Stambaugh, Westfall, Scott Dominate Waynesfield Open Wheel Showdown – July 23, 2016

WAYNESFIELD, OH (7/23/16) – Three divisions of open wheel racing took the track Saturday night at Waynesfield Raceway Park in Waynesfield, Ohio.  The event dubbed the “Open Wheel Showdown” had a great crowd on hand to see the final appearance of the year for the K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders.  The Satellite Connections Non Wings and Quest Federal Credit Union UMP Modifieds were also on the program to continue their season point battles.

The headlining K&L Ready Mix NRA Sprint Invaders was led to green by the 28 of Phil Gressman and the 5M of “Mad” Max Stambaugh.  Gressman took the lead into turn one and led the opening lap.  Stambaugh worked the cushion into turn one at the completion of lap one to gain the lead and claim lap number two.  A few laps went into the books before the first yellow flag of the A-main stacked the field back up for a restart.  Jared Horstman used the restart to his advantage to advance through the field at the midway point of the A-main.  Horstman managed to make his way into the runner-up spot from his outside row three starting spot.  Two late race cautions bundled the field up allowing Horstman to make a run on Stambaugh.  The run was unsuccessful giving the new uncle the win.  Jared Horstman came home second with JR Stewart coming home third.  Devon Dobie and Jeff Williams picked up the heat race wins.

The Satellite Connections Non Wing Sprints were next on the agenda for 25 laps of action.  The 87 of Paul Dues and the 21 of Travis Hery led the field to the opening green flag.  The drag race into turn one put Dues into the top spot.  The two 24’s, Lee Underwood and Landon Simon began to battle just behind the leader.  Underwood came out on the winning end, holding off Simon.  Fremont, Ohio’s Dustin Stroup brought out the first and only caution of the event at the halfway mark.  As laps began to tick down, Matt Westfall found himself in the runner-up spot trying to track down Lee Underwood who held the lead.  Simon was tracking Westfall as Westfall tracked Underwood.  Simon ran into some bad luck as his 24 went up and over the cushion exiting turn two causing him to drop out of the top five.  Underwood took the white flag with a small amount of space between him and Westfall.  Out of turn four, Westfall put a slider on Underwood to take the lead and the victory.  Lee Underwood finished second with Luke Hall finishing third.  Landon Simon and Dustin Ingle took home the heat races.

The Quest Federal Credit Union UMP Modifieds continued to reward fans with a large car count.  Current point leader Josh Scott led the field of 20 to the opening green flag with the 20K of Bill Keeler to his outside.  Scott won the drag race into turn one and claimed the opening lap.  A three-way battle for fourth began to form between Jeff Koz, Tim Cornett, and Weasel Phlipot.  Just as the battle started to get intense, Matt Twining brought out the first caution of race.  Twining was facing in the opposite direction at the exit of turn one.  Three cars got together at the exit of turn four on the restart.  Brent Hole, Jared Spalding, and Scottie Williams got together blocking much of the track.  On the second restart attempt, Jeff Koz moved into the second spot.  Scott built up a lead on Koz with an even larger lead to the rest of the field.  Scott and Koz were roughly half a track away from the rest of the field late in the A-main.  Weasel Philpot and Brad Hess brought out the final caution of the night.  Those two competitors were doing well in the A-main when they got together.  Josh Scott went on to win the A-main.  Jeff Koz finished second.  Bill Keeler finished third.  Jerry Bowersock, Brandon Vaughan, Jeff Koz, and Brad Hess picked up the heat race wins.  Matt Twining and Scottie Williams claimed the B-mains.

Waynesfield Raceway Park will be back in action next Saturday night, July 30th with a full program of racing featuring the Satellite Connection Non Wings, Performance Powder Coating AMSA Mini Sprints, Quest Federal Credit Union UMP Modifieds, Block Insurance Tough Trucks, and the Indian Lake Outfitter Compacts.  Pit side gates open at 4PM; grandstands at 5PM.  The first green flag of the night flies at 7PM.

RACE RESULTS

NRA Sprint Invaders – K&L Ready Mix

Heat 1 –  (8 Laps)
1. 23-Devon  Dobie [4] ; 2. 5M-Max  Stambaugh [2] ; 3. 6-Sean  Hosey [1] ; 4. 6s-JR  Stewart [5] ; 5. 87-Jason Barney[7] ; 6. 33M-Matt Westfall[3] ; 7. 10J-Jarrod  Delong [6] ; 8. 99-Don Warren[8]

Heat 2 –  (8 Laps)
1. 5W-Jeff  Williams [1] ; 2. 28-Phil  Gressman[3] ; 3. 17-Jared  Horstman [6] ; 4. 49-Shawn  Dancer [4] ; 5. 30-Hud  Horton [2] ; 6. 11-Tim  Allison [7] ; 7. 12-Nick  Roberts[5]

A-Main 1 –  (25 Laps)
1. 5M-Max  Stambaugh [2] ; 2. 17-Jared  Horstman [6] ; 3. 6s-JR  Stewart [7] ; 4. 87-Jason Barney[9] ; 5. 33M-Matt Westfall[11] ; 6. 23-Devon  Dobie [4] ; 7. 11-Tim  Allison [12] ; 8. 5W-Jeff  Williams [3] ; 9. 30-Hud  Horton [10] ; 10. 6-Sean  Hosey [5] ; 11. 10J-Jarrod  Delong [13] ; 12. 28-Phil  Gressman[1] ; 13. 12-Nick  Roberts[14] ; 14. 99-Don Warren[15] ; 15. 49-Shawn  Dancer [8]

