By Brett Zerfowski
(Macon, IL) Before the evening’s races began, fans were treated with a special opportunity to come onto the track and get autographs and mingle with their favorite drivers. When the racing began, fans continued to be treated, to great racing at Macon Speedway.
The perfect ride ended for Decatur’s Dave Crawley, Jr., in the Touchstone Energy Sportsman feature. After winning the heat, Crawley was primed for his third feature of the season and his sixth-straight checkered flag in the division. Coming out of the final turn of the final lap, the streak was snapped.
As Crawley battled with Springfield’s Dennis Vandermeersch for the top spot all race, a car spun in the fourth turn coming to the final flag which caused Crawley and Vandermeersch to collide. As they fired back up, Vandermeersch got the best start and won the race to the finish as Crawley took runner-up, thanks in part to a flat left front tire. The defending Touchstone Energy Sportsman champion Rick Roedel suffered his third Did-Not-Finish of the season as he pulled out of the 15-lapper midway through with a broken racecar.
Crawley would quickly have a chance to redeem himself in the Modified feature, where he finished second a week ago in the A-Main. Crawley, starting third-row-inside, trailed behind pole-sitter Kyle Logue for the race lead. Restart-after-restart would not be enough for Crawley as Logue took his first feature of 2010. Finishing third in the feature would be Decatur’s Aaron Burcham, who won the $100 bonus in the Best Fan in the Stand promotion, where he selected a name to win $200 (last week’s win went unclaimed to add the additional bonus).
Another highly contested race was the Street Stock feature where defending champion Blake Shelley used the high side of the track to try and reclaim the glory of 2009. Racing on the bottom of the track was former track champion Larry Russell, Jr. and Mike Pickering tailing behind. The bottom side of the track would prevail as “Bub” Russell took his second feature of the young season and Shelley would finish second, ahead of Pickering in the closest Street Stock finish of the year.
After altering his race last week, Rodney Standerfer was certain not to let another opportunity for a feature win slip through his fingers a second-straight time. Moving from the high side to the bottom last week took away Standerfer’s first-place finish and put him third. Starting on the pole, he was destined to hold off all-comers and take the checkered flag.
Standerfer displayed his car as the fastest on the track and held the lead all 25 laps. But it wasn’t an easy victory as challengers got close to take the top spot from Standerfer. St. Charles, MO., native Mike Hammerle, Jeremy Nichols and Jim Moon were all a close-knit bunch on the backstretch with lapped car Dustin Pryde. Nichols would get too close to Pryde and ride onto his racecar to bring out the caution and force everybody back to a single-file restart. This would happen on the 22nd lap, giving Standerfer three laps left to continue his dominance and take his first Late Model feature. Dedicating the race to fallen family members, Standerfer had tears in his eyes of excitement and sorrow as he learned from his mistake and carried it to victory.
Eric Wilson led from wire-to-wire in the Pro Hornets feature and finished nearly a full stretch lead over the second place and third place finishers, Heidi Hames and Eric’s dad, Jim Wilson. The Amateur Hornets feature would go to Kyle Maxwell, who won in his second-ever week in racing.
Upcoming for the Macon Speedway crowd is the first O’Reilly’s POWRi Midgets and Micro Sprints event of the season. The evening will also consist of stock car racing, including the Modifieds, Street Stocks and both Pro and Amateur Hornets. The gates will open at 5pm, racing will start at 7pm.
