A difficult choice this Saturday night with all of the big shows around the region. We made the decision to hit Waynesfield and to see them honor Jack Hewitt once again. We weren't disappointed. The overnight rains helped with track prep and the "Field" was once again racy.
We were greeted with 37 traditional sprints, a nice field of modifieds and the winged AMSA mini sprints. The evening started off with group qualifying of 4 cars each for the 410 sprints. Afterwards, the fast qualifier drew for the inversion on the heat races. With a 4 being drawn, they lined them up for 4 heat races transfering 4 each with the top 3 meeting in front of the main grandstands to draw for their starting positions in one of two dashes.
With Dallas winning one of the dashes and Matt Westfall winning the other, they lined up on the front row. I thought maybe the race wouldn't be as good as I had hoped but boy was I wrong there. Hewitt jumped out to the early lead but Westfall passed him and led the middle portion of the event. However, the real hard racing was back in the pack farther.
Twelve starter Chad Boesplug was on a mission. He was patient and picked them off one by one until he was in the top three. He disposed of Westfall first and then began to reel in Hewitt who had retaken the lead from Westfall. With the white flag waving, all bets were off as Chad had closed in to challenge young Mr. Hewitt. With the checkered flag waving
, they were side by side with a slight touch but Dallas brought the trophy home and was greeted by Uncle Jack in victory lane.
A real touch of class by Chad as he stopped on the front stretch and greeted Dallas with a big hug and congratulations. Glad also to see young Mr. Bilbee return from a rather hard flip in the dash. The track crew is to be commended as they provided a decent racing surface that held up well without anything being done except a little water being added. Waynesfield provides quality racing and I look forward to the big announcement concerning that show in September.