The misty Pocono mountains fade as the sun arises to excellent Pocono Raceway action. The two points leaders await the green flag on the front row, as Craig Lee and the rest follow the draft line to a possible victory.
Race Results
Points Standings
Schedule
Scott Drake and Steven Lowe bring out the first two cautions quickly after check-ups entering turn 2. Randy Dobbins and Philip Parker were also involved in the melee's, and neither would recover to finish inside the top-35. Lowe and Drake would finish 24th and 37th by the end.
Tony Pizzaro and Tim McDonnell came in for tires during the multiple yellow flags. Dave Miller came out the leader entering the first green flag run, with John Battista and John Tharp each taking turns at the front.
Tharp, Johnny Reed Foley and Rick Jackson each dominated the run, with Pizzaro losing a lap after a blown tire in the tunnel-turn. McDonnell could only muster through the field up to 4th, as teammate Ben Geer followed through the pack in a Cinderella effort.
McDonnell, Geer, Ken Pettit and Alex Crapser bottled up to the front as Dave Miller lost grip on his older tires. Foley and Jackson both led double-digit laps by the end, and seemed to be the top-goers for the victory. It was proved as the wrong analysis quickly, as Ryan Heuser stole the show from nowhere to take his first lead of the race.
A battle for 2nd place with 39 laps to go turned deadly, as Foley and Pettit made contact entering the first corner battling for second. Foley slammed the outside wall rear-first as the oncoming chaos meandered passed the stopped AMP-mobile. Fortunately, he was not hit by oncoming traffic.
Zach Michael took the lead several laps after the restart. He and Ryan mustered enough horsepower to pull away from the pack with Ben Geer tagging along. It was a 3-wide melee for 4th between all three R2W and Team Danger Zone cars, who were clearly the cream of the crop other than Ryan and Ben.
Heuser and Michael swapped the lead six times before the final green flag stop with 12 laps to go. The #138 led a race-leading 40 laps while the #20 led 11 by the end. Geer followed the two in the awe of his dramatic top-3 performance. He had not recorded a top-13 all season.
Michael and Geer came in first, with Heuser in one lap later. The Domino's mobile came out over a second, but was reeled in by the "Rocket Man" in time for the final debris caution to come out. In the meantime, Johnny Reed Foley attempted to stretch the fuel all the way to the finish.
It was a three-lap shootout to the finish. Heuser and Michael were side-by-side for the entire first lap before the #138 took charge off of turn-3. Geer made his move past on the oncoming front-straightaway, as Michael was left to hold off his teammates and the R2W crowd to stay in 3rd.
Ben Geer came extremely close to victory, drafting up to the NOS Energy machine on the front-stretch coming to the checkered. The Quick-Silver horsepower ended up stealing the show, crossing the line in first and earning his league-leading 4th victory of the season. Congrats to Ryan, crew chief Mustard Mahoney, and the entire Quick-Silver Motorsports team for an excellent victory!
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