Richard “The Rock” Burton took his first Snap-On Tools Pro Truck win during the Sunoco Race Fuel Rumble Saturday night at Colorado National Speedway. In his first ever CARC Modified Coupe appearance, Ronnie Hults took the wingless feature. Nick Martinez added a couple more points to his lead with a win in the Loveland Goodyear Figure 8 feature and Nick Haygood took the ERA Super Modified feature. Tommy Roe scored his sixth 2008 Suss.net Sportsman feature as well.
Tom Adler shot out to the early lead in his ERA Super Modified and led Craig Moore, Stevie Gallegos and Matt Gilbert. On lap 3, the caution flew for fluid on the speedway. On lap 4, Nick Haygood was up to second from the back with Moore Gallegos and Gilbert following Haygood. Gallegos got by Moore on lap 6 and Stone was fourth on lap 7 moving Moore to fifth. Gilbert was fifth on lap 8, and Johnny Pickard took over fifth on lap 10. On lap 12, Haygood caught Adler and shot into the lead. Stone was now third and Richie Castor Jr moved into fifth on lap 20. Gallegos spun for a lap 22 caution to bunch up the field. Haygood set sail and led the rest of the way over Adler, stone, Pickard and Castor.
The Figure 8 main got off to a wild start when Dan Mast spun and the whole field missed him. Nick Martinez led early over Jared Wall, Dave Smith, Joe Matlock and Eddie Garcia. Harry Livermore Jr was fifth on lap 2 and John Johnson took fifth on lap 3. Al Duran and Jereme Wall tangled for a lap 4 caution and another caution flew on lap 5 for Frank Gastineau spun with a missing driveshaft. Johnson took fifth on lap 5 and spun for a caution on lap 6. Livermore was now fourth and Garcia spun for a lap 8 caution. Duran moved into fifth on lap 12, and caution flew on lap 13 when Eddie Garcia and Joe Gastineau tangled. Duran was penalized for jumping a restart moving Smith back into fifth. Martinez held on for the win over Matlock, Wall, Livermore and Smith.
Corey Gordon took the early lead in the Wingless CARC Modified coupe feature with Ronnie Hults, Rich Bubak, Jaime Bubak and Frank Denning III following. Caution flew on lap 3 when Michael Fetters and Tony Umberger crashed in turn 3. Hults took the lead on the restart with R Bubak, Gary Land, Gordon and J Bubak following. Joseph St Peter and Denning collided for a lap 6 caution and Carl Vair took over fifth on lap 6, with Vair taking over fourth on lap 8. Chet Graham spun for a lap 14 caution and the race was given 5 more laps due to time. Hults held on for the win over Land, R Bubak, Vair and rookie Gordon.
Tommy Roe jumped out to the lead in the Suss.net Sportsman feature over Jeff Walbaum, Jim Bob Rogers, Craig Holmes and Steven Maas. Bruce Borchardt took fifth on lap 2 and cars spun for a lap 3 caution and Eric Blackard pitted. Borchardt took fourth on lap 4 and they ran like that until lap 21 when Borchardt spun and Holmes was sent to the rear. Nick Brinlee was now fifth and moved into fourth on lap 26 and Blackard raced into fifth on lap 28. Roe took the win over Walbaum, Rogers, Brinlee and Blackard.
Beau Kellogg jumped into the early lead in the Snap-On Tools Pro Truck feature over Richard Burton, Happy Ferree, Dustin Courter, and Adam Deines. Chris Leaf was fifth on lap 3 with Leaf and Deines dropping Courter out of the top 5 on lap 5. Ferree moved by Kellogg on lap 26 and Hults got by Deines on lap 29 for fifth. Ferree and Burton raced hard on the last lap with Burton taking the win over Ferree, Kellogg, Leaf and Hults.
