Parker Price Miller earns first UNOH All Star win at Wayne County

Parker Price Miller earns first UNOH All Star win at Wayne County

By Brian Liskai

ORRVILLE, Ohio (Saturday, April 18, 2015) – Just a week ago Parker Price Miller, 16,

would record his first ever 410 sprint win. The 16-year-old would make it two in a row

and would claim his first ever University of Northwestern Ohio All Star Circuit of

Champions victory at the Wayne County Speedway Saturday, April 18th.

The UNOH All Stars have held two point races to open this season and both have been

claimed by drivers recording their first ever series wins. Ryan Smith claimed his first All

Star win earlier in the month at Attica Raceway Park and now Price Miller scores his first

at Wayne County.

It wasn’t easy for Price Miller who is a junior at Kokomo (Indiana) High School. He had

to hold off a charging Rob Chaney who grew up racing at Wayne County Speedway, as

the pair battled through lapped traffic.

“I can’t believe we won. This is unbelievable. When we got the win last week at Fremont

against that tough group I would have never imagined following it up with an All Star

win,” said Price Miller beside his PPM Titanium/Indy Race Parts/Triple X Racing backed

#9P.

And to make it even more of a challenge, the team lost an engine the previous night

competing at Attica Raceway Park.

“Things just fell right for us tonight. I started third in the dash and was just hoping for a

top four and ended up in the lead on the first lap. On the start of the feature Palker

(Andrew) slid me in one and two and I gathered it back up and got him back in three and

four. The track was tricky and I decided to try and stay around the bottom. Then we got

into lapped traffic and with two laps to go here comes Rob Chaney. I had to settle down

and just hit my marks. I can’t thank Rick Ferkel enough for all he’s done and all he has

taught me,” added Price Miller.

For Chaney, a second place run continues a solid start to the 2015 season.

“We gained a lot of momentum at the end of last year. And rather than try to build new

cars and go that direction we decided to keep the momentum we had and carry it to the

start of this year and it’s working,” said Chaney of his Stan Cortad Racing/Jon Wright’s

Custom Chrome Plating backed machine.

“This kid (Price Miller) has a lot of talent. I got a run on him down the front stretch with

a couple of laps to go and I could have tried to slide him but we probably would have

both ended up crashing. I left him a little lane and hoped he would make a mistake and he

took it and didn’t bobble. I’m amazed at how he handled lapped traffic,” added Chaney.

Andrew Palker, a two time Wayne County Speedway champion, would bring his Seneca

Energy/King Inspections/Kistler Engines/Kistler Racing Products backed #57x home in

third. Coupled with his second place run at the All Star event at Attica, the Lodi, Ohio

driver leads the All Star points.

“My dad is fully retired and I have to pay all the bills on this deal now. Without my

sponsors it would be impossible. We are building consistency and that will lead to wins,”

said Palker.

“That kid (Price Miller) is going to be something. He has pure talent. After I slid him at

the green, he kept his head and drove back by. I kept waiting for him to make a mistake

in traffic and he didn’t. I realized I only had a second or third place car. I must be getting

older and wiser. In my early years I probably would have tore up the car trying to get by

him. I took what I could get and I’m leading the points,” added Palker.

The UNOH All Star Circuit of Champions Sprint Car Series is the original winged sprint

car tour. Follow the All Stars during their 50 plus race season on Twitter.com/@ASCoC,

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Wayne County Speedway 04-18-2015

UNOH All Star Circuit of Champion Sprints

Qualifying

1.89-Cody Darrah, 14.370; 2.10H-Chad Kemenah, 14.383; 3.9P-Parker

Price-Miller, 14.516; 4.9x-Rob Chaney, 14.576; 5.11N-Randy Hannagan,

14.576; 6.57X-Andrew Palker, 14.634; 7.49-Cole Duncan, 14.638; 8.21-DJ

Foos, 14.681; 9.81-Lee Jacobs, 14.698; 10.5T-Travis Philo, 14.707;

11.45-Tim Shaffer, 14.716; 12.59-Danny Holtgraver, 14.742;

13.19P-Paige Polyak, 14.821; 14.W20-Greg Wilson, 14.824; 15.93-Sheldon

Haudenschild, 14.863; 16.5H-Jordan Harble, 14.864; 17.40-Caleb Helms,

14.923; 18.94-Ryan Smith, 14.943; 19.23-Nick Patterson, 14.958;

