Disaster in the front of the field on lap 1 of the Late Models sidelined Aaron Plemons and Shawn Gaedeke immediately. This left Jordan Hadley and Ray Christian at the point, but only for another lap when contact between the two send both to the rear. Diego Monahan and Jason Palmer now took point with Monahan working hard to keep Palmer at bay. They stayed side-by-side for much of the race as Christian rallied forward and a visiting Jeff Belyea waited patiently behind. That patience wore off just after halfway when Christian dove underneath the low groove running Palmer, and picked off the high groove running Monahan shortly after. He ran off to safely win race number two of the season.
After a couple rough and tumble SK Light races, the drivers put on a green to checker affair. Sami Anderson started off strong after some bad luck races pulling away from Evan Bourgeois and Kevin Cormier. Her large lead was slowly getting whittled away as the laps clicked down with Bourgeois and Cormier running nose to tail. Lapped traffic came into play in the closing stages but Anderson was able to both maneuver that and hold off Bourgeois to pick up the 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.
Tim Jordan Shows Muscle in SK Modified® Throwdown; Andrew Molleur on Top in Late Model Photo Finish
WATERFORD – Paul Buzel launched at the drop of the green strong, leading the SK Modified® event for over 10 laps uncontested. Tim Jordan broke from his 6th place starting spot and light contact between the leaders opened the door for Jordan and Eric Berndt to put on a show. With Jordan controlling the preferred groove, Berndt did not let up on his attacks connecting nerf bars on several occasions. The two veterans kept their cars pointed in the right direction setting the pace, all while Anthony Flannery was dicing his way through the field from the last place starting spot. A pile up with 7 to go opened the door for Flannery to dive into 2nd over Berndt, neither driver could take down Jordan for the top spot.
