Racing action was back on the 8 lane Super Speedway Tuesday night with Cup and IROC racing. In the Cup opener Randy Haydt ran his Kodiak #27 to 3 segment wins to claim his 1st NASCAR win of the season. Scoring his best Cup finish of the year Scott Bender scored 2 segment wins to come home with a close Runner up finish. Only 14 pieces of track behind Billy Decker ran the Interstate Batteries #18 to 2 segment wins for a good 3rd place finish. Only 5 pieces of track of the pace, Toby Reinhard scored 1 segment win his 2nd Top 5 run of the season, finishing 4th. Jim LeVan brought out a new Cup body, scored 3 segment wins for his 4th straight Top 5 finish of the Cup season, to close out the Top 5.
6th Brian Sponagle / 7th Cory Reinhard ( 1 win ) / 8th Chris Brubaker / 9th Adam Zapacosta / 10th Brian Vanbuskirk.
Tony Zapacosta Scores First Career IROC Win
It was race 3 of the IROC season running Aurora T-Jets, the 5 lap event turned out to be 1 of the closest IROC events ever run. The entire field was separated by 1 lap and 1 piece of track. Tony Zapacosta needed a win in his final segment on lane 7 and he scored that win, which was just enough to claim his 1st career win at Randy’s Raceway. Tony’s slim win was by only 5 pieces of track ahead of new comer this year Ed Kenderdine who was making his 1st IROC start. Ed scored a segment win on lane 4 turning in a very good 2nd place finish. Only 2 pieces of track behind Jim LeVan scored 1 segment win his 3rd Top 5 IROC finish this year finishing 3rd. Trailing Jim by 1 piece of track Cory Reinhard scored his best IROC finish this year coming home 4th. Scott Bender had a steady run to finish 5th.
6th Brian Sponagle ( 2 wins ) / 7th Randy Haydt ( 2 wins ) / 8th Toby Reinhard / 9th Brian Van buskirk ( 1 win ) / 10th Tie Savvy ( 2 wins ) / Billy Decker ( 1 win ).
CLOSE CALLS:
Thanks to Brian Sponagle for his work on the IROC cars were really a lot of fun and great racing, maybe we will see them later this year. Good having Ed Kenderdine making his 1st start in both Cup and IROC. Congrats to Savvy for scoring her 1st 2 segment wins in IROC. More details were discussed about the hard body race coming in December.
NEXT WEEK:
Modifieds on the 8 lane.