20.9-Jac Haudenschild, 14.998; 21.15H-Mitch Harble, 15.070; 22.4-Danny

Smith, 15.083; 23.D12-Jason Dolick, 15.108; 24.11-Shawn Hubler,

15.122; 25.38K-Brad Haudenschild, 15.131; 26.16-Danny Mumaw, 15.303;

27.787-Jimmy Pooler, 15.334; 28.91x-Aaron Middaugh, 15.583; 29.7-Troy

Kingan, 15.771; 30.50-Bob Lime, 16.039; 31.1-Dale Blaney, 99.990;

Hunt Brothers Pizza Heat 1, Group A –  (8 Laps, top 6 to A, top 2 to dash)

1. 45-Tim Shaffer[2] ; 2. 10H-Chad Kemenah[4] ; 3. 40-Caleb Helms[5] ;

4. 4-Danny Smith[8] ; 5. 15H-Mitch Harble[7] ; 6. D12-Jason Dolick[9]

; 7. 23-Nick Patterson[6] ; 8. 91x-Aaron Middaugh[10] ; 9. 7-Troy

Kingan[11] ; 10. 5H-Jordan Harble[1]

Racing Electronics Heat 2, Group B –  (8 Laps, top 6 to A, top 2 to dash)

1. 9x-Rob Chaney[4] ; 2. 59-Danny Holtgraver[1] ; 3. 57X-Andrew

Palker[3] ; 4. 9-Jac Haudenschild[6] ; 5. 93-Sheldon Haudenschild[5] ;

6. 1-Dale Blaney[10] ; 7. 787-Jimmy Pooler[8] ; 8. 11-Shawn Hubler[7]

; 9. 50-Bob Lime[9] ; 10. 5T-Travis Philo[2]

Hunt Brothers Pizza Heat 3, Group C –  (8 Laps, top 6 to A, top 2 to dash)

1. 49-Cole Duncan[1] ; 2. 9P-Parker Price-Miller[3] ; 3. 81-Lee

Jacobs[5] ; 4. 89-Cody Darrah[4] ; 5. 94-Ryan Smith[8] ; 6. 19P-Paige

Polyak[6] ; 7. 38K-Brad Haudenschild[9] ; 8. 11N-Randy Hannagan[2] ; 9.

W20-Greg Wilson[7] ; 10. 16-Danny Mumaw[10]

Dash 1 –  (6 Laps, determines A-main line-up)

1. 9P-Parker Price-Miller[3] ; 2. 57X-Andrew Palker[5] ; 3. 59-Danny

Holtgraver[2] ; 4. 9x-Rob Chaney[8] ; 5. 49-Cole Duncan[1] ; 6. 45-Tim

Shaffer[4] ; 7. 10H-Chad Kemenah[6] ; 8. 89-Cody Darrah[7]

B-Main 1 –  (12 Laps, top 6 to A)

1. 38K-Brad Haudenschild[7] ; 2. 11N-Randy Hannagan[1] ; 3. W20-Greg

Wilson[3] ; 4. 16-Danny Mumaw[8] ; 5. 11-Shawn Hubler[6] ; 6. 23-Nick

Patterson[5] ; 7. 91x-Aaron Middaugh[10] ; 8. 787-Jimmy Pooler[9] ; 9.

7-Troy Kingan[11] ; 10. 50-Bob Lime[12] ; 11. 5H-Jordan Harble[4]

UNOH A-Main 1 –  (30 Laps)

1. 9P-Parker Price-Miller[1] ; 2. 9x-Rob Chaney[4] ; 3. 57X-Andrew

Palker[2] ; 4. 59-Danny Holtgraver[3] ; 5. 10H-Chad Kemenah[7] ; 6.

45-Tim Shaffer[6] ; 7. 81-Lee Jacobs[10] ; 8. 49-Cole Duncan[5] ; 9.

89-Cody Darrah[8] ; 10. 1-Dale Blaney[17] ; 11. 93-Sheldon

Haudenschild[14] ; 12. 4-Danny Smith[11] ; 13. 16-Danny Mumaw[22] ;

14. 40-Caleb Helms[9] ; 15. 38K-Brad Haudenschild[19] ; 16. 15H-Mitch

Harble[13] ; 17. 94-Ryan Smith[15] ; 18. W20-Greg Wilson[21] ; 19.

19P-Paige Polyak[18] ; 20. 11N-Randy Hannagan[20] ; 21. D12-Jason

Dolick[16] ; 22. 9-Jac Haudenschild[12] ; 23. 11-Shawn Hubler[23] ;

24. 23-Nick Patterson[24]

Photo Courtesy: AllStarSprint.com