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8.3.18 BOSS Sprints Results

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Matt Westfall, driving the Ray Marshall owned #33M, scored his 3rd win in the last 4 events last night at Atomic Speedway. Westfall started from 10th in the 20 car field for the “Open Wheel Championship” weekend. Tonight, the series moves on to Waynesfield Raceway Park for the “Jack Hewitt Classic”. In the last BOSS event at Waynesfield on July 7th, Westfall charged from 14th to win the race on the last lap!

Last night, 25 non wing sprint cars were on hand at Atomic. Heat race wins went to Ty Tilton, Dustin Webber, and Joe Liguori. Webber’s heat 2 win was his first in a sprint car! The B-Main event was won by Mike Miller with an exciting finish for the final transfer between Eric Semple and Travis Welpott, with heavy contact at the stripe, Semple’s car vaulted the wheels on Welpott, and jumped forward enough to steal the position. Welpott made hard cantact with the front stretch wall and Semple wound up on top of the inside guardrail.

In the main event, points leader Bill Rose started outside front row and blitzed out to an early lead. A few laps into the event and Cody Gardner from Milford, Ohio tracked down Rose and took the lead in turn 1 and 2. Gardner, in search of his first ever sprint car main event win, appeared to be the car to beat as he opened a moderate gap on the field.

Three cautions slowed the event. The first on lap 9 when Matt Cooley made heavy contact with the front stretch wall ending his night. On the restart, it was Gardner, Rose and Westfall already from 10th to 3rd with Carmen Perigo and track favorite Kory Crabtree rounding out the top 5.

Back under Green, Gardner continued to lead as Westfall slipped past Rose for the runner-up spot. A lap 11 caution for a spin, put Westfall right on the rear bumper of Gardner’s Appco Racing 9G. He wasted little time on the restart and took command, never to be headed, despite one late race caution that set up a 2 lap shootout.

At the finish it was Westfall and Gardner with Paul Dues charging from 14th to 3rd to take the final podium spot. Crabtree and Rose completed the top 5. The balance of the top 10 included Michael Fischesser, Carmen Perigo, Mike Miller, Kyle Simon and Brandon Whited.