5.11.18 Clinton County Speedway Results

After two straight Friday nights of rain out CCMS final got its opening nights events in the books, with four of the five divisions getting there features in before rain wiped out the final feature. Dylan Yoder of Middleburg, Pa. scored the win in the (C&E Containers) limited late model 25 lap feature. Brad Mellott of Needmore, Pa., drove to the 20-lap Laurel Highlands sprint series 305 feature, with Tommy Dawson of Wapwallopen, Pa. scored the 15-lap Pro Stock feature win with Jeff Weaver of Lock Haven, Pa. picking up the 270-micro sprint feature. CCMS will be back in action this Friday night with another five division show of Limited late models, pro-stocks, 270 micros, along with the 600 micros, along with a make-up feature for the FWD four-cylinders and another show for the division.
Brad Mellott had never driven anything before at CCMS until Friday night and from his outside stating spot drove to the feature win but gave credit to one thing, “I had good pill draws all night to me that was a big part of this for me tonight”, said Brad. Brad drew the pole for his heat race and placed third and then drew outside pole for the feature, “I have driven go-karts and legends cars before getting into the 305 sprints, which is my first year, and now that I won here I will have to tray and make it back next time for sure”, noted Brad. “I get all my help from my family and my girlfriend she is they one who gets me all the safety things I need to go racing and I can not thank of them enough for there help”.
Brad got the early jump on Tylor Cochran at the start of the feature, a caution on lap six bunch the field with Tylor making a move to get by Brad but to no avail. Another Caution on lap 13th again bunch the field and on the restart Ken Duke made the moved into second place and gave chase the rest of the feature but could only get to the back bumper of Mellott, but never had enough to get around him. Duke settled for second with Cochran third, Kyle Ganoe and Dakota Schweikart was fifth. The rest of the top ten were Colton Hover, Dale Schweikart, Ray Sheetz, Ron Aurand and Scott Lutz. Heat races went to Cochran, Duke and John Walp
The feature line up for the limited late model feature had Yoder Nation grabbing the top three starting spots. With the winner of the last two opening day winner Jim on the pole for the feature. Before the race even started Jim had trouble with his car and was pushed to the pits. That left the other two Yoder’s Dylan his son and Andrew his nephew on the front row. What a race they but on with the two drivers racing side by side until lapped traffic played a part in the outcome of the finish. “When I say the lapped cars, I was hoping they would hold their lines, so we both could get by, but they moved up a little bit once I got closer. I lucked out there begin on the inside and Andrew had to wait to get by them. We ran side by side pretty much the whole race, it would have been a close finish either way”, commented Dylan. “That was a lot of fun I was able to get a good run on him and get along side of him, but he had good momentum on the outside and I could not pull off the pass, it has been fun racing up here with Andrew and my Dad”, stated Dylan. The two Yoder’s pulled away early from the field and settled the feature on there own until Dylan got the upper hand on lap 20, leading the final five laps for the win. “I’m not sure what happen to Dad’s car, but I am sure he would have been right there with us and it would have been even a better race yet”, noted Dylan. Joe Lusk drove a solid race to place third at the finish with Matt Cochran and Brian Shuey next in line. Rest of the top ten was Devin Weyandt, Mike Smith, Jeremy Ohl, JR Toner and Kevin Probst Heats went to Lusk and Andrew Yoder
Tommy Dawson took the lead at the drop of the green from Noah Jensen and led all feature laps to pick up the pro-stock feature win, which in last years opener he was second to Jensen. “He got me last year, and that was fun racing him tonight, and then I saw he blow a tire which was bad for him. I did not think I had it in me tonight. I did not know were anybody was, so I was just trying t drive my race, and keep it straight”, stated Tommy. After Jensen left the event on lap 13 Tommy had things until control driving to the opening night win. Nate Stroup placed second with Danny Jensen Tom Dawson and Mike Bates in the top five. The lone heat race went to Tommy Dawson.
Jeff Weaver started off this season one spot better than last year when in placed second to Mason Peters in the 270-micro sprint feature. Jeff took the lead from the start and survived several cautions for the feature win. On each restart Jeff was able to build a little lead only to see t go away with each yellow. The battle for second was an intense one with back and forth battle with Quinn Roberts and Troy Whitesel taking turns with the position. Whitesel went pit side with three laps left in the feature, with Robert hanging for the second lace finish. “The 270 was really good tonight, some bumps down in the third turn messed me up a few times, but the car was really fast”, noted Jeff. Bobby Sanso was third with Denny Rinehimer coming from the 20th spot to lace fourth with Stone Keller fifth. Rest of the top ten was Gary keister, John Roberts, Levi Vial, Nick Hess and Shaun Musser. Heats went to Jess Sanso, Keller and Quinn Roberts.
Laurel Highland sprint series 1) 6 Brad Mellott 2) 67 Ken Duke 3) 19 Tylor Cochran 4) 0Kyle Ganoe 5)78S Dakota Schweikart 6)107 Colton Hoover 7)78 Dale Schweikart 8)99 Ray Sheetz 9)86 Ron Aurand 10) 33 Scott Lutz 11)R6 Reed Thompson 12)54 Ryan Lynn 13)3G Jeff Weaver 14)6 Tyler Denichick 15)72 Dave Guss Jr. 16) 11 Bob Garvey 17)00 Randy Sterling 18)7J Jim Wagner 19)12H Eric Husick 20)5 John Walp DNS 7 Jim Kennedy
Limited Late Models 1)GR1 Dylan Yoder 2)2 Andrew Yoder 3) 20 Joe Lusk 4) 16 Matt Cochran 5)177 Brian Shuey 6) 88 Devin Weyandt 7)57 Mike Smith 8)5J Jeremy Ohl 9)11 JR Toner 10)68 Kevin Probst 11) 20 John Myers 12) 57T Gary Mellott 13) 3 Tim Luben 14) 00 Denny Fourney DNS 42 Jim Yoder
Pro Stocks 1)16 Tommy Dawson 2) 26 Nate Stroup 3) 7 Danny Jensen 4)747 Tom Dawson 5) 6 Noah Jensen 7 10 Mike Bates DNS 8 Kevin Vanamburg, 28 AY Schilling , 14 Al Rishel
270 Micro Sprints 1) 92 Jeff Weaver 2)43 Quinn Roberts 3)20 Bobby Sanso 4)5 Denny Rinehimer 5)2k Stone Keller 6)14 Gary Keister 7)06 John Roberts 8)19 Levi Vial 9)21 Nick Hess 10)54 Shaun Musser 11)11Z Jesse Sanso 12)01 Timmy Bittner 13)99 John Bower 14)17 Troy Whitesel 15)29 John Fritz 16)1 Preston Phillips 17)25J Jay Coder 18)22 Logan Hammaker 19)38 Lance Spotts 20)88 Brian Strouse 21)9 Jerrod Heil 22)25m Mitchell Holden 23)X Skeetz Hockenbroch DNS 27 Steve Fernburg