Brandon McFerran sweeps the weekend at Sunset Speedway

Samantha Shaw thought that she would have the feature victory in hand as she went through turns three and four – though a caution would change the whole game. Instead, it’d be Brandon McFerran picking up the victory after taking the lead from Shaw on the green-white-checkered restart. It marks McFerran’s fifth straight feature victory (July 5^th, July 26^th, July 27^th, August 2^nd, and August 3^rd), his second weekend sweep of the year and his eight feature victory of the 2014 season to date.

Shaw started off the night by winning the first heat ahead of McFerran, Jordan Howse, Miles Tyson, Terry Woodley, Jake Watson and Chris Free.

Danny Benedict won the second heat ahead of Jerry Noble, Trevor Hemingway, Lauren Halliday, Stefan Woyslaw and Chandler Bois.

Gerritt Tiemersma won the final heat ahead of Kendra Adams, Ken Townsend, Nic Montanari, Eric Rainey, Candiss Everingham, Bob Phinnemore and Dave Middel.

Woodley would win the consolation race ahead of Watson, Woyslaw, Rainey, Mike Gettliffe, Everingham, Free, Bois and Phinnemore.

Shaw went for the daily double in winning the Dash for Cash ahead of McFerran, Benedict, Howse, Tiemersma, Adams, Tyson, Townsend and Noble.

Come feature time, Jake Watson would start pole ahead of Samantha Shaw, Lauren Halliday, Terry Woodley, Gerritt Tiemersma, Jordan Howse, Trevor Hemmingway, Stefan Woyslaw, Miles Tyson, Ken Townsend, Eric Rainey, Nic Motanari, Danny Benedict, Kendra Adams, Mike Gettliffe, Brandon McFerran, Candiss Everingham, Chris Free, Chandler Bois, Bob Phinnemore, Dave Middel and Steve Belanger.

Shaw would jump out to the early lead ahead of the field in his No. 81 Lucas Oil Products/Spira Fire Protection Mustang and immediately begin stretching it, while both Woyslaw and Belanger would head down pit road under green flag conditions within the first four laps.

Shaw continued to let her lead grow as she began putting cars a lap down, while Howse moved himself up to the second spot. Howse would start to cut into her lead a little, though the difference kept balanced between them in trying to get around the lap cars. Woodley and Tiemersma would also be having the fun of their lives, staying within the top five as they made their way through the lap traffic. At the same time, McFerran was working his way up through the field, passing cars three-wide at every turn to gain as many spots as he could, cracking the top five at lap 15.

Tyson had a solid run going as he wanted to keep the distance between himself and McFerran from growing too much in points, though would be forced down pit road under green at lap 18 with mechanical issues.

With traffic running three and four-wide round the whole field in the lead lap cars fishing their way through the traffic, everybody was behaved in staying out of trouble. Though as the laps ticked down, the need and want for a better running position grew and resulted in traffic getting heavier.

On the last lap, through turns one and two, it’d get real messy with a mix of lead lap cars and cars that were either one or two laps down, resulting in Halliday getting sideways. Bois, not wanting to hit her, would go for the avoidance towards the bottom of the track, though caught the grass and would go for a spin. The officials would throw the yellow flag as Shaw was in turns three and four, resulting in a green-white-checkered.

So with two laps to go on the green-white-checkered, Shaw would start on the inside of Howse on the front row, with McFerran, Tiemersma, Woodley, Benedict and Watson as the lead lap cars behind them. Adams would be highest running car only one lap down in eighth, ahead of Gettliffe, Halliday, Townsend, Noble, Rainey, Free and Everingham. Montanari would be the first car two laps down, ahead of Phinnemore, Hemingway and Bois. Middel would restart in the last spot on track, three laps down.

Shaw would get a good restart, leading Howse and McFerran behind her into turns one and two. Shaw would keep herself out in front, blocking both lanes, as Howse and McFerran ran side-by-side for second. She kept it there to the white flag, through turns one and two and down the backstretch.

However, as they went into three, Brandon McFerran would get the nose under her and carry the momentum through the corner and off, edging her at the line for the victory in his No. 64 Peter D. Laird Transport, Road Ranger, East End Car Wash, Creative Edge Graphics, Finish Line Painting & Restoration, DS McClure Farms and AMD Electric Mustang.

Samantha Shaw would finish second for her best career Sunset Speedway finish, ahead of Jordan Howse, Gerritt Tiemersma, Danny Benedict, Terry Woodley, Jake Watson, Mike Gettliffe, Jake Watson, Jerry Noble, Ken Townsend, Eric Rainey, Chris Free and Candiss Everingham.

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Ashley McCubbin

Joining OnPitRoad.com mid-2013 season, Ashley McCubbin is now the Managing Editor and contributes to each racing division as needed. Since studying journalism at the University of Guelph-Humber, Ashley has published articles on a couple of different websites, while serving as a public relations representative for different short track teams. Born in North York, Ontario, Ashley currently lives in Bradford, Ontario and spends her weekend at the local short tracks in the area. She has spent her entire life at the short track level, falling in love with the sport at the age of five. Beyond her love of short track racing, she also has grown an interest for both NASCAR and the IndyCar Racing Series. She also enjoys taking photos and working on websites, while playing a couple rounds of Candy Crush afterwards.

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