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Raceway 7 ends season tomorrow, September 2!

Conneaut, OH (September 1, 2011) The 2011 season will end at Raceway 7 tomorrow night with regular features for all divisions that will see the 2011 champions officially crowned. Two championships have been decided but two others are one the line.

Max Blair wrapped up the Evergreen Lake Park Campground FASTRAK Late Model title in mid-August on the strength of utter domination of the class all season long. Blair wound up in Victory Lane eight nights of the 11 contested! The nights Blair did not go to the Winner’s Circle he was second twice and third once. Second place in the final standings is still up for grabs as Bill Cunningham SR took over the spot from Dave Airgood Jr last week, but only by a 38 point margin.

The Zimmer Service Center E-Mods had reigning champion Russ Dunn off to a slow start, plagued with problems throughout the first half of the season, finishing in the top five only once while Joel Watson was wracking up three wins, a second and a third.  With his consistent up front finishes since his first of three consecutive wins starting July 15, Dunn has come to within 65 points of the lead.  With 75 points being the most a driver can gain during a night, Watson would have to have disaster strike and not even start the feature this week. 2009 champion Percy McDonald is but five points behind Dunn, so Dunn must have a good finish to secure the runner-up spot. The veteran of a forty year racing career, Bill Taylor, has come on strong the past couple of weeks but trails McDonald by 45 points coming into the season finale.

The Campbell’s Mini-Storage Street Stocks will likely see a new champion this season as Chris Withers, who scored his first-ever Raceway 7 win on, then foll0wed it up two weeks later with win number two,  holds a near insurmountable 56 point edge on past champion Ed Bolyard, winless this season. Joe Rohrer, also winless, rides fourth in the points, 45 behind Bolyard. The leading winner this season has been the all-time leading Street Stock winner at Raceway 7, Rusty Wheeler.  Wheeler however, is running only sporadically, devoting the majority of his time to his burgeoning engine-building business.  Wheeler has four wins on the season in seven appearances.

Jonny Boyd, with six feature wins and seven heat triumphs, leads second place by a massive 152 point margin. Second belongs to the leader’s father, John Boyd Sr!  The elder Boyd scored his first win in over 40 years on July 8, but has not finished in the top spot since. Third running Bud Sergeff ran in the runner-up spot since early in the season but experienced major problems last week, failing to finish either his heat of his feature.  Sergeff also has one win on the season.  If the Boyds finish first and second, it will be the first time in raceway history that a father and son have accomplished the feat.

The annual awards banquet is scheduled for November 12, 2011 at the St. John’s Social Center in Girard, PA. Doors will open at 5:30 PM with dinner tentatively set for 7 PM.  The awards portion of the banquet will follow dinner with entertainment to follow.  Tickets will be $25. More information will be available at the Raceway 7 website at www.raceway7.com as soon as available.

Weather permitting, gates open every Friday at 5:30 PM with pill draw cut off at 7 PM and racing at 7:30 PM. VIP suites are available for rental for $250 a night which includes eight general admissions passes. Admission is set for $10 for adults, kids 5-14 are $5. 4 and under free.  Pit passes are $25. For more information please visit www.raceway7.com or call the track on race day after 12 noon at 440-594-2222.