Ken-Ten
Series
KMS
October
8th 2011
Race
Recap
The 50th anniversary celebration at Kentucky
Motor Speedway had its share of fireworks on the track and after
the show ! We had a near record of 26 late models on hand but
lost two to engine problems! Local shoe Dakota Stroup set the
JAB Racing fast time award with a new track record and went on
to draw the pole for the feature.
Dakota
beat outside pole sitter Sammy Sanders to turn one for lead. On
our 4th caution on lap 46 for the car of Josh Brock
who had a panhard bar rupture his oil tank which turned into a
red flag for the clean up. Tough break for Josh who came into
the race second in the points!
The
race went yellow and back to green on lap 51 with a new leader
as Sanders had wrestled the lead back from Stroup. Our 5th
caution (which turned into another red flag) flew again for the
spinning car of Jeremy Levenson in turn 1,also collected were
the cars of rookie Logan Green making his first race of the year
and Marty Taylor, both were able to restart the race at the
tail!
We
went back to racing on lap 70 and on lap 72 Stroup while trying
to get the lead back from Sanders spun and in the Ken-Ten Series
both the spinner and spinnee both go to the tail, the worst for
wear out of that deal was Dennis White who had stopped also had
to go to the tail !!
We
now have a new leader, Danny Smith who had been hanging around
the top 5 all race long was ready for his first Ken Ten win.
Danny goes on to lead from lap 72 to 100 but was disqualified in
the post race inspection due to a weight to engine combination
violation!!
Without
much fanfare 18 year old Hunter Willis gets the win after he
passes post race inspection. Hunter is in his freshman year of
college and is the co-champion along with his brother Chad at
Beech Bend Raceway Park in 2011.
The
veteran Sammy Sanders showed a lot of patience from going to the
tail and came back to finish 2nd! Chad Willis came
home 3rd, Local driver Kraig Hall was 4th.
Both Chad and Kraig were in the top 6 redraw for their starting
spots. Josh Bryns finished 5th along with Kevin
Willis in 6th who claimed the extra cash from
Baums
S & S Tire in L-ville Ky, Dale Baum also put up another $100
to the winner! Points leader Brian Royalty finished 7th
to open up his lead a few more points.
The Ken-Ten Staff would like to THANK all the racers,
fans and KMS for a great show !!!
Finish
Order
1st
#9 Hunter Willis
2nd
# 12 Sammy Sanders
3rd
# 19 Chad Willis
4th
# 98 Kraig Hall
5th
# 31 Josh Bryns
6th
# 66 Kevin Wilis
7th
# 24 Brian Royalty
8th
# 40 Randy Pedley
9th
# 53 Marty Taylor
10th
# 11g Logan Green
11th
# 77 Blake Isenberg
12th
# 11j Collier Jones
13th
# 47 Dakota Stroup
14th
# 79 Jay Parrish
15th
# 8r Larry Roberts
16th
# 3 Dennis White
17th
# 94 Jeremy Levenson
18th
# 49 Fared Smith
19th
# 88 Frank Gavlinski
20th
# 17b Josh Brock
21st
# 6i Ryan Isaacs
22nd
# 7 Dustin Janes
23rd
# Jon Lambert
24th
# 2 Danny Smith
(flagged winner) DQ’d
weight violation
#47
Dakota Stroup set fast time with a new track record !!
Mark
Day and Larry Roberts both had engine issues during practice and
didn’t start their cars !
