Lee Kemmit captures his 2nd Battle of the Fenders Victory
On a beautiful chamber of commerce November afternoon a packed pit side grandstands enjoyed some incredible off season racing at Colorado National Speedway.
The 2022 Battle of the Fenders entered its 6th annual event & brought out some of the best pavement & dirt stock cars, super stocks, hornets & even a full size pickup truck.
43 drivers started the 300 lap event with #11 Pickup Timothy Bland & #09 Brandon Williams on the front row. An engine blew early causing a caution period, however when the race went back to green #90 Lee Kemmit & #1 Tommy Roe who won last year's event was on the move coming from mid pack, as by lap 40 #1 Tommy Roe was in the lead with #90 Kemmit close behind. On Lap 68 the events only red flag was displayed as the 41G Christopher Galvin slammed into the turn 2 barrier sending shrapnel all over the speedway. Despite the impact, Galvin kept his foot in it as if nothing happened and drove out of the debris field with fans going crazy in the grandstands. After the red flag, #97 Ray Hansen had moved passed #1 Roe & set his sights on #90 Kemmit, by lap 100 Kemmit & Hansen were nose to tail and on lap 110 #97 Hansen was able to get by #90 Kemmit for the lead while in heavy traffic. The remaining 40 laps clicked off fast as #97 Ray Hansen kept the lead and took home the $500 halfway break bonus.
Teams were allowed 20 minutes to refuel & switch drivers during the halfway break. Once racing resumed, a couple of cautions early slowed the field and on the lap 142 restart #90 Kemmit drove by #97 Hansen to regain the lead. Kemmit began to show how strong his Camaro was as he began to pull away from 2nd & 3rd. It took until lap 227 for Kemmit to be the only remaining car on the lead lap, despite #97 Hansen’s best efforts to try to get back around Kemmit to get back on the lead lap, he was not able to prevail & #90 Lee Kemmit captured his 2nd Battle of the Fenders 300.
Thanks to all the drivers & teams for making this event a huge success, we are looking forward to the 2023 Battle of the Fenders.
A Huge Thanks to all of our sponsors for making this event possible year after year.
This year’s sponsors include:
Halfway Home Leader: $500 - Thanks to Appelhans Designs
300 Lap Battle of the Fenders Sponsors:
1st Place: $2,000 thanks to GTI Golf Cars
2nd Place: $1,200 Gift Certificate for General Air from CNS
3rd Place: $1,000 thanks to Buckeye Welding Supply
4th Place: $600 thanks to James Hill Real Estate
5th Place: $500 Gift Certificate to Accublast Dustless Blasting
6th Place: $400 Matco Tools 3/8 Ratchet Wrench thanks to Appelhans Tools/Matco Tools
7th Place: $300
8th Place: $250 Pit Lighting Setup thanks to 5280 Pit Lighting
9th Place: $250 thanks to Arvada Rent-Alls
10th Place: $250 Cooler thanks to Cabela’s
OFFICIAL RESULTS
90 Lee Kemmit - 300 Laps
97 Ray Hansen - 299 Laps
1 Tommy Roe - 294 Laps
11 Scott Long - 294 Laps
6J DJ Banks - 292 Laps
3.2 Robert Davey - 290 Laps
23G Michael Gallo - 289 Laps
13 Isaac Slinker - 287 Laps
8 Steve Mills - 286 Laps
91 Jereme Wall - 284 Laps
84 Michael Varra - 283 Laps
16 Adam Kimler - 282 Laps
18C Ryan Moser - 282 Laps
11 Timothy Bland - 281 Laps
1 Derek Spalding - 281 Laps
555 Bobby Durand - 281 Laps
100 Jorge Garcia - 279 Laps
197 ?? - 275 Laps
5 Jeff Meeker - 271 Laps
94 Brianna Phillips - 268 Laps
6B Dave Banks - 265 Laps
2B Kenny Bowlus - 265 Laps
32 Gage Neisiuse - 252 Laps
8 Chris Cox - 220 Laps
15 Crystal Neff - 218 Laps
69 Sean Fry - 216 Laps
41G Christopher Galvin - 192 Laps
99 Ryan Raley - 181 Laps
5W Troy Witthar - 173 Laps
24 Jason Arbuckle - 173 Laps
OH6 Curtis Heldenbrand - 171 Laps
09 Brandon Williams - 154 Laps
9C Brent Cave - 152 Laps
21 Jay Hill - 141 Laps
1 Jared Wall - 92 Laps
17 Harry Livermore - 81 Laps
01 Jesse Fornstrom - 78 Laps
1 Doug Fornstrom - 55 Laps
23 Carlee Gilmore - 43 Laps
13B Brandon Claiborn - 32 Laps
4 Brian Galvin Jr - 28 Laps
93 Kyle Pandullo - 13 Laps
37 Sammy Haugen - 5 Laps