UMP Late Model - Feature
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 1 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 50.00
2 8 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 48.00
3 2 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 46.00
4 9 1 Jim Moon , In 44.00
6 12 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 40.00
7 14 82 Roger Brickler Springfield , Il 38.00
8 6 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 36.00
9 10 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 34.00
10 5 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 32.00
11 15 2 John Graham Taylorville , Il 30.00
12 17 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 28.00
14 18 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 24.00
15 7 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 22.00
16 3 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 20.00
17 16 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 18.00
18 13 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 16.00
UMP Late Model - Heat 2
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 0.00
2 1 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 0.00
3 4 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 0.00
4 5 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 0.00
5 6 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 0.00
6 3 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 0.00
7 9 82 Roger Brickler Springfield , Il 0.00
8 8 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 0.00
9 7 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Late Model - Heat 1
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
2 3 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 0.00
3 2 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 0.00
4 6 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 0.00
5 5 1 Jim Moon , In 0.00
7 4 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 0.00
8 9 2 John Graham Taylorville , Il 0.00
9 7 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Late Model - Qualifying
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
2 7 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 0.00
3 12 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 0.00
4 6 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 0.00
5 5 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 0.00
6 1 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 0.00
7 16 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 0.00
8 4 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 0.00
9 2 1 Jim Moon , In 0.00
10 15 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 0.00
11 3 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 0.00
12 11 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 0.00
13 14 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 0.00
15 13 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 0.00
16 9 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Feature
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 1 WFO Kyle Logue Cisco , Il 50.00
2 5 37 David Crawley Jr. Decatur , Il 48.00
3 3 44 Aaron Burcham Decatur , Il 46.00
4 13 9 Danny Smith Argenta , Il 44.00
5 2 9C Russ Coultas Bluffs , Il 42.00
6 11 T2G Jeff Graham Stonington , Il 40.00
7 7 T2 Mark Tullis Macon , Il 38.00
8 4 35 Clark Robertson Shelbyville , Il 36.00
9 9 28 Joe Strawkas Buffalo , Il 34.00
10 15 16H Eric Hamilton Macon , Il 32.00
11 16 57 Danny Page Mount Zion, Il 30.00
12 8 14M Derrick Bangert - 28.00
13 6 22X Ryan Blakeman - 26.00
14 17 3T Mike Ward Pawnee , Il 24.00
15 12 52 Roger Drake - 22.00
16 10 33 Dave Eckel Lovington , Il 20.00
17 14 19H James Hankins Taylorville , Il 18.00
18 19 24O Jeffery Robb Decatur , Il 16.00
19 18 35S Randy Spaugh Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 3
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 3 WFO Kyle Logue Cisco , Il 0.00
2 5 37 David Crawley Jr. Decatur , Il 0.00
3 2 28 Joe Strawkas Buffalo , Il 0.00
4 1 52 Roger Drake - 0.00
5 4 16H Eric Hamilton Macon , Il 0.00
6 6 35S Randy Spaugh Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 2
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 35 Clark Robertson Shelbyville , Il 0.00
2 6 9C Russ Coultas Bluffs , Il 0.00
3 4 14M Derrick Bangert - 0.00
4 1 T2G Jeff Graham Stonington , Il 0.00
5 5 19H James Hankins Taylorville , Il 0.00
6 3 3T Mike Ward Pawnee , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 1
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 44 Aaron Burcham Decatur , Il 0.00
2 3 22X Ryan Blakeman - 0.00
3 6 T2 Mark Tullis Macon , Il 0.00
4 1 33 Dave Eckel Lovington , Il 0.00
5 5 9 Danny Smith Argenta , Il 0.00
6 4 57 Danny Page Mount Zion, Il 0.00
7 7 24O Jeffery Robb Decatur , Il 0.00
Sportsman
1 22J Dennis Vandermeersch
2 C25 David Crawley Jr.
3 8K Ken Fustin
4 22 Timmy Dick
5 98 Shawn Vaughn
6 41 Scott Landers
7 B99 Tim Bedinger
8 72 Tom Graham
9 3B Stefan Bedinger
10 52 Bob Sidener
Street Stocks
1 X7 Larry Russell Jr.
2 30 Blake Shelley
3 99 Mike Pickering
4 36 Nick Justice
6 918 Michael Pundt Jr.
7 08 Brian Dasenbrock
8 52R Jeffery Reed Jr.
9 14 Kurtis Ater
10 37 Rick Rush
Amateur Hornets
1 38R Kyle Maxwell
2 98 Kenneth Reed
3 52 Jonathan Drake
4 21 Joseph Mcchristy
5 205 Michael Gossett
6 73 Garrett Lewis
7 57 Kenny Reed
8 X07 Andy Jackson
9 4 Ashlee Gatons
10 1F Fred Mifflin
Pro Hornets
1 46 Eric Wilson
2 15 Heidi Hames
3 47 Jim Wilson
4 64CK Cook Crawford
5 7S Sam Mccoy
6 83 Steven Dulgar
7 X07 Andy Jackson
8 210 Brett Embry
9 4 Matthew Reed
10 00 Cody Fleming
(Macon, IL) Before the evening’s races began, fans were treated with a special opportunity to come onto the track and get autographs and mingle with their favorite drivers. When the racing began, fans continued to be treated, to great racing at Macon Speedway.
