One Family, Two wins at Quincy

Five classes of cars were in action Sunday at Quincy Raceways, and a pair of brothers in law picked up wins in the UMP divisions. Rickey Frankel took a nonstop win in the UMP late models, while Michael Long claimed the UMP modified checkers. And only Dave Weitholder setting quick time in the modifieds prevented the duo from a double clean sweep, as Frankel paced the late models with a lap of 13.493 seconds. The UMP Pro Crate late models and IMCA stock cars had a scheduled night off, with 305 sprints added to the card. The sprints ran the first feature, with Ben Waggoner and Brian Armitage setting on the front row. At the drop of the green, Waggoner jumped to the lead, with Ryan Jamison in second. Waggoner built a commanding lead running the low line around the speedway before moving to a higher line in the second half of the race. Jamison also ran the low groove until the closing laps, when Jerrod Schneiderman closed in on Jamison by running a higher line. Ryan then moved up for the final three laps to protect his runner up status. The 18 laps clicked off caution free. Waggoner picked up the win ahead of Jamison, Schneiderman, Armitage and Nathan Charron. The IMCA sport mods turned out the highest car count of the night with 15 entrants. Point leader Tony Dunker was absent, having been handed a 30 day track suspension. Also missing was the #17 car of Brandon Lennox. Lennox has been the hottest driver in the division lately, but he found himself upside down the night before at Lake Ozark Speedway. Always the racer, Brandon borrowed the # 23D ride of Billy Deroy for the night. Bobby Anders shot from row two to lead the opening lap, but fellow row two starter Vance Wilson snared the top spot on lap two, with Austen Becerra coming from the fourth row to third. Following a lap three caution and a Delaware restart, Becerra was now in second. Another yellow came two laps later, and Becerra dropped to fifth on the restart. With Wilson out front, a solid four car battle raged behind him between fifth row starter Justin Ebbing, Anders, Becerra, and Lennox. Another caution came on lap eight, and back under green Becerra challenged for the lead. The front duo swapped the top spot, running side by side for several circuits, with Becerra edging ahead about lap twelve. One lap later, Wilson bobbled slightly on the backstretch, turning second over to Lennox. One more caution with three laps to go set up a single file dash to the checkers, with Becerra picking up his first win of the season at QR. Wilson regained second, an overheating Lennox hung on for third ahead of Anders and Tanner Klingele. Weitholder and Long were heat race winners in modified action, but the redraw put Michael outside row one and Dave outside row two. By the second trip past the flag stand, Long had a big lead, while Weitholder stretched his advantage over Craig Spegal. Slower traffic on lap nine did nothing to slow Long, as he negotiated the lapped cars with ease, maintaining a straightaway lead. In fact, Michael had lapped all but three cars when the only caution of the race wiped out his lead with three laps to go. But it only delayed the inevitable, as he cruised to the win, unofficially the 300th of his career at Quincy, including 121 feature events! Weitholder, Spegal, and Shaun Deering were the other cars on the lead lap. Frankel began the UMP late model feature inside row two, but he vaulted quickly to the front using the inside line. Jason Perry took up the chase, with Denny Woodworth and Jamie Wilson slugging it out for third. In his second night out in his #533 Janes Racing machine, Mark Burgtorf fought fuel problems all night, missing time trials and his heat, and pulling out of the feature on lap two. With the leaders all running the high side of the .29 mile oval, Perry kept the pressure on Frankel. As the laps clicked off, Perry moved down one line to try and overtake the leader, but Rickey had plenty of momentum and drove a flawless race. No cautions slowed the action, with Frankel picking up the flag to flag win. Perry settled for second in front of Woodworth and Wilson. Mark Rose stopped by on his way home to Wisconsin and put his #0 in the fifth finishing spot ahead of visiting Rusty Griffaw. JoeY Gower was dialing in his #31G crate late model in his third night out, and was credited with seventh. The clock registered my self imposed 9:30 work night curfew, so I headed to the parking lot ahead of the IMCA sport compact feature. Reports have Craig Bangert picking up the win, besting Brandon Lambert. Quincy Raceways had a scheduled night off next Sunday night, and with a monster truck show the following weekend, they have also decided there will be no racing also on July 23. However racing will be held on July 30 , which also appears as a night off on the original schedule. Be sure and check the Quincy Raceways website for more info, including classes in action. The Ciltrak team has added a UMP Big Ten late model race Sunday, July 23 at the Jacksonville,Il fairgrounds facility. With Lee County Speedway in Donnellson also taking off this Friday, I am uncertain about this weekends plans, but there are several options and we will be at a track somewhere. Maybe we will see you there! Thanks for reading!