Wease Wins Round 1 of Rumble

Dunn picks up 2 features in cart series
Written By: Matt "Night" Rider
Photo By: Fred Patton (http://www.fredericsphoto.com/)

FORT WAYNE, IN.- "The Rumble in Fort Wayne hit the War Memorial Coliseum this past weekend December 26-27th. An incredible sixteen different sprint and go kart series were in action. It was easily the biggest single race event I've had the previlige of covering. 

Saturday night (December 26th), Noblesville native Billy Wease (Left No. 99) took the  win in the 60 lap midget A-Main feature. Behind the No. 99 was Brian Nuckles, while third went to David Gough. Tony Stewart Racing entry Mike Fredorcak finished the night in fourth place, while Tampa, FL. native Joe Liguori came home in fifth place.

Midget sprint legend Mel Kenyon took sixth in the A-Main on Saturday night. The midget feature win gave Wease third indoor feature wins since 2007.

In early action on Saturday night, Fremont, OH. racer John Ivy (Left No. 02) picked up the 40 lap micro sprint feature win. No. 22 Ryan Smith (Kunkletown, PA.) finished the night right behind Ivy in second place. Chelsea, MI native Paul Price picked up third place honors in his No. 61 micro sprint. Fourth place went to Kendallville, IN. racer No. 19 Ben Taylor, while No. 35z Mark Zumbrun (Larwill, IN.) rounded out the top five in the micro sprint feature.

In the other feature on Saturday night, Sellersburg, Indiana's Cole Williams came home with the IKO MiniCup Stock Car feature. I remember that the IKO MiniCups were sweet. They looked like miniture scales of Nascar Sprint Cup cars. Anyway, Brandon Dunn (Frankfort, KY.) had a special night, as he won both the Senior Medium and Heavy Cart series features for the night in his No. 21 cart.

Noblesville, IN. racer Nathan Dishoungh raced his way to the Senior Caged Kart A-Main feature victory. In the Junior Heavy Kart division, Lima, OH. native Max Stambaugh found victory lane, winning the Heavy Kart feature for Saturday night. Spencerville, IN. racer John Hawley won the Junior Caged Karts feature, with help from his sponsors who were his Mom and Dad. Rounding out the Kart series feature winners for Saturday night was Gabriel Gilbert, Mooresville, IN., who picked up the Kid Karts feature win.

Garrett Johnson came home with the Jr. Sprint feature on Saturday night. USAC Midget Champion Mike Streicher's son Richie Streicher raced his way to the Heavy 160 quarter midget feature. Ohio racers Cooper Clouse (Light 160), Nick Ley (Heavy Honda), and Aaron Leffel (Senior Honda) all picked up feature wins on Saturday night at the "The Rumble in Fort Wayne".

Information and results for Sunday (December 27th)'s races at "The Rumble in Fort Wayne" were not posted at the time I wrote this article. I'm very sorry.

Stay tuned as I move my focus to the 2010 Chili Bowl this weekend in Tulsa, OK.  I will not be there in person, but all the action will be covered on "Through the Gears".  I thank you for taking some time to read my articles.