Wall Stadium Saturday night results

Mike Fox Jr. Wins Microstock Feature at Wall Stadium Saturday Night.

The Sunday Series Microstocks had their moment in the spotlight Saturday night at Wall Stadium as they race under the lights.

In the heat races Bob Wagner showed his dominance in the first heat race by comfortable margin and in heat two, Tom Ervin wowed the grandstand as he took the lead going five-wide on the backstretch of lap 1 from an eight place starting position to take the lead. In that same race, Mike Fox Jr came from last place to take second place by the half way mark and became closing the gap on Ervin but did not get close enough to challenge for the lead. This set the stage for an exciting feature race between Wagner “The Microstock Master” and Ervin “The King of the Microstocks”.

Mike Fox Jr. won the 20-lap Microstock feature. Tom Ervin surged to the lead at the start of the feature with Don Wagner close behind. Behind the leaders Mike Fox Jr and Carl Weinacker slide inside of Dalton Rovira to take third and fourth positions. A few laps later Wagner passed Ervin for the lead as the two pulled away from the rest of the pack.

By lap eight,Wagner had pulled away to a very comfortable lead and was starting to deal with lap traffic. Rovira had worked his way past C. Weinacker and Fox Jr and was challenging Ervin for second place. A lap later, Rovira and Fox Jr. did a two-car draft past Ervin and the two began to close the gap on Wagner.

Rovira caught Wagner with three laps to go and went inside of Wagner to take the lead. Behind them, Fox Jr was starting to reel in the leaders. As Rovira and Wagner came out of turn four heading toward the checkered flag, they made contact and their wrecked cars spun toward the infield to stop a mere 20 feet from the finish line. Fox Jr, who was in third place prior to the wreck, drove by them to win the Microstock feature.

The Microstocks normally race on Sundays at Wall Stadium in the Sunday Series program that also races Karts and Champ Karts. Fox Jr is the defending Sunday Series Microstock champion and this win was his first win under the lights in front of a packed grandstand.

In victory lane a stunned Fox Jr was practically speechless. Fox said “ After the race, I was asking the corner worker who won the race when Tom (Ervin, who finished in second) pulled up along side me and told me I won, so I went to victory lane. I feels great to win but I feel bad that I had to win it this way. Dalton (Rovira) and Bob (Wagner) had the better cars.”

MICROSTOCK FEATURE-20 Laps – 1. Mike Fox Jr., 2. Tom Ervin, 3. Ricky Collins, 4. Carl Weinacker, 5. .Jeff Weinacker, 6. Gary Sheffen, 7. Mike Fox Sr., 8. Louis Keraitis, 9. Noel Sheffen, 10. Pat Owens, 11. Andrew Shuster, 12. TJ Rogers, 13. Brian Russel (DNF) Bob Wagner, Dalton Rovira, Denny Hiddeman, Ed Kroll