After a two day weather delay, the 2017 season finally got started on Sunday at the Bedford Speedway. It was well worth the wait for Chad Hollenbeck, who scored his first career Bedford Late Model win. in exciting fashion. In doing so he became the 137th different winner in the track’s history, and just barely held off a racer going for his record breaking sixth win in a row, Matt Cosner. In keeping with the spirit of the new season, three other drivers also won their Bedford firsts. Boyd Brode snared an exciting last lap win in Semi Late action, visitor Mike Potosky took the EMod event and Dakota Foor waited out the tech line to score a Pure Stock win. Wayne Brenize ended the evening with another 4 Cylinder conquest.
The Late Model event was slowed quickly as Brian Booze plastered the turn two wall on lap one, but on the restart , Chad Hollernbeck took off from the field. By the time the next caution flew on lap 14, Hollenbeck had a sizeable lead over Matt Sponaugle, DJ Troutman and Jeff Rine, who were wrist wrestling for second place. The group ran in that order until the next caution on lap 17 for Troutman.. Read more »
