Andrew Buff Charges From 11th To Win 358-Modified Feature Saturday At Fulton Speedway

Story By: HANNAH DOLL / FULTON SPEEDWAY – FULTON, NY – Saturday night at Fulton Speedway was filled with first-time winners as drivers from all over the United States and Canada filled the pit area for a night of adrenaline-pumping action presented by Bayberry Automotive.

Latham, New York driver Andrew Buff raced to a convincing win in the 35-lap Tracey Road DIRTcar Modified feature event, leading the last 19 laps for his first career Fulton 358 win.

A pair of features held over from June 8 and July 22 respectively would kick off the night with Teddy Clayton Jr capturing his first-ever DOT Foods DIRTcar Sportsman win and Fulton’s Cale Gareau taking home the win in the E & V Energy Novice Sportsman competition.

Teddy Clayton Jr. would make it twice as nice as he took home the regularly scheduled DOT Foods DIRTcar Sportsman to make it a clean sweep for the evening. Kyle Demo (IMCA STARS Mod Lite Beast of the East), Brandon Barron (Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Hobby Stocks), and Camdin Cook (E & V Energy Novice Sportsman) were also winners in a seven feature show.

Brent Joy and Tim Harris paced the Tracey Road Modified field to the Comfort Windows firing point, bringing the field to green for the 35-lap feature event.

Joy took the early race lead as third-place starter Matt Caprara took over second from Harris.

As Joy jumped out to a multi-car length lead, the first Milton Cat caution flew on lap 7 for a flat right rear tire on the 83x of point leader Tim Sears Jr. The field would regroup with Joy and Caprara leading the way.

On the restart, Joy once again drove away with the lead, but Caprara began hunting down Joy and used the high side to take over the lead on lap 12. His lead would be short-lived, however, as the second Milton Cat caution slowed the pace again on lap 13.

Caprara established control on the restart and continued to lead until lap 16, when the 11th starting Buff used a power move to get past both second and first and drive away with the lead.

Two more Milton CAT cautions would fly on laps 17 and 19 which kept the field close to Buff. It was the lap 19 restart that would be Buff’s biggest test as multi-time track Champion Larry Wight would restart on his rear bumper.

Buff fired strong and kept Wight’s #99L at bay running a middle line very few others were running. The line worked as he steadily inched away from Wight building up a six-car length lead as the laps wound down. Wight’s final chance came as Buff caught lapped traffic with just a couple laps to go, but Buff’s #92 Kevlar Powered Bicknell was just too strong

Buff cruised to a multi-car length lead to picking up his first career Tracey Road Modified feature with over Wight. Sears Jr recovered from his flat tire to cross the line third, with eighteenth starter David Marcuccilli coming home in fourth. Watertown’s Billy Dunn rounded out the top 5.

After a dominating run in the holdover feature, picking up his first career DOT Foods DIRTcar Sportsman feature win, Teddy Clayton Jr completed the evening sweep winning the regular scheduled feature over Cody Manitta. Jimmy Moyer crossed in third, with fourteenth starter Brett Sears following in fourth. Emmett Waldron completed the top 5.

With a $2,000 payday on the line, Mod Lite drivers from all over the United States and Canada hit the high banks for night 1 of the IMCA Stars Beast of the East Showdown. Brewerton Speedway regular Kyle Demo picked up the win, with Zack Babcock following in second. Dylan Evans rounded out the podium, with Joe Isabell and Justin Williams rounding out the top 5.

Brandon Barron picked up hid first career Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Hobby Stock feature win, holding off current point leader John Pietrowicz. Ronald Hawker crossed in third, with Aiden Galvin and Adam Hunt wrapping up the top 5.

Camdin Cook made picked up his first career E & V Energy Novice Sportsman win over second place Andrew Eaton. Brian Harber, Kingston Sprague, and Belle Hogan complete the top 5.

Tracey Road Modifieds

A Feature 1 (35 Laps): 1. 92-Andrew Buff[11]; 2. 99L-Larry Wight[20]; 3. 83X-Tim Sears Jr[16]; 4. M1-David Marcuccilli[14]; 5. 49-Billy Dunn[18]; 6. 11C-Matt Caprara[3]; 7. 3-Chris Mackey[22]; 8. 19C-Brandon Carvey[12]; 9. 17J-Brent Joy[1]; 10. 5H-Amy Holland[24]; 11. 32R-Ronald Davis III[15]; 12. 18$-Sean Beardsley[10]; 13. 28-Alan Fink[25]; 14. 94X-Willy Decker Jr[4]; 15. 00-Connor Sellars[6]; 16. 31B-Ryan Dolbear[21]; 17. 31-Corey Barker[23]; 18. 58M-Marshall Hurd[26]; 19. 06J-Jordan Bennett[17]; 20. 160-Max Hill[8]; 21. 38H-Tim Harris[2]; 22. (DNF) 01R-Robert Gage[5]; 23. (DNF) 34-Andrew Ferguson[9]; 24. (DNF) 38-Jason Parkhurst[7]; 25. (DNF) 88H-Brian Murphy[19]; 26. (DNF) 31W-Lance Willix[13]

