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Monday, April 22, 2002

Adams Extends USCS Asphalt Sprint Streak At Columbia

His seven in a row streak started at Senoia Speedway on May 5th, 2001. The "Malabar Missile", Kenny Adams from Malabar, Florida pushed that win streak to seven straight wins with his victory Saturday night on Columbia Motor sports Park's fast half mile paved oval.


Adams won six of the seven USCS asphalt series events in 2001 including the last five. Jim Raptis from Marietta, Georgia was the last man to finish in front of Adams at a USCS "Asphalt Outlaw Thunder" series paved track event, when he won at Huntsville Speedway on May 4. 2001.

Johhny GilbertsonJohnny Gilbertson from Dover, Florida driving the Goodson Farms #6 Maxim finished about 10 car lengths behind Adams in his career best asphalt finish and appeared to be a force to be reckoned with now. Gilbertson started along side 2001 USCS National champion Terry Gray from Bartlett, Tennessee and watched as Gray, driving the Wendy's of Lexington J&J Racing car #10, jumped into the lead from the pole position to led laps one thru three before the fourth starting Adams raced by for the lead in his famous Putnam County Speedway/ Blue Ribbon Farms / C&B Mushroom Farms sponsored #2A Shaw car.

Gray held on to the runner-up spot until lap eight when Gilbertson made a move to go by and take up the chase behind Adams. For the next twenty two laps, Gilbertson, Gray, 1997 USCS champ Red Stauffer from Winter Park, Florida, and Wayne Reutimann, Jr. another Sunshine State native from Zephyrhills, kept the crowd on the edge of their seats as they raced thru lapped traffic challenging for positions in a nose to tail battle the entire event.

A caution flag on lap eight for Jim Raptis' blown engine bunched the field early. Then a red flag on lap 22 for three cars off the track in turn one when Aubrey Black, who was running eighth dropped oil with an engine problem, created a fuel stop opportunity and an eight lap dash to the finish. Adams remained unbeatable and Gilbertson held on to the runner-up spot not too far back. Gray crossed the line in third battling side by side with Stauffer the entire last eight laps. Stauffer was fourth and Wayne Reutimann, Jr. got his second USCS top five in a row.

Chris Rogers from Winston, Georgia lead the rest of the field home in sixth after losing a bunch of engine oil in the heat. The 1999 USCS top rookie, said" I was just glad we finished after the leak we had in the heat. Visiting All Star Circuit of Champions regular, 19 year old, Boston Reid followed in seventh in his first ever asphalt event, followed by Atlanta's Ted Williams, Doug Wimpee from Mobile, Alabama and Doug Day from Winder, Georgia rounded out the top ten.

Adams started the evening by setting a new track record of 14.541. Adams, Stauffer and Gilbertson won heat races. Chris Rogers won the Airflow Research Power Dash presented by Blue Ribbon Tomato Packing worth $200 to the winner. Blue Ribbon Tomato Packing Company added $200 to the top three positions in the dash. The evening's Huggins Cams Hardcharger" award went to Doug Wimpee for the second event in a row by advancing the most positions in the main event.

Visit Our sponsor -help keep this site freeAfter the main event, USCS President, Pete Walton, said, "I guess it's almost time for another Kenny Adams bounty, but I don't think that it will make a lot of difference. I think that everyone is working really hard to beat him now including his own teammate, Red Stauffer.” Walton added “Their team really has the car working great for Kenny and the guy just carries more corner speed than anybody you've ever seen. Everyone knows Kenny is just a real aggressive driver. I don't mean that Kenny drives rough or anything, in fact he is a really clean driver, but he just really attacks the race track hard. He just beats the race track and along with it the competition. Everyone else in this series is catching up but they are not quite there yet, but it's coming, because there are some really hard working and talented teams in this series. Over the last two races I've seen some guys really gaining ground on the leader.”

The event lost three times Little 500 winner Jim Childers #111 to an accident in his heat race with a badly damaged car, as well as 2000 top rookie, Michael Miller the same way. Childers appeared to be a contender and had won three of the last four sprint car events at the speedway.

USCS 30 lap main event - 4/20
Kenny Adams, Johnny Gilbertson, Terry Gray, Red Stauffer, Wayne Reutimann, Jr., Chris Rogers, Boston Reid, Ted Williams, Doug Wimpee, Doug Day, Mike Love, Terry Coddington, Jerry Jones, Doug Fitzwater, Will Ragsdale, Aubrey Black, Mike Chuchian, Nick Manikis, Jim Raptis, David Crosby, Lee Cipray, Jim Childers DNS, Michael Miller DNS.


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