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smith Wins
jennerstown meegan ford ‘100’
JENNERSTOWN, PA (July
30, 2005) …. Mark Smith went from the agony of defeat last week to the
exhilaration of victory in the Meegan Ford 100 at Jennerstown Speedway,
as the Meyersdale driver romped to an easy win Saturday evening in the
NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series Wheeler Bros.super late model feature event.
Last Saturday Smith
plowed his Richter Motorsports Ford Taurus into the inside retaining
wall after breaking a sway bar in his qualifying heat. After repairing
the car this week Smith dominated the century grind by taking the lead
on Lap 4 from pole sitter Paul Urso. Once in command Smith, who has
accumulated five feature wins at the Somerset County half-mile paved
oval, pulled away from the field to win by over a straightaway over
second place finisher Richard Mitchell.
In Victory Lane, Smith
praised his crew, who worked around the clock to put the car back in
running order. “We had everyone working on this car,” Smith said. “The
car was excellent before we wrecked it last week. We really didn’t think
we would get it back to the way it was, but it’s almost there.”
Following Smith and
Mitchell across the line were Tommy Beck, Barry Awtey and Mark Poole.
Finishing sixth through 10th were Kyle Martel, Urso, Dave
Houpt, Mark Cottone and Jason Lasky.
Rick Boyer continued
to set the pace in the late model class, collecting his fifth win of the
year. The Blairsville driver started last in the field, and charged
through the pack to take the first spot from Wade Champeno on the back
straight of Lap 16. Champeno hung on for second over Melt Wilt, Andrew
Wylie and Dusty Rhoads.
Roger Onstead picked
up his second straight 20-lap Advance Auto Parts street stock checkered
flag, after passing Adam Kostelnik on the 13th go round.
Trailing were Richard Nicola, Joe Nicola, who led the first eight laps,
and Tom Knight Sr.
Kraig Coffin made his
initial visit to Jennerstown a worthwhile trip, coming all the way from
New England to take the checkered flag in the wild and wooly PA legacy
feature.
“This is the biggest
track we’ve been on,” said Coffin, who will turn 14 next month. “We fell
back a little during the cautions, but we were able to keep up once the
race was green.”
Four different
drivers, Ken Pearce, Jayme Beck, Chris Brink and Kyle Martel, all took
turns leading, before Coffin claimed the first spot for good on the
final three laps. Martel was second, followed by Brink, David Campbell
and Jayme Beck.
In the 15-lap Pizza
Hut hobby stock finale, it only took Gregory Lohr five laps to get from
his 11th starting spot to the lead, as he rolled to his
fourth triumph of the 2005 campaign. John Steely, Cindy Shaulis, Deidre
Petrie and Jeff Zillweger were second through fifth.
Ron Robbins Jr. of
Glen Burnie, MD won the super mini cup main event.
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Complete Race Results
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