Darren Finishes 6th in the Final Limaland Track Points.

Darren finished 6th in the Limaland track points. After a strong start to the season, this track championship looked like it was Darren's to lose but a series of late season poor finishes took him out of the running for the title.



Limaland Sprint Car Standings
1) 6S J.R. Stewart 832, 2) 82 Mike Miller 826, 3) 11 Tim Allison 792, 4) 7C Mike Brecht 772, 5)4U Rick Boughan 764, 6) 7L Darren Long 756, 7) 1 Kent Wolters 740, 8) 5W Jeff Williams 698, 9) 22D Dennis Yoakam 678, 10) 62 Dwain Leiber 672, 11) 17 Jared Horstman 664, 12) 34 Luke Hall 660, 13) 35R Ron Blair 654, 14) 57J Mike Dunlap 642, 15) 55 Scott Carter 630, 16) 97 Cory Seeling 604, 17) 311 Aaron Maloney 494, 18) 2 Brent Gehr 478, 19) 3G Bob Gehr Jr. 464, 20) 4J Bob Gehr Sr. 400, 21) 77 Tim Viles 360, 22) 2M Dustin Daggett 324, 23) 4 Andrew Bowsher 314, 24) 6N Dain Naida 302, 25) 40 Mark Hery 296, 26) 77 Jim Stinson 272, 27) 27 Ryan Ruhl 236, 28) W20 Greg Wilson 224, 29) 6B Mike Dussel 218, 30) 9N Jon Nelson 208, 31) 61 Chad Gullett 204, 32) 3GT Tim Norman 176, 33) 39S Aaron Smith 166, 34) 2H Dallas Hewitt 126, 35)79 Tyler McDonald 122, 36) 6B Dale Blaney 114, 37) 5i John Ivy 106, 38) 10 Pete Ischi 100, 39) 10 David Harrison 84, 40) 16 Lee Stark 78, 41) 48 Tommy Kerce 50, 41) 52 Mark Boughman 50, 41) 79 Brett Mann 50, 41) 30 Jerry Burkett 50, 41) 33K Kyle Patrick 50

Darren finishes with a strong 2nd place in final race at Limaland.

Darren broke a long streak of bad luck with a strong 2nd place finish at Limaland. In the Sprints King race he finished 3rd out of 5 racers in a race that featured all the Limaland winners throughout the year. Darren ended the year in 6th in the Limaland points.


Friday, August 29, 2008 - Limaland Motorsports Park 11th Annual Limaland Motorsports Park Season Championships (Elwer Fence Sprints)

Elwer Fence Sprints Feature 1) Dustin Daggett 2) Darren Long 3) JR Stewart 4) Mike Brecht 5) Mike Dussel 6) Luke Hall 7) Ron Blair 8) Jon Ivy 9) Dwain Leiber 10) Rick Boughan 11) Kent Wolters 12) Mike Dunlap 13) Cory Seeling 14) Mike Miller 15) Jeff Williams 16) Scott Carter 17) Dennis Yoakam 18) Bob Gehr Jr. 19) Tim Allison 20) Jared Horstman

Elwer Fence Sprint B-main: 1) Tim Allison 2) Luke Hall 3) Mike Dussel 4) Jon Ivy 5) Dennis Yoakam 6) Aaron Moloney 7) Andrew Bowsher 8) Bob Gehr Sr. 9) Jimmy Snead 10) Brent Gehr 11) Tim Viles 12) Dallas Hewitt 13) Jon Nelson

Elwer Fence Sprints King 1. JR Stewart 2. Dustin Daggett 3. Darren Long 4. Tim Allison 5. Rick Boughan

Summary from Limaland.com
The closest points battle of the evening was between JR Stewart and Mike Miller for the Elwer Fence Incorporated Sprint Car championship. The combatants lined up third and sixth respectively for the last feature of the year. Dustin Daggett wasted no time in blasting to the front when the green flag waved. The first caution waved for Tim Allison who slowed in turn one. Daggett resumed his blistering pace with Darren Long and Mike Brecht in tow. The next stoppage was for Jared Horstman who took a nasty tumble at the end of the backstretch. The restart had Brecht lined up on Daggett’s bumper but he could do nothing to stop Daggett’s dominance. Tim Allison’s tough night got worse on lap six when he brought out the red flag for a flip in turn two. Daggett picked up where he left off when the green waved and coasted to his second victory of the year at Limaland Motorsports Park. Stewart finished third and collected his first track championship.

The final races of the evening were the 10-lap King of the Quarter-Mile race for each division. The field for each race was comprised of 2008 feature winners. Jon Henry put an exclamation point on his season by dominating the Professional Computer Company segment. JR Stewart, the 2008 Limaland and EFI-NRA Sprint Invaders champion, took a page from Henry’s book of dominance and claimed his first sprint King of the Quarter-Mile title.