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Dewayne Kiefer, Rusty Griffaw, Brad Paquet, Danny Ems & Jacob Rexing take wins at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55!

Dewayne Kiefer Rusty Griffaw Brad Paquet Danny Ems Jacob Rexing CLICK HERE FOR MORE PHOTOS FROM FEDERATED AUTO PARTS RACEWAY AT I-55 SEASON OPENER! By Jimmy Dearing (STLRacing.com)Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 PR Pevely, MO (March 31st, 2012) - Dewayne Kiefer finished the UMP DIRTcar Late Model main event by dominating the closing laps to earn his feature win ever at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55. Rusty Schlenk started on the front row pole but was challenged for the lead on the very first lap by Kiefer who started fourth. The two raced side by side for a couple of laps before Kiefer pulled ahead using the low side. A caution would reset the field on lap seven and Schlenk made another challenge for the lead using the high side. Schlenk would get past Kiefer and lead two laps before Kiefer would again take over the top spot on the low side. With the rest of the event going caution free, Kiefer would pull away to a dominating win. That left a huge battle for the second spot with Schlenk, Scott Weber and Ron McQuerry. Schlenk continued to run on the high side with Weber in third around the bottom with McQuerry behind Weber. With ten laps to go, McQuerry moved to the middle of the track and swept past Weber into the third spot. One lap later, McQuerry would move past Schlenk and take the second spot. McQuerry would get his best finish ever at Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 with his second place run. Schlenk would hold off Weber to finish third with Weber taking fourth. Andrew Johns was the big mover in the field as he came from the fourteenth starting spot to round out the top five. Rusty Griffaw would take advantage of lapped traffic with eight laps remaining to move past Mark Miner to earn the UMP DIRTcar Modified win. Mark Miner was pacing the field and keeping Griffaw a couple of car lengths back until Griffaw moved up to the middle of the track and moved past Mark Miner as they worked slower traffic. Griffaw would then hold off the challenges of Mark Miner and go on to victory. Mark Miner would take second. Tim Hancock went to the very top at the drop of the green flag worked his way up from the seventh starting spot to finish in the third spot. Conrad Miner would take fourth with Doug Wood rounding out the top five. Brad Paquet took advantage of Troy Naeger's misfortunes to win the UMP DIRTcar/AARA Sportsman main event. Naeger was comfortably out front when the engine let go his machine at the half way point. That turned the lead over to Paquet who held off an occassional challenge from Troy Medley to earn the win. Medley would finish second with Jake Buechting having a great run to finish third. Chuck