Matt Sheppard Scores First Short Track Super Series Win Of ’25 Season Friday At All-Tech

Story By: SHORT TRACK SUPER SERIES – LAKE CITY, FL – Back on track.  It took until Night No. 3 of the ‘Sunshine Swing’ at All-Tech Raceway, but Savannah, N.Y.’s Matt Sheppard returned to Victory Lane on Friday night, taking home $6,000 after the 40-lap event.

Sheppard started the event second and led the entire distance on a hammer-down surface at the Wendell Durrance-owned facility.

The win for Sheppard was the 51st of his career with the series and first since Sept. 28, 2024, at N.Y.’s Utica-Rome Speedway.

“We had different track conditions tonight, that’s for sure,” Sheppard said. “It finally blew off there in (turns) three and four. We finally made the right decisions and had a pretty good racecar all night.

“The car drove really good for me. We tried to get up front and stay out of the wall.”

Sheppard first had to outduel pole starter Tim Fuller – and later Larry Wight – en route to his fifth series win in the Sunshine State.

Wight, of Phoenix, N.Y., earned a week-best second in the F.X. Caprara Car Companies No. 99L.

“After the last year we’ve had, this is about as close to a win as we can get,” Wight said. “To be up on the podium, it’s huge leaps and bounds for this team.”

Fuller, of Edwards, N.Y., completed the podium, followed by Binghamton, N.Y.’s Darren Smith and Schnecksville, Pa.’s Tanner Van Doren.

Finishing sixth through 10th, respectively, were Stewart Friesen of Sprakers, N.Y., rebounding from an opening-lap skirmish in turn one; Bobby Hackel of East Greenbush, N.Y., surging forward from 25th on the grid; 15th-starter Tyler Siri of Horseheads, N.Y.; Danny Bouc of Horseheads, N.Y., up from 16th; and Chris Curtis of East Canaan, Conn.

Van Doren was the ATL Hot Lap Hero with a lap of 19.815 seconds.

Heat winners were Erick Rudolph, Sheppard, Danny Creeden and Van Doren.

Rick Laubach and Alex Payne topped the B-Mains.

Saturday, the STSS ‘Sunshine Swing’ reaches its conclusion with a 50-lap, $7,500-to-win STSS Modified event and another 30-lap, $2,000-to-win Sportsman program. Crown Vics complete the tripleheader.

A Feature 1 (40 Laps): 1. 9S-Matt Sheppard[2]; 2. 99L-Larry Wight[3]; 3. 19-Tim Fuller[1]; 4. 12S-Darren Smith[7]; 5. 27V-Tanner Van Doren[4]; 6. 44-Stewart Friesen[8]; 7. 97-Bobby Hackel IV[25]; 8. 5*-Tyler Siri[15]; 9. 6B-Danny Bouc[16]; 10. 35C-Chris Curtis[13]; 11. 70A-Alex Payne[22]; 12. 16X-Danny Creeden[5]; 13. 02-Jack Lehner[24]; 14. 34-Rusty Smith[18]; 15. 87-Jason Ingalls[23]; 16. 25R-Erick Rudolph[12]; 17. 84Y-Alex Yankowski[11]; 18. 55J-Mario Clair[17]; 19. 21A-Peter Britten[9]; 20. 7Z-Zach Payne[20]; 21. 47-Simon Perreault[10]; 22. 6S-Matt Stangle[6]; 23. 7M-Paul Mancini[19]; 24. 66M-Corbin Millar[14]; 25. 11-Matt Caprara[26]; 26. 20-Rick Laubach[21]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 20-Rick Laubach[2]; 2. 87-Jason Ingalls[1]; 3. 28-Matt Smith[7]; 4. 11T-Jeff Taylor[9]; 5. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr[3]; 6. 3RS-Dalton Slack[4]; 7. 11H-Danny Hieber[6]; 8. 22E-Mike Engwer[8]; 9. (DNS) 4P-Anthony Perrego; 10. (DNS) 90-William Deckelman

