Two Feature Events, Two Wins

Due to several recent rain-outs the track has been forced to schedule double features to get enough races in for the track regulars to be able to compete for the national championship. Since the whole month of August was rained double features are scheduled for the remainder of the season at Old Dominion Speedway.

The Indy Cars were in Baltimore this weekend and since we are sponsored by Redline Power Shots and they Own and Sponsor an Indy Car we spent the whole day Thursday doing appearances with their Indy Car around the Baltimore area. We saw thousands of fans and David signed tons of autographs and the team handed out an abundance of free product from our sponsors. The whole day was very successful!

Practice/Qualifying
We headed to the track Friday afternoon for a special practice for the Legends Reunion/North South Shoot-Out Twin 50 scheduled for Saturday evening. Practice went well for the team and at the end of the session David had turned the quickest lap.

During Saturday's practice the car was still performing well and David was very pleased, so we got the car prepped for qualifying.

The Late Models were the last class out to qualify and the track seemed to get slick since practice and the car was a little loose. David still put down a good lap and missed the pole by just two hundredths of a second and finished second fastest. After the invert he would line up third for the first 50 lap event.

Legends Reunion / North South Shoot-Out Twin 50's

Below is the story of the night’s events that was posted on the Old Dominion Speedway website.

9/3/11 - Polenz Does The Double; Inches Closer To The Title

David Polenz came into the night's activities with one thing in mind, finish ahead of Adam Brenner. Not only did he accomplish what he set out to do, but he did it twice, taking both ends of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model double feature Saturday night at the Old Dominion Speedway. Polenz entered the night with a hefty 39 point advantage, and needed to retain as much a lead as possible after the night's events. When the dust had settled, he had picked up two wins, and has stretched his lead over the defending track champion Brenner to 85 points with 2 points paying events remaining. Brenner still has a mathematical shot at the title, but a lot of events would have to fall into place not once, but twice when the final events are run in two weeks. Stranger things have happened, so Polenz still needs to do what he has done all season long, and that's be as smooth and consistent as possible. His current numbers include 4 feature wins, 14 top five's, and 15 top ten's. His average finish of 3.69 is best by far of any driver this season at ODS that has started all of the 16 events. The final event of the season, the ODS "Big One" is scheduled for Saturday night, September 17th. The rain date for the event would be Saturday night, September 24th. In the first event, Polenz finished ahead of Michael Hardin, Davey Callihan, Paul Green, and Dustin Storm. In the second event, the Polenz led the charge to the checkers ahead of Hardin, Storm, Callihan, and Green.

By Dave Menefee

David started third in the first event and took the lead on lap three and never looked back. In the second race he started first and dominated the event. With several cautions in the second race, the racing was close, but David prevailed restart after restart and
took home the checkers again. In order to lock up Championship, David needs to finish 17th place or better in the first of the twin 100 lap events on September 17th!