Adams would get the fourth spot with Danny Ems completing the top five. Danny Ems would cruise to victory in the UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pure Stock main event. Greg Jones would take second with Michael Hurst third. Jacob Rexing would earn a hard fought win over Travis Bittle in the UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pro 4 Stock main event. Rexing got the lead at the drop of the green flag while Bittle worked his way up from the sixth starting spot. Bittle would get to second with five laps remaining and then pressure Rexing for the lead. On the final lap Bittle would drive hard into turn three and get along side Rexing for the lead, but Rexing powered off turned four and edged Bittle at the line for the win. Josh Peppers would finish third with Jordy Schmidt fourth and Andrew Wibbenmeyer fifth. Federated Auto Parts Raceway at I-55 March 31st, 2012 UMP DIRTcar Late Models - 18 Entries Heat 1: Place No. Name 1 91 RUSTY SCHLENK 2 0 DEWAYNE KIEFER 3 95 JEFF JOHNS 4 8 CRAIG SMITH 5 87 KEN RUMBLE 6 86 JASON CRUMP 7 77 JASON MCBRIDE 8 11 JEFF HERZOG 9 5a PAUL SCHREMPF Heat 2: Place No. Name 1 1hr RON MCQUERRY 2 0 SCOTT WEBER 3 2 DAVE JUMPER 4 78 MARK MINER 5 23 DYLAN SHARP 6 7z MATT ZIMMERLY 7 95a ANDREW JOHNS 8 33f RICKY FRANKEL 9 23 PAUL ROIDER Feature: Place Start No. Name 1 (4) 0 DEWAYNE KIEFER 2 (3) 1hr RON MCQUERRY 3 (1) 91 RUSTY SCHLENK 4 (2) 00 SCOTT WEBER 5 (14) 95a ANDREW JOHNS 6 (8) 23 DYLAN SHARP 7 (9) 8 CRAIG SMITH 8 (5) 95 JEFF JOHNS 9 (10) 78 MARK MINER 10 (13) 77 JASON MCBRIDE 11 (6) 2j DAVE JUMPER 12 (15) 11 JEFF HERZOG 13 (17) 5a PAUL SCHREMPF 14 (11) 7z MATT ZIMMERLY 15 (7) 87 KEN RUMBLE 16 (18) 23 PAUL ROIDER DNS (12) 86 JASON CRUMP DNS (16) 33F RICKEY FRANKEL UMP DIRTcar Modifieds - 36 Entries Heat 1: Place No. Name 1 70 JOSH RUSSELL 2 3c CODY CONNER 3 22x DARRELL MOSER 4 713 STEVEN GORKA JR. 5 717 TIM NASH 6 3L BILL LARUE 7 28k DAVE KATHERINER 8 3s DAN SCHLUP JR. 9 18L MICHAEL LONG Heat 2: Place No. Name 1 18 BRENT THOMPSON 2 7 MARK MINER 3 50 KENT NATIONS 4 1a STEVE MEYER JR. 5 14 RICK CONOYER 6 10X ROB PENDERGRASS 7 66 DARRON FORREST 8 61 ERIC FRANKLIN 9 69 MARK HUNTER Heat 3: Place No. Name 1 9 DOUG WOOD 2 36 CONRAD MINER 3 21 DENNIS RICHARDS 4 0s PAUL BAUMAN 5 25$ DAN SWARINGIM 6 76 ERIC GOETTER 7 17 BRAD THURSTON 8 21 TOM RORABACHER 9 12s MIKE STUCKEY Heat 4: Place No. Name 1 1 TIM HANCOCK 2 16 RUSTY GRIFFAW 3 31 RICKY HORTON 4 12r TYLER RATAJCZYK 5 62k LEO KIEFER 6 98 JOEY WALSH 7 18d MATT DICKERMAN 8 20 DAN ZANDER 9 10jyd JIM BLACK Semi #1: Place No. Name 1 18L MICHAEL LONG 2 17 BRAD THURSTON 3 76 ERIC GOETTER 4 12s MIKE STUCKEY 5 21 TOM RORABACHER 6 3s DAN SCHLUP JR. 7 25$ DAN SWARINGIM 8 66 DARRON FORREST DNS 20 DAN ZANDER Semi #2: Place No. Name 1 98 JOEY WALSH 2 62k LEO KIEFER 3 61 ERIC FRANKLIN 4 10jyd JIM BLACK 5 18d MATT DICKERMAN 6 69 MARK HUNTER DNS 10XP ROB PENDERGRASS DNS 3L