Paulie Hartwig III Finds Victory Lane In Short Track Super Series Sportsman Main At All-Tech

Story By: SHORT TRACK SUPER SERIES – LAKE CITY, FL – Young Paulie Hartwig III stood in victory lane after Friday night’s Short Track Super Series Sportsman feature at All-Tech Raceway.

The triumph was worth $2,000 to his family fielded team.

New Jersey teenager Hartwig, the outside pole starter for the 30-lap main, outgunned Donovan Lussier on a lap-20 restart and thwarted the attempts by Payton Talbot to pick up the win, his second with the series and first since July 2013 at the now-closed Bloomsburg (Pa.) Fairgrounds.

Talbot fell just shy of a victory in second, with Quebec’s Lussier – after an engine change – finishing third. Boyertown, Pa.’s Logan Watt and Connecticut’s Connor Crane, who started 16th, completed the front five.

The Fastline Performance Hot lap Hero was Nick Zielinski at 21.782 seconds.

Lussier, Todd English and Tim Clemons were Sportsman heat winners. Blaine Klinger topped the B-Main.

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 (30 Laps): 1. 73H-Paulie Hartwig III[2]; 2. 14T-Payton Talbot[4]; 3. 61L-Donovan Lussier[3]; 4. 4M-Logan Watt[6]; 5. 711X-Connor Crane[16]; 6. 21C-Brian Calabrese[10]; 7. 27M-Derrick Mcgrew Jr[1]; 8. 95JR-Jacob Nadeau[9]; 9. 29-Matt Ellery[18]; 10. 9K-Blaine Klinger[19]; 11. 33-Richard Murtaugh[20]; 12. 61-Felix Murray[21]; 13. 27-Michael Ballestero[15]; 14. 59-Colin Cox[7]; 15. 28L-Eric Lauziere[14]; 16. 41-Tim Clemons[5]; 17. 711T-Todd English[8]; 18. 30T-Robert Tete[24]; 19. 11-Nick Zielinski[12]; 20. 44-James O’Hara[26]; 21. 711-Chris Crane Jr[13]; 22. 49-Chris Jakubiak[11]; 23. 26B-Maddy Broedel[25]; 24. 7J-Jarod Millman[17]; 25. 6S-John Santolin[23]; 26. 142-Nathan Austin[22]; 27. 1I-Dan Odell[27]

B Feature 1 (8 Laps): 1. 9K-Blaine Klinger[1]; 2. 33-Richard Murtaugh[2]; 3. 61-Felix Murray[4]; 4. 142-Nathan Austin[6]; 5. 6S-John Santolin[8]; 6. 30T-Robert Tete[3]; 7. 26B-Maddy Broedel[7]; 8. 44-James O’Hara[5]; 9. 1I-Dan Odell[9]; 10. 89-Dylan Madsen[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 61L-Donovan Lussier[2]; 2. 27M-Derrick Mcgrew Jr[1]; 3. 4M-Logan Watt[3]; 4. 73H-Paulie Hartwig III[5]; 5. 711-Chris Crane Jr[6]; 6. 711X-Connor Crane[4]; 7. 9K-Blaine Klinger[10]; 8. 61-Felix Murray[9]; 9. 26B-Maddy Broedel[8]; 10. 89-Dylan Madsen[7]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 711T-Todd English[2]; 2. 59-Colin Cox[5]; 3. 49-Chris Jakubiak[1]; 4. 14T-Payton Talbot[8]; 5. 28L-Eric Lauziere[6]; 6. 7J-Jarod Millman[3]; 7. 33-Richard Murtaugh[4]; 8. 44-James O’Hara[7]; 9. 6S-John Santolin[9]

Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 41-Tim Clemons[2]; 2. 21C-Brian Calabrese[3]; 3. 95JR-Jacob Nadeau[6]; 4. 11-Nick Zielinski[4]; 5. 27-Michael Ballestero[8]; 6. 29-Matt Ellery[5]; 7. 30T-Robert Tete[1]; 8. 142-Nathan Austin[7]; 9. 1I-Dan Odell[9]

Qualifying 1 (2 Laps): 1. 711X-Connor Crane, 00:23.095[7]; 2. 4M-Logan Watt, 00:23.650[6]; 3. 61L-Donovan Lussier, 00:23.795[8]; 4. 27M-Derrick Mcgrew Jr, 00:23.921[1]; 5. 73H-Paulie Hartwig III, 00:24.047[10]; 6. 711-Chris Crane Jr, 00:24.058[5]; 7. 89-Dylan Madsen, 00:24.060[2]; 8. 26B-Maddy Broedel, 00:24.502[9]; 9. 61-Felix Murray, 00:24.932[3]; 10. 9K-Blaine Klinger, 00:25.339[4]

Qualifying 2 (2 Laps): 1. 33-Richard Murtaugh, 00:22.969[8]; 2. 7J-Jarod Millman, 00:23.044[6]; 3. 711T-Todd English, 00:23.215[5]; 4. 49-Chris Jakubiak, 00:23.533[3]; 5. 59-Colin Cox, 00:23.700[7]; 6. 28L-Eric Lauziere, 00:23.717[4]; 7. 44-James O’Hara, 00:23.745[2]; 8. 14T-Payton Talbot, 00:24.074[9]; 9. 6S-John Santolin, 00:24.074[1]

Qualifying 3 (2 Laps): 1. 11-Nick Zielinski, 00:21.782[9]; 2. 21C-Brian Calabrese, 00:22.491[2]; 3. 41-Tim Clemons, 00:22.640[8]; 4. 30T-Robert Tete, 00:22.666[4]; 5. 29-Matt Ellery, 00:22.667[1]; 6. 95JR-Jacob Nadeau, 00:22.780[3]; 7. 142-Nathan Austin, 00:23.046[6]; 8. 27-Michael Ballestero, 00:23.235[5]; 9. 1I-Dan Odell, 00:23.456[7]