HUGE night for Logsdon and Lewis at WCIS 7/30/2016
Dan Turner WCIS Announcer Many fans say it takes a few good cars that can race and battle for the win, to have a great and exciting show. This is the case for the SST Super Stocks at Wyoming County Intl. Speedway. Though this class has a light car count, does not mean its light in excitement. This was the case last night as Cassie Logsdon recorded her first victory in the SST Super Stock in 2016. Logsdon used her outside front row starting position to her full advantage. Logsdon and the #55 of Kyle Skoney would bring this field to green for 25 green flag laps. Logsdon used to outside line like an ol’ pro as the Sewer Specialties #09 sling shot her car off turn two for the lead. Dan Majchrzak would follow her thru and claim second. Majchrzak had nothing for the Logsdon machine. With Logsdon building a half straight away lead over Majchrzak, and Dave Krawczyk running third, the yellow would fly. I am quite sure neither Majchrzak or Logsdon wanted to see that yellow with only 5 laps remaining. Now the battle was really shaping up. Logsdon out front. Majchrzak was hung to the outside of row one and multi time feature winner Dave Krawczyk recoiled for a restart in third. Krawczyuk used a few laps top clear Majchrzak and then it was on to catch Logsdon and try for the win with only 2 laps remain as Krawczyk closed in on Logsdon’s bumper. Logsdon was running the perfect line high entry and low exit off the next four corners. Krawczyk just could not mount a clean charge without making contact. “ If you have to bang your way to the front, you make enemies and always have to look over your shoulder next week, Cassie had the dominant car tonight”. Logsdon wins, Krawczyk and Majchrzak come home 2nd and 3rd .
WCIS has a stout field of young and not so young racers in the 4 cylinder class. A unique rule of this class was meant to even the playing field in this introductory level of racing. As we all know the differences between race teams budgets is from cubic dollars to rubbing two pennies together and hope to find a third one. That’s where this weight rule comes in. After your first two wins you MUST add 100 lbs. to your car. For every victory after its another 25 lbs. Virts, started this year on fire with wins at every track she attended. Maddie was building a stout point lead over her competition and leaving the other teams in her dust. This meant Virts stacked up the point it was also stacking weight in her car. Soon Virts was battling for seconds and thirds with the extra weight on her car. This made Virts wait for the other drivers to win some races and get them top bolt on the extra weight. Now the playing field is level. Virts main challenges were coming from Jimmie Pierce Jr and his black Saturn. Pierce won 3 features in a row and now he totes an extra 150 lbs. So with that said, the race was on. Pierce starting in position seven, Virts in six. Drop of ther green saw Carrie Brown in her orange Honda take the early lead and start stretching it out. The #66 of Jacob Gustafson seated neatly in the second position. About half way the Virts #27 was chasing down the leader, while Pierce was in forth struggling to move forward. With 4 laps to go the yellow would fly for a metal object in turn one. Soon the green was back out and Virts with a terrible start fell to third and Brown was back out front and Gustafson back in second. Virst would need a lap to get back up to speed and over take the #66 and then run down and pass Brown if Virts had winning on her mind. To no ones surprise that is what happened. With a lap remaining, Virts p[asted Brown and brought home the win again. “ I real am not good at shifting, and the re-starts really put us in the hole, but we had enough laps to get back out front, thank goodness”.
SST Modifieds closed out the night with excitement throughout the field. Travis Ayers and Nate Michielson brought the mighty modifieds to green. In only his 3rd or 4th night driving his son’s back up car, Ayers jumped out to an early lead and was very impressive on his style and smoothness. A few laps in and the caution was out and this bunched up the field for a wild restart. Travis Ayers was still out front but the wolves were on his heels now. Bookmiller, Majchrzak, Lewis and Baker surrounding the older rookie driver. Green flew and Ayers like a seasoned veteran held his line and let the faster drivers pass while staying up to his previous speed. Now it was Bookmiller out front Majchrzak second Lewis and Baker. The powers to be on this night decided to have a yellow fly as Travis Ayers would loose power on the track causing the yellow. Now we had a shoot-out at the WCIS Corral. Bookmiller on the pole, Timmy Lewis outside, Majchrzak and Baker in row two and Cam Barber lining up 5th . Timmy Lewis had a great restart and off turn two put the #41 out front and Bookmiller fell to second. Baker shulled his Bliss Garage #51 in third and that’s how they crossed the line. “ I knew we had a good car, but we just could not get up on Bookmiller. That restart was just what we needed to get the job done”.
Race Results
4 Cylinder # Super Stock # SST #
1 Madalyn Virts 27 1 Cassie Logsdon 09 1 Tim Lewis 41
2 Carrie Bolton 6 2 Dave Krawczyk 11 2 Allen Bookmiller 40
3 Jacob Gustafson 66 3 Daniel Majchrzak 14 3 Wayne Baker 51
4 Jason Pierce 5 4 Mike Chenaille 20 4 Cam Barber 01
5 Jimmie Pierce 26 5 Kyle Skoney 55 5 Daniel Majchrzak 14
6 John Parthemer 95 6 Ron Ricter 31x 6 Cam Ayres Cam 1
7 Jennifer Dennie 22 7 Joe Horvatits 4 7 Beth Dennie 25
8 Lee Krieb 77 8 8 Tom Weist 35
9 Robert Cassidy 16 9 9 Bill Kosachook 7
10 Joe Brunka 27 X 10 Nathan Michielsen 68
11 Matt Hurlburt 88 11 Travis Ayers Cam 1X
12 Taylor Griswold (DNS 01 12 Tom Zacharias 55
13 Zach Kosachook 19
Heat Winners Heat Winners Heat Winners
Jimmie Pierce 26 Dave Krawczyk 11 Bill Kosachook 7
Madalyn Virts 27 Wayne Baker 5
HUGE night for Logsdon and Lewis at WCIS 7/30/2016