From Mike Swanger
ORRVILLE, Ohio (July 30, 2016) — Despite heavy rain showers in the late afternoon, the Flory’s decided to go ahead with the racing program Saturday night and the track crew did a great job of getting the race surface of Orrville’s Historic Oval into great racing shape on McDonald’s and Hall’s Auto Sales night. The Ohio Sprint Car Series made their second visit of the year to NAPA WCS as the 28 sprinters were led in qualifying by Carson Macedo’s lap of 14.178 seconds.
Picking off the heat wins were Dean Jacobs, Danny Mumaw, Jac Haudenschild, who with Nick Patterson, who is the Fisher Performance points leader at NAPA WCS, put on a crowd standing race as they went back and forth with slide jobs on each other before Haudenschild would win, and Dominic Scelzi. Ryan Broughton captured the last chance win.
The 25 lap feature would be brought to the green flag by Patterson and Cole Duncan but quickly came to a stop when Macedo got sideways in turn two with Troy Kingan making contact and flipped. He was ok. Macedo and Broughton both went to the pits for repairs and returned on the tail of the field. As the race restarted, Cole Duncan grabbed the lead with Patterson in second but Haudenschild quickly moved past Patterson on lap three from his 7th starting position and closed in on Duncan. The caution would wave on lap 6 as fifth running Mumaw came to a stop in turn four and at the same time, Patterson, who was still third, pulled off with mechanical problems. Back to green flag action, Duncan could not shake Haudenschild as they pulled away from the pack until a lap 16 yellow for Mumaw again but the big happening during this was that Haudenschild’s motor went sour and he would pull off, ending his chance at repeating his July 2nd win at NAPA WCS. This would move Danny Smith into second with Scelzi in third. As the green returned, Duncan would pull away and the Lockbourne driver would put the Helms Construction and I.S.P.C. #22 into the OSCS victory lane for the third time this season. Smith would hold off Scelzi until the last lap when Scelzi nipped him at the finish line for second. Jacobs would take fourth as 11th starting Wayne McPeek finished out the top five.
Ohio Sprint Car Series
Wayne County Speedway
Orrville, OH
Saturday July 30, 2016
Unofficial Feature (25 Laps): 1. 22 – Cole Duncan, 2. 41X – Dominic Scelzi, 3. 4 – Danny Smith, 4. 23J – Dean Jacobs, 5. 1MC – Wayne McPeek, 6. 09 – Carson Macedo, 7. 9 – Jordan Ryan, 8. 38K – Mitch Harble, 9. 22B – Ryan Broughton, 10. D10 – Jason Dolick, 11. C1 – Clay Riney, 12. 11 – Shawn Hubler, 13. 56R – Ryan Myers, 14. 16 – Danny Mumaw, 15. 8 – Davie Smith, 16. 6 – Jac Haudenschild, 17. 23 – Nick Patterson, 18. 08 –Brandon Conkel, 19. 22D – Josh Davis, 20. 7 – Troy Kingan