Shane Clanton Tops 12 Annual Icebowl At Talladega Short Track

EASTABOGA, AL--The 12th Annual Icebowl weekend at Talladega Short Track once again proved to be the hottest place in racing during the cold month of January as race fans and over 300 drivers and crews braved frigid temperatures to see Shane Clanton of Locust Grove, GA, in his Custom Race Engines/Rocket chassis score the win in the Super Late Model portion of the Sunday afternoon program.

            Clanton started outside front row for the 50 lap main as Spartanburg, SC., Jeff Cooke making his first Icebowl appearance started on the pole, but never lead a lap as Clanton moved to the lead down the backstretch with Lewisburg, TN., moving into the second spot Cooke third, 2002 SAS Champion Duayne Hommel fourth and Ross Martin fifth.

            Clanton pulled out to a straightaway lead only to have Gentry start to run Clanton down in traffic as the two started to battle for the top spot.
  Gentry took over the lead and started to show his strength for the top spot as Clanton was now getting pressure from Hommel and Clint Smith.

            Following a caution period Clanton got another run on Gentry and made his move to the front spot again took over the top spot, with Gentry now falling back to second.   The duo pulled ahead of the third place Hommel and was starting to pull ahead of the field, when Gentry moved back ahead of Clanton to take over the top spot and at this points Gentry looked to be on his way to the $5,000 win.

            A caution came out with four laps remaining and Gentry and Clanton seemed to be the two that it was going to be a battle between, and with three laps remaining Gentry slipped high coming off turn four and Clanton made his move to the bottom and then pulled into the lead and went on to claim his first Icebowl win.   Gentry came home in the second spot with Hommel following in third, Clint Smith came in the fourth spot from his 8th starting position and fifth place went to pole sitter Jeff Cooke.

            Joe Armistead Jr of Sharpsburg, GA, finished in the sixth spot after starting 13th, seventh went to Danny Peoples of Margaret, AL., after starting 16th, eighth place was Mark Mears of Decatur, AL, ninth to Terry English of Benton, KY, who started 22nd and tenth place went to Fayetteville, GA driver Ricky Williams in a drive from the 24th starting spot.

            Lamar Scoggins of Cleveland , TN., set fast time of the 84 cars on hand with a 15.32 lap.

            In Sportsman action Danny Carter of Woodstock, GA, scored win as he started on the pole and was in command for the 20 lap event, with Johnny Cloer Jr of Chatsworth, GA., coming home in the second spot Jeff Johns of Moody, AL., came home in the third spot, fourth went to Randall Walker of Anniston, AL, and fifth went to Chris Ragan of Corinth, MS.

            Finishing in the sixth spot was David King, seventh Brain Burke, eighth to 106 Speedway promoter Brad York, ninth to Nick Yancy and tenth to Andy Mehurg.

            In the IMCA Modified main Jamey Wynn of Munford, AL., used his home track knowledge of TST to score the win over the 70 cars there were entered in this class, second place went to Brad Qualls of Pleasantville, TN., third to Derrick White of Athens, AL., who worked his way steady through traffic from his 22nd starting spot, fourth place went to Scottie Hiett of Anniston, AL., and fifth went to Michael Pickette of Munford, AL., who started in the 10th position.

            Finishing sixth through tenth were Garrett Durrett, Randy Zeigler Eric Hickerson, Jimmy Dixon and W. Kalif Sellier.

            Greg Elliott of Webster City, IA., made the long tow and held off a hard charging Charlie Chapman of Margaret, AL., to get the win in the IMCA Stock Car portion of the Icebowl.   Adam Cummings of Pell City , AL., took the third spot with Logan Yates of Delta, AL., came home fourth and Jason Schoenberger of Russell , KS . rounded out the top five.

            Sixth went to Jeremy Hurst, seventh to Donnie Key, eighth to Troy Jertoz, ninth Steven Cotton and tenth to Ronald Williams.

            In Friday night Bomber action Jeff Chumley of Attalla, AL., scored the win with Jay Sessions of Stanley, NC, second, third to David Kelley of Roopville, GA., fourth Martin Tucker of Defuniack Springs, Fl., who started in the 13th starting spot and fifth went to Dewayne Qick of Argo, AL.

            Sixth through tenth went to Steve McElroy, Mike Underwood, Todd Darda, Aaron Abshire and Joel Landers.

            Royce Bray of Athens, GA., scored the win in the Pony main event with Steve Bryan of Collinsville, MS., came home in the second spot, third Tim Thorton of Oxford, AL., fourth went to Rick Bradshaw of Douglasville, GA., who started in the 12th starting spot and fifth went to Allen Brewer of came from the 10th starting spot.

