Macon Speedway Gets Crazy
(5/11/2010)
The weather didn’t favor racing on Saturday night. It was very windy; it was cold. But the races went on and another exciting evening of stock car racing was held at the 65-year-old dirt track. Following a week of rain during the features, the Modifieds made up the rest of their feature with Dave Crawley, Jr. leading the race but only for a few laps as Steve Ewing made the pass and held off for the first feature of the night.In the second Modified feature, the lead changed hands three times and twice in the event’s final five laps. Crawley, Jr. started with the lead but lost it on the sixth lap to Kyle Logue. Logue would run with the lead until a lapped car got in front of him and caused him to lose the lead to second-place racer Mark Tullis. Tullis, from Taylorville, would start running away, and despite a lap 19 restart, taking the checkered flag. Logue would finish second as Joe Strawkus ended in third.
Rick Roedel appeared to be back to form in the Touchstone Energy Sportsman feature as he led many of the 15 laps. Out of a restart on the 12th lap, Dennis Vandermeersch made the push for the lead and overtook the top spot. Roedel would be unable to get the lead back and finished behind Vandermeersch, who posted his third-consecutive Touchstone Energy Sportsman feature. Dave Crawley, Jr., who had a terrible start with smoke pouring out of the C25 during his heat race, started in the back of the field and finished fourth.
The first race in the Late Model Big Ten Series saw New Berlin’s Brandon Sheppard claim the checkered flag. Kyle Logue, who finally got his chance to run in the Late Model class after getting his motor returned, led the majority of the early going. After a yellow flag slowed the pace, which Logue had a dominate lead, Sheppard jumped at the chance on the inside of the turns and took control on the 18th lap. Logue would battle but would be unable to stop Sheppard from getting the win.
Mike Pickering claimed the win in the Street Stock class, leading all 12 laps. A three-Hornet-class night saw Joe Reed win again in the Pro Hornets, Kenneth Reed win in the Amateur Hornets, and making up the rained out feature of a week ago,
Meridian High School’s Kelsie Gustus was the first High School Hornet feature winner of 2010.
Gustus wasn’t the only female to claim victory on the night before Mother’s Day. The traditional “Crazy Chicks N Cars” race brought 12 women onto the track in the 4-cylinder Hornets. Through the six-lap event, 2009 Crazy Chick Champion Megan Thompson led throughout most of the race but faltered in the end as Angela Reed and December McCoy made their moves towards the lead. As they came out of the fourth turn on the last lap leading to the checkered flag, McCoy went flying into the tractor tires protecting the judge’s stand at the center of the racing facility. She crossed the line first and won; Angela Reed and Megan Thompson would finish second and third.
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