Friday

TOLEDO, Ohio — Despite dominating International SuperModified Ass’n competition the past few seasons, Chris Perley has struggled at Toledo Speedway.
That struggle ended Friday night as Perley broke the track record with a 13.116-second lap of the half-mile oval in qualifying and followed it up by winning the 50-lap feature.
“It’s all awesome, these wins,” said Perley. “I don’t think it will ever get old. I came into this race going, ‘We didn’t finish here last year and we didn’t finish at Waterford last year and we ended up winning there this year.’ I thought I’d be asking a lot to try and win this one, too. I don’t know, it just worked out great.”
Perley had to battle his way past Dave McKnight and Mark Sammut to get to the front. Perley finally made his winning move on lap 32.
“This is a great place to race,” Perley said. “There is a lot of room out there to play and big banking, so it holds your car in the ball park. At the beginning of the race, the car was slipping and sliding. I didn’t know if I had enough.”
He did, holding off McKnight for the victory, with Sammut, Dave Shullick, Jr. and Rob Summers following.
The finish:
Chris Perley, Dave McKnight, Mark Sammut, Dave Shullick, Jr., Rob Summers, Bobby Magner, Moe Lilje, Dave Sanborn, Vern Romanoski, Bobby Haynes, Jr., Terry Gibson, Johnny Torrese, Gene Lee Gibson, Dave Mumaw, Mike Lichty, Dave Trytek, Jeff Holbrook, Johnny Benson, Jr., Larry Lehnert, Rick Wentworth, Burdette Bennett, Eric Torrese, Doug Didero, Ryan Little.

Saturday

JONES, Mich. — Mike Ordway, Jr. gave himself a nice high school graduation present Saturday night at M-40 Speedway by winning his first International SuperModified Ass’n feature.
The victory came quickly for the son of legendary supermodified racer Mike Ordway, as the 18-year-old shoe won in just his second start in Rick Wentworth’s No. 10.
“I took the lead early, but if I could have I would have liked to follow someone else and then get by him at the end. I hate leading all the laps like that. The race never seemed like it was going to end,” Ordway said. “We kept having yellows, and I didn’t want to see them but I did want to see them to get away from the lap cars. They showed me 10 to go and then five to go, and it seemed like an hour after that the checkered fell.”
The Vic Miller team cars driven by Rob Summers and point-leader Chris Perley finished second and third, with Jeff Holbrook and Bob Magner filling the top five.
The finish:
Mike Ordway, Jr., Rob Summers, Chris Perley, Jeff Holbrook, Bob Magner, Vern Romanoski, Dave McKnight, Mark Sammut, Bobby Haynes, Jr., Dave Sanborn, Steve Shellenberger, Dave Trytek, Mike Lichty, Larry Lehnert, Eric Torrese, Johnny Torrese.