Wonderling wins the Black Rock Speedway BRP CanAm / Super Stock Challenge

Dundee, NY…Jeremy Wonderling continued his mastery of the Black Rock Speedway [BRS] with a victory in the Black Rock Speedway $10,000 challenge event for BRP CanAm Late Models and Super Stocks. The victory was worth $2000 for the second generation driver from Scio, NY.

Saturday’s win was Wonderling’s tenth of the year at the famed old Dundee race track. Wonderling had never raced at BRS until April 15 when he won the opening round of the 2006 BRP CanAm Series. He then adopted BRS as his home track and earned the 2006 track point championship. The $2000 first place payoff was the most ever earned by the young red headed bachelor who heads the Wonderling Logging Company in Wellsville, NY when he is not racing his Baldwin Forest Products / Root’s Water Systems Shaw Grand Prix.

Wonderling inherited the lead from Paul Grigsby when the rear end gears failed in Grigsby’s Shaw Grand Prix on lap 43 of the 50 lap contest. Jason Knowles, Quinn Sutherland, Grigsby, and Wonderling all took turns at the top of the score board.

Larry Knowles, a BRP CanAm Series event winner at BRS last month, drove his CAT Rental Stores CRS GTO from 12th at the start to the runner up spot when Greg Hixson waved the double checkers. Knowles entered the event as a BRP CanAm driver; however, he is a many time winner and champion at BRS.

Neil Patterson of the Tuscarora Nation finished his 2006 racing season with a great run in his PoGo Machine powered Pro Speed Rocket Monte Carlo earning the final podium position. The Chief raced as high as second, but lost that spot to Knowles on lap 46.

Bill Miller a veteran BRS racer topped the BRS Super Stock contingent with a very impressive fourth place finish. Miller’s Monte Carlo was the oldest car in the field, but the “Old Girl” still has lots of grit and go.

Scott Brown, a Woodhull Raceway Super Stock driver, rounded out the top five in his first ever start at BRS.

Long haul award winner was Cory Fleming a New Egypt [NJ] Speedway late model racer from Easton, PA. Fleming won a Brad Penn racing Oil Heat Race and was racing just outside the top five until collected in a lap 32 incident which eventually caused an 18th place DNF.

The 26 car starting field for the $10,000 Challenge was set from five qualifiers which were won by Paul Grigsby, Jason Knowles, Larry Knowles, Glenn Whritenour, and Fleming.

50 laps Challenge Finish: JEREMY WONDERLING, Larry Knowles, Neil Patterson, Scott Brown, Bill Miller, Carl Shelter, Quinn Sutherland, Jon Rivers, Craig Lane, Greg Galligan, Sparky Hills, Rick Hale, Dave Fultz, Jason Knowles, Aksel Jensen, Jim Johnson, Paul Grigsby, Cory Fleming, Glenn Whritenour, Jessica Pierce, Wayne Robertson, Dave DuBois, Brian Kotarski, Donnie Smith