Friday, June 27
Stott and Wilson Garner Wins at Winston Speedway
Winston Speedway owner Tom Sprague put it best during the Friday June 27th drivers meeting. “I have never seen anything like this in my 35 years of racing” stated Sprague when refering to the weather. For the sixth time this season Winston would have to cancel their race program. It was Mid-season championship night for all classes, but only two make-up features from the previous weeks rain shortened program took place. The drivers were willing to run their features first, the program even started earlier to try to beat Mother Nature. To no avail a thunderstorm an hour into the program wiped out another Friday night of racing.
The make-up late model feature had some excitement from start to finish. The line-up was set from the previous week. Pole sitter Tim Stott paced the field early with Matt Pickard in hot pursuit. An Early race caution saw the demise of Tom Dusen when cars piled up on the front stretch. Rich Neiser was also involved on his charge to the front. Neiser’s car showed no worse for wear as he found himself in a heated battle with Pickard midway throughout the race. Neiser finally made it past Pickard late in the race but his charge to the front came up a little short as Stott never slipped once. The win was Stott’s first feature win of the season at Winston. Neiser’s runner-up position was followed by Pickard, Kyle Borgman, and Andy Sprague. Rounding out the top ten were Scott Wenell, John McDonald, Brian McQueen, Kevin Nelson Jr and Mike Wilbern.
In the Sportsman event Dan Wilson used his pole position start to full advantage. Wilson led from start to finish holding off the Sternberg brothers. Ralph edged his brother Rob for the second position. Cody Weisner and Tim Tuttle completed the top five. The second half of the top ten was Chad Weinrick, Bean Falbe, Jeremy Holman, Robert McDonald, and Brian Juusola.
The Fourth of July Friday night program will have a Sportsman Invitational as part of the program along with the make-up of Mid Season Championship races. Fireworks will also light the nighttime skies on Friday and then again on Saturday. Winston will have cars smashing and crashing as part of the Demolition Derby and Off Road Scramble schedule that will take place Saturday night July 5th. For the best in Family entertainment make your way to Winston Speedway.
