This pile up describes the action of the World 100!
After a long night of racing, Lee Booze outdueled Justin Liskai to win the first annual World 100 for Late Models at Redmen Raceway by a mere 2 laps.
When the green flag dropped it was clear that the green lane was the fastest and the blue lane was the most treacherous. How drivers handled those two heats would make or break their night. It was the first night of the season in which all six lanes were in action at once, with the extra traffic and distractions adding to the stress.
Eastern Ohio invader Bruce Minner jumped out to the early lead picking up the first heat win over Ryan Missler. In heat 2 of 9, Justin Liskai drove the green lane to the win with Missler holding close on the outside in the white lane. Mark Gierhart took his turn in green for the heat win, putting some distance on the competition.
By heat 4, all the drivers had cycled through at least one race in the round robin format. Randy Dickman picked up the win in green, with Lee Booze second in the red lane. John Warren won heat 5 in green and Ryan Missler won heat 6. Heat 7 was the game changer. Lily Missler crashed out while leading in green, and Justin Liskai jumped on the opportunity to pick up a second heat victory. In that same heat, Lee Booze turned the highest lap total on the night in the blue lane with 87.
Rich Lesiecki picked up his first ever heat win at Redmen Raceway in the penultimate heat. The final heat saw Lee Booze control his own fate finishing the fast green lane. When the power turned off, he had a two lap edge over Justin Liskai, largely due to a solid run earlier in blue. Mark Gierhart drove a smooth race over invader Minner to finish on the podium by a mere half a lap. Ryan Missler recovered from a disasterous yellow lane to finish fifth. John Warren, Randy Dickman, Rich Lesiecki and Lily Missler rounded out the field.
Place, Laps, Driver (red, green, white, orange, yellow, blue)
1. 528 Lee Booze (90, 100, 87, 86, 78, 87)
2. 526 Justin Liskai (85, 100, 100, 88, 87, 66)
3. 522.7 Mark Gierhart (98, 100, 90, 85, 87, 66)
4. 522.3, Bruce Minner (89, 100, 83, 79, 95, 76)
5. 508 Ryan Missler (92, 100, 94, 84, 63, 75)
6. 504 John Warren (77, 100, 89, 82, 80, 76)
7. 500 Randy Dickman (84, 100, 82, 81, 88, 77)
8. 495 Rich Lesiecki (83, 100, 84, 91, 70, 67)
9. 357 Lily Missler (84, 58, 82, 79, 23, 23)
It was the B Scott T shirt with its almost 20 yr old grease that did it...
