Wayne County Speedway
July 4, 2014
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DROWN, MICHAELS, D. HENSEL, TEETERS, & EVANS SCORE 1st NAPA WAYNE COUNTY SPEEDWAY WINS

by Mike Swanger
ORRVILLE, OH (July 4) -Friday night was the 1st of two nights of racing on the 4th of July week-end as Doug Drown and Rich Michaels Jr. won their features that will give them a spot in Saturday’s big money features. Brad Malcuit and Mark Banal would start the Lias Tire Late Model feature on the front row with Malcuit grabbing the lead for the opening two laps before fifth starting Keith Berner would take over as JR Gentry, who started 7th was right behind Berner. Wooster’s Doug Drown would get by Malcuit for third on lap seven and make it a three way battle for the lead. A lap 14 caution slowed things down but when the green flag flew again, Drown edged past Gentry for second and two laps later, the fast qualifier would move his Wheeling Auto Body, Wooster Glass and DJ Directional Services #20 past Berner for the lead and drive on to his 1st win at NAPA Wayne County Speedway. The win gives Drown a spot in Saturday’s Don Gross Memorial that will pay the winner $4,000 for the Late Models. Berner, Gentry and Malcuit followed as David Liles ran the last ten laps in the fifth spot for a top five finish. Berner and Shane McLoughlin topped the heats.

The Modifieds signed in for the nights action as they were getting dialed in for Saturday’s Renegades of Dirt Modified Tour that will pay $3,000 to win. Rich Michaels Jr of Ischua NY was dialed in good as he started on the pole and led all the way to pick up the win and earn a spot in Saturday’s feature. Driving the Genesis Racing Shocks, Reflections Hair Design and Xtreme Chassis #17x Michaels had an early challenge from Nathan Loney and fast qualifier Taylor Cook. Those two would spin through turn four on lap three and both kept going and losing ten positions in the process and that allowed Travis Dickson into second as he and Derrick Ramey would duel for second as Michaels strengthen his lead. Ramey took over second just past the halfway mark but could not chase down the winner Dickson held on to third as Jon Sluka ran fourth followed by Scott Stiffler. Winning the heat races were Michaels, Loney and Jeff Johnson.

After a rough start to the 2014 season, Mansfielder Bob Daugherty has turned his year around as he took the lead from Jeremy Lynch on the second circuit and then parked his KA Recovery, Char’s Cars and Metz Machine Shop #21d in victory lane for the third time this year in the Thrifty Muffler Super Stock feature. Nick Smith made a run at Daugherty on the restart following a lap 12 caution but came up short. Chase Alexander and Lynch battled back and forth for third with Alexander winning that war as Mark Thompson edged past Lynch with two laps to go to finish fourth. Daugherty, who was the quick timer, and Smith won the heats.

Heat winners Doug and Brad Hensel brought the WQKT Mini Stocks to the greeen flag with Doug and his #18 taking control of the race. Jerry Adkins set right behind D. Hensel and kept the pressure on but never could get the lead away. Moose Workman would finish thirs with Brad Hensel and Mitch Reichard filling out the top five.

Jeff Teeters and Nick Crider went back and forth for the first four laps of the Mod Lite feature before Teeters of North Jackson, would pull away and claim the checkered flag aboard the Leaders#1. Crider would finish second as Kenny Meadows held off Doug Stanley for third with Chris Logan Rounding out the top five. Logan and Teeters notched the heat wins.

Hauling all the way up from Mineral Wells W.Va, Coleman Evans led all the way to win the NAPA Mini Wedge main. Driving the Evans Construction #17c, Evans had to wait through several cautions for the win as Billy Dawson, Braxton Wilson and Matthew Moore had to come back through the field to finish in that order with Caitlin Johnson filling out the top five. Dawson and Johnson scored the heat wins.

Drivers were also competing for over $2,000 in awards from the Contingency Connection program.

Saturday, July 5th’s program will start racing at 7 pm and feature the UNOH All Star Sprints for $5,000 to win the Duffy Smith Memorial plus the Elite 8 Late Models will be involved in the Don Gross Memorial that will pay the winner $4,000 and the Renegade of Dirt Modifieds with a 30 lap, $3,000 to win feature plus the Thrifty Muffler Super Stocks also racing.

