By: Ron Burt
Thank you for the emails. I try to answer as many as I can. We are currently in the middle of a great racing tradition in Indiana. It’s Midget Week. Just about every track is hosting the USAC Midgets. These non wing cars are smaller than Sprints but lightening fast, and always put on a great show. Feature winners this week include, Buddy Kofoid, with wins at Bloomington and Lawrenceburg. Kofoid, has been on a terror with four A-main wins in a row until Thomas Meseraull put an end to the streak at Tri-Sate Speedway. Wednesday June 8th at Circle City Speedway in Indy was rained out. More coverage next week.
Friday at Attica Raceway Park, Zeb Wise and Cory Eliason ran bumper to bumper, on the 1/3-mile clay oval. A caution with eight laps to go gave Wise a clear track and used it to his advantage and drove to his third career All Star Circuit of Champions win. It was Wise’s second career All Star victory at Attica. Wise now has three victories at Attica and this one was worth $6,000.00. Rounding out the top three, Cory Eliason, and Hunter Schuerenberg. Rusty Schlenk took the lead from defending Attica late model champion Devin Shiels on lap nine and never looked back, dominating for the $2,000 feature win. It was Schlenk’s 32nd career win in the UMP Late Models at Attica. Devin Shiels and Casey Noonan took second and third. In the 305 Sprints Paul Weaver took the checker followed by Jamie Miller and Brandon Moore.
Limaland Motorsports Park had the 20th running of the Keysor Memorial for the Thunderstocks. Jeff Matheny took the victory and $2000.00. Todd Sherman won the DIRTcar UMP Modified feature, Landon Simon picked up the Non-Wing Sprint Car win, and Tony Anderson fought for the Dirt Track Truck Series feature win.
Defending track champion Scotty Weir, became the third different 25-lap non-wing sprint car feature winner in as many races, Friday night at Gas City I-69 Speedway during the fifth annual “Jack and Jiggs Classic”. The 20-lap (UMP) modified feature was a battle of track champions. Derek Losh, the 2020 modified champion, came from the rear to beat Bub Roberts, the 2021 champion. Jackson Macenko, led every lap of the 30-lap Kenyon midget feature.
Last Saturday night Plymouth Motor Speedway had over 4,000 fans in attendance to watch the first leg of the Grand Slam for the Outlaw Asphalt Late Models. 36 of the Midwest’s top drivers were on hand to compete. As the green flag flew Matt Frazier and Adam Terry traded the lead a few times before Adam Terry took the point. Adam looked to be on rails as he held off hard charges from JR Roahrig and then Tyler Roahrig. Adam slipped up with a handful of laps to go and Tyler Roahrig went to the inside for the pass and the lead. Tyler held on to win the 1st Grand Slam Race. Adam Terry finished second, and Tyler Roahrig 3rd. Forty Street Stocks showed up to race and a new track record was set during qualifying by Brandon Zachary. In the feature, Austin Maynard worked his way to the lead. Austin held off some of the best Street Stock Racers around to pick up his 2nd win of the weekend. Brock Ganus finished second, and third went to Shawn Amor.
Rusty Schlenk won the DIRTcar UMP Late Model feature Saturday night at Oakshade Raceway, making a clean sweep of the weekend after winning at Attica on Friday night. Carter Murday won the Sportsman feature. The Dirt Track Truck Series (DTTS) made their second annual visit to Oakshade Raceway and Greg DeTray took the checker.
Next week I will have the final recap of the 2022 Indiana Midget week, Ohio Sprint Week and the Eldora Million for Outlaw Late Models. I have more detailed racing coverage on the Ohio Sports Blitz facebook page and I can be reached at ohiosportsblitz@yahoo.com.
Until next week, keep your wheels down. Ron Out!
