The Rockin K Logistics Big Blocks were in action on Monday Dec 9th for Rd #7 from Lernerville Speedway. A total of 22 drivers loaded into the race server and posted a qualifying lap. Your QuickTime winner was the #86 of Mason Leon. Leon’s time was a 15.271, 2nd was Kurt Ney with a 15.320 and Giovanni Munginwas 3rd with a 15.32 sec lap.
Heat #1
Braden Elyer would start heat #1 from pole. Dylan DeWert Jr would apply pressure can make the pass around the halfway mark. Greg Keppel was right behind Elyer for 3rd. Mason Leon, you QuickTime winner would finish 4th with Buddy Ware rounding out the top 5 from heat #1
Heat #2
Tom Ostendorf would lead the way for heat #2. Matt Westfall, Patrick Cobb and Kurt Ney would all battle for 2nd early on in the heat. Ostendorf would fall victim and go over the berm in 3 and 4 while leading. This would bump everyone up a spot and move Larry Moody into the 4th position. At the end it was Westfall picking up the win, Ney 2nd, Cobb 3rd, Moody 4th and Kevin Hanley 5th.
Heat #3
Ryan Hines would lead off the 3rd and final heat race of the night with Jacob Schumtz to his outside. Garrett Boyd would work the bottom side of the track and battle Hines and Schumtz for the lead. Giovanni Mungin would join the battle for the lead around lap 6. Hines would take the heat win, Schmutz, Mungin, Boyd and Brandon Garman were your top 5 from heat 3.
B-Main
Buddy Ware was one of 10 drivers battling it out for 8 spots in the 8 lap B-Main. Ware and Hanley were your front row. Scott Thomson and Ernie Williams Jr would make contact as the green flag flew. This would put them about a 1/4 behind the 8th and final transfer spot. Ware would go onto pick up the B-Main win.
40-Lap Feature
DeWert and Westfall would lead the field to green for the 40-lap feature around Lernerville Speedway. Lots of battles early on in this feature. Boyd, Gaines, Ware and Moody going 4 wide a little further back in the pack as they all battled for 12th. Patrick Cobb would get the right side of his machine over the berm on the backstretch. While getting things corrected, he would tap Greg Keppel. This would cause a little stack up and both Cobb and
Mason Leon would find themselves on the wrong side of the turn 4 banking. No caution and the two would regain at the tail end of the field.
Greg Keppel would get over the turn 4 banking and while trying to get things back under control Keppel’s car would become airborne then come to rest on the high side of turn 4. Mason Leon would have nowhere to go and make contact with Keppel. This would bring out the night’s first caution on lap-10.
On the restart it was DeWert out front, Eyler, Hines, Westfall and Schmutz your top 5. On lap 12 Eyler would slide DeWert for the lead, but the battle was behind these two. You could toss a blanket over the rest of the field. 3rd-8th place all running together. They were two wide down the straightaways and fanning out to 3-4 wide in the corners. Eyler would go over the berm in turn 4 while leading. He would have to stop on the exit and bring out the 2nd caution of the night. This would put DeWert back into the lead and Westfall to his outside on the restart on lap-18.
Boyd would work his way into 3 and battle with Westfall around lap 20. Schmutz and Hines would battle for 4th with Hanley working his way into the top 5. DeWert at this point in the feature was starting to checkout on the rest of the field. Boyd would run into some computer issues and fall out of this one, bumping Schmutz into 2nd.
Brandon Garmen would get over the berm in 4 and bring out the 3rd caution of the night with 7 laps to go. With under 10 laps to go the field would restart single file with DeWert leading the way. DeWert would go onto pickup the win!
Your 40-Lap Feature Top 5
1) Dylan DeWert Jr
2) Jocob Schmutz
3) Matt Westfall
4) Kevin Hanley
5) Kurt Ney
QuickTime Mason Leon
Hard Charger Kevin Hanley +11
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