River Cities Speedway Midwest Modified Recap, Presented by RydellCars.com

5/2/2015

Ricky Hamel Grabs Midwest Modified Victory at River Cities Speedway

By Mike Spieker

GRAND FORKS, ND (May 1) - Ricky Hamel jumped out to the early lead of the 14 car, 18 lap WISSOTA Midwest Modified feature and never looked back. By lap eight, Hamel had nearly a half lap lead over second place Matt Schow. A caution on the next lap, however, put Schow's #2S right on the rear nurf bar of Hamel.

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The race resumed and Hamel picked up right where he left off, leaving the rest of the field in his dust. Within two laps he had regained a comfortable 10 car length lead. The caution flew again on lap 12 and bunched the field back up. On the restart, Austin Hunter maneuvered past Schow for second and set his sights on the leader. Hunter was able to mount a challenge and get the Hamel's quarter panel, but Hamel proved to be better off of corner number two and held onto the lead. Hamel cruised around the Bullring one final time to pick up the checkered flag and park his Midwest Modified in RydellCars.com Victory Lane.

The win was Hamel's third at RCS, which broke a nine-way tie for ninth on the RCS Midwest Modified all-time wins list and now puts him in a four-way tie with Dale Kraling, Cole Haugland, and Brian LePier.