Phillips is King of JMS hill for '08

Late Model King of the Hill Shootout championship night Saturday was an exhausting, marathon affair. And it was pretty tough on the drivers, too.
In what Junction Motor Speedway announcer Wayne Dake described as “a bit of a strange night to say the least,” Terry Phillips of Springfield, Mo., took home King of the Hill honors and the $3,000 check that came along with it.
Friday night’s Shootout top prize of $2,000 went to Omaha’s John Anderson in the 2J.
Saturday evening served notice things might get western when, in Heat 2 of the NCRA/MLRA Late Model portion of the show, Alonzo Grosse and Robbie Anderson tangled at the turn three wall. Grosse clearly had the worst of it as his No. 44 machine first twisted and then plowed nose first into the concrete with hard imact, then flipped onto its top and came to rest with the painted side down.
Both Grosse and Anderson were OK, but the crash turned out to be the first of many delays — most of them unavoidable and impossible to predict — that the near-capacity crowd on George Bros. Night tolerated with admirable patience.
A medical emergency in the stands forced the racers to park and kill the engines during an extended delay in which track ambulance personnel tended a stricken fan.
The setbacks forced officials to invoke a three-yellows-and-you’re-out policy for the NASCAR Modified and NASCAR Hobby Stock A-features. Both races were called prematurely when drivers brought out the third yellow-flag stoppage.
Then the most unlikely event of all ... a total and instant blackout.
Thankfully, the Super Late Models weren’t flying around the track at well more than 100 mph when everything went dark. Officials would hate to ponder such a situation’s potential for disaster. Even more fortuitously, the race that was on the track when inky blackness suddenly and inexplicably descended had slowed for a caution.
Dake explained that the day’s oppressive heat put such a strain on power in the McCool area that a grid failed. By the time that happened the evening had already arrived at 11 p.m.
Remarkably, considering all the yellow flags for loops and banging among the Modified, Stock Car and Street Stock classes, the faster, much larger field (25 cars) Super Late Models ran 32 of their 35 A-main laps sparkling clean and caution free. Even then the yellow flew only because of a tire failure.
When all was said and done the racing went on until 12:15 a.m. Driver interviews, King of the Hill winner presentation and photos came after that.
Friday night more than 50 NCRA or MLRA Late Models took to the 3/8-mile dirt circle. Saturday saw a fleet of 48 return.

Saturday A-features:

MLRA/NCRA Late Model
1) 75p Terry Phillips
2) 2j John Anderson
3) 14b Kyle Berck
4) 74p Jeremy Payne
5) 07b Kelly Boen
6) 92s Delbert Smith
7) 33p Al Purkey
8) 1x Bo Egge
9) 2b Jason Bodenhamer
10) 29b Phil Barrow

NASCAR Modified
1) 77k Kurt Johnston
2) 8 Justin Bell
3) 9 Brandon Blochlinger
4) 1r Matt Richards
5) 15 Andy Wilkinson
6) b9 Sean Burklund
7) 55 Shane Stutzman
8) 25h Adrian Hein, Jr.
9) 64 Dusty Blake
10) 8j Joe Borer

NASCAR Stock Car
1) 34 Randy Weaver
2) 44 Bryon Boersen
3) 07 Mike Goldfuss
4) 4 Dana Deeke
5) 46 Jason Van Winkle
6) j3d Jed Williams
7) 15 Andy Wilkinson
8) 15s Jeremiah Slough
9) 14 Brant Beam
10) 55 Ronald Veleba

NASCAR Hobby Stock
1) 15x Shane Schneider
2) 71 Rocky Zimmerman
3) 77c Cory Dumpert
4) 11x Nelson Vollbrecht
5) 2t Jerod Timmermans
6) 14 Edd Huxoll
7) 21k Brent Kassik
8) 94 Mike Anderson
9) 72 Jeff Timmermans
10) 12s Todd Slama



Friday A-features:

MLRA/NCRA Late Model
1) 2j John Anderson
2) 07b Kelly Boen
3) 75p Terry Phillips
4) 21t Travis Dickes
5) 15t David Turner
6) 74p Jeremy Payne
7) 14b Kyle Berck
8) 53 Joe Kosiski
9) 33p Al Purkey
10) 1f Jason Friesen

Cruiser
1) 42b Ekeler/Miller
2) 16.5 Hersh/Whitten
3) 21g Graczyk/Graczyk
4) 69j Jacobitz/Jacobitz
5) 01 Aspegren/Dunker
6) 24x Sandall/Hitz
7) 14x Russell/Huxoll
8) 77 Barry/Barry
9) 99 Kassik/Miller
10) 22b Mark/Klein

4 Cylinder
1) 10t Troy Hofmann
2) 99 Ryan Pedersen
3) 15w Cale Wiarda
4) 2p Lance Hiebner
5) 10tv Micah Veleba
6) 2x Dillon Burklund
7) 00 Rodney Nosker
8) 9 Matt Drudik
9) 7 Dillon Denny
10) 7d Rich Denny