Rose Wins Again at MCS

Saturday, June 7, 2008

By: Matt "Night" Rider

The weather looked threatening but it cleared just in time for some great micro sprint racing action on Saturday night, from the Miami County Speedway. The program featured racing from five different micro sprint classes; Juniors, Open, Restrictor, Stock, and Nonwing micro sprint racing action.

For the second time in consecutive weekends, Peru native #29 Brandon Rose (Pictured Above) took home another Open Class feature victory. "It's pretty tiring but it's great to win", said Rose, after the win. Taking second place was the #67 Open Class micro of Bob Bourff, while the #14 Open micro of KC Hughes, Amboy, rounded out the top three.

Halen Shafer, Kokomo, raced his way to another impressive Stock Class feature win in his #36S micro stock. "Winning is what we came here to do", said Shafer after his feature win. Following Shafer, taking home a second place finish was the #4 micro stock of Mentone native Sam Kimmel, while third place belonged to the #92K micro stock machine of Kris Knox.

Warsaw racer Braxton Hanft and his #29H restrictor class micro, dominated en route to the Restrictor Class feature victory. Hanft said, "It feels exciting to win here. My Dad and Randy Jackson helped me out a lot. Also Jeremy helped out a lot as well." The #44 restrictor class micro of Barbie Kimmel, Mentone, brought home a second place finish, while #5 Matt McDonald placed third.

In the Nonwing feature, North Manchester native #23 Jordan Lambert paved his way to the win in the Nonwing finale. "My Dad helped me win tonight. He set up a killer car", said Lambert, after his win in the Nonwing feature. Stuart Hanft, Warsaw, raced his way to a second place finish in his #69H nonwing class micro, while the #4 nonwing machine of Sam Kimmel brought home a third place finish.

Rounding out Saturday's five features was the Junior Class feature. The #11 junior class micro of Kolt Kinsler, Delphi, charged through the field, to take yet another awesome victory in the Junior Class final. Kinsler said, "It feels good to win tonight. My Dad helped me to the win." Trailing Kinsler, taking second place honors was the #25 junior class micro of Trenton Bitzel, Huntington. The #12F junor class micro of Hollie Feuquay drove her junior class micro to a third place showing.