Track Champions Crowned!  
Trucks up to test Speedway USA next week!
By Tim Berier

August 27, 1999; Bolivar, MO. - Friday night saw the final points race of the season at
Speedway USA as the Division leaders were crowned.

 In the NASCAR Grand American Late Model, not only did he take the final feature of the year, but he also was the track champion. Larry Phillips, no stranger to the winner's circle, stood before the crowd and accepted the trophy and the honor of being the 1999 Track Champion. 

Tim Swearengin, who has also seen the winner's circle this season, took the second place finish for the night and was third overall in the points. Third place went to Jerry Kelly, who placed fourth in points.  Sam Payne placed fourth in the feature and  sixth in the points standings. He was second in the final point standings, but finished fifth in the final feature of the season. 

Mike Hoover took sixth on the evening and finished in the tenth points spot.  Fifth in the point standings, but finishing seventh on the night was Jim Hunt. Tony Jackson Jr., completing his rookie season in the Grand American Late Models at Bolivar finished not only eighth in the feature but in the points.  Ron Polodna did the same as he finished ninth in the feature and point standings.

With a 46 point lead over his brother, David Bates was the 1999 O'Reilly Auto Parts Modified Track  Champion.   Bates also took the win in the feature over Brian Schutt, who finished third in the point standings. Jim Hunt placed third in the feature, while second place in the points, Jay Bates, finished fourth. He finished sixth in the points but fifth on the evening, Jim Hayes drove his #14 modified to across the checkered line for the final time this season. 

Sixth in the feature, Bryan Kapica, finished fourth in points. John Bossen fished just outside the top ten in points, eleventh, but made a good showing for the evening as he finished seventh.  Taking the fifth place in the point standings, Lendall Alexander finished the race in the eighth spot.

The 1999 Street Stock Champion is none other than Scott Johnson. Johnson also took home the trophy for the feature win of the night. Steve Maddux took second in the feature and wound up fifth in the points in his rookie season behind the wheel of the #52 machine. Jim Garretson finished third and Jared Brown finished fourth. Brown fished fourth in the points.  Andy Jenkins stood in the third spot in the overall standings but tonight he took the fifth position.

Richard Thiessen, who has run a limited schedule this season finished sixth. Second place in
the points, Toby Harden, finished seventh and Greg Shaffer finished eight.  It was Clyde Long and Steve Bias finishing the top ten of the night. Long finished sixth in points.

It was his first win of the season, Cleo Jasper powered his #93 machine to the win in the Pure Street Division. Jasper  was second in overall points. Jeff Richardson, showing strength all season, came home second on the night and fifth in the standings. The 1999 Pure Street Champion was Jerry Garretson, but he did not fair so well on the night as he finished tenth in the feature.  Third place went to Don Scroggins and he also finished fourth in points. Ron Polodna finished fourth, Steve Shaw , fifth and Ron Stokes, sixth.

Shaw was seventh in  points. Chuck Fers wound up third in points, but seventh in the feature. Greg Cherry took the eight place spot in the race and tenth in points. Leonard Underwood, starting the season a little later than the others, finished ninth in the race and 11th in points.

The Neely family once again celebrated victory as Bradley Neely finished first in the Bolivar KART Series Heavy Division and Bryan took first in the medium Division.   Bryan Neely placed a second in the heavy along with Shawn Brock-3rd, David Taylor-4th and Travis Jones-5th.  In the Medium division, it was Shawn Brock, second, Travis Jones-3rd, Brad Neely -4th and Bill Goin -5th. In the Jr. II it was Tyler Wolf taking the checkered over John Gibson-2nd, Jacob Magnis-3rd, Robbie Bryant-4th and Daniel Shirley-5th.

On Sept. 5th a special 50 lap feature with the Pro Truck Series will invade the ozarks. There will also be a special stunt show and a Pure Street feature with a $2000 purse. 

Additional information: Heat Race Results:

Street Stocks: Heat One:  Toby Harden, Scott Johnson, Jered Brown

O'Reilly Auto Parts Modifieds: Heat One: Brian Schutt, David Bates, Jim Hayes

Grand American late Model: Heat One: Tim Swearengin, Sam Payne, Mike Hoover
                                                Heat Two: Steve Holt, Larry Phillips, Jerry Kelly

Pure Street: Heat One: Ron Polodna, Carl Shimer, Dan Polodna
                      Heat Two: Jerry Garretson, Jeff  Richardson, Steve Shaw