Lucas Oil: Bloomquist Sails to "Icebreaker" Win at Brownstown
James Essex
BROWNSTOWN, Ind. – April 9. Scott Bloomquist passed Steve Francis on lap eight and went on to lead
the rest of the way in capturing the 14th annual "Indiana Icebreaker" for the Lucas Oil Late Model Dirt
Series Saturday at
In victory lane Bloomquist gave thanks and to his pit crew and the track preparers at Brownstown, after
the event was held despite nearly two inches of rain which fell earlier in the day. “The car was superb
out there tonight, you could run anywhere, we went with the Chevrolet powered Roush-Yates engine tonight and it
didn’t miss a beat, this was a brand new car, we’ve always enjoyed coming up here to race, and with all
the rain they had I didn’t know how it would turn out, but it was racy all night, we had a good race there with
Francis for a while, and I was hoping there wouldn’t be any cautions the way we were running, we handled
traffic pretty well, and everybody gave each other plenty of room,” said Bloomquist.
Scott Bloomquist scoots underneath Steve Francis on lap eight of the "Indiana Icebreaker" at Brownstown Speedway. (Rick Schwallie) 
As he advances toward fourth place, #15 Brian Birkhofer leads a tight pack that
includes #53 Ray Cook, Dale McDowell, and Jimmy Owens. (Rick Schwallie)
Bub McCool started on the pole and led the first two laps until Steve Francis took over the
point. Francis held the lead for five circuits, until Bloomquist, who started third grabbed the lead using
the inside line of the race track. Francis ran second just ahead of Mike Marlar for several laps until
Marlar took second on lap 18. O’Neal then charged to the front passing both Francis and Marlar as he
grabbed the second slot on lap 20.
Four-wide racing with #18 Shannon Babb, #c9 Steve Casebolt, Greg Johnson, and Joe
Janowski. (Rick Schwallie)
Bloomquist had built a sizable lead over O’Neal and Marlar. With twenty laps to go, he was firmly in
command of the race. Bloomquist then started to pick-up heavy traffic, allowing both O’Neal and Earl
Pearson Jr., who was on the move after starting on the outside of the ninth row.
O’Neal and Pearson had quite a battle for second for the remainder of the race. O’Neal was able to
edge Pearson at the finish line for second place.
Scott Bloomquist and Tyler Reddick talk tires at Brownstown.
(Rick Schwallie)
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Scott James battles #13 Barry Doss in heat race action at Florence (Ky.) Speedway, but in the $2,000-to-win feature, the only thing anyone saw was the tail end of James' #81 car. (Roy Walker)
After plenty of trash-talking via the electronic media between Jeff Matthews and Ivedent Lloyd last week, it was #21 Lloyd who got the final word as he reeled in #33 Matthews to win Friday's LM feature at Oclala, Fla.'s Bubba Raceway Park. (R.E. Wing)
Fans at Markleysburg, Pa.'s Roaring Knob Motorsports Comlex were treated to dual LM features Saturday - one a makeup from a May 5th rainout. (Above) Tim Senic challenges eventual regular feature winner Chuck Harper, while Jared Hawkins (below) claimed the makeup race. (Tommy Micheals)
Henley, Missouri's Jason Russell leads the way to Victory Lane in the ULMS Late Model feature at Lucas Oil Speedway Saturday. (Chris Bork)
Some fierce racing action at Lucas Oil speedway. (Chris Bork)
Dalton, Ga.'s Craig Reece returned to Dixie Speedway Saturday and led all the way to win the Crate LM victory. (Steve Hixson)
Ray Guss Jr. races last week's Quad City Speedway winner, Mike Murphy, Jr. This time, it was advantage Guss. (Chris Damitz)
With a strong motor back into his mount, Veteran Lamar Scoggins claimed last Friday's Crate LM victory at Boyd's Speedway. (Steve Hixson)
Veteran racer Lance Matthees navigates Spring Lake, Minnesota's Deer Creek Speedway before taking Saturday's WISSOTA Late Model checkers. (Jason Durst)
Racing hard at mid-pack, it's the dueling 55s of Cory Mahder (inside) and Greg Nippoldt at Deer Creek. (Jason Durst)
Ryan King (above and below) swept both the Ltd. Late Model and Crate Late Model features Saturday at 411 Motor Speedway in Seymour, Tenn. (Chad Wells)
Still riding his wave in Iowa, Mike Murphy, Jr. in early action before taking the main event win at Davenport last Friday. (Chris Damitz)
Jason Jameson ran a gauntlet to finally capture another win Friday night at Moler
Raceway Park (see main page). (Roy
Walker)
After holding back a charge from Alex Ferree, Chub Frank drove home with a Friday night win at Lernerville Speedway in Sarver, Pa. (John Stivason)
Bobby Pierce, Brett Sievert, and Mike Glynn race in a tight pack in Kankakee (Ill.) Speedway's "Crosstown Cup", but (below) it was ultimately Shawn Toczek (42) here racing the high side of Mike Provenzano, who sailed to the win. (Dan Simpson)
NALMS Suspends Remaining Season
In a statement released to the racing media Monday, Northern All All Stars Late Model Series (NALMS) owners Shawn Hall and Bob Mooney relased the following statement:
To all NALMS drivers and fans,
Northern Allstars Late Model Series regrets to inform all of our drivers and fans that as of today (May 14, 2012) we will suspend all series races for the remaining 2012 season. The primary reason for the decision to discontinue the series was mainly economics. Tracks, teams and fans are having a hard time these days with the cost of living in general. With the cost of fuel, parts, tires, tickets and lodging, many people just cannot afford to travel to our shows, so we feel it's best to stop for now and try to regroup for the 2013 season.
Our series needs to be able to have at least 18 to 20 shows to cover our cost of putting on these shows and our drivers point funds. With many tracks cutting back on their special events and other tracks just choosing not to have specials at all, it's has really cut our options for race tracks down to a very few unless you are willing to travel several hours away from the Central Illinois area, and that is not cost effective for the racing teams or fans.
In closing we would like to thank all of the drivers and fans whom have supported the series over the years and we hope to be able to come back with a bigger and better season for everyone in 2013.
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