Santee, Reinwald, Eucker, Wolbert & Downes All Cash In Raceway 7 Victories
3 min readMonroe Center, OH (May 24, 2024) By Marc Hoegerl:
To start the evenings feature events, it was all 2021 Points Champion and local favorite Breyton Santee in the Evergreen Lake Park Campground RUSH Crate Late Models. Santee would jump from his outside pole position to cruise to his first Raceway 7 Evergreen Lake Park Campground RUSH Crate Late Model win of the young season. Cambridge Springs, PA’s Khole Wanzer in his best run as of late was 2nd, Orwell’s Cory Sines was 3rd, opening night winner Billy Henry was 4th, as Gary Youngs would round out the top 5.
Up next to hit the Smooth 7/16 of a mile semi-banked clay oval would be the hefty field of Lakeview Ford Econo Mods. 2023 Points Champion Jake Eucker would use a lap 7 restart to move around leader Garrett Calvert to post back-to-back victories in the Lakeview Ford Econo Mods. Eucker would also move up the divisions win list with his 9th career victory in the tracks 13 year old class. Calvert would settle for 2nd, as Carter Bidwell, Zach Etzel after going to the tail earlier in the event, and Casey Harmon would round out the top 5.
Wheelman Chas Wolbert would not be denied in the Bonnell’s Truck & RV RUSH Modifieds going flag to flag for his first Raceway 7 Bonnell’s Truck & RV RUSH Modified win of 2024, and his 6th career victory in the class at the Ashtabula County Ohio oval. Opening night winner and 2020 Points Champion Rob Kristyak was 2nd, Burghill’s JC Boyer was 3rd, Kole Holden was 4th, and as former Renegade Dirt Car Series Super Late Model traveler Bill Cunningham was 5th.
Waterford, PA’s Eric Reinwald would finally get the monkey off his back, picking up his first ever Campbell’s Mini Storage UMP Modifed feature wins at Raceway 7. Reinwald would weather a few late race cautions to secure his first win at Raceway 7, since September 15, 2018, which was in the tracks Econo Mod class. 2023 champion Nate Young would have to settle for 2nd, the divisions all time winner Joel Watson was 3rd, Albion’s Dennis Lunger was 4th, as Casey Bowers would round out the events top 5.
In the nightcap it was all Zach Downes in McDonald Meats Min Stocks. Downes would have no problem securing his first Raceway 7 McDonald Meats Mini Stock main event of 24’, as well as his 19th career victory in the class. Scott Gill would muscle his way through the field late in the race finishing 2nd, Derrick Randolph had another fine run finishing 3rd, as Mike Barr was 4th and 2023 winner Alexis Vogt would round out the top 5.
EVERGREEN LAKE PARK CAMPGROUND RUSH CRATE LATE MODELS (10 Entrants)
Heat Race Winners: Khole Wanzer, Cory Sines
Feature: 1)Breyton Santee 2)Khole Wanzer 3)Cory Sines 4)Billy Henry 5)Gary Youngs 6)Joe Watson 7)Albert Bull 8)Konar Loney 9)Jeff Watson 10)Tyler Fedorko
Lap Leaders: Santee (1-20)
LAKEVIEW FORD ECONO MODS (26 Entrants)
Heat Race Winners: Gary Sullivan, Jacob McConnell, Buzz Seitz, Garrett Calvert
Feature: 1)Jake Eucker 2)Garrett Calvert 3)Carter Bidwell 4)Zac Etzel 5)Casey Harmon 6)Gary Sullivan 7)Alex Brockway 8)Dennis Dellinger 9)Don May 10)Emily Stoyer 11)Nate Arp 12)Arianna Samuelson 13)Donald Watson 14)Justin Cutshall 15)Zack Eller 16)Bill Rabbitts 17)Ana Vassen 18)Jacob McConnell 19)Buzz Seitz 20)Jay McConnell 21)Devin Bailey 22)Alex Seikkinen 23)Bob Simmons 24)Branden Porter DNS)Brian Toto, George Vestal IV
Lap Leaders: C. Bidwell (1, 2), Calvert (3-7), Eucker (8-15)
CAMPBELL”S MINI STORAGE RUSH MODIFIEDS (13 Entrants)
Heat Race Winners: Bill Cunningham, Chas Wolbert
Feature: 1)Chas Wolbert 2)Rob Kristyak 3)JC Boyer 4)Kole Holden 5)Bill Cunningham 6)Lucas Canon 7)Jake Rutana 8)Logan Lockhart 9)Doug Rutana 10)Karston King 11)Brandon Tercho 12)Jackson Kristyak 13)Cole Edwards
Lap Leaders: Wolbert (1-20)
CAMPBELL’S MINI STORAGE UMP MODIFIEDS (18 Entrants)
Heat Race Winners: Joel Watson, Nate Young, David Scott
Feature: 1)Eric Reinwald 2)Nate Young 3)Joel Watson 4)Dennis Lunger 5)Casey Bowers 6)Troy Johnson 7)Charlie Steinle Jr. 8)Mike Eschrich 9)Percy McDonald 10)Kyle Schreckengost 11)Amelia Clay 12)Brandon Grossman 13)Bud Watson 14)Josh McDonald 15)Jerry Kielar 16)Justin Sax 17)Dan McDonald 18)David Scott
Lap Leaders: Reinwald (1-20)
MCDONALD MEATS MINI STOCKS (12 Entrants)
Heat Race Winners: Zach Downes, Andy Richards
Feature: 1)Zach Downes 2)Scott Gill 3)Derrick Randolph 4)Mike Barr 5)Alexis Vogt 6)Andy Richards 7)Jeremy Start 8)Devin Haefke 9)Brian McGarvie 10)Billi Jo Huffman DNS)Benjamin Aley, Jess Mullins
Lap Leaders: Downes (1-12)