It's Déjà vu for the Whelen NASCAR Knock-Out as Hults and Robertson Each Take Home Another Win.

Sunday, 09 August 2009 13:19

The 2009 Colorado National Speedway season is well under way. With no less than 8000 fans packing the grandstands night after night, the drivers are under a lot of pressure to perform, and perform they have!  97 points separate the top 5 drivers in the Rocky’s Autos Late Models division. Cris Muhler stands on top with Bruce “The Moose” Yackey a mere 28 points behind. And it’s a tight battle between Hults, Avants and Smith with only 8 points separating them. A technical penalty has taken Darren Robertson out of the race for points but it clearly hasn’t taken his mind off the competition as he continues to show the crowd what he can do behind the wheel.

#11 Darren Robertson started the Whelen All American Series NASCAR Knock-Out on the pole for the 1st Rocky’s Autos Late Model A Main. He led the pack until #78 Darren Crocker sped into first after a double file restart. The two duked it out for first until another restart lined them back up again. This time Robertson took the lead and held on to it for his second A Main win in row. Our hats are off to him.

The 2nd Late Model A Main started with #95 Cris Muhler on the pole, #22 Chris Eggleston rode on his outside. They were followed by #42 Ronnie Hults, #78 Darren Crocker and the 1st A Main event winner, Darren Robertson. Contact on the back stretch led to a massive pile up in turn 4. As a result Nugent, Joe James Jr and Fowler all took severe damage and left the event. #95 Cris Muhler was sent to the rear of the field.  The carnage wasn’t over. At the next restart Darren Crocker spun out on the back stretch and was also sent to the rear of the field. When the race resumed it was Ronnie Hults who took the lead over Chris Eggleston on the outside. With Hults in the lead, Eggleston and Crocker dueled fender to fender for 2nd. Another spin out was ruled Cris Muhler’s fault and again, he was sent to the rear of the field. Hults, Eggleston and Robertson revved it up for the restart dueling 3 wide at times through 8 laps. The 3 approached lapped traffic going into the next lap and Eggleston pulled into the lead followed by Hults, Robertson and the approaching Roger Avants. It wasn’t time for Eggleston to begin celebrating just yet. The Speedy Ronnie Hults and Darren Robertson were hot on his tail. At lap 35 of this 40 lap A Main, Hults rocketed ahead with Robertson in tow as they both passed Eggleston.
Hults took the win followed by the talented Darren Robertson and Chris Eggleston.

With their massive field of cars, the Doc Popcorn Super Stocks always put on a good show at Colorado National Speedway. Tonight #17 Jeremy Barclay started on the outside of row 2 and soon took the lead via a double file restart. He maintained the lead through several yellow flags. Regardless of the strong competition against a field of 30 cars, he could not be bested.

The Sunoco Grand American Modifieds put on a tight race for first with #18 Ed Vecchiarelli, #08 Jace Hansen, #69 Forest Smith and #44 Justin Case dueling for the lead. #95 Dave Finely soon joined the race for first as well. All leading contenders rode bumper to bumper until lap 20 when Hansen broke away from the pack for a 5 car length lead. Hansen held it together for the win followed by Justin Case in 2nd.

The Snap-On Tools Pro Truck A Main started off with stiff competition at the front of the field. Talented drivers #32 Mark Neff, #7 Chris Leaf, #27 Roger Avants and #1 Happy Ferree made up the first two rows but contact on the field during the first lap took #7 Adam Deines out of the race. Happy Ferree was given a black flag. All the commotion put the race on hold as all the contenders left the track to make way for the 2nd Late Model A Main of the evening.
When the race started back up, it had been shortened from 30 to 20 laps. Mark Neff had the pole with Billy Harkins on the outside. Billy took off on the green for a 3 truck length lead over Neff. But a spin out toward the rear of the field lined the two of them back up for a double file restart. At the restart Mark Neff found the line around Harkins for the lead. With only 2 laps to go Neff lost it on the back stretch leaving the race wide open for #07 Chris Leaf.