BILL LARUE DNS 28K DAVID KATHRINER Feature: Place Start No. Name 1 (4) 16 RUSTY GRIFFAW 2 (1) 7 MARK MINER 3 (7) 1 TIM HANCOCK 4 (3) 36 CONRAD MINER 5 (2) 9 DOUG WOOD 6 (10) 22x DARRELL MOSER 7 (5)  31 RICKY HORTON 8 (8) 18 BRENT THOMPSON 9 (7) 70 JOSH RUSSELL 10 (19) 18L MICHAEL LONG 11 (16) 14 RICK CONOYER 12 (6) 3c CODY CONNER 13 (13) 50 KENT NATIONS 14 (14) 21 DENNIS RICHARDS 15 (15) 0n PAUL BAUMAN 16 (12) 12r TYLER RATAJCZYK 17 (17) 1a STEVE MEYER JR. 18 (21) 17 BRAD THURSTON 19 (24) 61 ERIC FRANKLIN 20 (22) 62k LEO KIEFER 21 (20) 98 JOEY WALSH 22 (11) 713 STEVEN GORKA JR. 23 (18) 717 TIM NASH 24 (23) 76 ERIC GOETTER UMP DIRTcar/AARA Sportsman - 26 Entries Heat 1: Place No. Name 1 55K JASON KELLER 2 16M TROY MEDLEY 3 269 JOSH RAMER 4 105 DANIEL HANCOCK Heat 2: Place No. Name 1 47 BRAD PAQUET 2 36 DANNY EMS 3 99 CHUCK ADAMS 4 57 TREY HARRIS Heat 3: Place No. Name 1 12 TROY NAEGER 2 16 JAKE BUECHTING 3 5M MIKE MCMULLIN 4 21 ERIC HOGENMILLER Feature: Place Start No. Name 1 (2) 47 BRAD PAQUET 2 (3) 16M TROY MEDLEY 3 (7)16B JACOB BUECHTING 4 (8) 99 CHUCK ADAMS 5. (6) 36 DANNY EMS 6 (14) 192 MARK SPRAUL 7 (11) 21 ERIC HOGENMILLER 8 (13) 29 JEFF LEBAUBE 9 (16) 77 PATRICK HAWKINS 10 (5) 269 JOSH RAMER 11 (17) 15B MATT BRUCATO 12 (18) 3 SCOTT HENSELER 13 (19) 18B TERRY BROWN 14 (21) 101 DANNY BASHAM 15 (9) 57 TREY HARRIS 16 (15) 6 RICK RUCH 17 (20) 29S JERRY RADEACKER 18 (24) 71 MATT SCHOTT 19 (22) C16 CORY BROWN 20 (4) 12 TROY NAEGER 21 (12) 105 DANIEL HANCOCK 22 (1) 55K JASON KELLER 23 (10) 5M MIKE MCMULLIN 24 (23) 60 JOE LAWS DNS C4 CHRIS SOUTIEA DNS 80 JACOB MILLER UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pure Stocks - 6 Entries Heat: Place No. Name 1  36 DANNY EMS 2  2J GREG JONES 3  81 MICHAEL HURST 4  32W RONNIE WOMACK Feature: Place Start No. Name 1 (1) 36 DANNY EMS 2 (2) 2J GREG JONES 3 (3) 81 MICHAEL HURST 4 (4) 32W RONNIE WOMACK 5 (5) 29 STEPHEN FOHNE DNS 0 DAVE ARMSTRONG UMP DIRTcar/AARA Pro 4 Stocks - 23 Entries Heat 1: Place No. Name 1 17R JACOB REXING 2 70 MARK CRADY 3 71 JOE MERRITT 4 7X JOE RAMER Heat 2: Place No. Name 1 67J ADAM JOHNSON 2 27W JEREMY WELLBORN 3 22W SCOTT WICKLIFFE 4 99 CHUCK JOHNSON Heat 3: Place No. Name 1 21P JOSH PEPPERS 2 89T TRAVIS BITTLE 3 61 STEVE RICHARDS 4 01 BILLY LAPAGLIA Feature: Place Start No. Name 1 (1) 17R JACOB REXING 2 (6) 89T TRAVIS BITTLE 3 (3) 21P JOSH PEPPERS 4 (14) 7 JORDY SCHMIDT 5 (20) 96 ANDREW WIBBENMEYER 6 (8) 22W SCOTT WICKLIFFE 7 (5) 27W JEREMY WELLBORN 8 (7) 71 JOE MERRITT 9 (13) 81P ROBERT PRICE 10 (17) 99A CHUCK ADAMS 11 (15) 67J ADAM JOHNSON 12 (9) 61 STEVE RICHARDS 13 (11) 99 CHUCK JOHNSON 14 (2) 67 KELLY HEBENSTREIT 15 (16) 28 TYSON ROTH 16 (18) 16 GERALD BUECHTING 17 (19) 423 BRYAN GEGG 18 (4) 70 MARK CRADY 19 (21) 98 DAVID STUART 20 (12) 01 BILLY LAPAGLIA 21 (23) 24 SAGE THORNHILL 22 (10) 7X JOE RAMER 23 (22) 42 CHARLES DAVID

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