May 10, 2008 – A beautiful spring day and cool evening brought some tough competition to Hamlin!
The 27-car field of Regular Slingshots put on a fantastic show of competition, side-by-side racing, and the never say die attitude! The “Bushkill Bullet” #1R Kyle Rohner, coming off a tough prior week of competition, drove a perfect race on Saturday night to earn his 1st Hamlin Speedway feature win in 2008! After winning his heat, with the handicap in place, Rohner started in the 7th position in the Big Dance! On the pole was the #12D of Dana Smith with #91 Daniel West on the outside. As the green flag dropped - the #12D of Dana Smith jumped into the lead until turn 3 where a spin collected several cars. With a total restart the #91 of Daniel West jumped into the lead. By lap 8 the #1R of the “Bushkill Bullet” was coming to the front and captured the lead from West to never retreat. Hot competition behind Rohner included the battle between the #327 Zach O’Connell, #59 of Cody Kline, and #23 of Shannon Smith. The #55r of Ryan Wood earned a 5th place finish with #14t of Jeff Cosgrove in 6th, #5s of Dale Kober in 7th, #91 of Daniel West in 8th, #12 of Adam Brown in 9th, and #97 of Jilly Long in 10th. The Hard Charger award goes to #13x Ben “Flip” Whitaker running the #51 car of Carl Bittenbender coming from the 24th starting spot to finish 12th!
Heat Winners: #12 Adam Brown, #327 Zach O’Connell, #1R Kyle Rohner
Hard Charger: #13x/51 Ben (Flip) Whitaker
Total Cars = 27
The Junior Slingshots, with a strong 11-car field, saw the #12 of Mikey Horton dominate the feature event leading from the drop of the green flag to the checkered! Coming from the 4th starting spot to finish 2nd was the #27 of Jacob Hendershot with the #97j of Justin Brewster in 3rd. Coming home 4th was the #2 of Brittany Tresch and 5th went to #93 of Jason West earning the Hard Charger coming from the 10th starting spot. The top novice driver for the last week of novice juniors was the #33 of Troy Langendoerfer! Troy suffered mechanical problems in the previous 2 weeks of competition only to come out ahead on week #3!
Heat Winner: #97j Justin Brewster and #12 of Mikey Horton
Hard Charger: #93 Jason West
Total Cars = 11
The Super! Slingers saw the #5s of Dale Kober return to victory circle for his first 2008 win! Coming home a very strong 2nd was the #33 of John Wesp with the #23c of Marc Daniels in 3rd. Finishing a solid 4th was the #780 of Rich Sanford with the #112 of Randy Leuthe in 5th. Rounding out the top 10 was the #21 of Todd Chambers, #87 of Bob Clark, #12D of Henry Anderson, #96 of Dale Reed, and #49 Floyd Aumick in 10th. Next week is the SUPER 40! For the Super! Slingers twin heats, non-handicap $500 to win with 24 or more entries!
Heat Winner: #96 Dale Reed
Total Cars = 12
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