ONAWAY SPEEDWAY
July 23,2011
Neil Strzelecki
Brian Baumgarten is taking over driving his dads modified , and he started out by winning the dash in the modifieds followed by John Clawson and James Brown. The caution flew once in the heat when Tyler Noeske spun in turn four. Clawson took the win, Ryan Zimmerman driving a new car took second and Ryan Radziejewski took third. In the feature the yellow flew on lap ten when Brown spun in turn four. Clawson and Zimmerman broke free from the pack and the race for third was between Baumgarten and Radziejewski. The yellow flew again on lap twenty-six when Noeski spun out and had to pit. Clawson claimed his second win for the night Zimmerman tok third and Baumgarten third. Zack OHenley won the dash in the the four cylinders, Rick Barrett took second and Kyle Richardson took third. Joey Sage had the early lead in the heat but gave way to Brad Loshaw who went on to take the win. Kaleb Tompkins was second and Barrett third. Barrett lead the feature for two laps when Sage took over the honors and built a nice lead. The speedsters finally caught Sage and Tompkins took the checkers, Loshaw second, and Barrett third. Jim Gregwire won the dash in the pure stocks followed bu Chris Stark in second and Brady Nash in third.The yellow flew twice in the heat race And Gregware got his second win for the bight. Zack Knight finished second and Nash third. The feature started with a caution on lap two. It was a parking lot in turn one. Gregware,Chantel Pauquett, Nash had a meeting in turn one. John Hatfield had the lead on the restart The yellow flew several more times and Chris Miller finally had the lead. Stan Chaske took over the lead and lost his rear axel in turn one. By the time the clean up was finished the rain began to fall. It was the first time this year that rain halted the races. The bombers came out to run their feature and the fans enjoyed all the slipping and sliding and banging . Mike Schwartz hung on to win and his second flag for the night. Schwartz won the dash,Lucas Small was second, and Jerawitz was third. Small won the heat, Ralph Bettes was second,and Jerawitz was third.Shawn Diamond made his first visit to the track racing in the street stocks.Bad luck for Diamond as he blew vital parts in the hot lap before the dash. Nathan Embree won the dash,Brian Baungarten was second and Paul Anderson took third. Baumgarten won the heat ,Embree took second, and Randy Miller was third. The feature was canceled.Andy Noeske won the dash in the late models ,Josh ware was second and Sam Bohliung came in third. Ware won the heat ahead of Noeske and Bohling. The feature was cancelled. Next Saturday is Veterans night. All veterens get in free compliments of Jim and Krista Dubois.