Jimmy Phelps Finds Way To Victory Lane In DIRTcar Modified Feature At Brewerton Speedway

Story By: DAVE MEDLER / BREWERTON SPEEDWAY – BREWERTON, NY – Friday night at the Brewerton Speedway Jimmy Phelps (Modifieds) Brandon Carvey (Sportsman) Matt Kitts (Mod Lites) Chris Bonoffski (Four Cylinder Super Stocks) all took feature wins on an exciting race night presented by NAPA Auto Parts.

Jim Witko would grab the lead on lap one of the 35-Lap Tracey Road DIRTcar Big Block Modified feature and by lap five opened a ten-car length advantage over Dylan Zacharias, Sean Beardsley, Alan Fink, and Tyler Trump.

Witko and Trump would be in a two-car breakaway race for lead on lap ten with Beardsley, Fink, and Ronnie Davis III who started tenth racing for top five positions.

Witko and Zacharias’s quick reactions avoided what could have been a big wreck when a car at the back of the field spun in front of them in turn one, bringing out the yellow on lap eleven.

Zacharias took advantage of the caution, as he would take the lead on the restart, with Davis moving into second.

On lap fifteen points leader Tim Sears Jr. suddenly slowed and was towed back to the pits. A broken pitman arm ended his feature race.

On lap twenty, Zacharias on the topside of the speedway and Davis on the bottom groove were in a tight fight for the lead with Jimmy Phelps a couple of car lengths behind the top two. Todd Root and Larry Wight who started nineteenth showed in the top five.

With ten laps remaining, you could have almost thrown a blanket over Zacharias, Davis, and Phelps in a fight for the lead, as the final laps started clicking off the lap counter.

After hounding Zacharias for a number of laps, Jimmy Phelps would make the winning pass on lap thirty-two and then would drive to victory lane for his second win of the year. Dylan Zacharias, Larry Wight from nineteenth, Ronnie Davis III, and Todd Root completed the top five.

Savannah Laflair would lead the opening six laps of the 20-Lap DOT Foods DIRTcar Sportsman feature when the caution lights would come on. On the restart, Brandon Carvey drove into the lead.

Carvey was in total of the race out front on lap ten, as Laflair, Earl Rudy, Tony Finch II, and AJ Miller battled for second through fifth.

With ten laps left Carvey was in his own zip code out front leading by six seconds while Rudy, Finch, Stephen Marshall, and Miller raced for top five positions.

Caution on lap sixteen erased Carvey’s big lead and would give the field one last shot at the win.

Over the final laps, nobody challenged Brandon Carvey and he cruised to his fourth feature win of the season. Stephen Marshall, Earl Rudy, AJ Miller, and Tony Finch II finished second through fifth.

Brad Harris and Kyle Demo would both lead early laps of the 20-Lap AmeriCU Credit Union Mod Lite feature when Demo chance for a win ended on lap ten with a flat tire.

Over the second half of the feature Matt Kitts would outrun Brad Harris, Mike Mullen, Zack Babcock, and Tucker Halliday for his second career win at the ‘D-Shaped Dirt Demon’.

The 15-Lap Mirabito Four Cylinder Super Stock feature would see Nate Powers lead from lap one until the white flag lap, when Chris Bonoffski would take the lead and go on to his seventh feature win of the year. Nate Powers, Justin Guyle, Colby Herzog, and Anthony VanEpps completed the top five.

Tracey Road DIRTcar Big Block Modifieds – (35 Laps): 1. 98H-Jimmy Phelps[12]; 2. 27Z-Dylan Zacharias[4]; 3. 99L-Larry Wight[19]; 4. 32R-Ronnie Davis III[10]; 5. 15-Todd Root[7]; 6. 8H-Max McLaughlin[11]; 7. 12-Darren Smith[9]; 8. 60-Jackson Gill[16]; 9. 29-Matt Caprara[15]; 10. 28-Alan Fink[3]; 11. 5HH-Amy Holland[14]; 12. X-Chad Phelps[22]; 13. 7Z-Zachary Payne[8]; 14. 62S-Tom Sears Jr[18]; 15. 34-Andrew Ferguson[21]; 16. 160-Max Hill[6]; 17. 24-James Witko Jr[2]; 18. 3-Chris Mackey[17]; 19. 5H-Chris Hile[13]; 20. 18$-Sean Beardsley[1]; 21. 01R-Robert Gage[28]; 22. 24K-Nick Krause[25]; 23. 17-Marcus Dinkins[26]; 24. 38-Tim Harris[23]; 25. JD33-Joshua Landers[27]; 26. 83X-Tim Sears Jr[20]; 27. 9X-Tyler Trump[5]; 28. 7S-Torrey Stoughtenger[24]

