Special Night of Racing at Kendallville

Black Gets 1st Feature Win
Photo By: Fred Patton

Written By: Matt "Night" Rider
Wednesday, July 22, 2009

KENDALLVILLE, IN.- The Miami County Speedway track crew traveled to the Noble County 4-H Fairgrounds to showcase micro sprint racing in the 2nd annual Kendallville Classic on Tuesday night.

In the first A-Main of the night, Peru racer Braiden Black raced his way to victory, winning his first feature of his young career in the Restrictor Class A-Main. After the big win, Black said, "It felt good to win my first feature. The car felt perfect and I won." Following Black was the No. 22z of Zach Shepler, while A.J. Grim raced to a top three finish in his No. 7a Restrictor micro sprint.

Jackson, MI. native Dan Danigan Jr. collected his first feature win in the Wing Class A-Main. "It feels unbelievable. It feels good because we have been down to Peru (Miami County Speedway) and Logansport (US 24 Speedway) with not much luck." Danigan Jr. continues, "It feels good to finally make a feature and win it."

The Miami County Speedway weclomed the Go-Karts to come take part in Tuesday night's racing action. Winning the Go-Kart feature was Kendallville native No. 40 Mike Riehm. After the win, Riehm explained, "It was fun. This is a group of guys and girls that race every other weekends. We also race two private tracks. This was the first time, most of us raced in front of a crowd." Taking second place honors was No. 0 Camden Fox, while third went to No. 25 Gary Strater.

The Slingshot were something new to the Kendallville fairgoers, but not to the racers and fans of Miami County Speedway. Taking his second straight Slingshot feature victory was Warsaw native David Rapp in his No. 86 Slingshot sprint.

Wrapping up the night was the Nonwing finale. The No. 21 Nonwing of Tyler Marsh (Muncie, IN.) came away with an exciting, hard fought victory. "It feels great to get the win tonight." Marsh continued, "Everytime a caution came out, I was doing everything I could to hold them off." No. 41 Cole Ketchum raced to a second place finish, while No. 43 Jim Ray ended the night in third place.

The Miami County Speedway returns to action this Saturday, July 25th, as they hosted the always exciting regular program, which will include the Senior Class.