BUFFALO TWP — Alex Ferree sat in his Late Model No. 10 car during a red flag and nearly fell asleep.

“I started dozing off,” Ferree said. “I felt my head bobbing down.”

Ferree, a Saxonburg native, was in the lead after 26 laps when two cars became tangled on the front straightaway. It took nearly 30 minutes to separate them.

Once the race resumed, Ferree held on to win his 21st career feature at Lernerville Speedway Friday night.

The race was a frustrating one for Ferree, who had to contend with stiff competition, an abundance of caution flags and a difficult track.

“I was thinking, 'I am going to hop this cushion and throw it away at any moment,'” Ferree said. “I'm usually not bad that way, but tonight I was negative Nellie out there.”

Ferree, though, kept his composure and was able to tie his father, Ed, for seventh on the all-time list.

“Does this mean you are going to come out of retirement?” Ferree gave a message to his father in his post-race interview. “Are you going to come race her some more?”

It was the second consecutive Late Model victory for Ferree.

Her certainly earned this one.

“It was just a long night,” he said. “The track changed a lot. The cushion is so high ... it's just right at that edge and you were afraid of going over it on almost every turn.”

Ferree nearly broke the track record in the hot laps at 15.050 seconds.

The pace was considerably slower during the feature.

“It was definitely interesting, I'll put it that way,” he said.

It certainly was an interesting night for Dave Hess Jr., who saw both ends of the racing spectrum.

Hess Jr. won the UEMS Modified feature, edging Steve Dixon of Smethport.

Hess Jr., a native of Waterford, led from wire to wire.

But his night was far from over after that race. He returned for the Late Model feature and was running in third place on the 25th lap when he spun out on that difficult cushion on turn four, almost flipping, before coming to a rest.

He did not continue.

“I think we had the best car in both races,” Hess Jr. said. “Someone was going to make a mistake up there. It was getting pretty fine, I guess I was the one who made the mistake.”

Hess Jr. said he was trying to push it too hard when he spun out.

“The car went up in the air and I thought I was going to flip,” Hess Jr. “Oh (crap) is what goes through your mind.”

He did capture the E-Mod race by edging Dixon, who came to Lernerville with wins in five of his last six feature races in the division.

“It was nice getting one of them,” he said.

Hess Jr. said E-Mods are a lot tougher to drive the Late Models.

“With the smaller tires and close to the same horse power as the Late Models, they are tricky to drive,” he said. “The Late Model division, the competition is through the roof.”

The wear of driving in both features was tough on Hess Jr. He had to remain on the track following his 25-lap feature win in the E-Mods to race in the 30-lap Late Model feature.

“These back-to-back are getting too tough,” he said. “My arms were getting tired in that second race. It's physically demanding. I don't know if that hurts us or not.”

Mike Miller of Chicora pulled ahead of Joe Kelley of Mt. Pleasant late in the 20-lap Sportsman feature.

It was Miller's second feature win of the season.

Notes: There were 72 cars in the pits. ... Hot laps were delayed because of a light ran that fell before they were scheduled to start. ... Hess Jr. didn't race last week because of a wedding — his own.