DYLAN DOMINATES BEDFORD 55 September 9th, 2013 In an event rain delayed a week, Dylan Yoder arrived and devastated the field in the annual Labor Day 55 at Bedford Sunday night. Yoder actually led a pair of 24 cars across the line as father Jim, who fell a lap back earlier, actually chased Dylan to the finish. In other action, two drivers scored their first ever Bedford wins as Jim Sacco won the Semi Late race and Brandon Conrad won the 4 Cylinder event. In between, Travis Group won the Pure Stock race and Dennis Perigo grabbed the Economodified laurels. Dylan Yoder started his evening off well by winning his heat race and drawing two for a starting position in the Three State format. Yoder shot by Austin Hubbard at the start and never looked back as the 55 lap distance unfolded. Jason Covert zoomed in to harrass Hubbard for second and was running there when the most severe crash in the race happened on lap 9. On that lap Colby Frye banked off the third turn wall and got up on top of it before bouncing back onto the track. On that restart, Yoder left no doubt that he was in command as he ran off from Hubbard over the next 16 green laps. Heavy lapped traffic by that point gave Hubbard, Covert and fast closing Jeremy Miller a close look at Yoder’s back bumper, but he held sway. Miller got by Covert for third on lap 25, just before the caution flew again. When the race went another long green stretch, Yoder again got into lapped traffic with Hubbard holding off Miller for second. The next yellow on lap 37 set up an interesting situation as the last car Yoder lapped before that was his father in an identical car. On the restart Dylan got away from the field again, but Jim got away from the second place battle between Hubbard and Miller, running there until the finish. At the line it was Dylan Yoder with the convincing win, followed by Hubbard, Miller, Covert Mark Pettyjohn, Matt Parks, Kenny Pettyjohn, Shawn Claar, Jerry Bard and DJ Troutman. Jim Yoder, a car length off the leader for the last 18 laps was 14th, one lap off the pace. Yoder, Miller and Covert won the heats.
Posted on: Mon, 09 Sep 2013 20:53:03 +0000
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