Following his first sweep of last week's twin 75 lap races at Langley Speedway, CE Falk looked to repeat that feat as twin 75s were ran for the second time of the 2009 season. Not to mention this was Falk's last opportunity to improve on his NASCAR Whelen All American Series points.
Falk started out the night in a similar manner by winning the pole for race number one and the outside pole for race number two. Meanwhile, teammate and younger brother Wes Falk was able to improve on his qualifying efforts placing his 41 machine third for race number one and seventh for race number two. With 19 cars in the field the chances of improving on both NASCAR and track points looked great for both Falk Motorsports teams.
The first race was pretty uneventful and both CE and Wes were able to drive their own races and avoid any trouble. Wes would run in the top five for most of the night before being passed late by Greg Edwards and Woody Howard pushing him back to a sixth place finish. Meanwhile, CE looked just as impressive as he did last race leading flag-to-flag and overcoming two restarts to claim his 10th win at Langley and his 11th win of the 2009 season. Falk took the win home by just over a second over his closest competition for the 2009 Langley track championship Danny Edwards while Mark Wertz, Greg Edwards and Woody Howard completed the top five.
But Falk knew his night wasn't complete and that race number two would be just as tough while he spoke in victory lane, “I don’t know. I feel like, these twin races, it’s not really a win ‘til you win both of ‘em. We gotta make one adjustment on this car. We were a little too tight, but Danny seemed to be really good. I don’t know how much he was riding. And, Paul (DeBolt), he’s gonna be good for the next one.”
Race number two was even more uneventful as the field stayed under the green flag for the entire 75 lap distance. DeBolt used his pole starting postition to get the early edge over CE Falk who started to his outside on row number one. Falk would remain in the runner up position for majority of the evening before being overtaken by both Dean Shiflett and Mark Wertz in the final 15 laps of the event relegating CE to a fourth place finish. Meanwhile, brother Wes had similar issues as his car suffered a tight condition and after fighting hard all night was relegated to a ninth place finish.
Overall the night was a boost for CE Falk who not only padded another four points onto his track points lead over Danny Edwards increasing it to 26(746-720). Wes continues to hold onto the sixth place in track standings with a 16 point advantage over seventh place Dean Shiflett(542-526). Three races remain on the 2009 Langley Speedway schedule with 100 lap races on Septmeber 19th and 26th and on the season finale on October 10th.
On the NASCAR level, the win in the first race increased Falk's national points amount by 11 points to 751 while increasing his Virginia state total by 21 points to 741 giving CE a 49 point edge over Frank Deiny who will run his 18th race this Saturday before the NASCAR cutoff on Sunday. In order to pass CE, Deiny must win this weekend over a full field of 23 cars in Motor Mile's 150 lap season finale.
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