May 4th,2002.. Nebraska Raceway Park was the opener for GOTRA. 22 GOTRA cars joined the 23 World of Outlaw sprint cars for a night of open wheeled racing. Legend cars were on hand as well. The GOTRA feature was won by Roger Ruwe in the #3 car. Rich Anderson in the #9 was 2nd. Steve Delevan in the 12 car was 3rd. Howard Sheets 17 car was 4th and John Orlowski Jr. drove the 1 car to a 5th place finish. It was a green to checker non-stop race night with no restarts. Top ten finishers: 1) 3 Roger Ruwe 2) 9 Rich Anderson 3) 12 Steve Delevan 4) 17 Howard Sheets 5) 1 John Orlowski Jr. 6) 33 Larry Aldrich 7) k2 Michael Lee Thomas 8) 37 Ron Stohlman 9) v8 Doug Wilkening 10) 30 Dan Titus
May 12th, US30 Speedway, Columbus, Nebraska. Rained out.
May 17th, Butler County Raceway, Rising City, Nebraska. 22 cars made it to the track. GOTRA had 3 heats, a trophy dash and 2 feature races. Steve Delevan had his way all night, winning his heat, trophy dash and the feature. Top ten finishers: 1) 12 Steve Delavan 2) 17 Howard Sheets 3) 6 J.R. Strong 4) 55 Carroll Behlen 5) 21 J.J. Fritz 6) 11 John Busche 7) 31 John Ferguson 8) 66s Bob Schalk 9) 81 Richard Ferguson 10) 48 Kerry Stohlmann
May 18th,2002.. Nebraska Raceway Park . NRP likes us so much that they squeezed us in again. 14 GOTRA cars joined 360 sprint cars for a night of open wheeled racing. Legend cars were on hand as well. The GOTRA feature was won by Howard Sheets 17 who also won the trophy dash. Top ten finishers: 1) 17 Howard Sheets 2) 12 Steve Delavan 3) 6 J.R. Strong 4) 66s Bob Schalk 5) 48 Kerry Stohlmann 6) 31 John Ferguson 7) 11 John Busche 8) 55 Carroll Behlen 9) 81 Richard Ferguson 10) k2 Michael Lee Thomas.
May 24th, Eagle Raceway, Lincoln Nebraska. Rained out.
May 27th, US30 Speedway, Columbus, Nebraska. 22 cars made it to the track for the first race of 2001. GOTRA had 3 heats, a trophy dash and 2 feature races. Tony Orender driving the #32 car of Denny Taylor won the trophy dash. I didn't get the 'B' feature results. The 'A' feature appeared to be wrapped up by Steve Delevan ubtil he went too high in the corner and gave Roger Ruwe in the #3 car the opportunity he needed to shoot into first. Roger never looked back. Guy Sheffler in the #69 car finished second. Aside from one nerf bar getting ripped off a car, it was a damage free evening. All in all, a good night of racing.
June 17th at Columbus, Ne. saw 20 cars show up at US30 Speedway. John ferguson won his heat and Steve Delevan won the trophy dash. way to go guys! More results when I get 'em.
The June 20 race at Butler County Speedway, Rising City, Ne. was rained out. Mother nature was in a bad mood.
June 22nd, Butler County Speedway, Rising City, Ne. , 19 cars made the trip for another eventful night of racing action. The trophy dash was won by Roger Ruwe #3. The feature was also won by Roger, with Carroll Behlen #55 second, Tony Scheffler #21 and Dan Franks #00 nearly a dead heat for third. The Denny Taylor car, #32 lofted the right front wheel into space between turns 1 and 2 in his heat. Steve Delevan #12 tore up his left front in the feature. Otherwise we were largely unscathed.
July 3rd, GOTRA raced at Buena Vista Speedway in Alta, Iowa. 14 cars attended despite a very long tow for most. #37 Ron Stohlman and #3, Roger Ruwe were heat winners. THe "A" feature, and a very nice trophy were one by Rich Anderson #9. Bob French #5, led all but the final lap of the 15 lap race and finished second for the 3rd year in a row!! Larry Aldrich #33 finished third. John Ferguson joined the rollover club when his #31 Model "A" sedan rolled in turn 1 of his heat. John will begin building a new one. Again, we don't parade these cars folks!!
July 4th, we put on an all GOTRA show at Avoca, Iowa. The racing was very close on this small 1/4 mile track. Dan Franks #00 and Rich Anderson were heat winners, the third I don't have results for. The "A" feature was won by Dennis HundleyIII in car #111 in a flathead powered coupe. Rich Anderson #9 nearly nipped Dennis at the flag and came in 2nd. Larry Aldrich #33 was third.
THERE ARE A FEW RULES.......(The GOTRA rules page is here!) If you are starting your own group or if you are building a vintage car in hopes of joining a group somewhere, our rules should help you get started. Check out the links page for other vintage racing associations, some publish their rules like we do. Take the best from each set of rules and apply them to your group. By the way, GOTRA means "clan" in hindu. If you type gotra in a search engine, you'll get a ridiculous number of references to eastern religions. A spot of trivia for you.
Our promoter's name is John Ferguson. John and his wife Cheryl have done a wonderful job. GOTRA is also assisted by our pit stewards, Howard Schuetz and Al Franks as well as tech inspectors Carroll Bailon, Doug Wilkening, Jeff Ferguson and Greg Schuetz. Thanks to all of these guys for their support.
Some of the GOTRA family in '99
Gotra can be reached via e-mail at race_66@gotra.com. If you love vintage dirt track racing, contact us and join.
Racers....when you get tired of spending $10,000 bucks to get your '89 Monte Carlo competitive or $20,000 to get to the front with your IMCA modified, consider vintage racing. Build a car to the rules of the nearest group or start your own. Keep the costs down and the fun high and you'll have an enjoyable racing experience!!
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