Mike Pegher Jr of Cranberry, Twp, PA captured the FASTRAK Northeast Regional, USMC Corporal Jason Dunham Memorial at McKean County Raceway last night.  The win was worth $1200 as he defeated Smethport native, Steve Dixon.  In other action, Randy Hall picked up the United Emod Series win with a late race pass over Al Brewer and held off Vic Vena for his second UEMS win of the year.  Josh Wilcox won the Tireman Street Stock Memorial and Larry Mitchell captured the mini stock feature. 

The Jerry Irons “Tireman” Memorial was the first event of the evening for the street stock division with Ted Mascho taking the early lead over Josh Wilcox and Bruno Mowery.  Wilcox took over the lead on lap four.  Critter Hemphill would move into the top five on lap six and would move Andy Michael back to fifth on lap ten. Wilcox would start lapping the field around lap fifteen and on lap 18 Hemphill would get into the car of Mascho and would receive the black flag ending his strong bid for the win.  On the restart Wilcox would have the cars of Bruno Mowery and Andy Michael on his rear bumper but Wilcox is able to hold off for the win over Andy Michael who got around Mowery on the white flag lap for second.  Levi Watson was third followed by Dan Giboo and Butch Talbot in fifth.

 The Northeast FASTRAK Regional Late Model Series rolled onto the 3/8 mile speed plant with Mike Pegher Jr and hometown favorite, Steve Dixon on the front row.  Dixon would take the immediate lead over Pegher with Kyle Zimmerman following.  The first yellow would fly on lap three and on the restart; Pegher would take the lead over Dixon with defending series champion, Max Blair now slipping into third.  With ten laps down, Pegher was still at the point over Dixon, Blair, Butch Lambert and Joe Martin rounding out the top five.  The yellow would come out on lap fifteen for several cars and the top four running order was still the same with Josh Holtgraver now in fifth and TJ Downs having a stellar run in sixth.  Pegher would survive a few more cautions and would capture the 25 lap USMC Corporal Jason Dunham Memorial over Dixon, Blair, Lambert and Dan Angelicchio. 

The United Emod Series made their first visit of the year to MCR.    Veteran, Al Brewer and Vic Vena paced the field to John Powell’s green flag with Brewer powering into the lead at the start.  With the first lap completed the first yellow would come out as point leader, Joel Watson would get loose in turn one and get collected by Tim Walden and Friday night UEMS winner, Jack Young.  Young would make it back on the track in time as the event was restarted before Watson was able to make it back to the lineup.  Brewer again powered away from Vena as Randy Hall would slip by the 01 of Vena for second.  Hall would take chase of Brewer in his familiar #71 machine.  At the halfway point, Hall and Brewer had the fans on their feet while Vena, Bob Close and Kyle Inman were chasing the duo.  The lead duo started enter lap traffic around lap fifteen as Hall closed in and got under Brewer, but it was the ageless veteran keeping the point.  Lap nineteen would see the second yellow of the event for Young as he stopped on the backstretch.  Brewer would take the inside lane on the double file restart and pulled away from Hall.  Close would now slide Vena back to fourth with Butch Southwell now in fifth.  All eyes were on the top two still as Hall kept his potent #10 on the inside as Brewer was using the outside groove.  On lap 23, Brewer would slide high coming out of turn two to allow Hall to pull beside him going into turn three where the two made contact and Hall inheriting the lead with Brewer sliding back to fourth behind Vena and Close.  As the four drivers took the white flag, Vena dove under Hall for his bid to lead and now Hall and Vena raced door to door for the win with Brewer and Close doing the same for third.  Hall would hold off Vena at the line for the win.  Close edged a disappointed Brewer for third with Craig Bedell finishing fifth from his 16^th starting spot.

The mini stocks would end the evening for their fifteen lap finale.  The Babcock’s of Kyle and Kurt would lead the twelve car field to the green with Kyle grabbing the lead on lap one only to see CJ Irons take the lead on lap two, but on lap later is was eighth place starter, Nick Snayzak your new leader.  The action was hot for the fans, but it got more exciting on lap five as seventh place starter Larry Mitchell became the fourth different leader in the first five laps.  Rookie, Ryan Burke saw his first event come to halt as the young Olean driver rolled his machine over in turn two.  Mitchell would restart the event over Snayzak and would lead the remainder of the event over Snayzak, CJ Irons, defending track champion Brad Ullman and Rick Bump.

McKean County Raceway would be back in action on Thursday, June 30 with the Ned Gleason Memorial for the Northern Tier Inc ULMS Late Models.  Also on hand will be the FASTRAK Late Models, Emods, Street Stocks and Mini Stocks.

FASTRAK Jason Dunham Memorial

Mike Pegher, Steve Dixon, Max Blair, Butch Lambert, Dan Angelicchio, Jr Peters, Adam Sixt, TJ Downs, John Haggerty, Shane Weaver, Josh Holtrgraver, Lauren Longbrake  Brad Mesler, Joe Martin, Ike Fanton, Justin Tatlow, Craig Dean, Damien Bidwell, Kyle Zimmerman, Brian Lessley, Matt Cobb

UEMS Emods

Randy Hall, Vic Vena, Bob Close, Al Brewer, Craig Bedell, Kyle Inman, Butch Southwell, Mike Eschrich, Bud Watson, Ben Asel, Kevin Buff, Jack Young, Kyle Bedell, Dan Davies, Tim Peterson, Darren Tarabori, Brent Rhebergen, Shane Crotty, Justin Carlson, Tim Walden, Joel Watson

Street Stocks Jerry "Tireman" Irons Memorial

Josh Wilcox, Andy Michael, Levi Watson, Dan Giboo, Butch Talbot, Steve Mowery, Scott Derock, Rich Wojtowictz, Bruno Mowery, Jeff Hellwig, Joe Chamberlain, Patrick Yohe, Scott Fuller, Ted mascho, Steve Field, Craig Rex, Andy Eastman, Hiram Clayson, Steve Sklar, Chris Austin, John Freely, Barry Tingue, Kevin Dzuroff, Critter Hemphill, Casey Burgeson

DNQ, Zach Hamer, Randy Taylor, Chris Conkey, Mark Schweikaret, Brian Peterson, Ron Budinger

Mini Stocks

Larry Mitchell, Nick Snayczak, CJ Irons, Brad Ullman, Rick Bump, Jeff Buhl, Taylor Jacobs, Riley Ellison, Dan Lockwood, Aaron Bartas, Eric Canfield, Kurt Babcock, Kyle Eaton, Duane Powers, Ryan Burke, Kyle Babcock, Bill Bailey, Shawn Byerly, Joe Boylan