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Scott Wolfe
CHILLICOTHE, Ohio (July 18) - Rains pounded areas nearby, but K-C Raceway stayed high and dry. In the highest seat in the house, however, was veteran Delmas Conley, Wheelersburg, Ohio, who claimed the 30-lap $3,000 to win K-C Scramble Late Model feature Saturday night (July 18) at Jeff and Vicki Schrader's K-C Raceway. Taking the stunning $1,000 modified main was points' leader Rick Hensley (Oak Hill) and Jamie Dailey claimed his first-ever K-C Hobby Stock feature, a $600 to win invitational for the full bodied stock cars. "K-C Raceway is the best track in America!", proclaimed an ecstatic Delmas Conley in victory lane. "I've always said that. It's always fun to race here and the fans are the greatest. The track was perfect tonight. (To announcer Scott Wolfe) Scott, you could have driven this car to victory tonight. My crew had the car perfect." The veteran Conley, already a "Hall of Famer" started the night with a 13:91 clocking in hot laps. When the one-lap qualifying round came around, Conley was again in the thirteen's just three-tenths off the track record with a 13:921 or average of 98 miles per hour on the K-C high-banks. Although it wasn't a clean sweep by virtue of a third in the dash behind hard-charging Andy Bond and Greg Oliver, it was a dominating feature run--Conley's 736th of his career. Dash winner Bond and Oliver paced the field to the green flag with Oliver riding the high side to lead lap one. Oliver continued his charge through lap seven when Chad Smith overcame Bond for second and in one giant swoop took the lead from Oliver. Smith led laps eight and nine as Conley pounced on Bond and Oliver for second. Conley and Smith ran side by side for a couple laps before Conley appeared to blast out of a cannon in threading the needle between Smith and a lapped car on the backchute. The spectacular move was well worth the price of admission. Two laps later Smith went pitside with a flat, but returned in time to restart at the tail. Smith's drive was equally impressive in earning him hard-charger honors from the tail to third place. Andy Bond's great night went up in smoke with a possible cooling problem on the backchute. As Conley put his mount on cruise control in half-tracking the field Barry Doss won a race-long battle with Oliver to take second. Smith came back to third, bagging Oliver with two laps to go, while Dean Boyd, Brian Eaton, Chris Shannon, and Joey Dunseith completed impressive runs into the top ten. John Arthurs rounded out the top ten. Chad Smith was the hard charger from the tail to third. "I knew I had to stay straight and smooth," said Advanced Services Modified winner Rick Hensley. "I could hear the cars behind me and knew if I kept my tires under me I would be fine. But what makes this all possible is the fans. If it weren't for them we couldn't do this. It's great to get the win and Dave (Pinkerton) drove a great race.
The summary- July 18, 2009
Late Models (12) Fast Time- Delmas Conley 13:921 WPAY Dash- Andy Bond, Greg Oliver, Delmas Conley, Barry Doss, Chad Smith, Dean Boyd Heat One-Chris Shannon, Joey Dunseith, Brian Eaton, John Arthurs, Dean Collier, Dave Asner
K-C Scramble Feature-Delmas Conley, Barry Doss, Chad Smith, Greggie Oliver, Dean Boyd, Brian Eaton, Chris Shannon, Joey Dunseith, John Arthurs, Andy Bond, Dean Collier, Dave Asner
Advanced Services Modifieds (25) Fast Time-Dave Fireball Pinkerton 15:812 Heat One-Rick Hensley, Brian Whiteman, Doug Betts, Nolan Dalton, Dave Pinkerton, Jamie Adams Heat Two-Adam Lawson, Brandy Hensley, Jason Cottrill, Hoyt Reynolds, Don Lamb, Steve Bobo, Ricky Neace, Bud Thornsberry, Joey Back Heat Three- Gary Richard, Kelly Lippert, Bob Crace, Jr., Phillip Bapst, Fred Hardbarger, Eric Arledge, Doug Morris, Mike Estep, Jack Harris B-Main: Joey Back, Doug Morris, Eric Arledge, Ricky Neace, Jack Harris, Steve Bobo, Mike Estep, Bud Thornsberry K-C Mini-Scramble Feature- Rick Hensley, Fireball Pinkerton, Adam Lawson, Jason Cottrill, Joey Back, Brian Whiteman, Doug Betts, Phillip Bapst, Fred Hardbarger, Ricky Neace, Doug Morris, Eric Arledge, Kelly Lippert, Don Lamb, Nolan Dalton, Hoyt Reynolds, Gary Richard, Brandy Hensley, Jamey Adams, Bob Crace, Jr.
Hobby Stocks (14) Heat One-Bruce Gray, Jr., Joe Williams, Brandon Thompson, Brian Moore, Warren Ison, Butch Eblin, Richard Trego Heat Two-Tommy Mossbarger, Tracy Ross, Jamie Dailey, Jason Holstein, Mike Johnson, Jamie Adams, Rob Smith "Scrambler" Feature- Jamie Dailey, Bruce Gray, Jr., Brandon Thompson, Joe Williams, Brian Moore, Jason Holstein, Butch Eblin, Jamey Adams, Tommy Mossbarger, Warren Ison, Mike Johnson, Richard Trego, Tracey Ross, Rob Smith
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