Rhodes, Roelofs, Jewett, and Meeuwsen all winners at the Pepsi Summer Spectacular
Marne, MI- It was another great night at the Berlin Raceway. The Pepsi Summer Spectacular treated fans to a fun night of racing! The Coors Late Models were in action with a 100 lap feature. The Burnips 4-Cylinders and the Kerkstra Services Pro Stocks also took the track, giving the fans an exciting night at the track.
First up for the feature races was the Burnips Equipment 4-Cylinder B class. Paul Ritchie in the #63 and #40 Charlie DeJong started on the front line. Jim Rhodes in the #T11 was out to a quick start. Rhodes had a comfortable lead, throughout the 20 lap feature. The real battle was for second, the #20 car of Tyler Nawrocki, last week’s feature winner, and the #110 of Dan Dells were battling hard. Dells and Nawrocki were bumper to bumper for the better part of the feature. Nawrocki would finally pass Dells during lap 16. With only 4 laps left, Nawrocki wouldn’t have enough time to make a move on the leader Rhodes, who was comfortably ahead of the pack. Jared Lyzenga in the #77, Dells, #20 Jackson Walker, DeJong, #84 Steve Thompson, #07 Clayton Brown, Ritchie, #65a Andy Church rounded out the top ten.
Next for the Burnips Equipment 4-Cylinders was the A feature. Starting on the start/finish line were the #2 car of Darrell Holtzlander and #01 Rob Shoemaker. From the start the #100 of Jason Scheid made a move to the front trying to overtake Holtzlander who was in the lead, but lap 3 saw the first caution of the night, as Shoemaker hit the wall near turn 3. Scheid was sent to the back of the lineup as he was cited for rough driving. Out of the restart the Holtzlander, #024 Cole Roelofs, and #7 Ryan Hamm were the top three. From the restart, all three were fighting hard, Hamm would pass Holtzlander on the outside coming out of turn 3. Holtzlander would keep falling to the back of the lineup as #17 Kyle Hamm moved into third. The pass would set up a thrilling three car race for first. Roelofs, Kyle and Ryan Hamm were literally neck and neck until the end of the race. A three wide finish saw Roelofs win by .009 of a second. Kyle Hamm, Ryan Hamm, #47 Don McNabb, #100 Jason Scheid, #354 Chris McKinley, #51 Brad Hastings, #8 Frank Bisacky, #15 Mel Parsons, and #111 Josh Bisacky would all finish in the top ten.
The Kerkstra Services Pro Stocks were in action next. On front row were #36 Ken Smith Jr. and #33 Allen Davis. Smith took the quick lead, but the three time feature winner #51 Weston Jewett was quickly making his way to the front. Jewett’s pursuit for first was halted in lap 8 as #6 Brandon Hermiller and #F1 Randy Veldman slid off the backstretch. Out of the restart Smith, #76 Brian Tillema, and Jewett were leading, Tillema was right on Smith as this had clearly become a three car fight. Jewett made his way into second as he passed Tillema on the outside going into turn 2. Another caution would come out in lap 18, the #22 Darin Niemi spun. The yellow would not slow down the three car battle of Smith, Jewett, and Tillema. Tillema passed both and moved to the front coming out of the yellow, but just as he was getting comfortable in the lead, Jewett passed him with two laps to go. Jewett would never look back and took the checker flag for the fourth time this season. Tillema, Hermiller, Smith, #76 Ryan Gruppen, Davis, #18 Randy Meppelink, #20 Dave Hull, #88 Tony Davis, and #7 Kevin DeGood finished in the top ten.
The final event of the night was the Coors Late Model 100 lap feature. On the starting line were Nick Szotko in the #19 and #22 Josh Slade. Szotko emerged as the leader early. With Szotko so far ahead, the battle for second was the thrilling one, Joe Bush in the #61 and #55 Chris Anthony were riding each other hard. After a few laps of bumper to bumper action, Anthony began to fade and Tim DeVos in the #12 over took him for third. Steve Needles in the #14 who started in the eleventh spot, had moved into sixth by lap 9. Szotko and DeVos both had a comfortable lead, the only thing that slowed Szotko was the caution on lap 38. Billy Shotko in the #222 and Szotko had an incident on the front stretch; this would cause Szotko to pit on lap 42 and allowing DeVos to take over first. Out of the caution, the #32 of Ross Meeuwsen began to make his way to the front. On lap 70 Meeuwsen passed DeVos and over took him for first. Meeuwsen wouldn’t be threatened the remainder of the race and took the checker with a 3.778 lead. Barry Hartwell in the #1, #37 Terry Senneker, #21 Terry VanHaitsma, #12 Tim DeVos finished in the top 5.
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Marisela Rodriguez
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Marisela@berlinraceway.com
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