By: Joe Burrage
Over the years Chad Kemenah has had difficult time racing at the Williams Grove Speedway located in Mechanicsburg, Pennsylvania. The Findlay, Ohio driver has always liked racing at the famous ½ mile during his career and winning the 49th Annual Morgan Hughes National Sanctioned by the World of Outlaws is an event Kemenah would love to capture before his racing career is over.
Kemenah and crew member Adam Brough have been working really hard at the shop the past couple of weeks getting everything they need in order to go out and win races. The Golden Flavor Sesame Sticks, Hampshire Racing Engines, MS Motorsports, Key State Ag Service, Maxim rolled to tenth place finish at Eldora Speedway last weekend and the following night at the Lernerville Speedway everything that could go wrong went wrong for Kemenah and Brough.
“Last weekend we ran tenth at Eldora and the car started to feel really good with a handful of laps remaining,” said Kemenah. “We held our own for most of the feature and then the car decided it was time to go and if the feature would have been 40-Laps we might have had a top five finish. I don’t even know what to say about Lernerville it was a bad night plain and simple.”
Kemenah and Brough returned home to Ohio and started to build a new car on Monday morning for the $50,000 to win 49th Annual Morgan Hughes National Open that takes place this Friday and Saturday night. Kemenah had a great run going at the Summer Nationals earlier in the year, the No.63 sprinter was running down the top three cars in a big way before mechanical problems forced Kemenah pit side.
“When we were here back in July the car felt great every time we hit the racing surface,” says Kemenah. “Williams Grove is one of the hardest places in the country to race at and I feel pretty confident about our chances this weekend at the National Open. We have been qualifying really well this year and we need to be on point from start to finish if we are going to win this thing. Tom and Fran Chiapelli of Golden Flavor Sesame Sticks, Kevin Grubb of Key State Ag Service will be with us this weekend and I want to have to a good weekend for them and all of our sponsors because they have stuck with us this entire year.”
Be sure to listen to live coverage of this weekends 49th Annual Williams National Open at www.dirtvision.com and you can also follow Chad Kemenah on Twitter at CKR_63 for live updates as the night unfolds from the Williams Grove Speedway.
Also happening on Saturday afternoon at the Williams Grove Speedway is the National Open Benefit For Injured Drivers. Chad Kemenah has donated a wing panel to be auctioned off for the Injured Drivers Fund and he also will be signing autographs during the event as well. Please be sure to visit this special event on Saturday afternoon.
The Sponsors: Golden Flavor Sesame Sticks, Hampshire Racing Engines, Maxim Chassis, MS Motorsports, Key State Ag Service, Kears Speed Shop, Champion Racing XP Performance Lubricants, Jeffery Winter Construction, Accu Force Shock Dyno, Banshee Graphics, SSE Helmet Designs, and Media Camping Center, Real Racing Wheels, Winters Rear Ends, Chiappelli Motorsports.
