Race Results 04/10/2004
VONDOHREN AND MILLER WIN FEATURES AT
VonDohren, who calls Oley, PA home, started in seventh position in the 29 car field with Steve Swinehart taking the first lap lead. On the second circuit of the one-third-mile, banked clay oval veteran Donny Erb put his mount in front of the pack and was pulling away from the field. At the 10 lap mark defending champion Jeff Strunk had mechanical problems sideline him and a few laps earlier Doug Manmiller had problems force him from competition. The two had battled for the win last Saturday night and were one ?two in the point standings.
With 14 laps in the record book VonDohren had worked his way to the front to challenge Erb for the lead and on a caution restart VonDohren took control of the race.
The final 15 laps saw Mike Gular (Harleysville), coming from 17th starting position, move up to challenge VonDohren?s Stauffer Construction/Devine Transport #70D with Meme DeSantis (Temple) running third. And when the checkered flag fell that was the top three crossing the finish line. Kenny Gilmore (Fleetwood) finished fourth after challenging early for the lead and Keith Brightbill (Mohnton) earned fifth.
In the 20-lap main event for Late Models the crash and caution marred event had to be cut to 18 laps with the time limit running out and after the field had been forced to go to single file restarts early in the race as officials tried to get the racers under control.
Jason Miller started on the pole with his #44 and was able to avoid all the spins and tangles to hold the lead for all 18 laps and grab the victory. Second spot went to Lou Egrie, the two time champion from
