Wimmer Grabs Waynesfield Memorial Classic

Waynesfield Ohio
By Gerry Keysor

With the Memorial Day weekend comes barbeques, the unofficial start of summer, and the annual weekend battle between the K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders, and the Engine Pro Sprints on Dirt.  WRP hosted leg 2 of the 3 day swing with Fairmount Indiana’s Brandon Wimmer grabbing the win in the Destiny Motorsports #9. The PPC AMSA Mini Sprints held double features, with #12J Tyler Moore grabbing the makeup feature win and #3T Ricky Taylor grabbing the 2nd feature.  #60 Jerry Sawmiller picked up the win in Block Insurance Tough Truck action. Matt Westfall dominated the Post AgriService UMP Modified A Main in the Best Performance Motorsports #54.  #17 Justin Durflinger grabbed the win in the JR and Sons Service Center Compacts.

Kicking off racing for the evening was the makeup feature for the PPC AMSA Mini Sprints. Tyler Moore and #328 Becca Stiefel would lead the field to green, with Moore grabbing the early race lead.  By lap 5, the leader would find himself in heavy lapped traffic, allowing #24L Lee Underwood to slip by to grab the top spot in traffic.  On lap 16, the caution would wave when #5j Jake Hesson would come to a stop after losing a chain on the racetrack. On the restart, Moore powered back to the lead past Underwood.  The red flag would come out on lap 17 for a wild crash that saw #66 Chase Dunham cartwheel violently in turns one and 2.  Dunham walked away from the crash but his night would be over.  On the restart, Moore powered away from the field to grab his first WRP A Main win, with Underwood 2nd, Stiefel 3rd, #OO Mikey Helterbran would finish 4th after starting 17th, and #4* Tyler Street completed the top 5.

The K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders and Engine Pro Sprints on Dirt would be the first regular feature of the night.  Carnage ensued on the first lap as #11N Ed Neumeister and #12R Nick Roberts flipped wildly down the front straightaway.  Both drivers would be ok.  The field would try again with a complete restart, but this time, #23 Devon Dobie would loop out and continue, but not before #49 Shawn Dancer would make contact and get upside down. Dancer would climb out under his own power, and the field would try again to get the race underway.  #6s JR Stewart would grab the early lead and stretch it out to over 10 car lengths over #B20 Butch Schroeder.  On lap 10, #9w Brandon Wimmer would make his way up to 2nd and set his sights on the leader.  Caution would wave on lap 11 as caution would wave for #23 Devon Dobie. The field would come back to green, but when they got back to turn 4, Wimmer squeezed under Stewart to grab the lead. Wimmer would go on to win with a hard charging #7c Max Stambaugh 2nd, #6 Greg Wilson 3rd, Stewart 4th, and Schroeder 5th.

Next up were the Block Insurance Tough Trucks.  As the field charged into turn 1, contact with another truck would send the #70 Terry Klopfenstein upside down and bring out the red flag. The restart would find #7d Devin Carl and #24J Joe Carl leading the field, but #20k Bill Keeler would charge to the point on lap 2.  The caution would wave again for #23 Kenny Osbourne as he came to a stop on the track.  Keeler would lead the field until another caution flew on lap 5 for Devin Carl. As the field went back to green, #60 Jerry Sawmiller charged to the lead and would hold it til the end, taking the win over #1s Mike Sawmiller, #37 Roy Miller, #79 Brian Beach, and Keeler.

The Post AgriService UMP Modifieds would  be next with A Main action.  #15 Nick Katterhenry would take the early lead, but #54 Matt Westfall would blast by to grab the top spot on lap 2.  Caution would fly on lap 4 for debris on the frontstretch. As the race continued, defending track champion Zach Schroeder would make his way to 3rd and try to close on the leaders.  Schroeder would grab 2nd on lap 12, but the caution would fly again for a spinning #46 of Andrew Johnston, negating the pass. Schroeder would get back to 2nd, but that’s as close as he would get, as Westfall would win, Katterhenry would be 3rd, with #L5 Casey Luedeke 4th, and #55s Jim Szekacs completed the top 5.

