over LaPier. Steve Erickson won the 12-lap Bandolero feature. Erickson jumped to the lead after a side-by-side battle with Kyle Jusits. Erickson would pull out to a good lead over Brandon Allen to claim his win. Jusits would hold on to third. Ken Jones took home the 15-lap Super Cup feature. Jones grabbed the lead over Andy Forester at the start. Forester along with Jeff Meyers would put on a great show as they battled for the second spot. With two laps to go, Meyers would get past Forester for the position. At the finish, it was Jones with another feature win. Meyers easily held on to second with Forester third. Vern Brown celebrated his 62nd birthday by capturing the FIRA Mini-Indy feature event. Brown started on the front row and battled with Grant Greenfield for the lead. Brown would pull away from Greenfield to a healthy lead. Greenfield would go on to battle Johnny Zielinga for second. Brown would capture his fourth feature win at Rockford this year. Greenfield would go on finish second over Zielinga by half a car length. Pat Smith would get past Ronald Stoltz on lap 3 to win the Figure 8 feature race. Ronald Stoltz would go on to finish second with Tom Barclay finishing third. Tom Schnabel would capture the 15-lap Classic Modified feature. Roger Osborne would grab the early lead. But Osborne would have problems on the re-start, as he could not get up to speed as the green flag waved. The caution flew three times during the event. After the first caution, Schnabel would get past Osborne to take over the lead on lap 5. Schnabel would have to hold off Todd Shepherd for the final 10 laps to win the event. Steve Talley picked up another Hornet feature win. Mark Vincencio jumped to the early lead in the 13-lap event. Talley caught up to Vincencio with five laps to go and easily got past him for the lead. Vincencio would go on to finish second with Randy Reynolds in third. Raymond Hardesty and Ben Montemayor rounded out the top five. Next Saturday night, Budweiser and LaMonica Beverages present NASCAR Championship Night. Champions will be crowned in the NASCAR Late Models, NASCAR Grand Nationals, Coca-Cola RoadRunners, and Budweiser American Short Tracker division. The racing action will start at 7:07 p.m. Advance tickets and overnight parking spots are available for the 40th Annual National Short Track Championships on September 22-25, 2005. For more information, please call the track office at (815) 633-1500 or visit the track's website at www.rockfordspeedway.com.