Outlaw Speedway opens 2026 season with Lucas Oil Nationals; Peet winners in sportsman. Grant, Kerrick, and Decamp winners as well
Column By: Kenny Shupp Jr. / OUTLAW SPEEDWAY – DUNDEE, NY – For the first time in three years, Outlaw Speedway was able to get their season lid lifter into the record books, however like previous years Mother Nature tried with everything she had to put a damper into track owner, Tyler Siri’s plans including record rain fall in the week leading up to the April 3-4, 2026 kick-off.
In companion to the modifieds, the Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman thirty-lap feature action, former Lucas Nationals Sportsman winner, Brent Ayers and Tyler Peet led the charge of twenty-one competitors into turn one and unfortunately for the rest of the field, Tyler Peet did not forget how to get around Outlaw Speedway after last fall’s Crate Sportsman special runner-up finish to Payton Talbot as part of Dutch Hoag Memorial Weekend.
Peet, who is known as one of the top competitors in the northeast in 602 Crate Sportsman action really has these things figured out and with his second place finish to Ayers in the Friday night Dash his outside front row starting position made things easy for the Lake Ariel, Pa speedster as he cruised to the $2011 pay day.
For Brent Ayers, his second-place finish capped off a great weekend for the Dundee, NY local hometown favorite and it sets him up for what promises to be a great 2026 season at Outlaw after finishing eleventh in the 2025 Sportsman point battle.
Third place went to Rathbone, NY veteran Tim Guild with Josh Nobriga of Lindley advancing from fifth to finish fourth.
Collin Brown lined up twelfth on the opening grid, made some very nifty moves coming through traffic and wound up completing the top five finishers.
Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks made their way onto the Fast 4/10 of a mile Clay Oval for their twenty-lap feature with Geneva’s CJ Guererri and Jimmy Grant of Penn Yan bringing the field to the opening green. 2024 and 2025 Swarthout Recycling Street Stock Champions, Gene Sharpsteen of Chemung and Jasper’s Glenn Whritenour made up row two, so it was a who’s who list of feature winners and former Track Champions comprising the top two rows.
Grant was able to wrestle the lead away from Guererri and hold off twelve- time 2025 feature winner, Whritenour by over a full second in another real classic battle between the pair in route to the Lucas Nationals check for $1411.00,
Whritenour had to settle for second with Corning’s Brett Crawford completing the podium.
CJ Guererri drifted to fourth at the finish chased across the line by Joe Giardina of Beaver Dams, NY. who rounded out the top five.
By virtue of their first and second place finishes in Friday’s Front Row Dash Events, Daniel Kerrick and Jerry Lobdell Jr. would lead the charge of the field to green for the twenty-lap NAPA Hobby Stock feature go.
Kerrick was looking to back up his five-win season in 2024 with a Lucas Oil Nationals Trophy and $1011.00 check.
The fourteen different drivers that took the opening green represented numerous different speedways throughout the region, Kerrick found himself under a lot of pressure to hold off a stellar field of invaders.
However, the third Generation Stanley, NY driver was up to the task as he was able to hold off Jerry Lobdell Jr. of Freeville to claim the victory.
Dusty Baker of Bainbridge, NY made the long trek to Outlaw, lined up third on the opening start, ran a consistent race to complete the podium.
Fourth place went to multi time Outlaw Hobby Stock Champ, Mr. Smooth, Marc Minutolo of Newark with Jared Hill of Dundee competing the top five after starting in the seventh spot at the start of the twenty-lap feature.
Completing the opening day of action at the popular Yates County Speedway, the MR Grafix 4 Cylinder Mini Stocks took to the speedway for their twenty-lap A Main.
Nick Brown of Troupsburg and Gavin Hall from Dundee would set the pace in the early going with a slew of track regulars and invaders close behind. Craig Decamp of Beaver Dams began the feature inside row six but wasted little time slicing and dicing his way to the front of the field and once there he would never look back,
Decamp left with the Lucas Oil Nationals winner’s check for $1011.00 while former Woodhull Raceway Track Champion, Teddy Morseman came from sixth to claim the runner-up spot.
Completing the top three was Nate Powers of Pennellville.
A pair of former Mini Stock Champions rounded out the top five with Jayson Smart of Branchport finishing fourth while last year’s Track Champion Zach Daugherty of Elmira finished fifth.
Up next at Outlaw Speedway it will be the 1st Annual Dave Guererri Sr. Memorial Event with the format mirroring that of the Lucas Nationals with practice and Front Row Dashes for the Regular Fast 5 Divisions on Friday then Saturday it will be heat, consolation and feature events.
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