Wild -n- Wacky Wednesday 8/30/17 Recap
Kyle Gero Takes Sixth X-Car Win Of The Year
-Scalia And Blaskey Go Back To Back-
WATERFORD, CT (August 30, 2017): Kyle Gero stayed out of trouble during the first half of the feature and then turned it on for the second half of the 25-lap feature, to claim the victory, it was Gero’s sixth X-Car win of the year. After starting 21st on the grid, Gero used a lap-12 restart to muscle his Thames Electric sponsored machine into the lead. Gero held off a charging Wayne Shifflett, who finished in the runner up spot. The race would be halted early as pole sitter Bruce Sperry grabbed the lead as he was pulling away from the field something appeared to break sending Sperry into the turn-2 wall. The impact sent Sperry back across the track into the path of the #77 driven by Christopher Lee, ending his night. Rounding out the top-5 were Gero, Shifflett, Dylan Cabral, Bill Rheaume and Matt Westover. The win also added to Gero’s point lead with two Wednesday shows left.
The 20-lap Bandoleros feature was claimed by Zachary Martinez. Martinez was on a rebuilt machine as he all but destroyed his #14x last Wednesday night. Martinez started on point as the green flag waved to send off the field. Martinez was slowed only once during the feature as the caution flag waved on lap- 17 for a minor spin in turn 2. Martinez would pull away on the restart and lead all the 20-laps for the win. Rounding out the top-5 behind Martinez were PJ Evans, Tyler Alkas, Emma Monahan and Dominic Abbatiello. Monahan’s finish didn’t show how strong she was during the event. Monahan battled Martinez most of the race for the lead until a late restart where she fell back to fourth.
In the 25-lap Super X-Car event, it was Keith Scalia taking the win for the second week in a row. Scalia started 11th as the green waved for the start of the feature. Point leader Donald Berge slowed as the green waved and his Do’s Firewood and Logging sponsored #29 finally stopped on the front stretch bringing out the yellow. Berge could get pit side and get the repairs he needed to capture a tenth-place finish. The highlight of the event was when 2nd through fourth place went four-wide to battle for the second-place position that Scalia grabbed, to set up his winning move on John Yagmin.
The final event of the night was the 25-lap Legends race as Michael Blaskey also took the checkered flags on back to back weeks. Blaskey wasn’t an easy on as he had Middletown, CT’s Joey Ternullo all over his back bumper as the checkered waved. As Blaskey out muscled Colin Haley on lap-6 it was Ternullo moving into the top-5. It wasn’t until a lap-9 restart that put Ternullo onto the back bumper of Blaskey. The two would battle side by side with a handful of laps to go until Blaskey would claim the top spot for the win. Finishing third through fifth were John O’Sullivan, Peter Bennett, and Carlo Blandina.
Wild -n- Wacky Wednesday will wrap up in two weeks for their final points event of the year.
X-Car (25-laps): Kyle Gero, Wayne Shifflett, Dylan Cabral, Bill Rheaume, Matt Westover, Chuck McDonald, Mike Olsen, Craig Tavernier, Matthew Menders, Gregg Sajkowicz, Josh Piper, Michele Cicio, Andrew Lee, Eddie Loomis, Bruce Sperry, TJ Racicot, Will Rheaume, Christopher Lee, CP Burdick, Steven Olsen, Dylan Decoster, Kaylee Symonds, Jeremy Bourbeau
Bandoleros (20-laps): Zachary Martinez, PJ Evans, Tyler Alkas, Emma Monahan, Dominic Abbatiello, Maddie Harkin, Ethan Simmons, Ari Jencik, Brody Monahan, Conor Jencik, Anthony Bevilacqua, Evelyn Simmons, Nicholas Hovey, Tyler Barry
Super X-Cars (25-laps): Keith Scalia, John Yagmin, Marc Shafer, Peter Martin, Chris Taylor, Denny Lee Hoffman, Jason Larivee Jr, Keith Brown, Jeremy Washburn, Donald Berge, Gary Avery Jr, Dan Butler (DNS), Raymond Reed (DNS)
Legends (25-laps): Michael Blaskey, Joey Ternullo, John O’Sullivan III, Peter Bennett, Carl Blandina, David Lespinasse, Brandon Remson, Jon Puleo, Anthony Marvin, Colin Haley, Mason Levesque, Devon Jencik, John Kraft III, Lucas Leone, Scott Limkemann, Brandon Hammann, David Shindler, Matt Carpenter
Powder Puff Derby (10-laps) Michele Cicio
