Lightnin’ Strikes at Weedsport, Wight grabs third ESS win

Weedsport, New York – Phoenix, New York’s Larry Wight continued his hot streak by winning his second consecutive Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints A Main at Weedsport Speedway on Saturday night.  Wight took over the top spot on lap eight and held off a hard charging Jordan Poirier late in the race to secure the win, his third overall for the year.  Tyler Cartier led the 25 car field down to Dave Farney’s green flag with Danny Varin and Larry Wight lurking in the next two rows.  Varin and Wight quickly made their way to the front by lap two and both were in lapped traffic by lap five.  Wight grabbed the lead on lap eight and opened up a four car lead on Varin with Davie Franek and Joe Trenca within striking distance of Varin.  A couple of early race red flags kept the field bunched together but took out Cartier on lap 6 and Shawn Donath and Dylan Swiernik on lap 10.  All drivers were ok but done for the night.   Halfway through the race, current point leader Jordan Poirier (from 10th) and 2019 champion Paulie Colagiovanni (from 13th) were making their presence known as they pushed towards the front.  Varin’s night ended as the 01 snapped a rear axle while tracking down the 99L of Wight on lap 16.  The lap 16 restart had Wight leading with Colagiovanni, Franek, Trenca and Poirier in hot pursuit.  Poirier made his way into second by lap 21 and was closing the gap on Wight but ran out of time, finishing second.  Following Wight and Poirier across the line were Colagiovanni, Franek and Trenca.  Billy VanInwegen ran well finishing sixth followed by Scott Kreutter, Chuck Hebing, Jason Barney with modified driver Chris Hile rounding out the top ten.

 

” What a crazy night, lots of cautions tonight but the car was good on restarts” commented Wight after the race.  ” This is the same car we won at Fulton with and didn’t make any changes to it.  We unloaded the car today and didn’t have to touch it all night.”

 

Jordan Poirier was a busy man in the driver’s seat for the A Main, “Yeah, we had a lot going on during the race.  The car was ok early in the race but I made some adjustments about halfway through that worked.  Regarding all the cautions, “Towards the end of the race I was worried about running out of gas, I was riding around the bottom and leaning out the fuel line just to make sure I had enough.”  

 

Paulie Colagiovanni rallied for a podium finish after missing the setup early in the night.  ” I will take it, I missed the setup early but made some good changes for the Dash run so, I thought we would be ok for the A Main.  I was hoping the bottom would slick off a little, which it did, the high side worked well for us tonight”

 

Fast Times were set by Billy VanInwegen, Shawn Donath and Joe Trenca.  Heat wins went to Tommy Wickham, Shawn Donath and Danny Varin.  Paulie Colagiovanni won the Dash and ChrisHile won the B Main.