The perfect ride ended for Decatur’s Dave Crawley, Jr., in the Touchstone Energy Sportsman feature. After winning the heat, Crawley was primed for his third feature of the season and his sixth-straight checkered flag in the division. Coming out of the final turn of the final lap, the streak was snapped.
As Crawley battled with Springfield’s Dennis Vandermeersch for the top spot all race, a car spun in the fourth turn coming to the final flag which caused Crawley and Vandermeersch to collide. As they fired back up, Vandermeersch got the best start and won the race to the finish as Crawley took runner-up, thanks in part to a flat left front tire. The defending Touchstone Energy Sportsman champion Rick Roedel suffered his third Did-Not-Finish of the season as he pulled out of the 15-lapper midway through with a broken racecar.
Crawley would quickly have a chance to redeem himself in the Modified feature, where he finished second a week ago in the A-Main. Crawley, starting third-row-inside, trailed behind pole-sitter Kyle Logue for the race lead. Restart-after-restart would not be enough for Crawley as Logue took his first feature of 2010. Finishing third in the feature would be Decatur’s Aaron Burcham, who won the $100 bonus in the Best Fan in the Stand promotion, where he selected a name to win $200 (last week’s win went unclaimed to add the additional bonus).
Another highly contested race was the Street Stock feature where defending champion Blake Shelley used the high side of the track to try and reclaim the glory of 2009. Racing on the bottom of the track was former track champion Larry Russell, Jr. and Mike Pickering tailing behind. The bottom side of the track would prevail as “Bub” Russell took his second feature of the young season and Shelley would finish second, ahead of Pickering in the closest Street Stock finish of the year.
After altering his race last week, Rodney Standerfer was certain not to let another opportunity for a feature win slip through his fingers a second-straight time. Moving from the high side to the bottom last week took away Standerfer’s first-place finish and put him third. Starting on the pole, he was destined to hold off all-comers and take the checkered flag.
Standerfer displayed his car as the fastest on the track and held the lead all 25 laps. But it wasn’t an easy victory as challengers got close to take the top spot from Standerfer. St. Charles, MO., native Mike Hammerle, Jeremy Nichols and Jim Moon were all a close-knit bunch on the backstretch with lapped car Dustin Pryde. Nichols would get too close to Pryde and ride onto his racecar to bring out the caution and force everybody back to a single-file restart. This would happen on the 22nd lap, giving Standerfer three laps left to continue his dominance and take his first Late Model feature. Dedicating the race to fallen family members, Standerfer had tears in his eyes of excitement and sorrow as he learned from his mistake and carried it to victory.
Eric Wilson led from wire-to-wire in the Pro Hornets feature and finished nearly a full stretch lead over the second place and third place finishers, Heidi Hames and Eric’s dad, Jim Wilson. The Amateur Hornets feature would go to Kyle Maxwell, who won in his second-ever week in racing.
Upcoming for the Macon Speedway crowd is the first O’Reilly’s POWRi Midgets and Micro Sprints event of the season. The evening will also consist of stock car racing, including the Modifieds, Street Stocks and both Pro and Amateur Hornets. The gates will open at 5pm, racing will start at 7pm.
UMP Late Model - Feature
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 1 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 50.00
2 8 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 48.00
3 2 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 46.00
4 9 1 Jim Moon , In 44.00
6 12 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 40.00
7 14 82 Roger Brickler Springfield , Il 38.00
8 6 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 36.00
9 10 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 34.00
10 5 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 32.00
11 15 2 John Graham Taylorville , Il 30.00
12 17 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 28.00
14 18 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 24.00
15 7 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 22.00
