Going into this season it was going to be hard to top last season’s point battle when their was a tie for the point title and a 6 point difference behind the top 2, but this season was still very close and competitive. Mark Williams needed 2 season ending wins to secure his 1st NASCAR point title. After an opening night 6th place finish, Mark scored top 5 finishes the rest of the way, and 3 wins, locking up the title by only 15 points. Last years co-champ Sheldon Hiester turned in another strong season including 8 top 5 finishes, and 2 wins, to come home 2nd in the final standing. Bryan Kisthardt improved 3 spots, also notched 8 top 5 runs including 3 2nd place finishes for a very consistent 3rd place finish. Last year’s other co-champ Shane Hiester also turned in a good campaign scoring 1 mid season win and 6 other top 5 finishes to close out the season 4th. Improving 2 spots from last year Billy Decker scored 2 early season top 5 finishes and even gave the road course a shot which helped to Billy among the top 5.
WINNERS: Mark Williams – 3, Sheldon Hiester – 2, Jim Levan – 2, Shane Hiester – 2, Kenny Gilmore – 1.
MOVING UP: Several drivers made strong improvements in the final standing Brian Sponagle ran 1 Cup race in 2013, this year Brian turned in a very good 6th place finish, including a career best 3rd place finish on the road course. Brian Vanbuskirk improved 5 spots this year to finish 7th, including 3 Top 10’s during the year. Tony Zappacosta also improved 3 spots to finish 8th in the standing along with a 7th place finish making his 1st ever start on the road course. Their were no repeat winners until race 6 of the 9 race season.
ROAD COURSE REVIEW: This year was the inaugural Road Course race nobody really knew how it was going to go but it ran off quickly with not any problems. Congrats to Jim Levan for being the 1st winner, it was his 2nd win of the year, Jim is usually a top5 finisher in Cup made only 4 Cup starts this year hope Jim is back regular this season.
