PENDLETON, MACNEALY, MEIER, KYER AND NEMIRE PREVAIL AT COLUMBUS June 14, 2014 (Columbus, OH)… Chad Pendleton allocated his third consecutive NASCAR Whelen All-American series late-model feature win Saturday night at Columbus Motor Speedway. The second-generation driver took control from the outset of the 35-lap contest and fended off a mid-race challenge by fast qualifier Donnie Hill to notch the victory. Pendleton spoke of the team’s qualifying struggles which found his Shamrock Towing entry starting second in victory lane interview. “I would much rather race up through the field but we keep having trouble qualifying,” confessed the winner in victory lane. “We need to try to figure that out.” Josh Cahill and Pendleton made up the front row of the 35-lap O’Reilly Auto Parts late model main event and once chief starter Jim Paugh waved the green flag Pendleton was off to the races. Cahill dropped into the second position with Bill Browning posted in third. Running in lock-step through the first ten tours of the third-mile paved oval, the man on the move was Hill. Starting eighth, he swept past Matthew Parsons as eleven laps flashed on the NASCAR scoreboard. Continuing in the outside lane he made quick work of Kyle Purvis and Browning before disposing of Cahill and setting out after the leader. Aided by a lap-13 caution, Hill closed on Pendleton for a restart and stalked the eventual winner for the ensuing 20-laps during which time Purvis climbed to third and ran down the fleet duo. With Hill pulling alongside of Pendleton with five circuits left Hill’s Architect Glass mount lost traction and turned sideways exiting turn four. Unable to avoid, Purvis collided with Hill completing his spin. Officials ruled that Purvis was unable to avoid the contact and would not be penalized leaving the spin by Hill as the cause of the caution. Hill was relegated to the tail for the restart and Pendleton led Purvis, Cahill, Browning and Matthew Parsons to the checkered flag. In what would be the most exciting race of the evening Sean MacNealy passed Donald Parsons on the final corner to claim victory in the Columbus modified finale. Shortly after the 18-car field flashed under the initial green flag trouble manifested itself in a skirmish that eliminated Shawn Gray and sent Ethan Mullet pitside for repairs. Once back underway, Kyle Purvis showed the way through lap-10 when officials penalized him for violation of the “breakout rule.” Running lap times much faster than his qualifying time Purvis was restarted on the tail while Donald Parsons inherited the lead. Gary Zink gave chase at that point ahead of MacNealy but Terry Humphrey was on the move. Up from his tenth starting spot Humphrey swept past MacNealy and Zink on lap-12 before closing on Parsons and a bid for the top spot. Humphrey did so expediently and battled side-by-side through lap-21 when contact between the two caused Parsons to spin. He was allowed to reassume his position while Humphrey restarted on the tail. Parsons led MacNealy back to the green flag and what many thought would be a win but not MacNealy. The former Indy Car mechanic immediately steered his car into the outside lane pulling even as the white flag wave. Wheel to wheel down the backstretch, the tracks well groomed outside lane provided the needed traction in turn #4 and MacNealy streaked across the finish line four feet ahead of Parsons. A resurgent Mullet battled back from his first lap shunt to finish third followed by Zink and Kevin Doran. Chris Meier held off a late race barrage by Mike Litchfield to secure his second sport stock feature win this season. Like Pendleton in late model action, Meier dedicated the triumph to his father who has been battling health issues lately. In an emotional interview, he spoke in glowing terms of his father Owen who was once the man to beat the former mini stock division at the speedway. In this evening’s 20-lapevent, Meier powered around Dennis Middleton on lap-9 and held say over Litchfield, Ralph Vinson, Middleton and Bruce Holmes for the fathers day weekend event. Corey Kyer slipped between early race leader Frank Hreha and a lapped car half way through the crazy compact feature to claim his third win of 2014. Hreha had paced the 23-car field from the outset of the 20-lap affair but paused for a split second in traffic and Kyer pounced. Kyer went on to a convincing victory from there followed by Hreha, Cecil Collins, David Lucas and Ryan Smith. The second appearance of 2014 produced a similar result for the USAC HPD Midget Series as Austin Nemire powered to a convincing victory aboard his Hemelgarn Beast chassis racer. Rounding out the top five were Calvin Carroll, Adam Thomason, Jack Cross and Niki Carroll. RACE RESULTS Late Model Fast Time: Donnie Hill Dash: 1) Matt Parsons 2) Bobby Justus 3) George Lindsay 4) Donnie Hill Heat: 1) Burgess White 2) Ross Wells Jr 3) Howard Muncy 4) Bill Cantley 5) Erika Newcome Heat: 1) Landon Sciacca 2) Chad Pendleton 3) Terry Scherz 4) Kyle Purvis 5) Bill Browning Feature: 1) Chad Pendleton 2) Kyle Purvis 3) Josh Cahill 4) Bill Browning 5) Matt Parsons 6) George Lindsay 7) Bobby Justus 8) Landon Sciacca 9) Skip Thorton 10) Donnie Hill 11) Howard Muncy 12) Erica Newcome 13) Burgess White 14) Terry Scherz 15) Ross Wells Jr 16) Bill Cantley 17) Jim Hursey Columbus Modifieds Fast Time: Terry Humphrey Dash: 1) Paul Baker Jr 2) Terry Humphrey 3) Ethan Mullet 4) Shawn Gray Heat: 1) Brian Brewer 2) Josh Kempf 3) Greg Blackburn 4) Kevin Doran 5) Jeff Watkins Heat: 1) Eddie Vallette 2) Gary Zink 3) Sean MacNealy 4) Brian Whetnall Feature: 1) Sean MacNealy 2) Donald Parsons 3) Ethan Mullet 4) Gary Zink 5) Kevin Doran 6) Brian Whetnall 7) Eddie Vallette 8) Terry Humphrey 9) Kyle Purvis 10) Brian Brewer 11) Greg Blackburn 12) Jeff Watkins 13) Josh Kempf 14) Andy Shutts 15) Marc Life 16) Scott Jones 17) Paul Baker Jr 18) Shawn Gray Sport Stock Fast Time: Kenny Simpson Dash: 1) Mike Litchfield 2) Steve Karnes 3) Kenny Simpson 4) James Harding Heat: 1) Dennis Middleton 2) Ralph Vinson 3) Chris Meier 4) Bruce Holmes 5) Lisa Harding Feature: 1) Chris Meier 2) Mike Litchfield 3) Ralph Vinson 4) Dennis Middleton 5) Bruce Holmes 6) Steve Karnes 7) James Harding 8) Lisa Harding 9) James Hopkins 10) Kenny Simpson Crazy Compact Fast Time: Jimmy McElfresh Feature: 1) Corey Kyer 2) Frank Hreha 3) Cecil Collins 4) David Lucas 5) Ryan Smith 6) Michael Robison 7) Jeremy Menninger 8) Jason Parsons 9) Jimmy McElfresh 10) Dan Kalminer 11) David Shull 12) Shawn Vansickle 13) Gwen Walsh 14) Charlie Hopeker 15) Dan Disinger 16) Don West Jr 17) Larry Wilson 18) Eric Forbes 19) Danielle Brown 20) Robert Partyka 21) Dirk Thomas 22) Kyle Davis 23) Chris Lucas USAC HPD Heat: 1) Austin Nemire 2) Calvin Carroll 3) Adam Thomason 4) Jack Cross 5) Niki Carroll Feature: 1) Austin Nemire 2) Adam Thomason 3) Calvin Carroll 4) Nikki Carroll 5) Jack Cross 6) Steve Myers
Posted on: Mon, 16 Jun 2014 02:55:45 +0000
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