Test your Dirt Late Model knowledge with a quiz on the original Eldora Million on June 8-9, 2001, at Eldora Speedway in Rossburg, Ohio (see answers below):

1. Who was winner Donnie Moran's engine builder?

(a) Malcuit

(b) Charlie Fisher

(c) Custom

(d) Ronnie Moran

2. Which driver had the most five-figure victories in 2001 heading into the event?

(a) Jackie Boggs

(b) Wendell Wallace

(c) Scott Bloomquist

(d) Chub Frank

3. Which past or future World 100 winner wasn't among entrants?

(a) Charlie Swartz

(b) Mike Duvall

(c) Randy Boggs

(d) Bart Hartman

4. What did these four entrants have in common?

(a) Bart Hartman

(b) Shawn Negangard

(c) John Gill

(d) Terry Phillips

5. Which father-son combination didn't enter the event?

(a) Eddie and Brian Rickman

(b) Tom and D.J. Myers

(c) Johnny and Jay Johnson

(d) Delmas and R.J. Conley

6. Eighth-place finisher Don O'Neal of Martinsville, Ind., who led the first 25 laps of the main event, was driving for which race team?

(a) MasterSbilt house car

(b) Ware Motorsports

(c) Rayburn Race Cars

(d) Eller Motorsports

7. True or false: The $3,000-to-start money was at the time the richest start money in the history of Dirt Late Model racing.

VIDEO: Starters from the original Eldora Million talk about the event. 

8. Match the driver to his car number:

(a) Gary Stuhler

(b) Mike Head

(c) Mark Noble

(d) Troy Green

(e) Jack Hewitt

(f) Greg Johnson

77

4

1cj

21

01

70j

9. Which feature starter overcame the slowest qualifying attempt at 72nd quickest among 235 entrants?

(a) Chub Frank

(b) Darrell Lanigan

(c) Donnie Moran

(d) Shawn Negangard

10. Which driver finished seventh in the B-main, the first position failing to make the feature lineup?

(a) Duayne Hommel

(b) Dale McDowell

(c) Earl Pearson Jr.

(d) Greg Lucas

11. Which three states each had a race-high 17 drivers apiece among the top 120 qualifiers?

(a) Illinois, Indiana, Ohio

(b) Kentucky, Ohio Tennessee

(c) Georgia, Illinois, Indiana

(d) Illinois, Kentucky, Ohio

12. Which driver was the fastest Arkansas qualifier?

(a) Donnie Barnhart

(b) Billy Moyer

(b) Wendell Wallace

(d) Bill Frye

13. Which state wasn't represented among the top 120 qualifiers who qualified for heat races?

(a) Minnesota

(b) Louisiana

(c) Alabama

(d) Nebraska

14. Who was the 120th qualifier, the slowest driver to qualify for heat races?

(a) Tony Marks

(b) Steve Casebolt

(c) Wren Turner

(d) Richie Hedrick

15. Who was the 121st qualifier, the first driver who missed making the heat racing lineups?

(a) Dennis Roberson

(b) Doug Dodd

(c) Rodney Wing

(d) C.J. Rayburn

16. Which driver wasn't among those attempting a qualifying lap for the original Eldora Million?

(a) Richie Tosh

(b) Billy Drake

(c) Bill Frye

(d) Earl Pearson Jr.

Answers

1. (b) Charlie Fisher

2. (c) Scott Bloomquist with three five-figure victories (the other three drivers had two apiece)

3. (c) Randy Boggs

4. All used No. 75

5. (b) Tom and D.J. Myers; Tom drive the Barry Klinedinst No. 43a but Gary Stuhler piloted D.J.'s No. 70J

6. Ware Motorsports

7. False; the 2001 Show-Me 100 paid $3,500-to-start.

8. (a) Gary Stuhler (70j)

(b) Mike Head (1cj)

(c) Mark Noble (77)

(d) Troy Green (01)

(e) Jack Hewitt (21)

(f) Greg Johnson (4)

9. (b) Darrell Lanigan with a lap of 16.768 seconds, six-tenths slower than quick time.

10. (d) Greg Lucas of Whitesburg, Ky.

11. (d) Illinois, Kentucky and Ohio had 17 drivers apiece among the top 120 qualifiers

12. (a) Donnie Barnhart of North Little Rock, Ark.

13. (b) Louisiana

14. (a) Tony Marks of Napoleon, Ohio, with a lap of 17.191 seconds

15. (b) Doug Dodd of Cambridge, Ohio, with a lap of 17.204 seconds

16. (d) Earl Pearson Jr. of Jacksonville, Fla.