| ERA Super Modified A-Main Finish |
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| 1 3 Nick Haygood, Centennial 2 11 Tom Adler, Longmont 3 40 Harry Stone, Broomfield 4 02 Johnny Pickard, Pueblo 5 2 Rich Castor Jr, Bennett 6 51 Joe Priselac, Brighton 7 55 Gary Land, Littleton 8 7s Stevie Gallegos, Castle Rock 9 29 Craig Moore, Littleton 10 88 Kevin Day, Arvada 11 54 Matt Gilbert, Franktown 12 27 Mike Hathaway, Falcon 13 22 Ira Castor, Brighton DNS: 52 Scott Decenick, Longmont; 13 Kevin Salmen, Northglenn; 6 Cris Muhler, Brighton |
| Loveland Goodyear Figure 8 A-Main Finish |
| 1 26 Nick Martinez, Denver 2 22 Joe Matlock, Aurora 3 52 Jared Wall, Denver 4 17 Harry Livermore Jr, Lafayette 5 81 Dave Smith, Englewood 6 42 Daniel Martinez, Northglenn 7 23 Al Duran, Littleton 8 87 Dan Mast, Parker 9 7 Randy Grubb, Lakewood 10 25 Phil Taylor, Leadville 11 90 John Johnson, Golden 12 15 Jereme Wall, Commerce City 13 89 Eddie Garcia, Littleton 14 11 Joe Gastineau, Denver 15 75 Harvey Webb Jr, Thornton 16 66 John Martello, Denver 17 10 Frank Gastineau, Thornton 18 05 Buddy Hohn Jr, Denver 19 24 Joe Martinez, Littleton 20 50 Justin McKeachie, Denver DNS: 12 James Naranjo, Denver |
| Modified Coupe A-Main Finish |
| 1 29H Ronnie Hults, Centennial 2 55 Gary Land, Littleton 3 15 Rich Bubak, Arvada 4 45 Carl Vair, Golden 5 05 Corey Gordon, Northglenn 6 77 Michael Anderson, Arvada 7 12 Jaime Bubak, Arvada 8 3 Chad Guilford, Highlands Ranch 9 0 Eric Grimm, Brighton 10 33 Chet Graham, Wheat Ridge 11 7 Paul Bredenberg, Broomfield 12 41 Bill Kolb, Westminster 13 90 Frank Denning III, Arvada 14 87 Joseph St Peter, Englewood 15 99 Bob Land, Englewood 16 56 Michael Fetters, Brighton 17 98 Tony Umberger, Denver |
| SUSSNet Sportsman A-Main Finish |
| 1 6 Tommy Roe, Thornton 2 8 Jeff Walbaum, Thornton 3 62 Jim Bob Rogers, Erie 4 99 Nick Brinlee, Broomfield 5 46 Eric Blackard, Lakewood 6 84 Bruce Borchardt, Lafayette 7 98 Lee Kemmit, Thornton 8 21 Troy Meyer, Aurora 9 4 Matt Curless, Cheyenne WY 10 55 Craig Holmes, Arvada 11 00 Steven Maas, Firestone 12 28 Alan Carter, Thornton 13 49 Dennis Pobanz, Colorado Springs 14 13 Eric Potts, Arvada 15 47 Brian Anglim, Wheat Ridge 16 44 Randy Mossman, Johnstown 17 67 Stephanie Brown, Littleton 18 17 Dennis Marion, Parker 19 58 Jeff Webb, Arvada 20 01 Pete Maas, Ault 21 40 Jason Trujillo, Reunion 22 31 Josh Flood, Arvada |
| Snap-On Tools Pro Trucks A-Main Finish |
| 1 36 Richard Burton, Englewood 2 1 Happy Ferree, Windsor 3 33 Beau Kellogg, Denver 4 07 Chris Leaf, Kersey 5 42 Ronnie Hults, Centennial 6 7 Adam Deines, Longmont 7 20 Dustin Courter, Parker 8 0 Billy Harkins, Lakewood 9 32 Mark Neff, Eaton 10 19 Randy Whitman, Ft. Collins 11 02 Josh Fellows, Loveland 12 34 Rudy Vanderwal, LaSalle 13 11 Steve Johnson, Windsor 14 39 Jack Nugent, Lafayette 15 15 Mike Bernard, Ft. Collins 16 9 Tim Billinger, Denver 17 78 Mark Bybee, Sedalia |
