It was the season opener for Sprint Cup racing at Randy’s Raceway with the opening race of the 9 race season on the challenging Tri-Oval. It was track owner Randy Haydt collecting the opening night win, Randy scored 2 segment wins, including a win on lane 1.To change his luck Randy switched over to the silver Kodiak #41, instead of his usual Skoal Bandit #33 body. To finish off a good night Randy also took home the winning from the 50/50 drawing. Runner up honors went to Shane Hiester who won 4 segments running the Blue #2 Miller Lite machine, only 9 pieces of track behind. Trailing Shane by only 4 pieces of track Sheldon Hiester also scored 4 segment wins finishing 3rd. Bryan Kisthart scored 1 segment win on lane 6 for a good 4th place effort. Scott Bender scored 1 segment win in his Kellogg’s #5 closing out the top 5.
( 6-10 ) 6th Jim Levan / 7th Billy Decker / 8th Mark Williams ( 1win ) / 9th Brian Sponagle / 10th Brian Vanbuskirk
Tri-Oval Talk:
Close racing as the top 3 were separated by just 13 pieces of track. In a deal just finalized over the weekend Mark Williams will now be driving Cup cars this season prepared by Billy Decker. Rumor also going around the pits is that the beautiful purple Cup body will see some racing action some time during this season. Stay Tuned. Following the next Cup event ( Oct. 21 ) IROC racing will return, a brief 4 race season, 4 different groups of cars with 4 different people preparing the cars. The TYCO Pan Chassis will start the season with Billy Decker prepping the cars.
