Toledo Speedway

The three time Gold Cup champion (2002, 2007 and 2008) Harold Fair Jr. won the 20th running of the Glass City joining the other 15 other winners (only Steve Sauve, Bob Senneker and Joe Ruttman have won it multiple times).

"The last 15 laps or so I kept hearing noises. The car ran great, we only had to make minor adjustments at the halfway break. I want to thank my wife for her support. Also want to thank all the fans for coming out and watching us," said the driver of the Royal Truck and Trailer #71.

This brings Fair Jr.'s total wins at Toledo to 15 Super Late Model wins. In the last two seasons, there have been 12 SLM races at Toledo and Harold has won half of them (six wins... four in 2007 and two this season).

Second place went to last year's Glass City winner, Brian Campbell. "The car wasn't too bad. I want to congratulate Harold (Fair Jr.) on his win," said the driver of the #47.

Jake Francis finished third, tying a career best finish from earlier this season. "I'm really happy with the finish. This is a career best finish for me here. We weren't too happy with the car in practice, but the crew worked hard to get it faster," said the driver of the Francis Engineering, Habco Tool, Bonner Farms, SB Cox, Sanders Excavating, ARS Services, Crower Cams, Center Tyler Auto, JR Collins Trucking and Campana Excavating #33.

Jake led the first 62 laps from his outside front row position and was the only driver other than Fair Jr to lead the 150-lap event. The car was a rocket. At one time during a long green flag run, he built a straightaway lead over second place Brent Jack. The second caution of the event bunched up the field about lap 30, but on the restart, Francis again pulled out to a commanding lead, leading by nearly a half of a track lead. Francis led until lap 62 when he was passed by eventual winner Fair Jr. The second half of the race didn't go as well for Francis, as the car picked up a bad push and in the end he finished third. Thanks to Lenny for the update on his driver.

Ron Allen finished fourth. "I'm happy with the fourth place finish. I really have some top notch equipment and it felt really good out there. I want to thank Butch (Giles, owner) and the guys. The car was a lot of fun to run. I'd like to be back in it for the whole year!" said Allen, who also won the companion Sportsman feature earlier in the evening.

John Doering Jr. finished fifth. "The car was really good. I want to thank the crew, I'm a bit tired, so I'm happy it was only a 150-lap race."

Paul Pelletier had a carburetor problem and the team thought they fixed it before the race. Pelletier got up to 13th, and was the last car on the lead lap when the carburetor began acting up again. At the halfway break the crew changed the carburetor and the car sounded a lot better. Three laps after the breat, the axle hub cover broke as he was coming out of turn 4 and he got loose. Paul pitted but by the time they got it fixed he was around 15 laps down. He finished 14th. Thanks to Paul's dad Dave for the report.

Dennis Strickland broke a shock on lap 60 and during the break, replaced it but the car was never right after that. He finished well, eighth. Dennis was one of the cars to get the extra $200 for being the highest finishing driver from the Flat Rock points.

Gary Sherman made his first start in a Super Late Model at Toledo, but he has raced ARCA RE/MAX at the track. He started 30th and finished ninth.

Brian Lay, made his career first SLM start driving the #01 Pete Bailey owned, PB Fabrication sponsored car. It's the car that was driven a few years ago by Kevin Stahl. Lay is a sprint car driver with the Auto Value Super Sprints (AVSS) and resides in Millbury, Ohio (suburb of Toledo).

Joe Ellert is a regular at Angola Motor speedway.

Mike Root is a Berlin driver ... another first timer to Toledo. Think he was the driver to get the $200 for Dixie Motor Speedway (Dixie Cup Series).

George Rangel made his first appearance in quite a few years, in a car formerly driven by Rick Sheppard.

Scott Giroux walloped the wall good coming out of turn four on his second lap of qualifying. The car received damage to the entire front end and right rear. The crew did a great job and he was able to start the feature, minus any front end sheet metal, but only lasted a few laps.

An extra note... the weekend following the Glass City, three of our regulars made their way to Columbus Motor Speedway for the Main Event. Glass City Winner, Harold Fair Jr. finished fourth, Dennis Strickland was 21st and Paul Pelletier was also at the track but wasn't able to transfer into the feature. The race was won by Steve Needles who raced once this year at Toledo. The winner of the 2006 Glass City, Jack Landis was third ... Brent Jursik was 20th, and Freddie Campbell was 22nd.