Prelude to a dream races and winners?

Question

how many were there and who won them?

Answer 1

Name, notes

(Starting spot in parentheses)

(3) 1. Tony Stewart (Led 29 of 30 laps? Qualified 2nd I think. Checked out even with a lot of cautions early. Bowyer seemed to keep up decent before Gordon got around Bowyer for 2nd)

(5) 2. Robby Gordon (Scott Bloomquist car, first late model race...made a lot of his passes with controversal slidejobs, but seemed very happy after the race. He said after the race "Yeah I think we just ordered a couple of these cars and gonna run half our schedule in these," half joking.)

(7) 3. Clint Bowyer (He and Harvick did some slidejobs early, seemed mad at each other...remember they are teammates in NASCAR. Seem some shaking of fists, and looked like Harvick flipped him the bird, not sure if it was all in fun or not)

(10) 4. Kenny Wallace (Big dirt racer)

(9) 5. Denny Hamlin (Impressive)

(2) 6. Matt Kenseth (I was impressed with Kenseth as well...he had his car lookin' good and passed a couple guys throughout the night)

(1) 7. Kevin Harvick (Named most improved Driver, Led 1 lap)

(12) 8. Jimmie Johnson (First Dirt Late Model Race, not bad at all!)

(14) 9. Ken Schrader (Big time dirt racer...)

(13) 10. Kyle Busch (Came from 18th to 10th late in the race, had damage from smacking the wall in the heat and in qualifying)

(16) 11. David Reuttiman (Had a great car in the heat race, but his elbow hit some braking mechanism and ended his bid for a heat win)

(18) 12. Ryan Newman (Wrecked in heat, but before that the car was hooked up...must have lost his touch in the feature from the car damage)

(15) 13. Jeff Gordon (Ran good early but lost his touch at end. Also smacked the wall of turn 2 pretty good in the heat race and damaged the right front.)

(23) 14. Cruz Pedregon (NHRA)

(11) 15. Ron Capps (NHRA)

(22) 16. Ray Evernham (Slow as usual)

(6) 17. Carl Edwards (Had a great car, but overheated or something)

(17) 18. Aric Amirola (Got involved in the Yeley/Martin mess in the heat)

(4) 19. Dave Blaney (Qualified the fastest with a new track record of 15.43! In race however had major problems and exited early. Ok, I just read somewhere that the actual track record is 15.215 held by Dirt Late Model driver Rick Eckert...so I don't know where that came from? They may have meant a new track record for the Prelude, as Stewart ran a 15.45 in 2006)

(19) 20. JJ Yeley (Holds new record for # of wrecks caused. He caused a big wreck in the heat which took out Mark Martin. In the A main he caused 4 cautions in 11 laps before parking his car)

(23) 21. Kasey Kahne (Had problems getting the car to run all night...finally did for the a main and moved uop from last to 15th before more troubles forced him to exit)

(8) 22. Bobby Labonte (Got in a wreck)

23. Red Farmer (Didn't hear much about him come feature time, I guess he left early. Well I remember he spun out now...somewhere I'm reading now says he finished 13...if that's true bump everyone 14th and back down a spot.)

24. Mark Martin (DNS, Did not start)

25. Bill Elliot (DNS)

Race Statistics

Time of race: 27:41.858

Margin of victory: 1.502 seconds

Cautions: 7 (Lap 2: Yeley spin T3; Lap 6: Yeley spin T3; Lap 8: Labonte spin T2; Lap 9: Yeley spin T4, Newman, Farmer contact T2; Lap 11: Blaney, Stalled T2: Lap 16: Almirola, Stalled Frontstretch; Lap 19: Evernham, Spin T2)

Lead changes: 1

Lap leaders: Harvick 1, Stewart 2-30

Attendance: More than 23,000

Answer 2

Tony Stewart won it and I believe there were 3 heats and 3 mains but I didn't watch the whole thing.

Answer 3

Tony stewart raced hard and won!

Answer 4

3 heats - winners were Stewart, R. Gordon, and Bowyer

Stewart wins the feature R. Gordon second

Answer 5

That was a blast to watch! Holy cow! For all of you who encouraged me to pay the money and watch: THANK YOU!

Tony Stewart won. Robby Gordon, who had never run on a dirt oval track, was an impressive 2nd. Bowyer ran strong as did Kevin Harvick and Dave Blaney. In fact, in quals, Dave Blaney set a new track record.

Those guys were just having a ball out there running those cars! Some had continuous problems with their cars but all seemed to have just a wonderful time. Well worth the $24.95 to watch.