Stafford Open-Wheel Highlights: May 15, 2026
Stafford Open-Wheel Highlights: May 15, 2026
Ashton Tucker Wins Series Record at Season Opener
The Easy-Kleen Super Late Model Series opened up the 2026 season this past weekend at Petty International Raceway in River Glade, New Brunswick, featuring the LV Auto Parts and Repair 150.
A crowd of over 1500 watched drivers from the Saint John, Moncton, Fredericton, and Miramichi areas of New Brunswick, as well as corners of Prince Edward Island and Nova Scotia compete for the top prize of $4000.
When the checkered flag waved, 2024 series champion Ashton Tucker (#2, Miramichi, New Brunswick) crossed the line for a series record eighth career victory. Tucker beat defending series champion Tanton Wooldridge (#01, Summerside, PEI) and 2023 series champion Dylan Gosbee (#16, Cornwall, PEI) to score the win.
(more…)NL-Waterford Speedbowl Results: Flannery Takes Modified Win
The SK Modified(R) race kicked off with Keith Rocco shooting out the gate over Adam Gada. Gada couldn’t hang on after a lap 5 incident setting up Rocco against Anthony Flannery on the front row. A wreck on the restart took Blast Off winner Timmy Jordan and rookie Nickolas Hovey out of the way. Flannery chased Rocco for a majority of the race, keeping the action within a car length as Rob Janovic Jr and Todd Owen fought for third. Flannery kept the chrome horn on Rocco giving him shot after shot, and all looked bleak until just two to go. Janovic was able to reel in the duo with their late race antics but that was when Flannery made the race winning move to the inside. He had got passed Rocco and Janovic was able to hold him to the outside to finish runner up.
Ryan Charland led the first couple laps of the SK Light race until an incident occurred sending the whole field in every direction to try and avoid mayhem. Bob Charland would take the lead over holding off Ian Nunes. Lap seven saw some more devastation taking Kevin Cormier out of contention along with Leo Nunes and Blast Off winner Kevin Davis. Charland kept control of the race over Robert Bloxsom III and rookie Vinny Rappoccio. Disaster for Will Anderson and Ian Nunes with 10 to go allowed Bloxsom the opportunity to take over the lead from Charland. Rappoccio was able to move into second with 6 to go as the rest of the race was run without incident giving Bloxsom his first win with the Marvin Racing team in just 2 starts.
(more…)Stafford Fendered Highlights: May 15, 2026
Arute, Gray, Anglace, Plemons, & Waterman Score May 15th Weekly Racing Feature Wins at Stafford
Stafford Speedway returned to weekly racing action on Friday, May 15th. Feature winners on the night included David Arute in the SK Modified® feature, Adam Gray for the second consecutive week in the Late Model feature, Nick Anglace in the SK Light feature, Aaron Plemons in the Street Stock feature, and Ryan Waterman in the Street Stock feature.
In the 40-lap SK Modified® feature, Wesley Prucker led the field to the green flag and he set the early pace with David Arute quickly taking second. Arute took the lead from Prucker on lap-3 with Tyler Chapman taking second, Alexander Pearl third, Troy Talman fourth, and Marcello Rufrano fifth. Prucker was slowly losing positions in the outside lane as he slid all the way back to 12th place behind Keith Rocco. With 10 laps complete Arute was still in command with Chapman and Pearl behind him. Rufrano was now fourth with Todd Owen up to fifth. Michael Christopher, Jr. was sixth followed by Dylan Izzo, Mikey Flynn, Jon Puleo, and Rocco. At the halfway point Arute was still in the lead and he had pulled away from Chapman in second. Rufrano was still third with Owen and Christopher making up the top-5. Puleo was sixth with Izzo, Rocco, Flynn, and Anthony Flannery behind him. Christopher went by Owen to take fourth place on lap-24 while Rufrano nearly took second from Chapman. Rufrano would take second from Chapman on lap-26 and Christopher got by him for third on lap-27. Puleo was now fifth behind Arute, Rufrano, Christopher, and Chapman with 10 laps to go. With 5 laps to go Arute was all by himself out front with Christopher, Rufrano, Chapman, and Puleo still giving chase. Arute led the field to the checkered flag to pick up his first win of the 2026 season with a dominating drive. Christopher finished second with Rufrano, Chapman, and Puleo rounding out the top-5.
(more…)Jason Raymond Eyes More Wins in Stafford Street Stocks
When the 2025 racing season came to a close at Stafford Speedway, Jason Raymond was the hottest driver going in the Street Stock division. He closed out the 2025 season with a 2-race winning streak, which were also the first two feature wins of his career.
Fast forward to the beginning of the 2026 season at the NAPA Spring Sizzler®, and Raymond nearly continued his winning streak with a second place finish. Raymond followed that with a sixth place finish that has him sitting second in the Street Stock points going into the May 15th Street Stock feature event.
Despite what on paper are good results, Raymond says there is room for him and his #49 Larrabee Landscaping team to be even better.
“I feel like we’re actually not quite as good as we were at the end of last year,” said Raymond. “We’re trying to tune on the car a little to get it better. It feels like to me we’re lacking in the center of the corner. The car is not wanting to rotate good enough to get a good drive off the corner so from the center of the corner to exit is where we need to pick things up a little bit. I think we’re pretty close. The whole field is close and we just need a minor adjustment here or there to find that little bit more. We’re not far off but I think there’s still some room to gain.”
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