July 17th, 2010
Daniel Hemric and Dan Snyder Racing win the "Legends Million" at Charlotte! - by Charli Brown

(L
to R) Hoyt Demis, Daniel "Hot Shoe" Hemric and Dan Synder enjoy victory
lane with a cool $250,000 dollar check for winning the "Legends
Million" at the Charlotte Motor Speedway. (Photo: LegendsNation.com)
Concord, NC -
After three days of racing, two pouring rain storms and over 300 cars,
Kannapolis, North Carolina's Daniel Hemric and Dan Snyder Racing came
out on top with a $250,000 dollar payday to win the Legends Million at
the Charlotte Motor Speedway.
Hemric stalked race leader Doug
Stevens, who had the fastest car of the weekend and dove to
Stevens’ inside as they raced off turn two with ten laps to go
and slowly pulled away to win by nearly a half straightaway at the
checkered flag.
"I can't thank everyone enough for all their
hard work this weekend" commented Dan Snyder. "I know it sounds
cliché, but I don't think anyone worked harder than us all
weekend to get Daniel in contention to win. We were a little bit off in
practice and qualifying, but getting the pole in his heat race might
have been the break we needed just to get in the race."
Daniel
timed in 28th fastest during practice and only gained three spots
during group qualifying to end up with the 25th fastest qualifying
time. "We kind of went back to a conventional setup that worked last
year during the Summer Shootout here at Charlotte,” explained
Snyder. "Then when we ran the practice for the A feature cars on
Saturday morning, we were second fastest to Doug. That was our first
clue that we were finally onto something,” he added.
Hemric's
Racing Electronics/Sum+Seeds #21 was only one of two DSR cars to make
the A feature for the Legends Million, with Harrison Rhodes racing his
way in after winning one of the two B features in his Chick-Fil-A
sponsored #36.

Former DSR drivers Christian PaHud, Chad Hackenbracht and Michael Van
Wingerden all struggled during their qualifying heat races with heavy
rains to miss the show. PaHud came the closest, after spinning across
the slippery start-finish line in the pouring rain to finish third and
missing the A feature by just one position.
DSR also had two
European drivers entered in the Legends Million with Bert De Heus and
Cees Visser traveling from the Netherlands to compete in their very
first oval race. "Again, it was a total team effort and I'd like to
thank Jeff Bolen and Hoyt Demis for supplying cars for Bert and Cees"
added Snyder. "I think they did a great job all weekend, but not having
enough time to adapt to this type of oval racing might have hindered
their effort a little bit" he added.
"I'd
like to thank everyone
who helped us win tonight,” commented Dan Synder. "Everyone from
Bruce Silver at Racing Electronics, Hoyt Demis and Demis Paint Company,
Goodridge brake and fuel lines, Jeff Jordan at RPM Pro-formance, Curt
Andrews at Andrews Motorsports, the engine department at U.S. Legends
Cars International, Hank Scott Racing and Federal Tires for making a
great new
racing tire for our cars and of course, Daniel Hemric." |