Kil-Kare
Speedway
"Greene County's Fastest Ovals"
1166
Dayton-Xenia Road
Xenia, Ohio 45385
937
429-2961
Dunlevy Claims Kil-Kare's "Dayton 100"
by
Jerry Wahl
Xenia, OH. (7/8) - New Carlisle's Dick Dunlevy
Jr. captured the 100 lap "Dayton 100" late model
event presented by USG Friday night at Kil-Kare
Speedway.
Driving the Paul Storer owned machine, the
thirty-seven year veteran of the speedway
dominated the event once he took the lead on lap
thirty from early leader Gary Estes. Though
three caution periods slowed the event, once he
was out front on each restart he quickly put
quite a space between he and the rest of the
field.
Estes, winner of last years event was fortunate
to start on the pole after being tenth fast
qualifier as the inversion was ten. Fast
qualifier Sam Heckman (14.168) had his work cut
out for him as he had to start tenth with the
inversion.
Estes and Darrell Norman brought the field to
the green with Estes darting out front with
third place starter Dave Brandenburg riding
second followed by Don Mahaffey and Shawn
Stroble who flew between two cars going into
turn one to come out in fourth spot after
starting sixth.
The first caution appeared on lap five when
Virgil Powell and Barrett Tomasonavitch tangled
on turn four.
On
the restart Estes was dominate at this time as
Brandenburg had his hands full trying to hold
off Mahaffey who was trying to gain
Brandenburg's second positon. It was also
evident that the white #5 of Dunlevy who had
started nineth was on the prowl, knocking off
his competitors one at a time as was passing on
the outside in search of the leader.
A
lap twenty caution for the spin of Tony Brunke
and Bill Burba slowed the pace and the
scoreboard showed Dunlevy up to fourth. When
action resumed it only took Dunlevy ten laps to
reel in Estes and from then on it was all
Dunlevy's race to the checker and the $1500
winners share.
The next caution came at the half-way point when
Ronnie Simpson and Ray Muncy tangled. Again
Dunlevy set sail leaving Estes still riding
second while Brandenburg was being challenged by
fast timer Sam Heckman.
It
was apparent that Estes was experiencing a
problem with his car as he backed off the pace
he had been maintaing. By a lap eighty-seven
caution caused by Les Miller and Ricky Bates,
Estes had faded back to sixth spot.
As
the laps wore down Mahaffey in the sole Ford
powered machine made an attempt to steal second
from Brandenburg when he found himself sailing
through the alligator pit on the backstretch to
see the final caution appear.
With five laps to go Dunlevy easily claimed the
event with another veteran driver, Dave
Brandenburg second, Mahaffey was third, Heckman
fourth, and steady driving Shawn Strobel was
fifth.
Earlier Bill Burba won the dash over Dunlevy,
Tony Brunke, and Heckman
For once the pure stock feature ran non-stop
after a crash at the drop of the green when Mike
South Jr. spun backwards into the turn one wall
knocking him out of competition.\
Originally Mike South Sr. and Jr. were to start
on the front row but with Jr. being eliminated
this put Shawn Stansell on the outside front row
for the official start.
The second generation driver Stansell in the
Affordable Auto Parts Camaro took the lead with
Mike South Sr. driving perhaps the best race of
his career as he stayed right with Stansell for
many laps.
Seventh place starter Heath White advanced to
second and tried his best to dispose of Stansell
but had to settle for second. For Stansell it
was his second win of the year. South was third
followed by fast timer for the first time this
year, Jeff Marsh (15.117) and fifth was Tom
Williams.
Jimmy Johnson won the dash over White, Mel
McMullen, Jamie Sites, Marsh, and Williams.
In
the compact division it was Donald Page taking
the win over Dave Lecocq, Randall Walton, Frank
McCubbin Jr., and Allen Campbell.
Next Friday night, July 15, will see all
divisions of the NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series in
action plus for the first time ever at Kil-Kare
the crazy trailer race on the figure-8 course.
Gates open at 6 p.m., racing at 8 p.m.
Late
Models
Fast
time - Sam Heckman 14.168
Dash
- Bill Burba, Dick Dunlevy Jr., Tony Brunke, Sam
Heckman
Dayton 100 - Dick Dunlevy Jr., Dave Brandenburg,
Don Mahaffey, Sam Heckman, Shawn Stroble, Gary
Estes, Russ Bobb, Dave Barnhart, Bill Burba,
Ricky Bates, Les Miller, Virgil Powell, Ray
Muncy, Kyle Kelch, Ken Kohl, Tony Brunke,
Barrett Tamasovich, Ronnie Simpson, Darrell
Norman
Pure
Stocks
Fast
time - Jeff Marsh 15.117
Dash
- Jimmy Johnson, Heath White, Mel McMullen,
Jamie sites, Jeff Marsh, Tom Williams
Feature (20 laps) - Shawn Stansell, Heath White,
Mike South Sr., Jeff Marsh, Tom Williams, Jamie
Sites, Derek Louderbach, Ed Lorentes, Shane
Williams, Bret Clark, Mel McMullen, Travis
Digges, Mark Smith Jr., Dan Suffron, Jason
Evans, Rusty Clark, David Coffman, Jimmy
Johnson, Tony cottrill, Mike South Jr.
Compacts
Feature (15 laps) - Donald Page, Dave Lecocq,
Randall Walton, Frank McCubbin Jr., Allen
Campbell, Bo Hoelscher, Troy Patterson, David
Sagers, Ivin Fugate, Marvin Amburgy, Todd
Pelfrey, Mattther Jackson, David Shaw, David
Craft
