Bridgeport, NJ – After rain brought an early ending to last Friday night’s program, the Spirit Auto Center Speedway had a full night of action planned with held-over features for both the Hyper Racing EVO Injection 600 Micro Sprints as well as the JC Fabrication 270 Micro Sprints. Last week’s who was completed before a whole new program began for the micro sprints as well as the Speedway Entertainment All Star Slingshots and Junior Slingshots. Six feature races in all!
The 600s had completed the first seven laps of their feature before the rains came last Friday so that race resumed on lap eight with Tommy Kunsman leading the way over PJ Williams and Chris Fenimore. Kunsman immediately went back to work at the head of the field while the battle for second was heating up.
Matt Smith and Connor Sheffield rounded out the top five while Anthony Tramontana and Gary Bozowski battled for the sixth spot.
Several caution flags brought the field together for some double file restarts but Kunsman was the class of the field as he raced to his third Spirit victory of the season. PJ Williams finished second with Chris Fenimore taking third. Smith finished fourth with Sheffield recording his best finish to date in fifth. Tramontana won the battle for sixth over Bozowski, Paul Mancini, Josh Conover and Steven Fleetwood.
Brittany Hopkins and Jonathan John led the field of 270s to the green flag for their held-over feature event but it was Billy Gray who raced into the lead to complete lap one. Nick Walton and point leader, Alex Swift raced into second and third but Gray had the field covered as he raced to his second win of the 2023 season.
Gray led the way to the checkered followed by Swift who took over second in the final laps. Walton finished third followed by Lee Nardelli and Dustin Dash who recorded his best finish to date.
On to Friday night’s complete show sponsored by Cassidy Painting!
PJ Bozowski raced to his third win of the season with his back-to-back victories in the Speedway Entertainment All Star Slingshots. Bozowski led every lap from the green to the checkered for this win that saw Michael Beckett chase down Bozowski in the final laps but when the checkered waved, Bozowski was ahead by several car lengths.
Brandon Oakley and Beckett battled for second for the first seven laps with Beckett taking over second on lap eight. By that time, Bozowski had driven away from the field and Beckett spent the remaining laps tracking down the leader.
It was Bozowski for the win over Beckett, Oakley, Nick Bilello and Chris Laureigh.
Jack Jarvis raced to his third consecutive win in the Junior Slingshots with Cody Williamson finishing second for his best effort of the season. Jarvis led every lap in the fifteen lap feature, taking the lead at the start. Williamson raced ahead of the battle for third between Austin Walls and David Morrison. Walls finished third at the checkered followed by David Morrison.
It was win number seven on the season for Jarvis.
Ethan Simpson and Chris Fenimore led the field of Hyper Racing 600s to the start of their second feature with Fenimore going to the inside of Simpson to take the lead as they raced down the backstretch. Bubba Hughes moved into second and pressure Fenimore for the lead but Fenimore led the way through lap five over Hughes, Josh Conover, Oliva Haworth and Simpson.
Fenimore led the way through lap nine but Haworth raced side-by-side with Fenimore and took the lead on lap ten.
Haworth pulled away from the field before Tommy Kunsman raced his way into second on lap thirteen, racing from his twelfth place start.
Kunsman went to work on Haworth’s lead. Haworth and Kunsman crossed the stripe side-by-side on nlap seventeen with Kunsman pulling ahead on the next lap.
Kunsman raced to his second win of the night and fourth of the season to lead all Spirit 600 competitors. Haworth finished second for her best effort to date after battling some mechanical issues in recent weeks. Hughes finished third followed by Anthony Tramontana and Matt Smith. Fenimore finished sixth followed by Wayne Scott, Josh Conover, PJ Williams and Ethan Simpson.
In the regular JC Fabrication 270 feature event, Nick Walton grabbed the lead on the start, leading the first five times around the quarter mile. On lap six, Walton slowed and pulled off the track with Joe Dopke inheriting the lead. When the green flag waved, Nardelli went to the inside and Alex Swift took the outside to race three wide with Dopke for the lead. Swift came away with the lead on lap seven.
