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Trail-Way Speedway 2004-07-16
Dan Dietrich raced away from the field early and held on late to capture his second 358 feature win at Trail-Way Speedway. Dan raced around early race leader Ken Berwager on lap 3 and proceeded to race away fromt he field. Meanwhile Dan Dietrich's ...
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Dan Dietrich raced away from the field early and held on late to capture his second 358 feature win at Trail-Way Speedway. Dan raced around early race leader Ken Berwager on lap 3 and proceeded to race away fromt he field.
Meanwhile Dan Dietrich's son and leading Trail-Way feature winner Bill Dietrich was putting on a show of his own. Bill starting 12th in the field was up to 3rd place when the races first caution came out for Troy Becker which spun in turn four.
Dan lead the field back to the green as his son Bill pressured Berwager for the runnerup spot. Caution came back out on the speedway again for Troy Becker and Joey Palmerino which got together in turn
four. Dan again lead the field to the green as son Bill moved by Berwager for second spot. One lap later the yellow returned to the speedway for Joe Ross which stopped inside of turn three.
This set the stage for the father-son battle for the win. On the restart Dan was able to keep his son Bill at bay and as the laps counted down. Bill made several attemps to get by his father but was unable to make the pass.
Yellow came out for the final time with two laps to go for a Billy Heltzel spin in turn two. This gave Bill one last attempt to get by his father for the lead. On the restart Bill made his last bid for the top spot but Dan wasn't about to give up the lead. Dan powered away from Bill on the final lap to score his second victory in as many weeks.
Rounding out the top 5: Bill Dietrich settled for second, Berwager took home a hard fought third, Mike Bittinger came from 10th for fourth, and Rick Horn finished in the fifth.
Bobby Rudisill turned his pole position in the Thundercar feature in to a win. Bobby battled with Mark Shorb for most of the race.Randy Zechman finished third with Gregg Mesersmith, and Jerry Bingaman rounding out the top 5.
Once they settled down Danny Beard was your Street Stock winner, second went to Chris Holston with heat winner Josh Wildasin. For his best finish this season Barry Rinehart finished forth with the other heat winner Kevin Sprauge fifth.
358 Super Sprint Results [ 20 ]: Dan Dietrich, Billy Dietrich, Mike Bittinger, Ken Berwager, Rick Horn, Bob Howard, Dan Richcreek, Steve Clabaugh, Brian Allman, Mike Ressler, Woody Linton, Billy Heltzel Jr, Danny Dietrich III, Jeff Young, Jon Keller, Joe Ross III, Troy Becker, Joey Palmerino, Jeff Rohrbaugh, and DNS Tony Strine - Heat Winners Dan Dietrich, and Billy Dietrich
Thunder Car Results [ 21 ]: Bobby Rudisill, Mark Shorb, Randy Zechman, Gregg Messersmith, Jerry Bingaman, Mike Walls, Bryan Wagaman, Nat Tuckey, Fred Flloyd, John McDonough Jr, Chad Myers, Jacob Markey, Sam Gallagher, Jim Martz Jr, Robert Bare, Robert Bopst, Tim Fake, Michael Gladfelter, Thomas Slusser Jr, and Craig Wagaman - Heat Winners were Bobby Rudisill, Tommy Slusser Jr, and Randy Zechman - Consi Winner Mike Walls
Street Stocks [ 20 ]: Danny Beard, Chris Holston, Josh Wildasin, Barry Rinehart, Kevin Sprague, Jody Holston, Ron Myers Jr, Dwayne Long, Scott Fisher, Ted Forsythe, Tim Chapman, Robert Stough, Barbara Neiderer, Randy May, John Magruther, Todd Miller, Jim Heckendorn, Dan Furman, Len Yorty, Mike Herman. - Heat Winners were Josh Wildasin, and Kevin Sprague
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