2004
Final Statistics for 2004:
Races run: 47 Championships: 1
Wins: 11 Top 5's: 26 Top 10's: 40 DNF's: 2 DNQ's: 2
Brian finished 4th in the Octoberfest 350 race at Hagerstown Speedway this past weekend. Brian won his heat race and started 3rd in the 100 lap feature.
Brian made the feature at the DTWC this past weekend by passing fast qualifier Dale McDowell in lapped traffic to win the 1st B-main. Brian started 17th and finished 14th in the 100 lap feature race.
Brian wins ALMS race at Oakshade Raceway on August 7th.
Brian wins the Howard "The Fuelman" Miller memorial race
at Oakshade Raceway Saturday night, July 3rd.
By Scott Hammer
Brian Ruhlman picked up his first feature win in eight years at Oakshade
Raceway Saturday night.
With another large car count, the late model feature was once again a tough
race to get a starting position in with nearly twice as many cars having to
pack things up and watch the feature from the stands as the number of cars
actually starting the feature.
Max Stough's effort to make the feature was thwarted in the second late
model consolation after his car rolled over a couple times in an incident at
the end of the front stretch. Stough was not hurt.
Bruce Stuart took advantage of starting from the pole in the 25-lap late
model feature and opened up a big lead early on. Brian Ruhlman closed in on
the leader and on lap eight, made a move to the inside of Stuart to take the
lead.
Stuart had more problems four laps later when he came off turn four too high
and made contact with the front stretch wall. Stuart then faded back through
the field.
Last week's feature winner, Kris Patterson, worked his way up to second
midway through the race, but Ruhlman had opened up a huge lead over the rest
of the field.
A caution for Brian McCabe on lap 17 eliminated Ruhlman's large lead, but
Patterson couldn't keep up with Ruhlman after the green flag flew once
again.
Ruhlman made it a clean sweep on the night, winning his heat and making it
look easy in his win in the late model feature. It was his first feature win
in eight years at Oakshade Raceway and only his second ever. His first
victory came the first night he raced at Oakshade.
Patterson couldn't make it two wins in a row and settled for second ahead of
Justin Paxton, Rusty Schlenk (who started in the last row) and Matt Miller
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Chad Ruhlman won his first feature at Eldora Speedway on April 17th.
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Here's a couple pictures of the new Lawrence Motorsports Rocket for this season.
