Raceway 7 Ready For Week Two This Friday

Conneaut, OH (May 5, 2015): Raceway 7 successfully opened the 2015 racing season last Friday under clear but cool skies with familiar faces in Victory Lane after every feature.

Chad Wright led the first-ever CARS Sanctioned Evergreen Lake Park Campground Crate Late Models from the drop of the green to the drop of the checkers twenty laps later. Because of defending champion Kyle Zimmerman’s up front heat race finish against Wright’s third place heat finish and former champion Dennis Lunger’s heat win the three are tied at the top of the points heap! Billy Henry is only six points back with Wendell Pinckney another eight back.

Percy McDonald, the 2009 class champion and winner opening night, has a substantial early season ten-point lead in the Bonnell Collision Center E-Mod points chase over Mike Potosky, who holds an eleven point advantage over Dan McDonald. Chuck Steinle Jr and Paul Schreckengost fill out the top five after one week of racing.

Shaun Fawcett made a stunning last-lap outside pass on reigning Campbell’s Mini Storage Street Stocks champion Chris Withers and now holds a fifteen-point lead over Withers, who is tied for the runner-up spot with Mark Frontera. Former champion Ed Bolyard and Jason Covey fill out the top five.

Reigning Bonnell’s Auto Sales Economods champion Josh Ferry got the opening night feature win over Russ Kapalin and now leads Kapalin in the points by five markers with Jace Ferringer another three points back. Rick Prosser and young Devon Henry round out the top five.

The Specialty Products Mini Stock feature looked to be a romp for defending champion Dale Fraschetti until lap eleven when the leader ran out of fuel heading down the back straight, only a lap and a half from the checkers. That opened the door for Hoyt Mihalak to drive into Victory Lane for the first time this season. Mihalak now leads the points chase for the first time in his young career by a ten-point edge over former champion Brad Cole. Cole is only one point ahead of third-running Dylan Goodman. Scott Gill currently holds down the fourth spot in the running order with Justin Boardman fifth. Fraschetti starts his title defense with a serious but not insurmountable deficit and is currently sixth unofficially at time of this writing.

Weather permitting, gates open every Friday at 5:30 PM with pill draw cut off at 7 PM and racing at 7:30 PM. VIP suites are available for rental for $250 a night which includes eight general admissions passes. Admission is set for $10 for adults for regular events, kids 7-14 are $5. Children 6 and under are free. Pit passes are $25. For more information please visitwww.raceway7.com or call the track on race day after 12 noon at 440-594-2222.