B Feature 2 (8 Laps): 1. 70A-Alex Payne[2]; 2. 02-Jack Lehner[4]; 3. 97-Bobby Hackel IV[9]; 4. 35B-Francois Bellemare[5]; 5. 38-Kevin Stevens[7]; 6. R21-Tommy Rascoe[8]; 7. 27-Jason Reome[6]; 8. 7P-Patrik Daniel[3]; 9. 11-Matt Caprara[1]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 25R-Erick Rudolph[1]; 2. 99L-Larry Wight[3]; 3. 6S-Matt Stangle[7]; 4. 35C-Chris Curtis[8]; 5. 55J-Mario Clair[9]; 6. 87-Jason Ingalls[10]; 7. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr[6]; 8. 4P-Anthony Perrego[2]; 9. 28-Matt Smith[4]; 10. 11T-Jeff Taylor[5]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 9S-Matt Sheppard[3]; 2. 84Y-Alex Yankowski[4]; 3. 47-Simon Perreault[5]; 4. 66M-Corbin Millar[1]; 5. 34-Rusty Smith[6]; 6. 11-Matt Caprara[8]; 7. 7P-Patrik Daniel[9]; 8. 35B-Francois Bellemare[7]; 9. 38-Kevin Stevens[10]; 10. 97-Bobby Hackel IV[2]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 16X-Danny Creeden[1]; 2. 21A-Peter Britten[2]; 3. 44-Stewart Friesen[3]; 4. 5*-Tyler Siri[8]; 5. 7M-Paul Mancini[4]; 6. 20-Rick Laubach[6]; 7. 3RS-Dalton Slack[7]; 8. 11H-Danny Hieber[5]; 9. 22E-Mike Engwer[10]; 10. 90-William Deckelman[9]

Heat 4 (8 Laps): 1. 27V-Tanner Van Doren[3]; 2. 12S-Darren Smith[1]; 3. 19-Tim Fuller[5]; 4. 6B-Danny Bouc[4]; 5. 7Z-Zach Payne[2]; 6. 70A-Alex Payne[8]; 7. 02-Jack Lehner[7]; 8. 27-Jason Reome[6]; 9. R21-Tommy Rascoe[9]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 99L-Larry Wight, 00:20.444[8]; 2. 4P-Anthony Perrego, 00:20.824[6]; 3. 25R-Erick Rudolph, 00:20.990[3]; 4. 28-Matt Smith, 00:21.176[9]; 5. 11T-Jeff Taylor, 00:21.381[5]; 6. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr, 00:21.499[4]; 7. 6S-Matt Stangle, 00:21.583[1]; 8. 35C-Chris Curtis, 00:21.609[7]; 9. 55J-Mario Clair, 00:21.764[2]; 10. 87-Jason Ingalls, 00:21.801[10]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 9S-Matt Sheppard, 00:20.647[10]; 2. 97-Bobby Hackel IV, 00:20.883[2]; 3. 66M-Corbin Millar, 00:20.930[1]; 4. 84Y-Alex Yankowski, 00:21.019[8]; 5. 47-Simon Perreault, 00:21.196[4]; 6. 34-Rusty Smith, 00:21.357[9]; 7. 35B-Francois Bellemare, 00:21.388[5]; 8. 11-Matt Caprara, 00:21.516[6]; 9. 7P-Patrik Daniel, 00:21.668[3]; 10. 38-Kevin Stevens, 00:21.938[7]

Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 44-Stewart Friesen, 00:19.943[3]; 2. 21A-Peter Britten, 00:20.304[9]; 3. 16X-Danny Creeden, 00:20.429[10]; 4. 7M-Paul Mancini, 00:20.476[6]; 5. 11H-Danny Hieber, 00:20.777[8]; 6. 20-Rick Laubach, 00:20.842[5]; 7. 3RS-Dalton Slack, 00:20.872[2]; 8. 5*-Tyler Siri, 00:20.924[4]; 9. 90-William Deckelman, 00:21.736[7]; 10. 22E-Mike Engwer, 00:21.979[1]

Qualifying 4 (2 Laps): 1. 27V-Tanner Van Doren, 00:19.815[1]; 2. 7Z-Zach Payne, 00:19.880[7]; 3. 12S-Darren Smith, 00:19.896[8]; 4. 6B-Danny Bouc, 00:19.927[9]; 5. 19-Tim Fuller, 00:20.314[6]; 6. 27-Jason Reome, 00:20.333[3]; 7. 02-Jack Lehner, 00:20.344[4]; 8. 70A-Alex Payne, 00:20.372[5]; 9. R21-Tommy Rascoe, 00:20.660[2]