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  1.   rm posted:
  12.30.2017 - 8:24 pm
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Race name: Naturally Fresh Foods 250

Lap leaders: Ross 1-223, Agnew 224-250

This one was a bit of a slugfest. Very long race at the ever-tricky
Kil-Kare track. Jon Kerley launched off of Kyle Shoemaker's left front
on the frontstretch early on and went flying head on into the water
barrels over in turn 1. Somehow both cars continued on, albeit with
heavy damage. Robbie Thompson followed that up by getting the rear end
of his car taken off by Charlie Ford to bring out the next caution.
Thompson got back out there, only to be spun around again not very long
after in a multi car incident when yet another car failed to stop in
time for the caution. Kerley's eventful race continued when he was part
of a two-car synchronized spin on the ensuing restart.

Despite this being a 3/8th of a mile track, major incidents kept coming.
Mike Stacy and Pete Wormcastle crashed into the turn 1 grass, leaving
Wormcastle with severe rear end damage and the turn 1 grass with a small
fire that was eventually extinguished. Jimmy Burns and Kertus Davis
backed it into the "backstretch" wall while racing for third, which led
to a red flag when a thunderstorm popped up during the caution. The rest
of the night was rained out shy of 100 laps.

The race resumed on Saturday, the fifth, under cloud cover during the
daytime. Many teams were down crew members who couldn't stay to finish
out the now two-day show. They didn't get very far as Shoemaker brought
out another caution by wrecking on his own in turn 4 in a very damaged
car. On the restart, a multi-car incident resulted in Joe Harrison Jr's
day ending soon when he was part of a gaggle that crashed right in front
of leader Brian Ross.

Shoemaker wasn't done crashing, as he spun on his own - again - ending
what looked to be Jeff Agnew's shot at passing Brian Ross for the lead
in traffic. Agnew had another shot on the restart, but his attempted
pass was nullified again when two already damaged cars took each other
out in the back of the pack. Agnew finally wore Ross down with 28 to go,
as Ross went way wide into turn 1 and smacked the wall several times
before getting it straightened out again. Agnew had to survive a late
restart after Joel Kauffman spun from 4th with just 8 to go, but held
everyone else off on the ensuing green-white-checkered to win.


  2.   Rich posted:
  09.15.2020 - 11:08 pm
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Brian Drebber and Scott Sutherland were the commentators. Brett McMillan
was the sole pit road reporter.


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