B Feature 1: 1. 31B-Ryan Dolbear[1]; 2. 3-Chris Mackey[2]; 3. 31-Corey Barker[4]; 4. 5H-Amy Holland[6]; 5. B2-Bob Henry Jr[3]; 6. 8H-Chris Hulsizer[8]; 7. 28-Alan Fink[7]; 8. 9-Tyler Meeks[13]; 9. 58M-Marshall Hurd[11]; 10. 02-Roy Bresnahan[15]; 11. 3M-Franklin Mackin[9]; 12. 27Z-Dylan Zacharias[10]; 13. 17-Rich Keller[12]; 14. 06-Bob Bennett[5]; 15. 369-Jim Walsh[14]; 16. (DNS) 55-Matt Woodruff

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 94X-Willy Decker Jr[2]; 2. 18$-Sean Beardsley[4]; 3. 38-Jason Parkhurst[3]; 4. 92-Andrew Buff[5]; 5. 06J-Jordan Bennett[6]; 6. 31B-Ryan Dolbear[8]; 7. 06-Bob Bennett[1]; 8. 3M-Franklin Mackin[9]; 9. 17-Rich Keller[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 17J-Brent Joy[1]; 2. 83X-Tim Sears Jr[8]; 3. 01R-Robert Gage[2]; 4. 31W-Lance Willix[6]; 5. 49-Billy Dunn[7]; 6. 3-Chris Mackey[4]; 7. 5H-Amy Holland[5]; 8. 27Z-Dylan Zacharias[3]; 9. 9-Tyler Meeks[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. M1-David Marcuccilli[6]; 2. 00-Connor Sellars[2]; 3. 38H-Tim Harris[1]; 4. 160-Max Hill[3]; 5. 88H-Brian Murphy[8]; 6. B2-Bob Henry Jr[4]; 7. 28-Alan Fink[7]; 8. 58M-Marshall Hurd[5]; 9. 369-Jim Walsh[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 11C-Matt Caprara[1]; 2. 34-Andrew Ferguson[3]; 3. 19C-Brandon Carvey[5]; 4. 32R-Ronald Davis III[6]; 5. 99L-Larry Wight[7]; 6. 31-Corey Barker[4]; 7. 8H-Chris Hulsizer[8]; 8. (DNF) 02-Roy Bresnahan[2]; 9. (DNS) 55-Matt Woodruff

Dot Foods Sportsman

A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 63-Teddy Clayton Jr[6]; 2. 6-Cody Manitta[11]; 3. 51-Jimmy Moyer[10]; 4. 83X-Brett Sears[14]; 5. 4-Emmett Waldron[15]; 6. 38JR-Jason Parkhurst Jr[9]; 7. 0-Tony Finch II[18]; 8. 21B-Ryan Barrett[4]; 9. 06W-Dorian Wahdan[2]; 10. 51X-David Moyer[12]; 11. 33JR-Clayton Brewer III[13]; 12. 17A-Mike Button[19]; 13. 19J-Joe Kline[20]; 14. 39S-Josh Fellows[17]; 15. 11C-Austin Cooper[5]; 16. 16X-Savannah Laflair[7]; 17. 00W-Wade Chrisman[8]; 18. B2-Kelly Smith[16]; 19. 72-Hunter Hollenbeck[1]; 20. (DNF) 220-Tucker Halliday[21]; 21. (DNF) 48-Kearra Backus[3]; 22. (DNS) 01-Zachary Buff; 23. (DNS) 557-Patrick Nolan

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 00W-Wade Chrisman[4]; 2. 6-Cody Manitta[5]; 3. 83X-Brett Sears[7]; 4. 63-Teddy Clayton Jr[3]; 5. 48-Kearra Backus[2]; 6. B2-Kelly Smith[1]; 7. (DNS) 01-Zachary Buff; 8. (DNS) 557-Patrick Nolan

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 21B-Ryan Barrett[2]; 2. 38JR-Jason Parkhurst Jr[4]; 3. 72-Hunter Hollenbeck[1]; 4. 51X-David Moyer[5]; 5. 4-Emmett Waldron[7]; 6. 39S-Josh Fellows[3]; 7. 17A-Mike Button[8]; 8. 220-Tucker Halliday[6]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 51-Jimmy Moyer[4]; 2. 11C-Austin Cooper[2]; 3. 33JR-Clayton Brewer III[6]; 4. 06W-Dorian Wahdan[1]; 5. 16X-Savannah Laflair[3]; 6. 0-Tony Finch II[7]; 7. 19J-Joe Kline[5]

Billy Whittaker Cars & Trux Hobby Stocks

A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 28-Brandon Barron[3]; 2. 17-John Pietrowicz[9]; 3. 14JR-Ronald Hawker[5]; 4. 13G-Aidan Galvin[2]; 5. 13-Adam Hunt[6]; 6. 14-Brennan Fitzgibbons[11]; 7. 4-Brian Burkle Jr[8]; 8. Z4-Shawn Doucette[4]; 9. OV1-Andy Kieffer[1]; 10. 88X-Chuck Thomas[7]; 11. 22-Todd Koegel[10]