Rocky's Autos Late Model #1
1 #11 DARREN ROBERTSON, 2 #78 DARREN CROCKER, 3 #42 RONNIE HULTS, 4 #22 CHRIS EGGLESTON, 5 #95 CRISTOFER MUHLER, 6 #12 BRUCE YACKEY, 7 #31 RICHARD SMITH, 8 #10 TYLER CHRISINGER, 9 #27 ROGER AVANTS, 10 #17 # PAUL DEINES, 11 #91 CHRIS ATKINSON, 12 #54 JOE JAMES JR, 13 #77 STEVEN YACKEY, 14 #39 # JACK NUGENT, 15 #88 GREG FOWLER, 16 #74 DAN SAVAGE, 17 #06 MIKE GALLEGOS, 18 #63 BUTCH TILTON, 19 #56 AARON COX, 20 #66 DARREN BUCKLEN, 21 #48 # ED VECCHIARELLI JR

Rocky's Autos Late Model #2
1 #42 RONNIE HULTS, 2 #11 DARREN ROBERTSON, 3 #22 CHRIS EGGLESTON, 4 #27 ROGER AVANTS, 5 #31 RICHARD SMITH, 6 #12 BRUCE YACKEY, 7 #91 CHRIS ATKINSON, 8 #77 STEVEN YACKEY, 9 #74 DAN SAVAGE, 10 #95 CRISTOFER  MUHLER, 11 #78 DARREN CROCKER, 12 #48 # ED VECCHIARELLI JR, 13 #17 # PAUL DEINES, 14 #63 BUTCH TILTON, 15 #56 AARON COX, 16 #10 TYLER CHRISINGER, 17 #66 DARREN BUCKLEN, 18 #06 MIKE GALLEGOS, 19 #08 JACE HANSEN, 20 #54 JOE JAMES JR, 21 #88 GREG FOWLER, 22 #39 # JACK NUGENT

Sunoco Grand American Modified
1 #08 JACE HANSEN, 2 #44 JUSTIN CASE, 3 #18 ED VECCHIARELLI, 4 #95 DAVE FINLEY, 5 #69 FOREST SMITH, 6 #22 MICHAEL CASTAGNO, 7 #12 GREG NELSON, 8 #01 TERRY TJARKS, 9 #11 TOM EVANS, 10 #4 # MARK SOPR, 11 #66 # KYLE CLEGG, 12 #71 JIM STIVALETTA, 13 #16 SHAWN TRACKWELL, 14 #56 JUSTIN FORNSTROM, 15 #3 X DELAND CLEMENTS, 16 #21 JEFFREY PURVIS, 17 #77 JEFFREY HANSEN

Snap-On Tools Pro Trucks
1 #07 CHRIS LEAF, 2 #27 ROGER AVANTS, 3 #36 RICHARD BURTON, 4 #0 BILLY HARKINS, 5 #5 TROY WITTHAR, 6 #51 # CHRIS CARLSON, 7 #76 # GERALD GARDNER, 8 #32 MARK NEFF, 9 #27 ADAM DEINES, 10 #34 RUDY VANDERWAL, 11 #15 MICHAEL BERNARD, 12 #1 HAPPY FERREE

Doc Popcorn Super Stocks
1 #17 JEREMY BARCLAY, 2 #19 # SCOTT MILLER, 3 #46 RICHARD LOTHERT, 4 #39 JOHN NUGENT, 5 #92 ALEXANDER GRASSO, 6 #36 MATTHEW BURTON, 7 #78 RYAN MOSER, 8 #01 JASON MORRIS, 9 #02 CECIL SMITH, 10 #81 ROBERT FOSTER, 11 #3 MICHAEL COX, 12 #28 SHANE RIDDELL, 13 #75 EMILIO ABEYTA, 14 #84 BRYAN EUBANK, 15 #58 TIMOTHY WEAVER, 16 #99 # RYAN RALEY, 17 #21 JUSTIN PURVIS, 18 #25 # KATHEY CALKINS, 19 #04 JIMMY HUNT, 20 #49 # WILLIAM LESMERISES, 21 #09 JOHN PATEE, 22 #78 # KEVIN QUINN, 23 #71 DOUG MACFARLAND, 24 #43 # ROBERT SEARS, 25 #47 DONALD MCATEE JR, 26 #0 ANDREW MUES, 27 #90 KYLE PATEE, 28 #07 JOEL SIDELL, 29 #80 MICKEY STEWARD

Witthar Trains
1 #11 WAYNE ACHZIGER, 2 #0 TOM JOHNSON, 3 #8 LEON ELLISON, 4 #80 JASON SEAY, 5 #25 Train of Fools, 6 #22 TWO TWO TWAIN, 7 #13 MICHAEL STEWARD