LES Results 7/22

A full field of Late Models made their way to Lake Erie Speedway last night for the 100 lap feature. For the big event the Late Models time trialed with the top-10 being locked into the top 10 positions for the feature and the remaining cars having to race their way in through the heats and consi. We actually pulled a low number, which turned out the be the opposite of what we wanted. The numbers decided the qualifying order and we rolled off second behind Mark Bliss. Dave turned a pretty quick lap but as the sun went down and the track cooled the lap times improved through the end of qualifying. We were not one of the top-10 time trialers so we had to race our way in through the heat, Dave finished 3d in his heat which gave up a starting spot of 18th for the feature. After some significant changes before the feature Dave appeared to have a good car right from the start of the 100 lap main event. Dave started patiently picking off cars and worked his way up to the top 10 when our luck apparently ran out. Some tight racing caused #1 car spun in turn 1, Dave went high but the #1 backed up the track into our left front, breaking the tie rod. It was disappointing ending for the #51 as we appeared to be on our way to a solid finish.

The real excitement happened up front as Jay Sommers took the challenge to start last and go for an extra $5,000 if he won from the last starting position. He made his way all the way to second and coming out of 4 on the last lap he dumped Mark Bliss in the #0 and ended up spinning out himself as well. Bliss had led 84 laps and ran a great race, this handed the lead to Vern Bliss who takes home the win.

Tonight TQ Midget at LES along with the ROC mods and SST mods.