16 3 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 20.00
17 16 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 18.00
18 13 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 16.00
UMP Late Model - Heat 2
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 0.00
2 1 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 0.00
3 4 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 0.00
4 5 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 0.00
5 6 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 0.00
6 3 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 0.00
7 9 82 Roger Brickler Springfield , Il 0.00
8 8 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 0.00
9 7 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Late Model - Heat 1
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
2 3 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 0.00
3 2 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 0.00
4 6 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 0.00
5 5 1 Jim Moon , In 0.00
7 4 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 0.00
8 9 2 John Graham Taylorville , Il 0.00
9 7 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Late Model - Qualifying
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
2 7 10 Kerby Damery Macon , Il 0.00
3 12 28 Rodney Standerfer Germantown , Il 0.00
4 6 11D Brian Diveley Springfield , Il 0.00
5 5 91 Jeremy Nichols , Il 0.00
6 1 F15 Jeremy Conaway Springfield , Il 0.00
7 16 18 Shane Tomlin , Il 0.00
8 4 33 Steve Phillips Neoga , Il 0.00
9 2 1 Jim Moon , In 0.00
10 15 22 Chris Dick Deland , Il 0.00
11 3 16H Mike Hammerle St Charles, Mo 0.00
12 11 11K Terry Reed Decatur , Il 0.00
13 14 15 Troy Page Decatur , Il 0.00
15 13 47 Dustin Pryde Decatur , Il 0.00
16 9 24 Dick Taylor Riverton , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Feature
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 1 WFO Kyle Logue Cisco , Il 50.00
2 5 37 David Crawley Jr. Decatur , Il 48.00
3 3 44 Aaron Burcham Decatur , Il 46.00
4 13 9 Danny Smith Argenta , Il 44.00
5 2 9C Russ Coultas Bluffs , Il 42.00
6 11 T2G Jeff Graham Stonington , Il 40.00
7 7 T2 Mark Tullis Macon , Il 38.00
8 4 35 Clark Robertson Shelbyville , Il 36.00
9 9 28 Joe Strawkas Buffalo , Il 34.00
10 15 16H Eric Hamilton Macon , Il 32.00
11 16 57 Danny Page Mount Zion, Il 30.00
12 8 14M Derrick Bangert - 28.00
13 6 22X Ryan Blakeman - 26.00
14 17 3T Mike Ward Pawnee , Il 24.00
15 12 52 Roger Drake - 22.00
16 10 33 Dave Eckel Lovington , Il 20.00
17 14 19H James Hankins Taylorville , Il 18.00
18 19 24O Jeffery Robb Decatur , Il 16.00
19 18 35S Randy Spaugh Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 3
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 3 WFO Kyle Logue Cisco , Il 0.00
2 5 37 David Crawley Jr. Decatur , Il 0.00
3 2 28 Joe Strawkas Buffalo , Il 0.00
4 1 52 Roger Drake - 0.00
5 4 16H Eric Hamilton Macon , Il 0.00
6 6 35S Randy Spaugh Decatur , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 2
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 35 Clark Robertson Shelbyville , Il 0.00
2 6 9C Russ Coultas Bluffs , Il 0.00
3 4 14M Derrick Bangert - 0.00
4 1 T2G Jeff Graham Stonington , Il 0.00
5 5 19H James Hankins Taylorville , Il 0.00
6 3 3T Mike Ward Pawnee , Il 0.00
UMP Modified - Heat 1
Finish Start Car Driver Hometown Race Points
1 2 44 Aaron Burcham Decatur , Il 0.00
2 3 22X Ryan Blakeman - 0.00
3 6 T2 Mark Tullis Macon , Il 0.00
4 1 33 Dave Eckel Lovington , Il 0.00
5 5 9 Danny Smith Argenta , Il 0.00
6 4 57 Danny Page Mount Zion, Il 0.00
7 7 24O Jeffery Robb Decatur , Il 0.00
Sportsman
1 22J Dennis Vandermeersch
2 C25 David Crawley Jr.
3 8K Ken Fustin
4 22 Timmy Dick
5 98 Shawn Vaughn
6 41 Scott Landers
7 B99 Tim Bedinger
8 72 Tom Graham
9 3B Stefan Bedinger
10 52 Bob Sidener
Street Stocks
1 X7 Larry Russell Jr.
2 30 Blake Shelley
3 99 Mike Pickering
4 36 Nick Justice
6 918 Michael Pundt Jr.
7 08 Brian Dasenbrock
8 52R Jeffery Reed Jr.
9 14 Kurtis Ater
10 37 Rick Rush
Amateur Hornets
1 38R Kyle Maxwell
2 98 Kenneth Reed
3 52 Jonathan Drake
4 21 Joseph Mcchristy
5 205 Michael Gossett
6 73 Garrett Lewis
7 57 Kenny Reed
8 X07 Andy Jackson
9 4 Ashlee Gatons
10 1F Fred Mifflin
Pro Hornets
1 46 Eric Wilson
2 15 Heidi Hames
3 47 Jim Wilson
4 64CK Cook Crawford
5 7S Sam Mccoy
6 83 Steven Dulgar
7 X07 Andy Jackson
8 210 Brett Embry
9 4 Matthew Reed
10 00 Cody Fleming
