Justin Holland Hits The Right Line To Score Modified Victory At Penn Can Speedway
Story By: NATHAN ALDRICH / PENN CAN SPEEDWAY – SUSQUEHANNA, PA – The deck was stacked against Penn Can speedway’s season opener Friday night after the track received a heavy shower just before race time.
Mother nature couldn’t hold down a spry crowd however as a packed grandstand watched an adrenaline filled Modified Feature.
John Michael Phillips drew the pole with Nick Petrilak leading the first lap from the outside pole. An early yellow brought Corey Cormier pitside, he would not return. With two laps complete Petrilak selected the outside as Kevin Hartnett moved into second slicing under Phillips.
As the lap times picked up Hartnett stayed tight to the tail of Petrilak’s 72 machine. The pair dueled through lapped traffic when disaster struck, leaving Hartnett spun in turn 3. With the field restacked Petrilak once again rocketed away from Phillips on the outside putting some distance on the field as Justin Holland worked his way to second.
With 5 laps remaining the pair caught the lapped machine of Bobby Puckett. Petrilak would have to jump on the binders while Holland slid to the inside of turn 4 to take the lead. With two laps remaining a Jamie Bedford spin with the leaders approaching brought out the yellow, resetting the field for a one lap shootout.
Holland nailed the final lap, passing under the checkers with a healthy lead as Petrilak, Phillips, Brian Puckett and Brad Weaver completed the top 5. Victory Lanes will be held next week due to the impending rain.
Next up for Penn Can is their Mother’s day special with grandstand admission $5 off for all moms.
The Can Opener Results – 5-2-2025
Modifieds
WINNER – 280 – JUSTIN HOLLAND
2.) 72-Nick Petrilak 3.) 23jr-John Michael Phillips 4.) 41-Brian Puckett 5.) 1A-Brad Weaver 6.) 58M-Marshall Hurd 7.) 27K-Brett Tonkin 8.) 9-Ken Titus 9.) 5-Kevin Hartnett 10.) 1-Darwin Greene 11.) 14Z-Brad Szulewski 12.) Ajay Potrzebowski II-72P 13.) D9-Dennis Clapperton 14.) 40-Bobby Puckett 15.) 111J-Jamie Bedford 16.) 66-Matt Sobiech 17.) 119-Brian Malcolm 18.) 17-George Konstelansky 19.) 26R-Corey Cormier 20.) 145-Alan Rudalavage
602 Crate Sportsman
WINNER – 3R – RAY LEONARD
2.) AK1-Allen Kellogg 3.) 30+-Brandon Oleski 4.) 197-Mike Schane 5.) 56-Devon Green 6.) 51-Brandon Fritsch 7.) 14K-Alex Konopka 8.) 22A-Avery Decker 9.) 93-Joe Novak 10.) 75-John Cahill 11.) 32-Eddie Kudrako 12.) 16-Ned Fitch 13.) 11-Brett Wooster 14.) 17D-Mike Loney 15.) 72-Josh Fedo 16.) 69-Jerry Roys 17.) M7-Mike Nagel Jr. 18.) 9-Todd Titus 19.) 225-Derrick Shaffer 20.) 44-Jim O’Hara 21.) 77-Jamie Vanabs 22.) 10K-Kolyn Schane
600cc Modifieds
WINNER – 11 – BRENTON PAYNE
2.) 54T-Travis Rooney 3.) 29-Doug Newbigging 4.) 24-Talan Oliver 5.) 77X-Nolan Smith 6.) 67-Tori Straway 7.) 217-Larry Furman 8.) 5-Madyson Beach 9.) 17-Jeff Baldwin 10.) 5L-Savannah Beach 11.) 99K-Brad Wolfe 12.) 117-Jeffrey Martin 13.) 22-Ryan David-Kadaronak 14.) 12J-John Dinniny 15.) 1JR-Darwin Greene Jr
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