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WINNER: Pat O’Brien has been trying for several years to earn himself a victory at the Brewerton Speedway. Before Friday night, his career best was a second place finish in a 358-Modifid feature. O’Brien finally achieved his goal as he took the checkers in the 35-lap DIRTcar Modified feature.
"All I can say is that it’s about time,” said O’Brien after the win. “Especially after the way we ran last year, it was pretty pathetic."
RACE RECAP:
Chuck Bower led laps one and two from the pole starting position.
O’Brien took the lead on a lap two restart. He got the lead using the high line in turns three and four.
“I started to find last year that I run better on the top,” said O’Brien. “I just kind of went with it and there was a nice cushion up there.”
Matt Sheppard caught O’Brien in slower traffic and on lap 27 Sheppard passed him for the lead.
“That’s two weeks in a row with the slower cars,” laughed Sheppard. “They were racing two-by-two. I really can’t be mad through because he (O’Brien) got by me the same way that I got by him.”
O’Brien regained the lead with just four laps to go. He went to the bottom to pass Sheppard in turns one and two.
“When I was running behind Matt (Sheppard) I saw that he wasn’t as good as he normally is,” commented O’Brien. “I saw the window on the bottom speedway so I knew if I could get down there and box him in (Sheppard) on the top I would be alright.”
CAUTIONS:
The only caution of the event occured on lap two when Alan Johnson was forced into a yuke tire on the inside of turn four. The tire came out on the speedway causing the caution.
THE FINISH:
DIRTcar Big Block Modifieds 35-laps - Pat O’Brien, Matt Sheppard, Ryan Phelps, Jimmy Phelps, Chuck Bower, Shawn Donath, Tom Sears Jr., Alan Johnson, Billy Decker, Larry Wight, Pat Ward, Kyle Lewis, Vinnie Vitale, Jim Witko Jr., Bob Henry Jr., Chad Phelps, Sean Beardsley, Roy Sheilds, DNS Kevin Bates.
SUPPORT DIVISIONS:
In other action, JJ Courcy won the 20-lap IMCA Modified feature; Tim Devendorf, of Brewerton, N.Y. took home the win in the 20-lap ESDCA Mod-Lite feature; Claude Hutchings Jr. won his second consecutive 4-Cylinder Super Stock feature; Josh Herbert won the Enduro.
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