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Racer Races his way to World Championship in Hornets
By Brett Zerfowski 

MACON, ILL (September 11) - Easter Seals presented the World Hornet Championship at Macon Speedway Saturday night with a $500-to-win prize which saw 33 4-cylinder Pro Hornets race.  At the end of the 20 laps, a first-time-ever driver to the historic dirt track claimed the trophy and right to be known as the 2010 World Champion of Hornets. 

14-year-old Dayton Racer of St. Genevive, Mo., made his first trip to Macon Speedway a memorable one with the championship.  Trailing David Lauritson in the early going, Racer took the lead from Lauritson on the seventh lap coming out of the second turn and would not look back for the rest of the race.  Putting lapped cars between himself and Lauritson and the rest of the field, Racer would take the final 13 laps and win. 

The Amateur Hornets completed their feature race from last week when Jerad Matherly struck the wall and needed to be taken away in the ambulance.  Surprisingly, Matherly made his return at the World Hornet Championship in the same car which was destroyed the previous week.  He would start in the back of the field and work his way up but would not catch the leader and eventual winner Jeremy Gentry.  The second Amateur Hornet feature would go to Adam Webb, his third of the year, as he took over entering the fourth turn of the final lap when Matherly, who was leading, cut a tire and lost the lead. 

The fans were treated to a second bonus of the night with a bonus Modified make-up feature from the August 20^th rainout during a POWRi show.  Taylorville’s Mark Tullis would race along with Randy Huffman for nearly the entire race before pulling away for his third feature of 2010.   

Dave Crawley, Jr., who has been incredible this season in every division he has raced, finished third in the make-up feature but would take the glory in a wild and crazy second feature.  For Crawley, it would be his seventh of 2010 and increased his points lead with two weeks remaining in the season. 

Crawley’s dominance continued in the Touchstone Energy Sportsman class, taking his eighth feature of the season.  Leading all 15 laps, Crawley would not be hassled during the A-Main as he started on the pole and would control the tempo from the opening green flag. 

For the third-straight week, Crawley would have a Street Stock ready to compete for the night but his luck would run out as he fell out of the race on the third lap, he was leading at the time, and Mike Pickering would take over with the lead.  A caution flag during the tenth lap set up a finish with he and Troy Dodson.  Dodson cut underneath Pickering for the lead on the restart coming to the white flag and would hold on for his first feature of the year and first since May 23, 2009. 

Macon Speedway also featured the High School Hornets class Saturday night with nine racing in the division.  Tommy Eskew of Williamsville High School was the winner, his first feature of the year but second in the class as he won to inaugural High School Hornets race in the 2009 season finale. 

Macon Speedway would like to thank Easter Seals for sponsoring the evening on the ninth anniversary of the September 11, 2001, attacks on New York and Washington.  The National Anthem, as it always does at the beginning of the event, played proudly before the crowd. 

Next week will mark the return of the UMP Late Models to the race track for the Mueller Lite Beer Twin 50s as the Late Models and Modifieds will run 50 lap features.  It will also be the final Big Ten Series race for the Late Models.  A full show is scheduled, as well.