5th Place Finish Earns 3rd straight top 5 of the Season at Slinger

Grant Griesbach and Alex Prunty led the field to the green flag in the 75 lap feature. Caution would fly on lap 2 for an incident involving Ryan DeStefnao. He would retire from the event with right front damage. Dennis Prunty started his move to the front passing Alex Prunty on lap 12 before another caution flew on lap 14 for a Jeff Holtz spin. Steve Apel moved into 3rd by the time that caution flew. Another caution flew on lap 18 when Steve Apel and Alex Prunty got together in turn 4. Chris Blawat was also involved sustaining major front end damage ending his night. During that caution period oil from the Randy Schuler’s car was found on the racing surface and was the reason for the caution giving Apel and Alex Prunty there spots back. The feature from that point on went caution free seeing Apel move to 2nd on lap 22 and Gary LaMonte to 3rd on lap 26 setting up a thrilling battle over the final 49 laps. Dennis Prunty was able to hold off both Apel and LaMonte to pick up his first feature win of the season at Slinger in his first appearance..

“Its just great to finish a feature” Dennis said in victory lane referring to his early season struggles in the ARCA Midwest tour. “I hope to be back next week to try it again” Prunty announced. Steve Apel continued his early season success finishing 2nd with LaMonte ending up 3rd. Brad Mueller finished 4th with Alex Prunty rounding out the top 5. Jeff Holtz won the 30 lap semi feature. Dave McCardell, Cole Rouse and Randy Schuler transferred to the main event along with Holtz.

 

Heat race winners were Jacob Vanoskey, Fred Winn, and Ryan DeStefano. Steve Apel and Gary LaMonte tied in qualifying with 11.365 laps. Apel turned the lap first and was awarded the fast qualifier.

Super Late Models - Feature    May 28, 2017
Pos	Car #	Driver
1	42P	Dennis Prunty
2	51A	Steve Apel
3	63L	Gary LaMonte
4	89M	Brad Mueller
5	11P	Alex Prunty
6	92M	Conrad Morgan
7	48K	Brad Keith
8	38W	Nick Wagner
9	99R	Cole Rouse
10	38H	Jeff Holtz
11	9L	Tim Lampman
12	66M	Dave McCardle
13	75W	Fred Winn
14	17G	Grant Griesbach
15	98B	Robert Braun
16	26B	Chris Blawat
17	72S	Randy Schuler
18	35D	Travis Dassow
19	0D	Ryan DeStefano