Hey!
Racing season is getting closer and were sitting in anticipation wanting to spend every Friday and Saturday night racing.
But as always you have to work before you can play. We are going to be having some workdays to get ready for the outlaw race and the regular season. Everything will be posted on the web page.
As you all know we held are banquet a little later in the year so that Levi Jones could be our guest speaker. Levi Gave his speech which everyone enjoyed, and he also stayed and presented the awards to the drivers, which was great! The club would like to thank him and his family for being a part of our 2005 awards Banquet.
I would also like to personally thank everyone who sponsored the trophies and awards.
David and Sharon Campbell of Carmi IL
Cruse Racing Engines of Carmi IL
Glenn's Auto Body of Eldorado IL
Marshall Electric Inc. Carmi IL
Fast Lane Graphics Eldorado IL
Holloway Heating Mount Vernon IL
Thank You for donating for the auction: All of the club members who brought their gifts and also Brodrix Chassis, Odum Carbs, Stallard Chassis, American Racing, Jeff Montgomery, Gateway International Raceway, and Vinyl Graphics by Bigd. We had a good turn out.
The schedule is out and as you all know Wayne Co. has the State and Region race this year, and if the racing is as good as it was for the Eastern's I can't wait.The racing that weekend was awesome.
I want to let everyone know especially the new members, are club meetings are on the 1st Monday of the month, we have alot of good people showing up, but would like to see a full house.
I want to thank the lady's who helped this 2005 season also Shannon Owen, Toni Sinks, Danielle Sinks, Marcy Holmes, Vonna Cluck, Victoria Cluck, Cassie Vivens, Brenda Cullum, Christina Usleton, Marilyn Bouhl, Sonnie Parker, Makayla Parker.
Also we had a couple of Erik Parker's buddies help also Tyler Dickey and Jimmy Green.
Not pictured: Jr. class Garrett Duff 5th club, -Tony Powell 6th club
Rest. class Stephen Sullivan 1st club - Clayton Duff 2nd club
W/L class Rick Pender 2nd club, - Billy Pender 3rd club
Tony Hines 5th club, - Kyle Chady 6th club
A class Derek Hogue 4th club
Multi class Ernie Holloway 5th club, - Shawn Sears 6th club
If I forgot any one I'm sorry it wasn't done on purpose Until next time stay warm and safe.
Editor’s Note: My apologies to Toni for not getting the picture for her driver profile of Lucas Owens in last month.
I am re-running the profile, along with the photo, as per Toni’s request in this issue.
Also, I owe an apology to Derrick Sinks for not having his name listed in the “On the Cover” section. of last months issue.
Truly the cover photo for last month was Derrick and not Jake!!
I have made the correction on the Pit Stop website and hope that helps to make up for my gross error!!
Driver Profile
Lucas Owen #18
Lucas Owen is 18 years old and his parents are Guy and Shannon Owen; all from McLeansboro IL.
Lucas attends school at Hamilton County High School this being his Senior year. He plans on going on to
college at Rend Lake for 2 years and then moving on to Perdue for 2 years.
His goals are to be successful in architectural technology, but he says it would be nice to be a race car driver.
Lucas loves to hunt, fish and tinker with his car also in his past time he takes his girl friend, Christina to the movies. His favorite movies are U.S. Marshals & Twister.
I asked him what his favorite food was and he had to think hard about it and said grilled chicken. I figured it would be pizza.
Lucas has no brothers or sisters, but does have a French beagle named Cherokee.
He has been racing for 5 years and started racing because his dad was into super cross in Germany and Vegas, so sprints were the next best thing. Lucas drove a B car and now is in a Brodrix Chassis with an R6 engine, and was his 1st year in the A Class. He has finished in the top 20 three years in a row and for the year 2005 he's finished 5th in the region, 19th in the nation 1st in club points for here at Wayne County Speedway and 7th at SIR.
Lucas says he wants to thank his Dad & Mom for supporting him and also his girl friend Christina Uselton which supports me some but gets really tired by the end of the year. Without you all it would have not been possible!
He also want to thank all of his Sponsors:
B&B Auto Body
Coating Application & Water Proofing
Tom's Food Park
Kenny Shreve Ford
Fast Lane Graphics
Also Thanks to Brodrick, Terry and David for your help through out the season it was Greatly Appreciated.
