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Miller Magic Mystifies Raceway 7 Fans

On a chilly historic night in Conneaut, Ohio, Wapakoneta, Ohio's Mike Miller scored a much deserved and long awaited first career Buckeye Machine BOSS feature win. The "Magic Man" always seemed to just appear from nowhere into the top 5 a year ago, but despite many top fives, had never found victory lane on the tour. A deep heat race draw set the stage for a great display of passing to win his heat race, then Miller parlayed his 3rd starting feature redraw into a convincing win in front of one of the largest crowds in recent Raceway 7 history.

The win gave Miller the points lead by a mere 4 points, as the High Side Hustler, Michael Fischesser of Sayler Park, Ohio charged from 7th to 2nd in the A-Main to barely lose the points lead. Defending champion Tony Beaber scored a 3rd place finish while Brandon Spithaler and Dustin Smith rounded out the top 5 finishers.

Raceway 7 fans, many of whom were witnessing their first ever traditional non wing sprint race, got quite a thrill in the main event. The Grafton, West Virginia Crowd Pleaser, Andre Layfield bicycled getting into turn 1 and then went cartwheeling up and over the turn one catch fence to find a parking place in the general admission parking lot. Thankfully, Andre was only shaken up and walked away from the incident.

The series now heads to Mercer Raceway Park in Pennsylvania for event #5 tonight.

Event #4 of 16
Raceway 7 - 5/23/2014

Buckeye Machine B.O.S.S 410 Sprints (22 Cars)
[#]-Starting Position

Heat 1 - Burdette Builders (Sunman, IN): (8 Laps - All transfer to the A-feature)
1. 31-Chuck Wilson[1] ; 2. 16-Gary Rankine[3] ; 3. 5-Bob McMillin[4] ; 4. T10-Tom Miller[2] ; 5. 3J-Johnny Beaber[7] ; 6. 3-Joe Butera[6] ; 7. 1R-Gale Ruth Sr[8] ; 8. 97-Scott Hardman[5]

Heat 2 - Lias Tire / American Racer (Indiana, PA): (8 Laps - All transfer to the A-feature)
1. 4-Michael Fischesser[1] ; 2. 3T-Tony Beaber[2] ; 3. 77-Dustin Smith[6] ; 4. 24M-Adam Miller[4] ; 5. 21-Andre Layfield[3] ; 6. 14-Chad Wilson[5] ; 7. 91x-Aaron Middaugh[7]

Heat 3 - Southeast Harley Davidson (Cleveland, OH): (8 Laps - All transfer to the A-feature)
1. 82-Mike Miller[6] ; 2. 57B-Brandon Spithaler[7] ; 3. 32M-Derek Hastings[2] ; 4. 18-Arnie Kent[3] ; 5. 53-Steve Little[4] ; 6. 08-Andy Feil[1] ; 7. 6-Sheila Rankine[DNS]

A-Main - (25 Laps)
1. 82-Mike Miller[3]; 2. 4-Michael Fischesser[7]; 3. 3T-Tony Beaber[1]; 4. 57B-Brandon Spithaler[5]; 5. 77-Dustin Smith[8]; 6. 31-Chuck Wilson[9]; 7. 18-Arnie Kent[12]; 8. 32M-Derek Hastings[6]; 9. 24M-Adam Miller[11]; 10. 14-Chad Wilson[17]; 11. 16-Gary Rankin[2]; 12. 91x-Aaron Middaugh[20]; 13. 3J-Johnny Beaber[13]; 14. 5-Bob McMillin[4]; 15. 53-Steve Little[15]; 16. 1R-Gale Ruth Sr[19]; 17. 3-Joe Butera[16]; 18. 97-Scott Hardman[21]; 19. T10-Tom Miller[10]; 20. 21-Andre Layfield[14] ; 21. 08-Andy Feil[18] ; 22. 6-Sheila Rankin[DNS]

Bonus Award Winners:

The Bridge Restaurant of Sidney, OH - "Hard Charger" - Aaron Middaugh (+8) - $50

Hochstetler Truck & Repair of Ashland, OH - "Steel Block Award" - Johnny Beaber - $50

Lynn Cook "a racer's friend" of Dayton, OH - "Hard Luck Award" - Andre Layfield - $50

McMillin Apiaries of Wampum, PA - "Sweet Move of the Race" - Chuck Wilson - $25 and a Jar of Honey

Rusty & Cap McClure of Ashland, OH - "Lucky Pill Draw" - Mike Miller - Free Pit Pass/Hot Dogs for Crew

Lias Tire of Indiana, PA - "American Racer Bonus Award" - Michael Fischesser - Free Tire

Hoosier Tire Midwest - "Hoosier Tire Bonus Award" - Mike Miller - Free Tire