NAPA WAYNE COUNTY SPEEDWAY RESULTS
Friday, July 4, 2014

LIAS TIRE LATE MODELS
Fast Qualifier  Doug Drown   17.161
Summit Racing Equipment Heat 1  Keith Berner, JR Gentry, Doug Drown, Todd Brennan, David Liles, Brandon Gardner, Jim Nicely, Ben Mott, Jerry Aber
Summit Racing Equipment Heat 2  Shane McLoughlin, Mark Banal, Brad Malcuit, Larry Bellman, Dusty Moore, Allan Baker, Blaine Aber, Richard Derrickson, Eric Singhaus
Feature   Doug Drown, Keith Berner, JR Gentry, Brad Malcuit, David Liles, Todd Brennan, Larry Bellman, Brandon Gardner, Blaine Aber, Ben Mott, Jim Nicely, Eric Singhaus, Shane McLoughlin, Allan Baker, Dusty Moore, Mark Banal, Richard Derrickson, Jerry Aber

MODIFIEDS
Fast Qualifier  Taylor Cook  18.807
Heat 1  Rich Michael Jr., Taylor Cook, Tyler Evans, Mark Dickson, Scott Stiffler, Bruce Miller, Mike Conkle
Heat 2  Nathan Loney, Derrick Ramey, Jon Sluka, Patrick Lyon, Greg Beach, Billy Workman, Kevin Crawford
Heat 3  Jeff Johnson, Travis Dickson, Robbie Evans, Kyle Brown, Larry Kugel, Manuel Johnson, Amanda Stiffler
Feature  Rich Michael Jr., Derrick Ramey, Travis Dickson, Jon Sluka, Scott Stiffler, Mark Dickson, Kyle Brown, Taylor Cook, Robbie Evans, Nathan Loney, Tyler Evans, Larry Kugel, Manuel Johnson, Bruce Miller, Kevin Crawford, Greg Beach, Mike Conkle, Billy Workman, Amanda Stiffler, Jeff Johnson, Patrick Lyon

THRIFTY MUFFLER SUPER STOCKS
Fast Qualifier  Bob Daugherty  20.518
Summit Racing Equipment Heat 1  Bob Daugherty, Jeremy Lynch, Brandon Gardner, Tyler Nicely, Don Baney, Paul Whitten, Jamie Gibbs, Paul McVicker, Jonathon Brennan
Summit Racing Equipment Heat 2  Nick Smith, Mitch Caskey, Chase Alexander, Mark Thompson, Gary McGregor, Dave Sampsel, Casey Butler, Chaz O’Dell
Feature  Bob Daugherty, Nick Smith, Chase Alexander, Mark Thompson, Jeremy Lynch, Jamie Gibbs, Jonathon Brennan, Don Baney, Casey Butler, Brandon Gardner, Tyler Nicely, Mitch Caskey. Chaz O’Dell, Paul Whitten, Gary McGregor, Dave Sampsel, Paul McVicker (dns)

WQKT MINI STOCKS
Heat 1  Brad Hensel, Jerry Adkins, Moose Workman, Steve Crowe, Dustin Camp, Mike Barr
Heat 2  Doug Hensel, Mitch Reichard, Jarrod Chaney, Dale Stoner, Elvis Conkle, Jason Shaw
Feature  Doug Hensel, Jerry Adkins, Moose Workman, Brad Hensel, Mitch Reichard, Dustin Camp, Steve Crowe, Elvis Conkle, Mike Barr, Jason Shaw, Jarros Chaney, Dale Stoner

MOD LITES
Heat 1  Chris Logan, Kenny Meadows, Doug Stanley, Shane Pfeuffer, Josh Crider, Andrew Hart (dns), Jeff Burns (dns)
Heat 2  Jeff Teeters, Nick Crider, Wayne Kintz, Aaron Meister, Ron Hixenbaugh, Michael Rose
Feature  Jeff Teeters, Nick Crider, Kenny Meadows, Doug Stanley, Chris Logan, Shane Pfeuffer, Aaron Meister, Wayne Kintz, Ron Hixenbaugh, Michael Rose, Josh Crider, Andrew Hart (dns), Jeff Burns (dns)

NAPA MINI WEDGES
Heat 1  Billy Dawson, Coleman Evans, Braxton Wilson, Robbie Ledger, Matthew Moore, Tanner McLoughlin
Heat 2  Caitlin Johnson, Konner Thomas, Cody Stillion, Corbin Adkins, Jolene Voschel, Kolton Thomas
Feature  Coleman Evans, Billy Dawson, Braxton Wilson, Matthew Moore, Caitlin Johnson, Corbin Adkins, Jolene Voschel, Cody Stillion, Konner Thomas, Tanner McLoughlin, Robbie Ledger (dns), Kolton Thomas (dns)