Craig Von Dohren and Dylan Hoch Collect 4th Grandview Win of the Season

Under seasonably warm and cloudy conditions with low humidity Grandview Speedway completed their 14^th modified and sportsman points race of the season.

Craig Von Dohren won his 4th modified points feature of the season and first year sportsman driver Dylan Hoch matched him with his 4th points win of the season also. Both drivers actually have 5 wins as Von Dohren has an additional Thunder on the Hill win and Hoch has a crate sportsman win.

The modified feature was led for the first 24 laps by pole sitter Glenn Owens while an intense battle between Umbenhauer, Kressley and Von Dohren developed over 5th place.  On lap 14; a spin by Umbenhauer caused by contact from Kressley resulted in both cars going to the rear of the field and giving Von Dohren and Strunk 4^th and 5^th in pursuit of the top three of Owens, Hine and Hirthler.  On lap 24 Von Dohren took the lead from Owens and is where he stayed until the checkered flag for win # 4 of the season at Grandview Speedway.

The top ten was rounded out by Jeff Strunk in second place, Doug Manmiller, Kevin Hirthler, Ryan Grim, Dylan Swinehart, Jared Umbenhauer, Carroll Hine III, Brad Brightbill and Danny Bouc in 10^th.

Heat Races were won by Mark Kratz, Cory Merkel and Carroll Hine III.  The last chance consolation was won by Darrin Schuler.

Modified Feature Results (30-laps) Grandview 8-7-21:

   1. Craig Von Dohren, 2. Jeff Strunk, 3. Doug Manmiller, Kevin Hirthler, 5. Ryan Grim, 6. Dylan Swinehart, 7. Jared Umbenhauer, 8. Carroll Hine III, 9. Brad Brightbill, 10. Danny Bouc, 11. Jack Butler, 12. Duane Howard, 13. Jordan Henn, 14. Jesse Leiby, 15. Brett Kressley, 16. Darrin Schuler, 17. Cory Merkel, 18. Joe Funk III, 19. Glenn Owens, 20. Ryan Lilick, 21. Mark Kratz, 22. Bobby Gunther Walsh, 23. Nate Brinker, 24. Ron Haring Jr., 25. Justin Grim, 26. Ray Swinehart, 27. Kevin Graver, 28. Brad Grim.

 DNQ: Mike Lisowski, Craig Whitmoyer, Brad Arnold, Brett Gilmore, Eric Biehn and Mark Levy.

The story of the night was a huge development in the points championship. The points leader Brett Kressley saw a difficult weekend of racing have a dramatic impact on his 159 point lead he brought into tonight’s race.  On Friday night at Big Diamond; some racing drama developed between Brett Kressley and Jared Umbenhauer with contact between both cars several times in the final laps ending with Kressley spinning the leader Umbenhauer and being disqualified for unsportsmanlike contact in the final turn. The disqualification of Kressley handed the Big Diamond win to 3^rd place Craig Von Dohren for his 100^th career Big Diamond win and giving Von Dohren his first win of the weekend.

Unfortunately for Kressley the penalties continued on Saturday at Grandview. Kressley was again sent to the back of the field in his heat race for aggressive driving but was able to recover and qualify in the handicap.  In the feature; Kressley and Umbenhauer again crossed paths and for the second time this weekend and resulted in Umbenhauer spinning and Kressley being sent to the back of the field for aggressive driving.  The big winner on Saturday was Craig Von Dohren as he again won his second race of the weekend and able to cut Kressley’s points lead to less than 20 points with 5 races remaining in the season.  The battle for the points championships will continue on the platform of the Forrest Rogers Memorial with a 50 lap $10,000 to win race which will only add to the intensity of the points chase on August 14.

The Sportsman feature saw first time heat race winner and polesitter Hunter Latalese lead the field until lap 13 when Decker Swinehart took over the lead of the race.  On lap 20 after a couple of no-go restarts; it was Dylan Hoch grabbing the lead on the restart for the final 5 laps to take his 4^th win of the season.

The top ten was rounded out by Kyle Lilick in second place, Decker Swinehart, Jimmy Leiby, Kenny Gilmore, Kenny Bock, Mark Kemmerer, Brian Hirthler, Mike Stofflet and Nathan Mohr in 10^th place.    

The heat races were won by Decker Swinehart, Hunter Latalese, and Adrianna Delliponti.  The consolation race was won by Brian Hirthler.

Sportsman Feature (25-laps):

1. Dylan Hoch, 2. Kyle Lilick, 3. Decker Swinehart, 4. Jimmy Leiby, 5. Kenny Gilmore, 6. Kenny Bock, 7. Mark Kemmerer, 8. Brian Hirthler, 9. Mike Stofflet, 10. Nathan Mohr, 11. Joey Vaccaro, 12. Dakota Kohler, 13. Cody Manmiller, 14. Kyle Smith, 15. Adrianna Delliponti, 16. Parker Guldin, 17. Logan Bauman, 18. Lex Shive, 19. Hunter Iatalese, 20. Steve Young, 21. Glenn Strunk, 22. Ryan Beltz, 23. B.J. Joly, 24. Bryan Rhoads.

 DNQ: Wayne Rotenberger, Mark Gaugler, Anthony Raisner, Nicho Flammer, Ryan Laise, Nick Faust and Robert Wosyluk.

Not to be outdone by the modified division; the sportsman points chase has also seen dramatic developments in the past two weeks.  Last week points leader Kenny Gilmore had his first finish outside of the top 10 in 2021 with a 20^th place finish. While 2^nd in points Dylan Hoch finished 4^th and closed the gap from 249 to 109 points as of 7/31/21.  This week Dylan Hoch’s win reduce Kenny’s Gilmore to points lead to a mire 60 points with 5 point races to go in the season.

Next up on Saturday August 14^th is the 51^st annual Forrest Rogers Memorial 50 lap $10,000 to win modified feature and sportsman division double header program with racing starting at 7:30 PM.