VonDohren wins 3rd straight Forrest Rogers Memorial

NASCAR 358 Modified point leader and defending champion Craig VonDohren scored a three-peat and became the only eight-time winner when he won the Forrest Rogers Memorial/ Pioneer Pole Buildings 50lap TP Trailers 358 NASCAR Modified feature for a $10,000 payday on Saturday night at Grandview Speedway in the races broadcast by RCN-TV, Allentown. The race is run inmemory of the founder of the speedway.

During the course of the evening it was announced that the September 16th Freedom76ModifiedClassic, the biggest event of the season, would be run in memoryof thelatetrackpromoter Bruce Rogers, who passed away in April, and will pay $30,000 towin. More details on this very special eventwill be released shortly.

VonDohren now joins Fred Rahmer, the ’ 82, ’ 83 and ’ 84 winner as the only driver at the 1/3-mile Berks Co. clay oval to win the prestigious event three straight times.

The defending and current point leader, who broke into the winner’s circle last week, didn’t have an easy time since he first had to battle side-by-side with Colt Harris several laps before he moved into first on the 31st lap and the he out- ran runner-up Mike Gular, who gave it his all several times, finishing second by a narrow 1.696 margin.

In victory lane VonDohren commented, “it was hard, flat-out racing and his crew worked diligently to repair the car after it got toreupinthe heat race. The top was the place to be even though it was good on the bottom and I had to mix it up and run the middle while battling with Gular.”

The BRC NASCAR 20lap Late Model feature was basically all current point leader Chuck Schutz as he ran away and hid since he led from the drop of the green until the wave of the checkered to win his fourth feature in the series.

John McGovern finally had a productive night in NASCAR Sportsman action as everything went in his favor. First he won his qualifying heat and then he held off the continuous challenges of runner-up Dylan Swinehart and third-place finisherMike Lisowski once they caught him to win his first career ever 25-lapNASCAR Sportsman feature.