1) #20 Brian Campbell
2) #23 Chris Koslek
3) #22 Chris Eggleston
4) #21 Terry Van Haitsma
5) #51 Kyle Busch
6) #72 Scott Hantz
7) #61 Johnny VanDoorn
8) #90 Becca Kasten
9) #55 Chris Anthony
10)#37 Jordan Dahlke
Brian Campbell wins Rowdy Busch 125
Scott Thomas and Kelsey Steele also victorious
Marne, MI—Over 5,000 fans were on hand to witness a thrilling night at Berlin Raceway. Kelsey Steele scored her second win of the season in the Young Guns division while Scott Thomas got his first win of the season in the Coors Light Late Models; winning the CRA Super Series Rowdy Busch 125 was Brian Campbell.
The Young Guns took the track first; #32 Gabe Ensing was slotted to start on the pole position, but his wreck in the heat race took him out of contention. #16 Kelsey Steele moved up to take his space next to #19 Dalton Haney. From the drop of the green flag, Steele took off with the lead and by halfway, had put almost four seconds between herself and Haney. Haney had his hands full with #6 Brandon Hermiller who took second place from him on lap 11. Hermiller began to catch Steele, but he ran out of time. Steele got her second win of the season after leading all of the laps and finishing behind her was Hermiller, Haney, #18 Mitch Meppelink, #101 Lauren Bush and Ensing.
The Coors Light Late Models were up next for their 100-lap feature, #00 Ryan Meldrum and #82 Tom Thomas were on the front row. T. Thomas was the early leader and the first caution of the night came out on lap 8; Meldrum spin in turn 2 after a battle for second with the #19 of Nick Shotko. The #12 of Tim DeVos and #10 of Johnny Benson were coming to the front fast and by lap 24, leader Thomas began lapping cars. After a caution on lap 27, the double file restart bunched the field back up. Before that lap was completed, caution was out again; N. Shotko and #27 Billy Shotko spun while racing hard for second place. Meanwhile the #28 of Scott Thomas was slowly catching leader T. Thomas and on lap 55, using a slower car as a pick, S. Thomas took the lead and let T. Thomas fall in to DeVos’ clutches. DeVos overtook T. Thomas on lap 66 while S. Thomas had stretched his lead out to just over 3 seconds; just 10 cars remained on the lead lap. With 10 to go, DeVos was cutting in to S. Thomas’ lead, but he was unable to catch him. Scott Thomas took his first win of the season in dominating fashion, lapping all by 6 cars. The rest of the top ten were DeVos, #32 Ross Meeuwsen, T. Thomas, #55 Chris Anthony, #10 Johnny Benson, #101 Joe Bush, #1 Randy Sweet, #21 Terry VanHaitsma and N. Shotko.
The finale of the night was the CRA Super Series Rowdy Busch 125 and on the front were the cars of #21 Terry VanHaitsma and #155 Chris Anthony. Anthony took off with the lead and just as the field started lap two, caution was out. An attempt at going three-wide did not work and #51 Alec Carll, who was on the outside, made contact with another car which sent his machine into the wall and he slide on his side to the middle of turns 1 and 2. Once the cars were restarted, #23 Chris Koslek and #22 Chris Eggleston scooted past #51 Kyle Busch and they went after VanHaitsma for second and the trio found themselves entrenched in a battle on lap 18. Just two laps later, caution was out for an incident involving #2 Josh Slade and #90 Becca Kasten; this let the field catch up to leader Anthony who was checking out. Eggleston was all over VanHaitsma on the restart and that let Anthony drive away from the field again. Eggleston was on the move and had reeled in the leader once he got past VanHaistma and he was challenging for the lead on lap 50 and took it one lap later. The cars settled in to a long green flag run and the car to watch was the #20 of Brian Campbell. On lap 86, Campbell had made his way up to second by passing #72 Scott Hantz on the outside at the start/finish line. It didn’t take long for Campbell to catch and passes Eggleston for the lead and then he started pulling away from the field. The final caution of the night happened with 10 laps to go, Hantz spun on the backstretch. On the restart, the battle for fourth got rowdy when VanHaitsma, Hantz and Busch went three-wide in turn one and made it work. There was no catching Campbell, though. He dominated the last part of the race and won by 2.219 seconds. The rest of the top ten were Koslek, Eggleston, VanHaitsma, Busch, Hantz, VanDoorn, Kasten, Anthony and #37 Jordan Dahlke.
Up next at Berlin Raceway is the Open Wheel Spectacular featuring the ISMA SuperModified with Johnny Benson, Jr., USAC/WOMS Midgets and the Engine Pro Super Stocks. Tickets are $18 for adults, $5 for kids 6-12 and free for kids 5 and under. Pit Passes are $30 for those 14 and over; races start at 7:00 p.m. For more information, please visit www.berlinraceway.com.
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