Pittsburgh Pennsylvania Motor Speedway

8/17/2015

8/15/15 RED MILEY RUMBLE

There were 20 RUSH Late Models, 17 DIEHL Super Lates, 10 Sportsman, 6 Hobby Stocks, 6 Young Guns, 10 Rush Modifies for the make-up feature and 11 for the regular show. Heat winners in the RUSH Late Models were Mark Moats Jr., Mike Reft, and Josh Holtgraver. In the DIEHL Super Late Models, Alex Ferree and Jared Miley. Jeff Broniszewski and Bill Robinson won the Sportsman heats, Robinson dominated the feature. Dale Tuche (310) won the Hobby Stock feature over Hannah Ramsey (14H), while David Ostrander (15) won the Young Gun feature over Austin Ostrander (77).

Ben & Jared Miley paced the rumble in a single file Alan Kulwucki lap around the monster as a tribute to Miley Racing founder, Red Miley.
Davey Johnson and Keith Barbara started on the front row for the RED MILEY MEMORIAL. Johnson jumped into the lead at the drop of the green and led until lap 17, when Keith Barbara made a pass for the lead. Barbara was sailing along with a 3 second advantage until the only caution waved on lap 27. Alex Ferree took over second place, and running the high groove kept closing the gap on Barbara, got a great run out of the 4th turn on the final lap, but Barbara held on for the win with Ferree literally on his bumper.

Keith Barbara (17)
Alex Ferree (10)
Colton Flinner (75)
Jared Miley (H1)
Davey Johnson (1J)
Steve Baker (0)
Michael Davis (7)
Brandon Burgoon (02)
Jon Hodgkiss (69)
Derek Stefanick (44)
Bill Kessler (9)
John Flinner (47) DNF
Mike Pegher Jr. (1C) DNF
Tony Musolino (36) DNF
Shane Hitt (5) DNF
Ben Miley (99) DNF
Butch Neubert (14) DNF

Daryl Charlier and Josh Holtgraver swapped the lead during the closing laps of the feature, but Charlier used lapped traffic to his advantage and held on for a hard-fought win in the Pro Late Models, once again with the second place car right on his bumper.