By Scott Wolfe

July 24, 2010 Chillicothe, Ohio: A wild night of high speed, high quality racing highlighted action at Jeff and Vickie Schrader's K-C Raceway on Saturday when a huge crowd convened for Fan Appreciation Night. Capturing the second annual Tecumseh was Vandalia’s Jimmy Stinson.

After three exciting heats involving 34 quality sprint cars, the Goodyear 410 Tecumseh field was set. Ryan Myers took the initial lead only to have Australian visitor Trevor Green drive Danny Smith's car past at the completion of lap one. Myers tried Green several times but could not make it stick as Jimmy Stinson, Nick Naber, Cole Duncan and Jimmy Nier fought furiously for third. Stinson took over second and began to run down Green. A lap seven spin by Alec Martin collected Kory Crabtree. Naber took third on the restart with Nier in tow.

Stinson pestered Green for the next three laps finally taking over the lead and blitzing to an eight car length lead. On lap 13 Dallas Hewitt caught the turn one wall and flipped Charlie Brown’s sprinter hard through turn two. Hewitt was initially shaken but emerged under his own power. Cole Duncan and Sheldon Haudenshchild rode the high side toward the Top Five as two and sometimes three-wide racing was again the norm.

On the restart, Stinson saw Green dive low but scrub off the needed speed for the pass. A scary high speed spin involving Adam Strausser and Ryan Myers went half the length of the backchute but fortunately, the entire field evaded it. Nier took second as Billy Jarrell cars took the Top Two spots. Sheldon Haudenschild blitzed to sixth as Kody kinser blasted by on the low side to fourth. The two second generation drivers were on "GO" as Kinser took fourth from Naber on the last lap.

"I couldn't see behind me but I knew the car was working good on the high side so I didn't let up,” Stinson said. “That was a hard 25 laps. I'd like to thank Billy Jarrell for the great equipment and Jamie Miller for all his hard work on this car. Actually, I put the wrong left tire on the car before the feature and Andre Layfield's girlfriend pointed it out. I guess I need to thank her too ‘cause we had it right when I hit the track."

Saturday, July 31 will be the first Freedom 40 without wings under the United States Auto Club banner. The Freedom 40 will mark the return of USAC sprint car racing to K-C Raceway as part of the Amsoil USAC National series. Dave Darland won the last USAC race at K-C some 16 years ago and is excited to return to the 3/8th mile high banks. K-C is located 12 miles south of Chillicothe, Ohio off SR 23, two miles out Blain Highway between Chillicothe and Waverly at Alma. For more information, please call (740) 663.4141 or visit www.kc-raceway.com.

Qualifications (3/8d) Cole Duncan 12.173

Dash) Trevor Green, Ryan Myers, Nick Naber, Jimmy Stinson, Cole Duncan, Spud Gustin

Heat 1) Kody Kinser, Adam Strausser, Travis Philo, Sam Ashworth, Keith Baxter. DNQ Charlie Fisher, Eddie Slone, Jesse McCreary, Eddie Miller, John Shewbrook

Heat 2) Jim Nier, Alec Martin, Dallas Hewitt, Kory Crabtree, Andre Layfield. DNQ Mark Imler, John Webb, Randy Fink, Webb

Heat 3) Sheldon Haudenschild, Josh Davis, Bryce Dickson, Mitch Harble, Dave Dickson. DNQ Rodney Duncan, Nathan Skaggs, Jordon Harble, Brandy Bower

B-main) 1 Andre Layfield, 2 Sam Ashworth, 3 Dallas Hewitt, 4 Mitchell Harble, 5 Keith Baxter. DNQ 6 Dave Dickson, 7 Rodney Duncan, 8 Charlie Fisher, 9 Jesse McCreary, 10 Mark Imler, 11 Eddie Slone, 12 Brandy Bower, 13 Eddie Miller, 14 Randy Fink, 15 Nathan Skaggs, 16 Lance Webb, 17 Jordon Harble, 18 John Shewbrook, 19 John Webb

A-main) 1 Jimmy Stinson (Jarrell 84), 2 Jim Nier (Jarrell 00), 3 Trevor Green (Smith 4), 4 Kody Kinser 4k, 5 Nick Naber, 6 Sheldon Haudenschild 93, 7 Cole Duncan, 8 Josh Davis, 9 Andre Layfield, 10 Travis Philo, 11 Mitchell Harble, 12 Adam Strausser, 13 Keith Baxter, 14 Sam Ashworth 92, 15 Bryce Dickson, 16 Spud Gustin, 17 Ryan Myers (Garrett 56) DNF Dallas Hewitt (Brown 99), Alec Martin, Kory Crabtree. 410w