Next up the JR and Sons Service Center Compacts would be next, with the #17 of Justin Durflinger and #82 Harvey Yoder setting the tone for the whole race. A lap 1 caution for #2 Austin Eaton, and a lap 2 caution for #1* Erik Wolleson after contact with #1H Jeff Zwiebel would be the only slowdowns as Durflinger picks up his 2nd win of the season with Yoder 2nd, #92 Korey Critchfield 3rd, #518 Jordan Iiams 4th, and Zwiebel rounding out the top 5.

The Performance Powder Coating AMSA Mini Sprints would run their second feature to complete the nights racing action. #30 Adam Treadway, and #3T Ricky Taylor would lead the field to green with Taylor taking the early lead.   Caution would wave on lap 4 for #X Gene Wills spinning in turn 4.  On lap 6, the red flag would fly for #28j Jody Martin getting upside down.  He would walk away from the accident, but his night and the night of #81 Mike Thom.  Taylor would be able to hold on to the end to win over #28H Rod Henning,  #12J Tyler Moore, #44 Tyler Ransbottom, and Treadway.

Waynesfield Raceway Park will be back in action on Saturday June 1st when it will be American Wilderness Outfitters Meet The Drivers Night!  Come out and spend time meeting all the stars of Waynesfield Raceway Park. In action will be the Best Performance Motorsports Non Wing Sprint Cars, Post Agri Service UMP Modifieds, Performance Powder Coating AMSA Mini Sprints, Block insurance Tough Trucks, and JR and Sons Service Center Compacts.

Pit gates open @ 4PM, Grandstand gates @ 5, Hot Laps @ 6, 

Racing @ 7PM

Pit Passes for all ages – $25

Waynesfield Raceway Park – 5/25/2013

Howard Johnson Night at the Races

5th Annual Memorial Classic

Performance Powder Coating AMSA Mini Sprints

Makeup A Main from May 4th (20 Laps)

1. 12J-Tyler Moore[1]; 2. 24L-Lee Underwood[4]; 3. 328-Becca Stiefel[2]; 4. OO-Michael Helterbran[17]; 5. 4STAR-Tyler Street[16]; 6. 2-Tyler Ransbottom[9]; 7. 50-Craig Stower[12]; 8. 28J-Jody Martin[13]; 9. K8-Kate Heitkamp[15]; 10. 63-Dallas Hunt[6]; 11. 42-Ty Tilton[11]; 12. 66-Chase Dunham[19]; 13. 30-Adam Treadway[5]; 14. 5J-Jake Hesson[7]; 15. 14-Gary Campbell[18]; 16. 1H-Anthony Haas[10]; 17. 22B-Brad Racer[3]; 18. 32-Roger Schnipke[20]; DNS-8JR-JR Wood; DNS-65-Chris Bounds

Hard Charger: OO-Michael Helterbran[+13]

NRA vs SOD 360 Sprints (38 Cars)

[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 – Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 2M-Dustin Daggett[1] ; 2. 2-Kyle Sauder[6] ; 3. 6S-JR Stewart[3] ; 4. 6-Greg Wilson[5] ; 5. 16C-Greg Wheeler[2] ; 6. 16-Ryan Ruhl[9] ; 7. 4-Eric Smith[10] ; 8. 31N-Greg Nicholas[7] ; 9. 12X-Don Ryder[8] ; 10. 57-Mike Dunlap[4]

Heat 2 – Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 10X-Dustin Stroop[1] ; 2. 7-Darren Long[2] ; 3. B20-Butch Schroeder[4] ; 4. 11-Tim Allison[6] ; 5. 22H-Randy Hannagan[7] ; 6. 35-Ron Blair[5] ; 7. OO-Ryan Grubaugh[3] ; 8. 22R-Kevin Roberts[10] ; 9. 23M-Jack Miller[8] ; 10. 34-Jimmy Snead[9]

