Potomac Speedway
July 23, 2011
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DJ Myers Dream Season Continues With Saturday Win at Potomac

By Doug Watson
Budds Creek, MD- Greencastle Pa.’s DJ Myers continued his personal best season with his second late model feature win of the 2011 campaign in last Saturday night’s 38th anniversary event at Potomac Speedway which was run under the “Three State Flyers Series” banner. The win for Myers was his 10th overall victory this season aboard his Greg Gunter owned, PPM chassis no.70J.

After scoring a win in the dash, Myers would start on the pole for the 35-lap main. Myers would then make the most of his good fortune as he would beat fellow front row starter Kyle Lear into the first turn as the field went green. Myers would then go on lead every lap of the event unchallenged , for his fifth career late model win at Potomac. As Myers lead, the race for second was a dandy. Keith Jackson and Kyle Lear raced hard for second and third for much of the event before Lear secured the spot for good on lap-fourteen. However, Lear was no match for Myers, and would settle for runner-up money. Jackson hung on for third, eighth-starting Jason Covert took fourth and Daryl Hills would complete the top-five.

“I knew if we could beat Kyle (Lear) into the first turn, we’d be ok tonight.” Were the words from race winner DJ Myers in Potomac’s victory lane. “We tried some things on the car last night at Winchester that we thought would help here tonight, because we knew the track would tack rubber being as hot as it is, and the changes worked really good for us.” Myers reflected on his superb 10-win season to date. “I always told myself if we were lucky to get one a season we were doing pretty good. “ Myers stated. “A lot of racers wait their whole career to get just one, and we’ve been fortunate enough to get ten this year, I just hope we can keep it going.” Heats went to Myers and JT Spence.

In the 20-lap limited late model headliner Stevie Long scored his second feature win of the season becoming only the second repeat class winner of the season. Long started fourth in the main and would take the top spot on lap-three after race leader Ben Bowie spun in turn-two. From that point on, it would be a race for second as Long would cruise to a relatively easy win over runner-up Tommy Wagner Jr. Paul Cursey, in his first start of the season, would take third, Bruce Kane was fourth and Bowie would rebound for fifth. Cursey was the heat race winner.

In other action, Stephen Quade drove to victory lane for the third time this season in the 16-lap street stock feature, current point leader Ray Bucci captured his fourth win of the season in the 20-lap strictly stock event and 15-year old Austin Stover collected his first career feature win in the 20-lap u-car summer championship.

Late Model
1. DJ Myers 2. Kyle Lear 3. Keith Jackson 4. Jason Covert 5. Daryl Hills 6. JT Spence 7. Deane Guy 8. Roland Mann 9. Jason Miller 10. Jeff Pilkerton 11. Nick Dickson 12. Scott LeBarron 13. Dale Hollidge 14. Tommy Armel

Limited Late Model
1. Stevie Long 2. Tommy Wagner Jr. 3. Paul Cursey 4. Bruce Kane 5. Ben Bowie 6. Cody Lear 7. Dave Adams 8. Tyler Emory

Street Stock
1. Stephen Quade 2. Kurt Zimmerman 3. Mike Reynolds 4. Darren Alvey 5. Donnie Smith 6. Sam Archer 7. Troy Kassiris 8. Craig Bowling 9. Teddy Dickson 10. Mike Raleigh 11. Dale Reamy 12. James Sparks 13. Scott Wilson 14. Craig Parrill 15. Robbie Cairns 16. Mike Latham (DQ) 17. Mike Freidman (DNS) 18. Mike Bennett (DNS)