If this season’s trend of unpredictability continues, any one of possibly 15 drivers or more could win Tuesday night’s Tornado Tuesday Late Model Open Shootout.
“It’s impossible to predict,” track announcer Mike Becker said.
Tornado Tuesday features Farley’s parity-rich local field tangling with some of the country’s fastest dirt track drivers, including Muscatine, Iowa driver Brian Birkhofer (a 2002 Yankee Dirt Track Classic champion) and Terry Phillips, who won May’s Open Shootout at Farley.
Drivers who have committed to the star-studded field also include 2008 Whelen All-American Racing Series national runner-up Brian Harris, 2008 Yankee champ and Dubuquer Jeremiah Hurst, Chris Simpson, Denny, Dave and Andy Eckrich, Tommy Elston, Billy Moyer and Curt Martin. The field also includes several rising drivers enjoying the best Late Model seasons of their careers: Jeff Larson, Jake Meier, Justin Mitchell and Sam Harroun.
The 50-lap feature will be run on Farley’s half-mile dirt strip with the locals looking to utilize their home-track edge on the guest drivers.
Farley’s recent Late Model dominators have lost their edge this spring as parity has engulfed the class. Larson has emerged as the track’s surprise points leader over the upstart Mike Fryer and Callahan.
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