After last week's rain out, Osky finally got back to their regular night of Wednesday racing. On this night, there would be an extra big payout for the hobby stock class as they raced for $700 to win. Next week, it will be the B Mods with the $700 payout. Extra money always seems to bring new faces to the track and that's always nice to see for us fans.
The first feature of the night was the USRA stock cars and though there were only 11 cars in attendance, they definitely put on a show, especially upfront. Matt Greiner jumped to the lead from his front row starting spot but it wasn't long until "The Flying Dutchman", Mike VanGenderen was in the fray! It was a battle between those two for much of the race with VanGenderen trying every line to get around Greiner. However, it wasn't meant to be, as Greiner came home to the checkers first with the 57V of VanGenderen having to settle for that runner-up position. Not far behind was the familiar 12M car driven by Brian Mitrisin in third, cousin Chase Mitrisin in fourth, and Corey Stout in fifth.
The B Mods had a good car count, as often is the case at every track we attend, with 20 cars in competition. Look for more next week with the extra money for the feature win. We knew it wouldn't be long until we saw Jason McDaniel in victory lane at Osky, and it happened last night. He was pretty happy with his win there, coming on top of his feature win last weekend at Bloomfield. Following him across the finish line, was young Carter VandenBerg who had his machine toward the front most of the race. Third was Josh Modde in his good looking "green machine", fourth was Brian Weyer and fifth the 02 of Andrew Schroeder.
Modifieds were up next for their 15-lap feature. It was nice to see a new face on the track with West Liberty's Steve Boley piloting car #71 which earlier in the season, had been driven by David Holder from Missouri. We understand that Holder has decided to retire and Boley took over the ride. Boley is a veteran driver who has had a great career in the late models. The pole sitter, Steve Stewart had a great run last night and easily came home the victor. Behind him was visitor Bruce Handord in his #61 machine, third was Josh Truman, fourth local favorite Brad Pinkerton, and Boley took fifth place.
The final feature of the night was the USRA hobby stocks with 25 cars on hand to vie for that $700 win. Craig Brown took advantage of his pole position start, and kept it up front for a while. Several yellow flags would stop the action and several cars would ride the fence as they were running the very high line. Through mishaps on the track, and mechanical problems, the field of cars left running at the end of the night was only thirteen at our count. Strong at first was visiting driver Steve "Scubba" Churchill, who is an Adams County (Corning) Speedway regular who was piloting one of Jim "Cowboy" Tull's #22 cars. Problems relegated him to a far back finish, but always fun to see him race. It was also nice to see Donovon Nunnkihoven back in a racecar, although not in his familiar #5N. Tonight, he was in a #2N and he was in fine form as he began the feature in about 17th position, and was able to come through the pack for a third place finish. But tonight, it would once again be a familiar car seeing that checkered flag fly first -- Nathan Wood. Coming home in second was Craig Brown, third Nunnikhoven, fourth Danny Thrasher, and fifth was TJ Henderson.
An enjoyable night of racing was concluded right at 10:15 p.m. A nice crowd was on hand with more children in attendance with school now being out for the summer.
Happy racing! Results are listed below.
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