DIRTcar 358 Modified Feature Bonus – 1. $300 2. $200 3. $100: Alan Fink, Amy Holland, Andrew Ferguson

Tracey Road DIRTcar Big Block Modifieds – LCQ – 6Q – (10 Laps): 1. 99L-Larry Wight[1]; 2. 83X-Tim Sears Jr[2]; 3. 34-Andrew Ferguson[4]; 4. X-Chad Phelps[3]; 5. 38-Tim Harris[7]; 6. 7S-Torrey Stoughtenger[5]; 7. 24K-Nick Krause[6]; 8. 17-Marcus Dinkins[9]; 9. JD33-Joshua Landers[11]; 10. 01R-Robert Gage[10]; 11. (DNF) 63-Adam Roberts[8]

DOT Foods DIRTcar Sportsman – (25 Laps): : 1. 19C-Brandon Carvey[15]; 2. 28X-Stephen Marshall[7]; 3. 16-Earl Rudy[3]; 4. 14AJ-AJ Miller[4]; 5. 0-Tony Finch II[6]; 6. R1-Riley Rogala[10]; 7. 06W-Dorian Wahdan[8]; 8. 6-Cody Manitta[13]; 9. 38-Zach Sobotka[12]; 10. AONE-Bucky Hayes[2]; 11. 88H-Chris Hulsizer[16]; 12. 16X-Savannah Laflair[1]; 13. 31B-Ryan Dolbear[14]; 14. 33-Richard Murtaugh[11]; 15. 80X-Mike Button[5]; 16. 00W-Wade Chrisman[22]; 17. 44-Gordon Smith[21]; 18. 21-Ryan Barrett[17]; 19. 284-Jamie Kamrowski[19]; 20. 77L-Buddy Leathley[18]; 21. 42K-Dave Kingsley[20]; 22. 83-Brett Sears[9]; 23. 51-Richard Townsend Jr[24]; 24. 72-Hunter Hollenbeck[23]

Sweet Frog – Sweet 16 – $50 Bonus: Wade Chrisman

NAPA Know How Chase Elliott Award: Zach Sobotka

AmeriCU Credit Union Mod Lites – (20 Laps): 1. 5K-Matt Kitts[6]; 2. 19-Brad Harris[4]; 3. 06-Mike Mullen[10]; 4. 88Z-Zack Babcock[11]; 5. 16-Tucker Halliday[7]; 6. 9-Roger Olschewske Jr[2]; 7. 55-Joseph Garafolo[9]; 8. 1-Thomas Mackey[3]; 9. 2D-Jacob Dupra[1]; 10. 11X-Jack Lyon[5]; 11. 4J-Jacob Malbouf[8]; 12. 155-Nicholas Garafolo[16]; 13. M1-Michael Gloska[13]; 14. 8BALL-Kelly Skinner[14]; 15. X-Ron Larose[15]; 16. 22-Kyle Demo[12]; 17. 6J-Joe Isabell[17]

Mirabito Four Cylinder Super Stocks – (15 Laps): 1. 16B-Chris Bonoffski[8]; 2. 113-Nate Powers[6]; 3. 88-Justin Guyle[7]; 4. 13-Colby Herzog[5]; 5. 55-Anthony VanEpps[2]; 6. 67K-Clayton Koch[3]; 7. 09-Darik VanEpps[4]; 8. 9-Dylan Burdick[9]; 9. 99-Walt VanEpps[10]; 10. 23B-Brian Mettler[11]; 11. 06-Maggie Guyle[12]; 12. 27A-Alexandra Parker[1]