Daren Friedman wins Lincoln Speedway Late Model Feature!
By: Dan Stewart

LINCOLN, ILL (Aug. 25) - Twenty one late models showed up ready for battle at Lincoln Speedway Saturday night. The first heat went to RJ Gall over Eric Smith, Mike Mullvain and Greg Longfellow. The second heat was a close contest going to the 2007 Lincoln Speedway track champion Matt Taylor over Daren Friedman, Guy Taylor and Lance Alcorn. The third heat went to Scott Bull in a romp over Nick Bauman, Jimmy Dehm, and Ed Barth.

The feature started with polesitter Scott Bull taking the initial lead. About halfway through the feature, after a few cautions, Daren Friedman made the pass for the lead and put a lot of distance between himself and Scott Bull. Matt Taylor would eventually get around Bull for second, with Bull settling for third, followed by Eric Smith and Derek Chandler. The rest of the top ten were Nick Bauman, Mike Mullvain, Ryan Little, RJ Gall and Roger Brickler.

There was a nice field of cars on hand with over 100 cars in the pits. The late model feature was run third on the ticket, and we were in the car on the highway at 9:45.
The sportsman heats went to Gary Turpin over Nick Macklin, and to Wes O'Dell over Rick Thomas. The feature was won by Billy Nail in a very close race over Wes O'Dell, Rick Thomas, Gary Turpin and Rick Roedell. The feature took 20 minutes to run due to a total of seven caution flags.

The modified class had the largest car count of the night, with 27 on hand. The first heat went to eighth place starter Dick Taylor over Brian Lynn and Cory Schwengel. The second heat went to Brandon Roberts in a fun race over Wendell Zulaf, Jr and Tommy Duncan. The third heat went to Jeff Leka over Darcey Wey and Danny O'Dell. The semi feature went to Jeffrey Leka over Jackie Willis. The feature was another yellow filled race, with the caution count up to seven for the twenty lapper. It did not really matter to Jeff Leka, as he led the whole race, under constant pressure from Dick Taylor and Brian Lynn. Lynn finished second. Third would go to tenth row starter Roben Huffman, as Taylor encountered some last lap troubles, and wound up in fourth place, followed by Jeb Friedman, Jeffrey Leka, Tommy Duncan, Darcey Wey and Bobby Pearson.

The street stock feature went to Travis Johnson over Greg Rubenacker, Terry Miller, Chris Tackett, and Nick Vandenbergh.

The hornet feature was won by Matt Turley over Joe Reed, Eric Keymon, Josh Osborne and David Jones