Heat 3 – Heat 3 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 28H-Hud Horton[2] ; 2. 49-Shawn Dancer[1] ; 3. 23-Devon Dobie[4] ; 4. 12R-Nick Roberts[8] ; 5. 11N-Ed Neumeister[9] ; 6. 31-Andy Teunessen[5] ; 7. 20A-Andy Chehowski[6] ; 8. 46-Robert Huisken[7] ; 9. 23G-Joe Geibe[3]

Heat 4 – Heat 4 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 7C-Max Stambaugh[1] ; 2. 7K-Cole Duncan[2] ; 3. 9W-Brandon Wimmer[8] ; 4. 49T-Gregg Dallman[4] ; 5. 27-Beau Stewart[7] ; 6. 22D-Dennis Yoakum[9] ; 7. 10J-Chris Jones[3] ; 8. 70-Jim Lingar[5] ; 9. 17-Jared Horstman[6]

B-Main #1 –  (10 Laps – Top 2 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 22h-Randy Hannagan[2] ; 2. 35-Ron Blair[4] ; 3. oo-Ryan Grubaugh[6] ; 4. 16-Ryan Ruhl[3] ; 5. 16C-Greg Wheeler[1] ; 6. 22r-Kevin Roberts[8] ; 7. 23m-Jack Miller[10] ; 8. 34-Jimmy Snead[12] ; 9. 31N-Greg Nicholas[7] ; 10. 4-Eric Smith[5] ; 11. 12X-Don Ryder[9] ; 12. 57-Mike Dunlap[11]

B-Main #2 –  (12 Laps – Top 2 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 27-Beau Stewart[2] ; 2. 11n-Ed Neumeister[1] ; 3. 22D-Dennis Yoakum[4] ; 4. 17-Jared Horstman[10] ; 5. 46-Robert Huisken[7] ; 6. 31-Andy Teunessen[3] ; 7. 20a-Andy Chehowski[5] ; 8. 23g-Joe Geibe[9] ; 9. 70-Jim Lingar[8] ; 10. 10J-Chris Jones[6]

A-Main –  (25 Laps)

1. 9w-Brandon Wimmer[1]; 2. 7c-Max Stambaugh[9]; 3. 6-Greg Wilson[13]; 4. 6s-JR Stewart[4]; 5. b20-Butch Schroeder[3]; 6. 2-Kyle Sauder[8]; 7. 2m-Dustin Daggett[12]; 8. 7-Darren Long[7]; 9. 10x-Dustin Stroop[11]; 10. 27-Beau Stewart[18]; 11. 11-Tim Allison[14]; 12. 28h-Hud Horton[10]; 13. 7k-Cole Duncan[5]; 14. 23-Devon Dobie[2]; 15. 49T-Gregg Dallman[16]; 16. 49-Shawn Dancer[6]; 17. 12R-Nick Roberts[15]; 18. 22H-Randy Hannagan[17]; 19. 35-Ron Blair[19]; 20. 11N-Ed Neumeister[20]

Hard Charger: 6-Greg Wilson[+10]

Block Insurance Tough Trucks (19 Trucks)

[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 – Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 10 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 1S-Mike Sawmiller[6] ; 2. 60-Jerry Sawmiller[9] ; 3. 710-Ben Werling[4] ; 4. 28-Robbie Starkey[2] ; 5. 56-Dustin Mobley[8] ; 6. 2.?-Chris Hicks[7] ; 7. C01-Logan Yelton[1] ; 8. 23-Kenny Osborne[10] ; 9. 18B-Gabe Twinning[3] ; 10. 1X-Jerry Butler[5]

Heat 2 – Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 10 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 20K-Bill Keeler[6] ; 2. 70-Terry Klopfenstein[3] ; 3. 24J-Joe Carl[1] ; 4. 7D-Devin Carl[2] ; 5. 37-Roy Miller[9] ; 6. 43-Dan Crowder[7] ; 7. 79-Brian Beach[8] ; 8. 10-John Brewster[5] ; 9. O-John Sanford[4]

A-Main –  (15 Laps)

