Matt Kenseth made a triumphant return to Madison International Speedway by sweeping the Twin 50s for the Rockweiler Insulation Late Models. Kenseth edged his son, Ross, to win the first feature and held off Nathan Oppliger enroute to taking home the checkered flag in the second feature. The event was run on Sunday after rain washed out the show on Saturday night.
Zack Riddle and Ross Kenseth brought the field of twenty-two cars to the green flag in the first feature with Kenseth going to the outside to take the early lead after the two raced side by side for the first three laps. Matt Kenseth, who started seventh, quickly worked his way up to fourth on lap 5 and passed Nathan Haseleu for third on lap 7.
On lap 14 Kenseth was ready to challenge for second as he dropped to the low side of the track to make his way past Riddle. Now it became father chasing son, but Ross had built up a multi-car advantage and Matt was going to have his work cut out for him.
As the laps ticked off the scoreboard, Matt was beginning to cut into the advantage Ross had built. Matt got what he needed when the caution flag came out on lap 32 when the car of Cliff Rucks suffered mechanical problems.
On the restart, Matt looked to the inside of Ross but wasn’t able to get the room he needed to make the pass. As the Kenseths battled out front, Bobby Wilberg was up to join the pair followed by Haseleu and Jeremy Miller.
Not finding room on the inside, Matt took to the outside and on lap 37 made the pass on the outside while coming out of turn four and finally clearing Ross on the front stretch. From this point Matt quickly started to check away from Ross and the rest of the field and cruise his way to victory lane. Ross would finish second followed by Wilberg, Haseleu, Miller, Dave Feiler, John Baumeister Jr., Nathan Oppliger, Chad Stevens, and Michael Bachaus.
“That was an awesome race. I had a lot of fun with Ross. It was a great race and I’m looking forward to another fifty,” said Matt Kenseth from victory lane. “He (Ross) gets around here pretty well. Really all of these guys do as there is a lot of great competition out there.”
“The car was a little loose, but his (Matt’s) car was faster than ours,” added Ross Kenseth.
Third place finisher Bobby Wilberg added, “It was kind of fun watching those guys battle it out. They weren’t giving each other anything out there.”
It took awhile to get the second feature going after the caution flag waved twice on the opening lap for a spin and when the car of Kevin Knuese made heavy contact with the wall in turn three.
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