Swift drove to his fifth win of the season in the Blanda No. 15 with Nardelli, Gray, Dopke and John completing the top five.
Action returns to the Spirit quarter mile on Friday night for the Amy Barber Memorial Race for the 600s. Amy lost her battle with a long-term illness during the 2022 season. She was well loved by her family members as well as her racing family. Over the years, she worked in several positions at the track on both Friday and Saturday nights.
Amy will be honored on Friday night. One thousand dollars will go to the winner of the Hyper Racing 600 feature in addition in many other special prizes. The 270 Micro Sprints as well as the Speedway Entertainment All Star Slingshots and Junior Slingshots will also be on the race card for a complete show. Racing begins immediately following warm-ups at 7:15pm.
RAIN DELAYED FROM 7/28/2023 HYPER RACING EVO FUEL INJECTION 600cc MICRO SPRINT FEATURE (25 laps):
1. Tommy Kunsman, 2. P.J. Williams, 3. Chris Fenimore, 4. Matt Smith, 5. Connor Sheffield, 6. Anthony Tramontana, 7. Gary Bozowski, 8. Paul Mancini, 9. Josh Conover, 10. Steve Fleetwood, 11. Jacob Homrick, 12. Olivia Haworth, 13. Rebecca Lamothe, 14. Chris Turner, 15. Brett Conkling, 16. Sonny Tete, 17. Frank Holmes, 18. Connor Gross, 19. Cole Neibert
HYPER RACING EVO FUEL INJECTION 600cc MICRO SPRINT FEATURE (25 laps):
1. Tommy Kunsman, 2. Olivia Haworth, 3. Bubba Hughes, 4. Anthony Tramontana, 5. Matt Smith, 6. Chris Fenimore, 7. Wayne Scott, 8. Josh Conover, 9. P.J. Williams, 10. Ethan Simpson, 11. Chris Turner, 12. Gary Bozowski, 13. Steve Fleetwood, 14. Jon Keller, 15. Sean Case, 16. Frank Holmes, 17. Jacob Homnick, 18. Brett Conkling, 19. Rebecca Lamothe, 20. Rich Deck, 21. Paul Mancini, 22. Mike Shea, 23. Sonny Tete, DNS – Eric Lobecker, Frank Holmes, Corey Waegel
RAIN DELAYED FROM 7/28/2023 JC FABRICATION 270cc MICRO SPRINT FEATURE (20 laps):
1. Billy Gray, 2. Alex Swift, 3. Nick Walton, 4. Lee Nardelli, 5. Dustin Dash, 6. Jonathan John, 7. Brittany Hopkins, 8. Charles Cobourn, 9. Alex Lester, 10. Joe Dopke, DNS – Jimmy Wagner, Darren Miller, Brett Estep, Blake Esham, John Wagner, Pat Bealer
JC FABRICATION 270cc MICRO SPRINT FEATURE (20 laps):
1. Alex Swift, 2. Lee Nardelli, 3. Billy Gray, 4. Joe Dopke, 5. Jonathan John, 6. Dustin Dash, 7. Brittany Hopkins, 8. Charles Cobourn, 9. Dale Wagner, 10. Danny Wright, 11.Tyler Grau, 12. Nick Walton, 13. Alex Lester, 14. Hope Karlesses
SPEEDWAY ENTERTAINMENT ALL STAR SLINGSHOT FEATURE (20 laps):
1. P.J. Bozowski, 2. Michael Beckett, 3. Brandon Oakley, 4. Nick Bilello, 5. Christopher Laureigh, 6. Jonathan Laureigh, 7. Brayden Morrison, 8. Kristoffer Surran, DNS – Dave Morrell, Frank Yoder
SPEEDWAY ENTERTAINMENT JUNIOR SLINGSHOT FEATURE (15 laps):
1. Jack Jarvis, 2. Cody Williamson, 3. Austin Walls, 4. David Morrison, 5. Carter Mullins, DNS – Nate Kampe
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