1. 60-Jerry Sawmiller[6]; 2. 1S-Mike Sawmiller[8]; 3. 37-Roy Miller[10]; 4. 79-Brian Beach[14]; 5. 20K-Bill Keeler[7]; 6. 43-Dan Crowder[12]; 7. 1X-Jerry Butler[19]; 8. 2.?-Chris Hicks[11]; 9. 710-Ben Werling[4]; 10. C01-Logan Yelton[13]; 11. 24J-Joe Carl[3]; 12. 28-Robbie Starkey[2]; 13. 10-John Brewster[16]; 14. 56-Dustin Mobley[9]; 15. 7D-Devin Carl[1]; 16. 23-Kenny Osborne[15]; 17. 70-Terry Klopfenstein[5]; DNS- O-John Sanford; DNS 18B-Gabe Twining

Hard Charger: 1X-Jerry Butler[+12]

Post AgriService UMP Modifieds (29 Cars)

[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 – Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 35-Tim Cornett[1] ; 2. 79-Shane Unger[5] ; 3. 45P-Brian Post[6] ; 4. 5-Clark Van Houten[8] ; 5. 5K-Karl Spoores[7] ; 6. 83K-Josh Kehle[2] ; 7. 2-Jason Kinney[4] ; 8. 5C-Chad Laird[3]

Heat 2 – Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 54-Matt Westfall[3] ; 2. 67-Eddie Shaner[1] ; 3. 18N-Derrick Noffsinger[2] ; 4. L5-Casey Luedeke[4] ; 5. 4J-David Treon[7] ; 6. 20K-Bill Keeler[6] ; 7. 53-Brad Johnson[5]

Heat 3 – Heat 3 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 55S-Jim Szekacs[1] ; 2. O-Derrick Austin[4] ; 3. 13-Chris Ullery[5] ; 4. T5X-Doug Hewitt[3] ; 5. 20-Jamie Phlipot[7] ; 6. 58-Jim Post[6] ; 7. 21M-Donnie Miller[2]

Heat 4 – Heat 4 (8 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 15-Nick Katterhenry[1] ; 2. 44-Zach Schroeder[3] ; 3. M1G-Matt Twining[2] ; 4. 46-Andrew Johnson[6] ; 5. 24-Terry Grilliot[4] ; 6. 73B-Cody Basiniger[7] ; 7. K9-Scott Gerdeman[5]

B-Main –  (10 Laps – Top 4 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 2-Jason Kinney[9] ; 2. K9-Scott Gerdeman[12] ; 3. 20K-Bill Keeler[6] ; 4. 83K-Josh Kehle[5] ; 5. 5K-Karl Spoores[1] ; 6. 73B-Cody Basiniger[8] ; 7. 5C-Chad Laird[13] ; 8. 53-Brad Johnson[10] ; 9. 4J-David Treon[2] ; 10. 20-Jamie Phlipot[3] ; 11. 24-Terry Grilliot[4] ; 12. 58-Jim Post[7] ; 13. 21M-Donnie Miller[11]

A-Main –  (20 Laps)

1. 54-Matt Westfall[3]; 2. 44-Zach Schroeder[8]; 3. 15-Nick Katterhenry[1]; 4. L5-Casey Luedeke[14]; 5. 55S-Jim Szekacs[2]; 6. 13-Chris Ullery[9]; 7. O-Derrick Austin[7]; 8. 35-Tim Cornett[4]; 9. 67-Eddie Shaner[6]; 10. 18N-Derrick Noffsinger[10]; 11. M1G-Matt Twining[12]; 12. 20k-Bill Keeler[17]; 13. K9-Scott Gerdeman[18]; 14. t5x-Doug Hewitt[13]; 15. 46-Andrew Johnson[16]; 16. 5-Clark Van Houten[11]; 17. 5k-Karl Spoores[19]; 18. 83K-Josh Kehle[20]; 19. 2-Jason Kinney[15]; DNS-79-Shane Unger

Hard Charger: L5-Casey Luedeke[+10]

JR and Sons Service Center Compacts (11 Cars)

