Saturday's 25-lap Super Stock feature highlighted side-by-side racing at its best.
Only this time, it was side-by-side-by-side as Jeremy Munniksma, Brian
VanZalen and Seth Moody exited turn four as though their three cars were
attached.
Though Munniksma crossed the finish line with his front wheels a couple of feet off the ground, he got his nose across the stripe 41 hundredths of a second before VanZalen with Moody just 32 hundredths seconds behind VanZalen.
Munniksma, of Hamilton, admitted he didn't know he had won, partly because “I think I shut my eyes for a few seconds when I started hopping.
“I don't know what happened at the end, but we kind of wadded up,” Munniksma said after winning his third feature race of the summer. “I saw both of them, but I was just hoping VanZalen saw me because I was coming around the outside and we don't have (communication) radios.
“When that happens you just hope for the best.”
Munniksma entered the weekend trailing Moody by 56 points. Will Olmsted, who was second in points eight points out of first, finished last on Saturday. He left the race after 18 laps.
In other races on Saturday, The Super Late Models raced 75 laps and Tom Thomas used every one of them to grab his second feature win of the season. The Grandville driver had to hold off a hard-charging Ross Meeuwsen to win by less than a car length.
Meeuwsen, of Zeeland, was pushed to the back of the pack on lap 13 when he slid off the back stretch, but worked his way back into the Top 10 by lap 30, then moved into second place on lap 66.
He took the lead on the restart but a spin by Chris Koslek negated that move.
On the next restart, Thomas was on the gas right away and Meeuwsen was unable to catch up.
Lou Caposey won the Vintage Racing Organization of America Mike Becker Memorial 42 race. The late Mike Becker, of Rockford, was a longtime racer in the VROA, but lost a battle with cancer before the current season began.
The race was dubbed the Mike Becker Memorial 42 for the number on the side of the car he drove.
Bill Krupp of Sparta won the 15-lap race for 4-Cylinders.
Billy Shotko, formerly of West Olive but now from Coopersville, won the 25-lap Modified feature. Shotko took the lead on the eighth lap and beat Kevin DeGood by over three seconds.
Though Munniksma crossed the finish line with his front wheels a couple of feet off the ground, he got his nose across the stripe 41 hundredths of a second before VanZalen with Moody just 32 hundredths seconds behind VanZalen.
Munniksma, of Hamilton, admitted he didn't know he had won, partly because “I think I shut my eyes for a few seconds when I started hopping.
“I don't know what happened at the end, but we kind of wadded up,” Munniksma said after winning his third feature race of the summer. “I saw both of them, but I was just hoping VanZalen saw me because I was coming around the outside and we don't have (communication) radios.
“When that happens you just hope for the best.”
Munniksma entered the weekend trailing Moody by 56 points. Will Olmsted, who was second in points eight points out of first, finished last on Saturday. He left the race after 18 laps.
In other races on Saturday, The Super Late Models raced 75 laps and Tom Thomas used every one of them to grab his second feature win of the season. The Grandville driver had to hold off a hard-charging Ross Meeuwsen to win by less than a car length.
Meeuwsen, of Zeeland, was pushed to the back of the pack on lap 13 when he slid off the back stretch, but worked his way back into the Top 10 by lap 30, then moved into second place on lap 66.
He took the lead on the restart but a spin by Chris Koslek negated that move.
On the next restart, Thomas was on the gas right away and Meeuwsen was unable to catch up.
Lou Caposey won the Vintage Racing Organization of America Mike Becker Memorial 42 race. The late Mike Becker, of Rockford, was a longtime racer in the VROA, but lost a battle with cancer before the current season began.
The race was dubbed the Mike Becker Memorial 42 for the number on the side of the car he drove.
Bill Krupp of Sparta won the 15-lap race for 4-Cylinders.
Billy Shotko, formerly of West Olive but now from Coopersville, won the 25-lap Modified feature. Shotko took the lead on the eighth lap and beat Kevin DeGood by over three seconds.
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