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Monday, May 9, 2011

Salina Opening Night 5-6-2011

The reshaped turn one.
All new planks for grandstand seating.
Josh Rice
Jeff Olson

Rick Slothower

Dan Heina

Smokin'Joe

Rodger Peck

Tim Watts

Gettin' a little TOO sideways.

Bud Lee, still fast after all these years.

Kurtis Pihl and Chad Markley in B Mod heat #2.

One thing about Salina, you can get REAL close to the racin'.

Sometimes the cars get really close too.

Gary Whitmore

Shannon Johnson (819), Jesse Richter (8), & Mike Peterslie in the 2nd mod heat.

Steve Burch (11) and Jeff Welsh in heat 3.

Jerry Phillips and Welsh.

Steve Burch doesn't look too pleased for some reason.

A swarm of mosquitoes or hornets or ..........

Brandon Lobdell gets by Garett Hake in the A.

Nice 3-wide in the mod B.

Brian Knoell tries to hold off Joe Cleveland in the B.

Mike Traskowsky getting by Casey Gilmore to win the Hobby feature.

Three wide and room for several more.

Tyler Bradshaw had to work to get by Bud.

Corbin Pickerill maneuvered his car so his sponsor would show up well in this photo.Right Wiggy?

Tyler Bradshaw takes the checkers.

Another 3-wide, but where they goin'???

Josh Rice (8) and Shane Meeks who is on his way to winning the B-Mod feature.

Seth Schroer runs into turn one a little hard and gets into Jeff Olson and..........

.......spins out.

Jesse Levin almost did the same thing but saved it.

Dustin Newlin leads the pack in the Stock feature.

Scot Granzella is running Newlin down.

Newlin seemed to have it wrapped up until he ran off turn 3 late in the race.

Danny Morrison Jr jumped out to an early lead in the Mod feature.

Jerry Phillips and Rodger Peck.

Burch, Watts, & Chris Vogan.

Danny, you're leading by thiiiiis much

Now you're leading by thiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiis much!


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Ahhhhh, it was good to see Salina Speedway back in operation again, just wasn't right with it closed. Everybody I talked to was really so I didn't get as much background as I wanted. No problem, I got plenty of racing.
I won't go into race details here, you can get all that at the track website or at midwestdirt.com.