Non Wings – Satellite Connections

Heat 1 –  (8 Laps)
1. 24-Landon Simon[6] ; 2. 24L-Lee Underwood[4] ; 3. 21-Travis Hery[3] ; 4. 9N-Luke Hall[7] ; 5. 82-Mike Miller[5] ; 6. 17-Kevin Myers[8] ; 7. 71C-Barney Craig[1] ; 8. 63D-Jim Dues[2]

Heat 2 –  (8 Laps)
1. 2DI-Dustin Ingle[1] ; 2. 23S-Kyle Simon[3] ; 3. 87-Paul Dues[2] ; 4. 5A-Toby Alfrey[4] ; 5. 54-Matt Westfall[5] ; 6. 1M-Dustin Stroup[6] ; 7. 19-Matt Cooley[7]

A-Main 1 –  (25 Laps)
1. 54-Matt Westfall[10] ; 2. 24L-Lee Underwood[4] ; 3. 9N-Luke Hall[7] ; 4. 23S-Kyle Simon[3] ; 5. 82-Mike Miller[9] ; 6. 24-Landon Simon[6] ; 7. 1M-Dustin Stroup[12] ; 8. 21-Travis Hery[2] ; 9. 19-Matt Cooley[14] ; 10. 87-Paul Dues[1] ; 11. 63D-Jim Dues[15] ; 12. 2DI-Dustin Ingle[5] ; 13. 5A-Toby Alfrey[8] ; 14. 17-Kevin Myers[11] ; 15. 71C-Barney Craig[13]

UMP Modifieds – Quest Federal Credit Union

Heat 1 –  (8 Laps)
1. 95J-Jerry  Bowersock[1] ; 2. 35-Tim Cornett[2] ; 3. 55S-Zach Schroeder[4] ; 4. ZERO-Brent Hole[8] ; 5. 11-Jared  Spalding[6] ; 6. 1X-JJ Butler[7] ; 7. 44-JD Lease[5] ; 8. 23H-Shonda Harbin[3]

Heat 2 –  (8 Laps)
1. 36-Brandon  Vaughan[1] ; 2. 52-Weasel Phlipot[2] ; 3. 4G-Bill Griffith[3] ; 4. 18L-Randy Lines[7] ; 5. 97A-Reed Hurst[5] ; 6. L16-Josh  Wilkerson[6] ; 7. 5H-Brian Hogan[4] ; 8. 50-Buzz  Jacobs[8]

Heat 3 –  (8 Laps)
1. 16-Jeff Koz[1] ; 2. 20K-Bill Keeler[2] ; 3. 4-Mike Learman[6] ; 4. 112-Chris Ullery[3] ; 5. M1G-Matt Twining[4] ; 6. K9-Scott Gerdeman[7] ; 7. 36D-Tom Conrad Jr[5] ; 8. 67M-Dan Morgan[8]

Heat 4 –  (8 Laps)
1. 10H-Brad Hess[3] ; 2. 11JS-Josh Scott[4] ; 3. 9G-Ernie Gingerich[5] ; 4. 39-Cole  Roberson[1] ; 5. 1W-Scottie Williams[7] ; 6. 20M-Josh Morton[6] ; 7. 24-Terry Grilliot[2]

B-Main 1 –  (10 Laps)
1. M1G-Matt Twining[2] ; 2. 11-Jared  Spalding[1] ; 3. K9-Scott Gerdeman[4] ; 4. 36D-Tom Conrad Jr[6] ; 5. 1X-JJ Butler[3] ; 6. 23H-Shonda Harbin[7] ; 7. 67M-Dan Morgan[8] ; 8. 44-JD Lease[5]

B-Main 2 –  (10 Laps)
1. 1W-Scottie Williams[2] ; 2. 24-Terry Grilliot[6] ; 3. 97A-Reed Hurst[1] ; 4. L16-Josh  Wilkerson[3] ; 5. 5H-Brian Hogan[5] ; 6. 20M-Josh Morton[4] ; 7. 50-Buzz  Jacobs[7]

A-Main 1 –  (20 Laps)
1. 11JS-Josh Scott[1] ; 2. 16-Jeff Koz[6] ; 3. 20K-Bill Keeler[2] ; 4. 95J-Jerry  Bowersock[8] ; 5. 18L-Randy Lines[14] ; 6. 4-Mike Learman[11] ; 7. ZERO-Brent Hole[13] ; 8. 55S-Zach Schroeder[9] ; 9. 10H-Brad Hess[5] ; 10. 35-Tim Cornett[4] ; 11. 36-Brandon  Vaughan[7] ; 12. 112-Chris Ullery[15] ; 13. M1G-Matt Twining[17] ; 14. 52-Weasel Phlipot[3] ; 15. 24-Terry Grilliot[20] ; 16. 9G-Ernie Gingerich[12] ; 17. 4G-Bill Griffith[10] ; 18. 1W-Scottie Williams[18] ; 19. 11-Jared  Spalding[19] ; 20. 39-Cole  Roberson[16]