Sid Blanford Battles His Way to URSS Win at McCook Nebraska

The United Rebel Sprint Series made its second visit in 2008 to the McCook Speedway Sunday afternoon for the final Multi-Region Showdown between the Northern, Eastern and Western Regions. Twenty-Four teams made the trip to the 3/8’s mile oval to stake claim to those last crucial points as the Season winds down. Sid Blanford survived a lap one incident and wove his way through the entire field to take the win.

Timken Kansas’s Craig Jecha led the field to the green, as the field was in turn two Willie Wynn, Bill Hays and Sid Blanford got tangled up with Hays ending up on his side. In turn four Jon Johnson, Taylor Velasquez and Ray Seemann were involved in a similar tangle. Hays and Velasquez suffered enough damage to end their race. On the restart, Taylor Milton jumped out to the early lead with Jecha, Kirby Hagans, Tommy Williams and Mike Woodruff rounding out the top five. Williams made his way past Hagans for the third spot on lap two with Woodruff applying pressure to Hagans. 

Williams and Hagans continued to fight for the position until Williams got high in turn three and left the track to bring out the caution. On the restart Milton once again assumed the point with Hagans and Woodruff in tow. Lap eight saw Sid Blanford make his way through the field to the sixth position and set his sights on fifth running Brain Herbert. Blanford made the pass on lap ten and starting applying pressure on fourth place Jason Martin. Blanford used every inch of the track as he and Martin battled back and forth before Blanford made the high side pass on lap fifteen.

Blanford made short work of Hagan and Milton as he assumed the lead on lap sixteen. Milton was being pressured by Hagans and Martin as the laps started to wind down. Martin made the pass stick on Hagans on lap eighteen, Martin then set his sights on Milton for the second position. Time would run out on Martin as the checkered flag fell with Blanford taking his second URSS Feature win of the year with Milton, Martin, Hagans and Woodruff rounding out the top five.

The Weld Racing Wheels “Hard Charger Award” went to Smokey Fairbank who came from his twentirth starting spot to claim the tenth position.

 The Keizer Aluminum Wheels B-Main was won by Kirby Hagans.

Heat Race winners were Craig Jecha, Taylor Milton and Jason Martin.

A-Main: 1-Sid Blanford (7), 2-Taylor Milton (91X), 3-jason Martin (1J), 4-Kirby Hagans (4), 5-Mike Woodruff (83X), 6-Corey Lutters (07), 7-Brian Herbert (97), 8-Ray Seemann (72), 9-Cody Salem (23), 10-Smokey Fairbank (2), 11-Tim Perkins (99), 12-Willie Wynn (36W), 13-Randy Bantam (5R), 14-Reed Bernbeck (C3), 15-Craig Jecha (17X), 16-Tommy Williams (29T), 17-Ken Lutters (79), 18-Jon Johnson (86), 19-Bill Hays (2H), 20-Taylor Velasquez (21)