VICTORY LANE WELCOMES WASSON, KNOWLES, GORDON, GOODIER, AND DAVIS ON HARDING HARLEY DAVIDSON NIGHT AT WOODHULL RACEWAY
Another beautiful night for racing at Woodhull Raceway as five classes of cars took to the high banks to do battle once again. And again, great racing from all divisons as this week, the minis stocks ran a 30 lap special. First was the mighty 358 Modifieds as Steve Hartman Jr. led them to the line. Half a lap later after the green flag dropped, a parking lot occurred as several heavy hitters got tangled between turns 3 and 4.Among the melee were Dale Welty, Dylan Dewert, heat winner Curt VanPelt, and current points leader, Bobby Davis. Pitside went Welty, Davis, and VanPelt with possible damage.Racing resumed for this 25 lap event with Hartman Jr. and Mike Jackson exchanging top position back and forth.Haflway through the race, the cars start to string out in single file. Steve Hartman Sr. and Don Lawson makes great strides to the front as they soon are in contention. Kevin Chilson, who also was involved in the first caution, had to restart in the back of the field. He also has clawed his way back to 7th spot halfway through the race. By midpoint, 7 cars out of 24 starters, has retired to the pits. Brothers Mike and Stacy Jackson wreck on the front stretch, in which Stacy seemed to be the victim of that crash as he had no place to go. Both sustained heavy damage and was put on the hook for pit side repairs.Great racing resumes with Hartman Jr. and Wasson really turning up the heat for the last remaining laps.Caution breaks out with 4 laps to go and sets it up for a shootout amongst the top runners.With only 4 laps to go, caution waves again from starter Scott Colegrove. This sets it up for a 4 lap dash to the finish. Wasson gains victory with Hartman Jr. , Hartman Sr. and Don Lawson close behind. Good job for Wasson as this is his first ever visit to victory lane at Woodhull Raceway.
The Napa Super Stock’s 20 lap feature soon followed with Mick Seeley leading the pack . Ken Peoples in his Chevy truck soon changed that as he jumps right away to the top spot to lead the first lap.Larry Knowles , starting from 7th position, wastes no time getting to the front as he finds himself in fourth spot five laps in. The first caution breaks out as Mark Costa loops it around. Too bad for Seeley for as soon as the green flag waves again, he is seen limping to the pits with a right rear flat.He, at the time, was running in second position. Tough luck for Costa as he brings out the 4th caution on the front stretch. Peoples and Knowles continue to dominate the top 2 spots after the green flag waves Again, the two break away from the remaining cars. Halfway through this 20 lap feature, Knowles gets around Peoples for the lead. Ninth place starter Alan Crooker has shown some muscle as he moves into third spot around Greg Young with Scott Brown running fifth. Those pack of cars seemed to have their own battle as the two leaders stay way ahead of the rest. Larry Knowles captures the top spot with Peoples, Crooker, Young and Brown finishing in that order.
Brian Knowles leads the Morgans Auto Repair Street Stocks to the line as Dan Gordon quickly jumps in the lead at the start.Dave Gee, who had such a good running car in last weeks event, grabs second spot. Not much position changing going on as Gordon, Gee, Dave Davis, Jerry Buckley, and Knowles pretty much stay single file throughout the 20 lapper.Gee continued to battle with Gordon and at one point, had the top spot for a half a lap, but Gordon would have none of it. These two fought door handle to door handle with Gee trying anything he could to get around the leader. Gordon takes the checkered flag for the 4th time this season as Gee, Davis, Buckley and Knowles finish second through fifth.
The Signs Plus Mini Stock 30 lap special came out of the woods led by Bill VanEtten. The green flag waves and you can see drivers jockeying for positions right from the get go. Tenth and eleventh starters, Derek Mills and Don Knowles are the drivers on the move as they are coming fast.Joe Dgien, starting in 4th, takes over the point as a caution flag waves. Thirteenth starter Bill Shea, as well as sixteenth driver Art Goodier on lap 10, finds both of them well in contention to snatch first away from Dgien. Coming up on halfway, you can see Dgien and Mills battling for the top spot. Dgien decides he isn’t ready just yet to give it up as Mills settles in for second spot for several laps. Goodier , by this time, has climbed on the back bumper of Mills. Mills does finally get around Dgien with 8 laps to go, but Dgien fights back to eventually cause a front stretch crash that knocked both contenders out of the lead, Black flag for Dgien for apparent rough driving as Mills sits on the front stretch trying to get his car restarted. Mills eventually has to be pushed to the pits. Because of that altercation with the top two, third place Goodier grabs first. With only 2laps to go in this 30 lap special, Goodier holds off Bill Shea, and points leader Ryan Davenport to collect the trophy from Jeff Harding from Harding Harley Davidson.Don Knowles captures 4th with 17th starter Brian Grant finishing 5th.
CORRECTION: Last week, Adam Austin was listed as the driver in the 88 for the Mini Stocks. Bob Tompkins drove that car instead. Sorry for the GOOF!!
Once again, the S&W Awards & Photos Woodhull Warriors took to the high banks to start their 10 lap feature. Eleven cars took the green flag with Chris Young leading the way. Ninth place starter, Bryce Davis doesn’t take long to get to the front to do battles with Casey Pavilik and Tommy Austin Jr.Halfway through this feature, Brett Marlatt spins out to draw the first caustion. Restarting has Davis in the lead but Austin sits right on his bumper.Along with Davis and Austin comes Young again after dropping back a few spots. Austin backs up and now Brad Ovens, seventh place starter, finds himself battling in the top 4 positions. Davis takes the win ahead of second place Young, third place Ovens and Pavilik taking 4th. Austin finishes in a respectable fifth place.