WOO Duel in Dodge Friday 7-1-2011

105 degree temps and strong winds are usually a sure recipe for terrible race conditions, so it didn't look good going into Friday's Duel in Dodge. Tommie Estes Jr and his crew managed a minor miracle and kept the track in really good shape considering the conditions even if they had to rework the track twice during the show.

The racing was really good with the guys running pretty much wherever they wanted all night instead of the usual one lane train that often happens on nights like this.

  The feature appeared to belong to Sammy Swindell (who looks as fast as ever recently) until Kerry Madsen and Jason Martin got together in turn 4 with about 4 laps to go. Martin hit the wall a ton and took a nasty looking ride, but climbed right out of the car and immediately went looking for Madsen......probably to discuss the nasty weather.

Ben Gregg

Kris Miller

Chad Kemenah

Brian Herbert

Bill Rose

Jeff Stasa

Kerry Madsen

Joey Saldana

Craig Dollansky

Jason Meyers

Sammy Swindell

Patrick Stasa

Donny Schatz

Kraig Kinser

Jason Sides

Zach Blurton

Ty Williams

Steve Kinser

Paul McMahan

Taylor Velasquez

Lucas Wolfe

Tony Bruce Jr.

Steven Richardson

Cody Darrah

Jason Martin

Ron Krysl

Joey Saldana watches Steve Kinser in his heat.

Craig Dollansky & Steve Kinser in heat #1.

Kerry Madsen & Chad Kemenah in heat #2.

The traditional 4-wide salute.

Kraig Kinser & Ben Gregg.

Joey Saldana & Lucas Wolfe.

Paul McMahan & Steve Kinser.

Jeff Stasa & Sammy Swindell.

Donny Schatz & Craig Dollansky.

Number 11 & number 11. Er, Steve Kinser & Patrick Stasa.

Trying to slide up past Jason Martin, Kerry Madsen (92) runs Martin into the wall in turn #4 with about four laps to go.

Martin pivots on his front tires as Madsen continues.

His front end impacts the wall again........

......sending him flying along with parts and dust.

The car flips into the front stretch........

......right into the path of oncoming cars. Note the red has just come on here.

Cody Darrah was just able to avoid Martin.

On the restart, they went 3 wide.......

.....and even four wide. So much for a one lane track.

Sammy ALMOST regained the lead coming to take the white flag, but came up just short.

Dollansky & crew celebrate after Friday's feature.

Sammy and Craig pop the corks of their champagne.

On the restart, Craig Dollansky managed to get by Swindell in turn 4. A lap later, Swindell almost regained the lead, but Dollansky held him off for the win.