Final Points Night This Friday At Raceway 7
3 min readConneaut, OH (August 28, 2019) — The 2019 regular season will end Friday at Raceway 7 with the final points-paying racing which will determine the season champions for all five classes.
The Evergreen Lake Park Campground RUSH Late Models championship was decided last Friday when Darrell Bossard secured his second consecutive championship on the strength of four feature wins. Headed into the final week second place is held by former two-time champion and two-time 2019 feature winner Kyle Zimmerman. Matt Latta, also a four-time feature winner, is third, only six points behind Zimmerman. Dave Airgood is a slim two points behind Latta in fourth with Breyton Santee, the winner June 7, another twenty points back in fifth.
The closest points battle is in the Bonnell’s Collision Center E-Mods where Mike Kinney is only one point ahead of Casey Bowers. Both drivers have two wins on the season. Two-time former champion Gary Eicher is third, 110 points behind Bowers. With a maximum of 62-points available on any race night, Eicher cannot overtake the leaders. Either Kinney or Bowers will be the 2019 champion. Mike Potosky, a four time winner, is fourth, 78-points behind Eicher, with Dan McDonald fifth, yet another thirty points back.
The Campbell’s Mini Storage Street Stocks are headed by Pat Fielding by 82-points over Jamie Duncan. Fielding will be the champion as his lead is insurmountable. Fielding has two wins while Duncan has three. Joe Stajnragh, winless this season, is third, another 66-points back. Two-time winner Bill Watson is tied with Darr Diegelman for fourth, only nine points out of third so the battle will be tight in the final laps.
Kyle Miller, a five-time 2019 winner, leads two-time winner Matt Alexander by a slim nine points in the Bonnell’s Auto Group Economod year-long points chase. Nate Young, who won his first feature ever onMay 31, then backed it up on June 28 is third, another 38-points back. Jarrit Young won his first-ever feature on July 5 in his rookie season and is fourth in the standings, yet another 225 points back. Fifth is Will Pinckney, just ten points behind Jarrit Young.
Mark Lawrence has wrapped up the championship for the Sunnyside Farm Transit Mini Stocks with a 160-point edge over Jessica Harvey. Going into the final points racing Lawrence, with five feature victories this season, cannot be beat. Harvey, in turn has a 38-point advantage over former champion Jim Haefke for second. Harvey has yet to go to Victory Lane but has consistently finished near the front of the pack. Haefke picked up his only feature win of the season on June 28. His lead over fourth-running Emily Stoyer, also still looking for her first win, is nineteen points. Another 23-points back is defending champion Dillon Speer, a five time winner this season but competing only part time. Former champion Joe Campbell, a two-time 2019 winner is only three points behind Speer.
Raceway 7 is located six miles south of Interstate 90 on Route 7 in the town of Monroe Center, OH and races every Friday night May — September. Racing begins at 7:30 PM every Friday. General admission for regular events is $10 and children 7-14 admitted for $5 each. Kids 6 and under are always free. NO PETS are admitted to the track! Fan and pit gates open at 5:30 PM. Pit admission is $25 with minimum age 18. Children under 18 admitted with a “Minor Release” form available at pit gate that must be filled out by a parent accompanying the youth. Raceday information is available at (440) 594-2222. The track maintains a website at www.raceway7.com.