6.7.19 BOSS Sprints Results
Driving the Jon Nelson number 9N, Luke Hall picked up the feature win last night as the BOSS sprint cars made their return to the new Moler Raceway Park near Williamsburg, Ohio. Hall was fast all night with a convincing win in his heat race and a hard charge from 5th to win the main event. It was not without some controversy though, as passing Landon Simon for the lead on a restart, heavy contact was made with Simon executing a high series of tumbles into the turn 2 fencing. He emerged unhurt.
The racing almost didn’t happen. Mother nature made a valiant attempt to take her 5th win of 2019 on the tour. Rain began falling shortly before 6 pm and persisted until after 7:30. New Moler promoter, Brad McCown, courageously went forward with the show, as many race fans sat patiently in their vehicles in the parking lot. As the rain let up, and over an hour late, sprint cars began engine heat as a light mist continued to fall. As the cars began hot lapping, the fans filed into the 1/4 mile facility and were rewarded with some of the most exciting action in sprint car racing!
A slim BOSS car count of 20 cars were on hand. A week straight of Indiana racing took its toll on some teams and undoubtedly, the threatening weather also kept some away. However, three solid heats and an incredible 25 lap A-Main was worth more than the price of admission and it allowed the entire show, with 5 divisions, to be run in under 3 hours!
Heat race wins were taken by Kory Crabtree, Hall and Landon Simon. The redraw found Crabtree on the pole with Dustin Ingle alongside. Mike Miller and Cody Gardner would start from row 2 after both had impressive heat race runner-up performances. The star-crossed pair of Hall and Simon rolled off from row 3.
Ingle grabbed the lead from the holeshot and would lead early. Two yellows would slow the action in the first 6 laps. The lap 7 restart was worth the price of admission alone as cars were 3 wide down the backstretch, creating a slider-fest in turns 3 and 4. Hall and Simon knifed their way through the field with Simon wrestling the lead from Ingle on lap 10. The field would stay green until a lap 17 caution for a four car tangle that eliminated fine runs by Mike Miller and Kory Crabtree.
With 8 laps remaining, the order was Simon, Hall, Matt Westfall, Ingle, and Dallas Hewitt making up the top 5. With the green in the air, Hall decided it was time to make his move and drove the car in hard and deep to try to make the pass on Simon. The two made contact with Simon flipping in a spectacular sequence, destroying the car. Thankfully he emerged unhurt under the supervision of the Lawrenceburg Speedway Safety Crew and director Bobby Gompf. Simon marched directly to the stopped machine of Hall to discuss the incident further.
With the final green flag run underway, it became Matt Westfall as the new threat. He was able to pull the Marshall 33M within a car length on a few occasions, but Hall was excellent entering some light traffic to pick up the win. Westfall was second, followed by Ingle. Justin Owen charged from 14th to 4th to earn The Bridge Restaurant “Hard Charger” award. Dallas Hewitt completed the top 5 in the Keen 18 entry. The rest of the top 10 included Paul Dues, Cody Gardner, Ben Knight, Michael Fischesser and Bryan Nuckles.
Our hats off to Brad McCown and the Moler crew. With racing action not getting started until roughly 9 pm and 5 classes on hand, the sprint feature was over at roughly 11 pm. The final checkered of the night waved at 12:15. With questionable weather all week, the race track was in tip-top shape and provided more than its fair share of thrills.
BOSS is back in action next Saturday night, June 15th, at Fremont Speedway. We’d also like to send along some get well wishes to 2 of our drivers absent from last night’s action. 2018 series runner-up, Ty Tilton, is down with some effects from a crash a while back. And 2019 BOSS rookie driver, Korbyn Hayslett, took a nasty tumble Thursday night in Indiana. We wish both speedy recoveries and hope to see everyone at Fremont!
Box Score
TCB Speed – Heat 1: 1. 60-Kory Crabtree[2] ; 2. 2DI-Dustin Ingle[3] ; 3. 44-Michael Fischesser[1] ; 4. 33M-Matt Westfall[5] ; 5. 16K-Ben Knight[4] ; 6. 87-Paul Dues[7] ; 7. wee34-Parker Frederickson[6]
Hoosier Race Tire – Heat 2: 1. 9N-Luke Hall[2] ; 2. 9G-Cody Gardner[1] ; 3. 19-Matt Cooley[3] ; 4. 53-Steve Little[4] ; 5. 4J-Justin Owen[7] ; 6. 99-Cale Stinson[5] ; 7. 43w-Callie Wolsiffer[6]
Performance Powder Coating – Heat 3: 1. 24-Landon Simon[1] ; 2. 82-Mike Miller[3] ; 3. 18-Dallas Hewitt[4] ; 4. 9-Dustin Webber[5] ; 5. 31-Buddy Lowther[6] ; 6. 59-Bryan Nuckles[2]
25 Lap – A Main: 1. 9N-Luke Hall[5] ; 2. 33M-Matt Westfall[10] ; 3. 2DI-Dustin Ingle[2] ; 4. 4J-Justin Owen[14] ; 5. 18-Dallas Hewitt[9] ; 6. 87-Paul Dues[16] ; 7. 9G-Cody Gardner[4] ; 8. 16K-Ben Knight[13] ; 9. 44-Michael Fischesser[7] ; 10. 59-Bryan Nuckles[18] ; 11. 9-Dustin Webber[12] ; 12. 53-Steve Little[11] ; 13. 31-Buddy Lowther[15] ; 14. 43w-Callie Wolsiffer[20] ; 15. 99-Cale Stinson[17] ; 16. 24-Landon Simon[6] ; 17. 82-Mike Miller[3] ; 18. 60-Kory Crabtree[1] ; 19. wee34-Parker Frederickson[19] ; 20. 19-Matt Cooley[8]
Hoosier Race Tire Bonus – Dallas Hewitt, Matt Westfall & Michael Fischesser
The Bridge Restaurant – Hard Charger – Justin Owen +10
Apple Metal Polishing – Lucky Pill Draw – Paul Dues
Cowen Truck Line – Hard Luck Award – Landon Simon
All Pro Cylinder Heads – Perseverance Award – Justin Owen
All Star Performance – Sweet Move Award – Kory Crabtree