Potomac Speedway
July 15, 2011
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Bowie and Wagner split twin features at Potomac Speedway

by Doug Watson
BUDDS CREEK, Md. - Brandywine’s Ben Bowie and defending track champion Tommy Wagner Jr. of Mechanicsville Md. each scored a win in the two features run for the limited late models last Friday night at Potomac speedway.

Bowie, second in the point standings coming into the night, became the seventh different winner of the season as he won the make-up event from July 3, and Wagner, the current class points leader, became the first repeat winner of the season in the regularly scheduled event. In the make-up feature, Bowie started on the pole and would completely dominate the race as he would lead all 20 caution-free laps to post the win, the 8th of his career in the division at Potomac. “We got this car new at the beginning of the season and it’s taken us a while to get it right, but it was just about perfect in this race. I’d like to thank Joey Pingleton for helping set-up the car and all the people who helped get us here tonight, We sure want to keep close to Tommy (Wagner) in the championship.” Bruce Kane was second, Glenn Elliott was third, Tommy Wagner Jr. collected fourth and Dave Adams completed the top-five.

Wagner’s run in the nightcap 20-lap affair was just as dominating as Bowie’s in the first, as he would start on the pole and romp to a green-checker feature win, for his 10th career Potomac LLM win. Eventual runner-up Derrick Quade got close to Wagner on more than one occasion but could not overhaul Wagner for the win. “Man we were junk in the first feature.” Wagner stated. “Tommy Raley and all the guys on the crew really had this car right for the second feature. Scott and Patti Thompson foot all the bills on this car and they give us whatever we need to run up front.” Glen Elliott posted his second top-three of the night in third, Bruce Kane was fourth and Dave Adams was fifth for the second time of the night. Wagner took the heat race win.

Scottie Nelson, who was making only his second start of the season, drove to victory in the 16-lap street stock feature. Nelson took the lead from Kurt Zimmerman on lap-2 and would then go on to lead the remaining laps to post the win. Two-time winner Stephen Quade crossed the stripe second, but was later disqualified following a post race inspection moving Troy Kassiris, the current point leader, up to second. Mike Latham came from 12th to finish third, Zimmerman held on for fourth and Donnie Smith completed the top-five. Kassiris took the heat race win.

In other action, Rich Marks scored his second win of the season in the 30-lap modified feature, Brian Adkins collected his first-career Potomac feature win in the 15-lap hobby stock event and Greg Gunter rolled to his fourth win of the season in the 12-lap four-cylinder feature.

Late Model Make-Up: 1. Ben Bowie, 2. Bruce Kane, 3. Glenn Elliott, 4. Tommy Wagner, 5. Dave Adams, 6. Tyler Emory, 7. Pat Wood, (DNS: Kyle Hardy, David Puckett, Cody Lear, Kevin Cook, Steve Long)

Late Models: 1. Tommy Wagner, 2. Derick Quade, 3. Glenn Elliott, 4. Bruce Kane, 5. Dave Adams, 6. Tyler Emory, 7. Ben Bowie, 8. Pat Wood

Street Stocks: 1. Scottie Nelson, 2. Troy Kassiris, 3. Mike Latham, 4. Kurt Zimmerman, 5. Donnie Smith, 6. Mike Reynolds, 7. Teddy Dickson, 8. Dale Reamy, 9. Scott Wilson, 10. Mike Raleigh, 11. Micheal Friedman, 12, Darrin Alvey (DQ: Stephen Quade)

Hobbystocks: 1. Brian Adkins, 2. Jimmy Randall, 3. Bud Pickeral, 4. John Burch, 5. Travis Hopkins, 6. James Sutphin, 7. Matt Tarbox, 8. Brittany Wenk, 9. Thomas Pickeral Sr, 10. Tommy Randall, 11. Mark Guthrie, 12. Don Breach (DNS: Jerry Deason)

Modifieds: 1. Rich Marks, 2. Brian Maxey, 3. Tony Quade, 4. Travis Larogue, 5. Craig Ramich, 6. Brian Dobie, 7. Jimmy Duncan

4 Cylinders: 1. Greg Gunter, 2. Billy Hill, 3. Larry Fuchs, 4. Bon Gartner, 5. Jerry Dick, (DNS: Lewis Hatzel)