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 14JR-Ronald Hawker[7]; 2. 28-Brandon Barron[3]; 3. OV1-Andy Kieffer[1]; 4. Z4-Shawn Doucette[5]; 5. 13-Adam Hunt[10]; 6. 13G-Aidan Galvin[2]; 7. 88X-Chuck Thomas[8]; 8. 4-Brian Burkle Jr[4]; 9. 17-John Pietrowicz[6]; 10. 22-Todd Koegel[11]; 11. 14-Brennan Fitzgibbons[9]

E & V Energy Novice Sportsman

A Feature 1 (15 Laps): 1. 14C-Camdin Cook[8]; 2. 55-Andrew Eaton[4]; 3. 18-Brian Harber[1]; 4. 29K-Kingston Sprague[6]; 5. 89-Belle Hogan[3]; 6. 57-Eric Jensen[7]; 7. 36-Matt Bukovan[2]; 8. 55H-Austin Harmer[12]; 9. 00-Dennis Wischman[9]; 10. 5G-Cale Gareau[18]; 11. 40X-Tim Halsey[11]; 12. 21A-Phillip Loosen[10]; 13. 199-Ryan Halliday[5]; 14. 7K-Kaylee Cooper[13]; 15. (DNF) 0-Chase Crumb[14]; 16. (DNS) 14-Samuel Groom; 17. (DNS) 5MJ-Matt Jordon; 18. (DNS) 73-Doug Shattell

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 18-Brian Harber[4]; 2. 89-Belle Hogan[1]; 3. 199-Ryan Halliday[3]; 4. 57-Eric Jensen[9]; 5. 00-Dennis Wischman[6]; 6. 40X-Tim Halsey[5]; 7. 7K-Kaylee Cooper[8]; 8. (DNS) 73-Doug Shattell; 9. (DNS) 21A-Phillip Loosen

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 36-Matt Bukovan[1]; 2. 55-Andrew Eaton[3]; 3. 29K-Kingston Sprague[6]; 4. 14C-Camdin Cook[8]; 5. 21A-Phillip Loosen; 6. 55H-Austin Harmer[5]; 7. 0-Chase Crumb[9]; 8. 5MJ-Matt Jordon[7]; 9. 14-Samuel Groom[2]; 10. 5G-Cale Gareau[4]

AmeriCU Mod Lites

A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 22-Kyle Demo[7]; 2. 88-Zack Babcock[8]; 3. 80-Dylan Evans[1]; 4. 6J-Joe Isabell[14]; 5. 10W-Justin Williams[10]; 6. 3-Pierre u Olivier Trudeau[6]; 7. 55-Joseph Garafolo[11]; 8. 9W-Doug Williams[5]; 9. 06-Mike Mullen[12]; 10. 5K-Matt Kitts[15]; 11. 72X-Chase Halls[26]; 12. 66L-Antonin Lafleur[9]; 13. 9-Roger Olschewske Jr[16]; 14. V75-Brandon Dennis[18]; 15. 25M-Ryan Mckinney[23]; 16. 2D-Jacob Dupra[19]; 17. 769-Daniel Demers[17]; 18. 19-Roger Paradis[27]; 19. 007-CJ Perman[22]; 20. 777-Dylan Permann[28]; 21. (DNF) 721-Jean Francois Leblanc[29]; 22. (DNF) 2-Trever Collins[2]; 23. (DNF) 99-Thomas Mackey[20]; 24. (DNF) 11X-Jack Lyon[24]; 25. (DNF) 80X-Anthony Scott[30]; 26. (DNF) 4-Tyler Winger[3]; 27. (DNF) 39-Sam Usborne[21]; 28. (DNF) 155-Nicholas Garafolo[25]; 29. (DNF) 722-JJ McDowell[4]; 30. (DNF) 6A-Alex Forcier[13]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 3-Pierre u Olivier Trudeau[1]; 2. 2-Trever Collins[2]; 3. 66L-Antonin Lafleur[3]; 4. 6A-Alex Forcier[6]; 5. 769-Daniel Demers[4]; 6. 39-Sam Usborne[5]; 7. (DNS) 155-Nicholas Garafolo

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 22-Kyle Demo[1]; 2. 80-Dylan Evans[2]; 3. 10W-Justin Williams[3]; 4. 6J-Joe Isabell[6]; 5. V75-Brandon Dennis[8]; 6. 007-CJ Perman[7]; 7. 72X-Chase Halls[5]; 8. 721-Jean Francois Leblanc[4]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 4-Tyler Winger[1]; 2. 722-JJ McDowell[4]; 3. 55-Joseph Garafolo[2]; 4. 5K-Matt Kitts[3]; 5. 2D-Jacob Dupra[5]; 6. 25M-Ryan Mckinney[6]; 7. 19-Roger Paradis[7]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 9W-Doug Williams[1]; 2. 88-Zack Babcock[6]; 3. 06-Mike Mullen[4]; 4. 9-Roger Olschewske Jr[3]; 5. 99-Thomas Mackey[7]; 6. 11X-Jack Lyon[8]; 7. 777-Dylan Permann[2]; 8. 80X-Anthony Scott[5]