Dave WINS Mr. Modified 50! - Weekend Results

Lancaster (9/10):

The Wollaber Racing team brought out both the Modified and the Late Model this week in preparation for the US Open in 2 weeks. In Dave's first ever race at Lancaster in the Late Model he started outside the second row in his heat race. At the start of the race Dave quickly moved into second place and a couple laps later dove under Glen Gault to take the lead. Dave would lead the rest of the race with slight pressure and take home his first heat win. After the re-draw Dave would start the Late Model Feature on the outside of the front row. George Skora was on the pole and took the lead at the start of the race. Dave hung with him for awhile but our car was too loose to challenge him. Dave wound up with a fourth place finish out of 27 cars after running in the top 3 most of the race.

For the Modified heat Dave would start third and after the start of the race that is where he fell into place for the majority of the race. Dave was battling with the second place car for most of the heat as he drove Dave all over the track. Dave finally got under him coming out of 2 and took second in our heat. After the re-draw Dave drew 7 out of 8 so that is where he would start. At the start of the race the front three Scherrer, Putney, and Findanza pulled away from the field as Dave worked his way from 7th up to fourth in the early laps. Scherrer slowed with mechanical problems and Dave found himself in third a full straightaway behind the leaders. Dave locked on and closed the full straightaway lead in a matter of laps to get in the three way battle for the lead. Fidanza managed to get by the 88 of Putney and Dave followed on Sege's tail. Dave the began working over Sege as Dave appeared to have a much faster car. After quite a few laps of battling with the 77, Dave was able to dive low coming out of two and complete the pass. It would appear as though Dave would have driven away from the 77 once he got by but Sege managed to stay within a few car lengths and get close to our bumper but was unable to contest for the lead as Dave took home the checkered flag for the Mr. Modified 50! It was a great way to end a tough season at LRP and will hopefully be a sign of what is to come in the season ending ROC 200 at Oswego and the US Open 125.

Lake Erie (9/9):
This past Friday was our season ending 75 lap feature for the Late Models at Lake Erie Speedway. Dave had a good draw for the heats and started on the outside pole. At the start of the race Dave would take away the lead and run out the 15 lap heat race to take the win. After the re-draw Dave found him self starting 6th for the season finale. It was clearly Todd Hoddick's night tonight as he had a dominant car running out front unchallenged for the win. Dave drove a great smart race patiently working his way toward the front. Some great side by side racing with the 03 of Vern Bliss for about 20 laps at the beginning of the race. As the race was winding down Dave would be running 4th battling with the 27 for third. They ran side by side for the remaining laps and the 27 took third by a matter of inches.

Weekend Results 9/3 - 9/4:

Lake Erie 9/2: Late Models were off...75 lap feature next week.

Lancaster 9/3: The Wollaber racing team had an quieter night tonight with only one division running as the TQ's and Late Models were off. Dave liked how the car was handling in the first practice so we put new tires on and waited for the heat. Dave started the first Mod heat last and began working on the outside right from the start. Early in the heat racing contact was made between Dave and the 12 which ended up with Dave heading for the outside wall of turn 4. Dave made a save and continued on. The caution came out a couple laps later allowing Dave to catch up to the field and start working his way forward. He slipped under the #1 car coming out of turn 4 to take second place in the heat. This would put us in the 6th starting position for the feature. Right at the drop of the green the #5 looked to be on its way to the front. In the first 2 laps Dave had moved his way up to 3d. After the restart on lap 3 the car seemed to loosen up and get worse and worse as the race progressed. Dave hung on to it and finished a solid 4th behind Scherrer, Sege, and Mangus. When Dave brought the #5 back to the pits we realized the support bracket for the panhard bar ripped right out of the roll bar tubing which caused the rear end to move further and further left each lap as the mount bent over, which made the car looser and looser. We are lucky the mount didn't completely fail, but still another night that shows how our season has been going. Congrats to #80 Brett Scherrer on his win.

WCIS 9/4: Dave took home the checkered flag at WCIS on Sunday in the TQ holding off the 14-year-old young gun Erick Rudolph.