Rockingham Updates Friday, April 17, 2009 …

Here at Rockingham we have beautiful skies and the pits are full of UARA Late-Models. By our count, we have 35 cars here trying to make the field for tomorrows race. The cars have just hit the track for the first practice session on the day. There will be another practice session after lunch with qualifying rolling off at 3:30. We’ll be back later with some practice times.

Here’s the cars in attendance today:

84 Clay Greenfield
52 Brad Sams
29 Andy Loden
28 Brandon McReynolds
74 Caleb Holman
12 Garrett Campbell
13 Lance Gatlin
19 Kyle Moon
11 Joey Bryant
92 Matthew Godley
21 John King
32 Kyle Grissom
71 Corey Lajoie
81 Paddy Rodenbeck
73 Owen Kelly
88 Richard Boswell
57 Bob Saville
48 Scott Turlington
02 Joey Coulter
75 Paul Bryant
1 Jake Crum
76 Darrell Wallace Jr.
50 Jamey Caudill
24 Luke Laney
44 Matt DiBenedetto
44 Lee Tissot
45 Hal Goodson
59 Coleman Pressley
51 Matt McCall
41 Brian Curry
54 Clay Rogers
9 Chad Mullis
02 Randy Benson
97 Brian Dauzat
8 Brennan Poole

Current Top Five in Times(11:53am) …
Matt McCall – 25.596
Clay Greenfield
Brandon McReynolds
Clay Rogers
Matthew Godley

1:24pm … A couple of engine woes sidelining some drivers here earlier today including Joey Bryant, who we believe is trying to get another engine in the car and attempt to qualify later this evening.  Second Practice is going on now and we will hopefully have some times for you shortly.  Corey Latham has been out participating in the ARCA Hauler Parade so hopefully he’ll be back with something from his experience with that later this evening or tonight.

1:49pm … 25.565 Matt DiBenedetto, Clay Rogers, Clay Rogers, Matt McCall and Jamey Caudill ….hopefully we’ll get more times for you before qualifying, but we’re having trouble logging on to the UARA Timing.

3:22pm … Qualifying is coming up at 4:00pm and its been a tough day so far in the engine department as several cars have had trouble including Joey Bryant, who has borrowed an engine from Kyle Moon so that he’ll be able to compete in the race.  Pre-race favorite, Caleb Holman is already headed home after having his engine expire as well as Concord driver, Chad Mullis.  We have also heard of a few more troubles, but will have to check on those and will report on them later.

Here are the times from the 2nd practice session …
Matt DiBenedetto 25.565
Clay Rogers 25.567
Andy Loden 25.792
Matt McCall 25.867
Jamey Caudill 25.870
Garrett Campbell 25.897
Brandon McReynolds 25.906
Clay Greenfield 25.916
Kyle Grissom 25.933
Jake Crum 25.980
Joey Coulter 26.012
Owen Kelly 26.015
Corey LaJoie 26.032
Richard Boswell 26.076
Paul Bryant 26.173
Matthew Godley 26.182
Paddy Rodenbeck 26.224
Brian Curry 26.233
Coleman Pressley 26.237
Brennan Poole 26.245
Lance Gatlin 26.263
Brad Queen 26.290
John King, Jr. 26.378
Darrell Wallace, Jr. 26.391
Lee Tissot 26.434
Randy Benson 26.448
Scott Turlington 26.530
Luke Laney 26.566
Bob Saville 26.848
Hal Goodson 27.045
Kyle Moon 27.100
Bryan Dauzat 27.281

5:19pm … Matt McCall Blows Away the Pole with a lap of 25.067 …

5:58pm … Full Qualifying from Rockingham
1 – Matt McCall #51 25.067
2 – Paddy Rodenbeck #81 25.301
3 – Richard Boswell #88 25.342
4 – Jamey Caudill #50 25.380
5 – Clay Rogers #54 25.419
6 – Andy Loden
7 – Corey Lajoie
8 – Brandon McReynolds
9 – Clay Greenfield
10 – Owen Kelly
11 – Kyle Grissom
12 – Matt DiBenedetto
13 – Luke Laney
14 – Garrett Campbell
15 – Brennan Poole
16 – Brian Curry
17 – Jake Crum
18 – Matthew Godley
19 – Joey Coulter
20 – Randy Benson
21 – Coleman Pressley
22 – Scott Turlington
23 – Paul Bryant
24 – Lee Tissot
25 – Lance Gatlin
26 – Brad Queen
27 – Kyle Moon
28 – Hal Goodson
29 – John King
30 – Bob Saville
31 – Darrell Wallace Jr.
32 – Bryan Dauzat