9/18/2017
Inside Line Promotions
Longdale Speedway Crowns McDonald, Maddox, Adams and Scruggs Champions
Inside Line Promotions – LONGDALE, Okla. (Sept. 18, 2017) – Four champions were crowned at the season championships Saturday night at Longdale Speedway.
Hunter McDonald of Oakwood claimed the title in the IMCA modifieds division by 34 points over David Solberg of Larned. McDonald had one feature win for the season and led the division with 10 top-five finishes.
Cole Traugott of Woodward claimed the evening’s feature victory with McDonald placing second. It was Traugott’s sixth victory of the year, which is more than any other driver in one division at the track.
Landon Maddox of Fairview held on to win the IMCA stock car title by 12 points over Travis Baird of Sharon and 15 points ahead of Hennessey’s Ryan Bohnstedt. Maddox paced the division with 12 top-10 finishes.
Traugott was a double winner for the evening by charging from the ninth starting spot to claim the stock car feature victory over Maddox and Baird.
The IMCA sport mods class had the closest points race going into the evening with Mike Roach of Woodward holding a slim three-point lead over Drummond’s Joe Adams. Those positions reversed after the feature as Adams’ fourth-place finish earned him the title by six points over Roach, who was scored in the 13th position. Adams and Roach each garnered four feature wins for the season with Adams tallying 10 top fives to seven for Roach.
A pair of Woodward drivers topped the feature finish with Kaleb Roach taking the win over Brandon Kenny.
Tyler Scruggs of Hennessey claimed the pure stock points title by 23 points over Brian Byrd, also of Hennessey. While Byrd had three more top fives for the season than Scruggs, he started one less feature.
Hesston Shaw of Hennessey won his division-leading fourth feature of the season ahead of Byrd.
While Saturday night was the final points race of the season, a pair of major events remain on tap at Longdale Speedway. The Darren Ernst Memorial will be held for sport mods and pure stocks on Sept. 29-30, with a whopping $3,000 payoff going to the winner of the sport mod feature winner on Saturday night. The track will host its final event of the year – the Iron Man Winter Nationals, which is the Top Gun championship for IMCA modifieds, IMCA stock cars, IMCA sport mods and pure stocks – on Oct. 13-14.
RACE REPORT: Longdale Speedway in Longdale, Okla., on Sept. 16 –
IMCA Modifieds
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 9-Cole Traugott (5); 2. 08-Hunter McDonald (4); 3. 71-Jessie Hoskins (7); 4. 3*-Logan Macy (1); 5. 23-Bryan Root (3); 6. 4-Barry Schievink (2); 7. 7S-David Solberg (6); 8. 121-Scott Edwards (8).
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9-Cole Traugott (6); 2. 08-Hunter McDonald (5); 3. 4-Barry Schievink (2); 4. 23-Bryan Root (3); 5. 3*-Logan Macy (1); 6. 7S-David Solberg (4); 7. 71-Jessie Hoskins (8); 8. 121-Scott Edwards (7).
IMCA Stock Cars
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 52C-Cole Traugott (9); 2. 47-Landon Maddox (8); 3. 52T-Travis Baird (7); 4. 3-Mark Smith (11); 5. 05-Ryan Bohnstedt (6); 6. 00-Lance Waddell (10); 7. 94B-Brandon Ballard (4); 8. 52-Larry Baird (3); 9. 771-Steve Blunk (2); 10. 2-Bill Sessions (1); 11. 5-Matthew Smith (5); 12. 04-Brian Gunsaulis (12).
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 52T-Travis Baird (5); 2. 52C-Cole Traugott (6); 3. 5-Matthew Smith (4); 4. 52-Larry Baird (2); 5. 2-Bill Sessions (1); (DNS) 3-Mark Smith.
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 47-Landon Maddox (5); 2. 771-Steve Blunk (1); 3. 94B-Brandon Ballard (3); 4. 00-Lance Waddell (6); 5. 05-Ryan Bohnstedt (4); 6. 04-Brian Gunsaulis (2).
IMCA Sport Mods
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 5R-Kaleb Roach (4); 2. 21B-Brandon Kenny (7); 3. 08-Hunter McDonald (6); 4. K6-Joe Adams (8); 5. 4P-Daylon Bergeron (3); 6. 16-Dustin Donley (5); 7. 3-Garrett Donley (1); 8. 81-Troy Bynum (2); 9. 33S-Slade Roach (12); 10. 21-Chris Wilhite (10); 11. 25W-Jimmie Wright (14); 12. 11H-Denver Howard (11); 13. 33R-Mike Roach (9); 14. 7L-Bill Lozar (13).
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 81-Troy Bynum (3); 2. 3-Garrett Donley (2); 3. 08-Hunter McDonald (5); 4. 5R-Kaleb Roach (4); 5. K6-Joe Adams (6); 6. 11H-Denver Howard (1); 7. 7L-Bill Lozar (7).
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21B-Brandon Kenny (5); 2. 4P-Daylon Bergeron (3); 3. 33R-Mike Roach (6); 4. 16-Dustin Donley (4); 5. 21-Chris Wilhite (7); 6. 33S-Slade Roach (2); 7. 25W-Jimmie Wright (1).
Pure Stocks
A Feature (20 Laps): 1. 26T-Hesston Shaw (6); 2. 68-Brian Byrd (7); 3. 16-Skylar McCall (3); 4. 4CF-Dustin Schoonover (13); 5. 6-Tommy Bohnstedt (5); 6. 86A-Kade Griffin (1); 7. 81-Tyler Scruggs (15); 8. 55-Jacob Gritz (12); 9. 79-Alex Fennema (4); 10. 33X-Bailee Clift (9); 11. 00-Harley Weidner (2); 12. 5K-Korey Vendetti (11); (DNS) 77-Daniel Wymore; (DQ) 572-Brad Costello (10); (DQ) 27-Lance Sessions (8).
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 572-Brad Costello (8); 2. 6-Tommy Bohnstedt (5); 3. 16-Skylar McCall (4); 4. 27-Lance Sessions (7); 5. 86A-Kade Griffin (1); 6. 5K-Korey Vendetti (3); 7. 4CF-Dustin Schoonover (2); 8. 81-Tyler Scruggs (6).
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 68-Brian Byrd (6); 2. 26T-Hesston Shaw (5); 3. 33X-Bailee Clift (7); 4. 79-Alex Fennema (4); 5. 00-Harley Weidner (1); 6. 55-Jacob Gritz (2); 7. 77-Daniel Wymore (3).
UP NEXT –
Sept. 29-30 for the Darren Ernst Memorial for IMCA sport mods and pure stocks
MEDIA LINKS –
Website: http://www.LongdaleSpeedway.net
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LONGDALE SPEEDWAY –
Longdale Speedway is a semi-banked, 3/8-mile clay oval located in Longdale, Okla. Longdale features a gravel pit area off of the backstretch with a concrete viewing area. The pits also surrounds the track with an electronic scoreboard, television quality lighting, aluminum grandstand seating 2,000 along with a souvenir shop, sno cone hut, concessions and Herb’s Smoke Shack featuring ribs and turkey legs. All of these features making Longdale Speedway the premier dirt track in Northwest Oklahoma.
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