[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 – Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 10 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 82-Harvey Yoder[2] ; 2. 17-Justin Durflinger[4] ; 3. 518-Jordan Iiams[5] ; 4. 1star-Erik Wolleson[1] ; 5. 1H-Jeff Zwiebel[6] ; 6. 71-Dustin Mobley[3]

Heat 2 – Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 10 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 2-Austin Eaton[1] ; 2. 31-Jeff Kimes[2] ; 3. 27X-Robbie Tuttle[3] ; 4. 66Z-Matt McKinnon[4] ; 5. 92-Korey Critchfield[5]

A-Main –  (15 Laps)

1. 17-Justin Durflinger[2]; 2. 82-Harvey Yoder[4]; 3. 92-Korey Critchfield[10]; 4. 518-Jordan Iiams[5]; 5. 1H-Jeff Zwiebel[9]; 6. 31-Jeff Kimes[1]; 7. 2-Austin Eaton[3]; 8. 71-Dustin Mobley[11]; 9. 1STAR-Erik Wolleson[7]; DNS- 27X-Robbie Tuttle[6]; DNS-66Z-Matt McKinnon[8]

Hard Charger: 92-Korey Critchfield[+7]

Performance Powder Coating AMSA Mini Sprints (26 Cars)

[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 – Heat 1 (8 Laps – Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 12J-Tyler Moore[9] ; 2. 30-Adam Treadway[6] ; 3. 4-Tyler Street[1] ; 4. 50-Craig Stower[2] ; 5. 63-Dallas Hunt[3] ; 6. 5J-Jake Hesson[7] ; 7. 24L-Lee Underwood[4] ; 8. 28J-Jody Martain[5] ; 9. 66-Chase Dunham[8]

Heat 2 – Heat 2 (8 Laps – Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 28H-Rod Henning[4] ; 2. OO-Michael Helterbran[7] ; 3. 81-Mike Thom[8] ; 4. x-Todd Wills[9] ; 5. 32-Roger Schnipke[6] ; 6. 17-Darin Collin[5] ; 7. 33-Dustin Boggs[2] ; 8. 14-Gary Campbell[3] ; 9. 42-Ty Tilton[1]

Heat 3 – Heat 3 (8 Laps – Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 3T-Ricky Taylor[2] ; 2. 44-Tyler Ransbottom[4] ; 3. 3E-Alex Watson[3] ; 4. 22B-Brad Racer[6] ; 5. 1H-Anthony Haas[7] ; 6. 328-Becca Stiefel[8] ; 7. K8-Kate Heitkamp[5] ; 8. 1X-Gene Wills[1]

B-Main –  (12 Laps – Top 5 finishers transfer to the A-feature)

1. 328-Becca Stiefel[3] ; 2. 17-Darin Collin[2] ; 3. 28J-Jody Martain[7] ; 4. K8-Kate Heitkamp[6] ; 5. 1X-Gene Wills[9] ; 6. 33-Dustin Boggs[5] ; 7. 24L-Lee Underwood[4] ; 8. 5J-Jake Hesson[1] ; 9. 14-Gary Campbell[8] ; 10. 66-Chase Dunham[10] ; 11. 42-Ty Tilton[11]

A-Main –  (20 Laps)

1. 3T-Ricky Taylor[2]; 2. 28H-Rod Henning[3]; 3. 12J-Tyler Moore[4]; 4. 44-Tyler Ransbottom[6]; 5. 30-Adam Treadway[1]; 6. 63-Dallas Hunt[13]; 7. OO-Michael Helterbran[5]; 8. 1H-Anthony Haas[15]; 9. 328-Becca Stiefel[16]; 10. 17-Darin Collin[17]; 11. 50-Craig Stower[10]; 12. K8-Kate Heitkamp[19]; 13. 1X-Gene Wills[20]; 14. X-Todd Wills[11]; 15. 22B-Brad Racer[12]; 16. 4-Tyler Street[7]; 17. 28J-Jody Martain[18]; 18. 3E-Alex Watson[9]; 19. 81-Mike Thom[8]; 20. 32-Roger Schnipke[14]

Hard Charger: 63-Dallas Hunt[+7]