            Finishing in the sixth spot was Alan Glaze, seventh to B J Freeman, eighth to John Glaze, ninth to Greg Gatlin and tenth to Brad Sain.

            The staff and management of the Talladega Short Track would like to thanks all the fans, drivers and crews who braved the cold weather for your support and look forward to the 2004 Icebowl.

OFFICIAL FINISHES 12TH ANNUAL ICEBOWL TALLADEGA SHORT TRACK

SUPER LATE MODEL

 1. Shane Clanton; 2.David Gentry; 3.Duayne Hommel; 4.Clint Smith; 5.Jeff Cooke; 6. Joe Armistead Jr; 7.Danny Peoples; 8.Mark Mears; 9.Terry English; 10.Ricky Williams; 11.Patrick Duggan; 12.Rodney Dickson; 13.Vic Hill; 14.Wren Turner; 15.Bobby Turner; 16.James Cline; 17.Jimmy Owens; 18.Freddy Smith; 19.Randall Chupp; 20.Ross Martin; 21.Terrance Nowell' 22.Tim Busha; 23.Lamar Scoggins; 24.Jody Summerville.

SPORTSMAN

1. Danny Carter; 2.Johhny Cloer Jr; 3.Jeff Johns; 4.Randall Walker; 5.Chris Ragan; 6.David King; 7.Brian Burke; 8.Brad York; 9.Nick Yancy; 10.AndyMehurg; 11.Daniel Miller; 12.Allen Carter; 13.Doug King; 14.Josh Lunsford; 15.Eddie Holder; 16.David Helms; 17.Dwayne Miller; 18.Chad Smith; 19.Billy Melvin; 20.Kevin Tallent; 21.Richard Ogle; 22.Jon Miller; 23.Jonathan Chapman; 24.Bryan Elder

IMCA MODIFIED

1. Jamey Wynn; 2.Brad Qualls; 3.Derrick White; 4.Scottie Hiett; 5.Michael Pickette; 6.Garrett Durrett; 7.Randy Zeigler; 8.Eric Hickerson; 9.Jimmy Dixon; 10.W, Kalif Sellier; 11.Darrin Cameron; 12.Jamie Burford; 13.Todd Hurst; 14.Henry Hanger; 15.Scottie Gowers; 16.Ryan Tolleson; 17.Chad Winkles; 18.Jason Sullivan; 19.Steve Ward; 20.Gregg Fanning; 21.Greg Hopkins; 22.Shane Stephens; 23.Tony Simons; 24.Greg Cox

IMCA STOCK CAR

1. Greg Elliott; 2.Charlie Chapman; 3.Adam Cummings; 4.Logan Yates; 5.Jason Schoenberger; 6.Jeremy Hurst; 7.Donnie Key; 8.Troy Jertoz; 9.Steven Cotton; 10.Ronald Williams; 11.Matt Greinu; 12.Jeremy Christians; 13.Freddie Calhoun; 14. -----; 15.Eric Layfield; 16.Travis Evans; 17.Zach Sobaski; 18.Eric Smith; 19.Randy Nixon; 20.Scott Magguirk; 21.John JJ Heinz; 22.Tommy Shelnutt

BOMBER

1. Jeff Chumley; 2.Jay Sessions; 3.David Kelley; 4.Martin Tucker; 5.Dewayne Qick; 6.Steve McEelroy; 7.Mike Underwood; 8.Todd Darda; 9.Aaron Abshire; 10. Joe l Landers; 11.Gregg Davis; 12.Corey Korreckt; 13.Brad Maples; 14.Tim Ford; 15.Tyler Landers; 16.Eric Layfield; 17.Richie Taylor; 18.Kevin Smith; 19.Shane Elmore; 20.Martin Tucker; 21.David Stuart; 22.Randall Horton; 23.Joseph Moncrief; 24.Donnie Smart

PONY

1. Royce Bray; 2.Steven Bryan; 3.Tim Thorton; 4.Rick Bradshaw; 5.Allen Brewer; 6.Alan Glaze; 7.B J Freeman; 8.John Glaze; 9.Greg Gatlin; 10.Brad Sain; 11.Ricky Brown; 12.Dean Martin; 13.Henry Schlindwein; 14.Mike Whaley; 15.Joseph Credidio; 16.Tom Dancy; 17.Derrick Elder; 18.Rodgerick Dykes; 19.Mitchell Godfrey; 20.Don Don Cook; 21.B G Thompson; 22.Elvis Turberville; 23.Gary Reid; 24.Norman Chambers; 25.Blake Carter.