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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – THANK YOU Written By – J.R. Kennerup GODOWN ’S BIGGEST CAREER WIN COMES UP LIGHT AT SCALES “THE DOCTOR ” INHERITS INSINGER PERFORMANCE PRODUCTS ICEBREAKER II WIN. Selinsgrove, Pa … It appeared that on Saturday evening at the Selinsgrove Speedway that Ryan Godown of Ringoes, NJ captured the biggest win of his young racing career. As he led the final 34 laps to claim the Insinger Performance Products Icebreaker II 50 Race of Champions Dart Dirt Modified Tour sanctioned event. The joy for Godown lasted until he reached the scales where his car came up light by a mere 14 pounds, which disqualified him and handed the win to Danny Johnson. Billy Decker ended up second with Jeff Strunk in third Stewart Friesen driving the Will Brown owned car was fourth and Jimmy Horton, Jr. finished fifth. “I was going to be happy with a second, but things happen and I ended up with a win, ” said the veteran Rochester, NY driver. “There was quite a field on hand here today and there were some pretty good cars that went home without making the feature. ” Richie Pratt, Jr. and Doug Hoffman brought the 27 car field to green with Pratt jumping out to a big lead over Ryan Godown, Billy Decker, Hoffman, and Joey Grammes. Following a lap one restart the big mover was Brett Hearn who motored from ninth to fourth. Hearn appeared to have the fastest car in the field as he moved into third on lap four and two laps later took second from Godown. While closing in on leader Pratt coming out of turn four on lap eight the motor tightened up, which sent Hearn to the pit area. Smoke started to appear from the engine of Pratt ’s car on lap ten and the motor finally expired on lap 16 ending a strong run. On the restart Godown jumped out to the lead over Danny Johnson who moved from fourth to second on the restart. With Godown, Johnson, and Decker all settling into first, second, and third. All eyes were focused on the excellent four car battle for fourth between Jeff Strunk, Stewart Friesen, Grammes, and Duane Howard. Each lap there were some hair raising moves being made by all four drivers. Following the fifth yellow of the race on lap 37 defending RoC champ Pat Ward started to make some noise. Ward, who started 22nd, had to pit for sheet metal on lap one now entered fifth on lap 43. While battling for fourth on lap 45 the right rear tire on the Ward machine went flat and the final yellow of the race was brought out. Johnson ran the entire race with severely bent right front radius rods after a first lap tangle with Larry Wight. Since joining the Mike Petruska owned team last fall Danny has been on a tear with a big win in the Eastern States and now the Icebreaker II. “The team has really good equipment ( Teo Pro car and JPM Motors ) and that is a lot of it, ” said the winner of $5,100. “I ’m an experienced driver and they are an experienced team and when we got together it is a good combination. To be honest with you I don ’t know how you can beat it with all of the experience this team has. ” Danny spoke about Selinsgrove where he won his first race in his first ever appearance.

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