Roy back in Airborne title chase with 2nd win
AS-03011-1 South Plattsburgh – Martin Roy took the lead from upset-minded Cam Grady on a lap-18 restart and drove off to his second DIRTcar Modified win of the season Saturday at Airborne Speedway. The win brought the former track champion from Napierville, QC back into title contention. Current point leader Patrick Dupree, seeking to repeat as Ernie’s Discount Tools Modified champion, pitted mid-race to tend to a broken suspension part and settled for a 12th-place finish. Dupree leads Roy 428-400. George Foley is third in points (378). |
Grady held off Leon Gonyo for a career-best second-place finish. Pole sitter Chris Cayea, in the top five throughout, placed fourth. Andy Heywood was fifth. Positions 6-10 went to Pat McGrail, Craig Reyell, Max Viens, Vince Quenneville and Aaron Bartemy. Roy, driving the Gamache Truck Center No. 90, started 12th and quickly improved to 7th with a timely switch into the low lane. On the race’s second restart on lap 13, he took over fourth, passed Gonyo for third a lap later and then set sail for Cayea. A final caution was out on lap 27 when Andy Lindemann’s machine went up in smoke. “My plan was to pass [Grady] on the outside groove,” Roy said. “The car was very good on the outside. When I saw the yellow flag on lap 27, I was still comfortable that we had a good enough car to win.” Cayea, Gonyo and George Foley won the Modified heats. Two cautions late in the 25-lap Sportsman feature gave Bucko Branham the chance he needed to score his third win. Branham gained four positions in eight laps and was third when the first yellow came out on lap 19. He passed Tylor Terry and then Travis Bruno to gain the lead with two to go. It was Branham’s third win of the year at the wheel of the Bud Light/Marsha Homes No. 20. Robert Gordon of Milton, Vt. won his sixth Renegade feature of the season after swapping the lead repeatedly with Joe Daniels. Gordon’s winning margin was two feet. Josh Terry was a close third. Daniels was leading by 10 car-lengths before back-to-back cautions with 10 laps to go. Gordon cleared Daniels once on the high side, but Daniels led at the line by inches on lap 23. Joe Warren and Andy Bordeau finished 4-5. “In most of the years I’ve been racing, two or three wins meant you had a very good season,” Gordon said. “To win six times is amazing.” Johnmichael Bresette of Keeseville won his second straight Busch Bomber feature. Travis Sherman, Curtis Lagrave, Josh Durivage and Tyler Crary completed th top five. Josh LaPorte won the NAPA Mini Modified feature. Speedy Bresette took over the championship points lead by finishing second just ahead of Erick Sayles in 3rd. MODIFIEDS 1 Martin Roy 2 Cam Grady 3 Leon Gonyo 4 Chris Cayea 5 Andy Heywood 6 Pat McGrail 7 Craig Reyell 8 Max Viens 9 Vince Quenneville 10 Aaron Bartemy 11 George Foley 12 Patrick Dupree 13 Dan Brown 14 Matt Woodruff 15 Mike Phinney 16 Richard Tisseur 17 Mike Reyell 18 Bryant Trim 19 Kris Vernold 20 Don Scarborough 21 Rodger Labreche 22 Mikhail Labreche 23 Andy Lindeman 24 Dave Snow 25 Jimmy Ryan 26 Jason Bruno 27 Jim McComb 28 Greg Atkins Contact: Tom Herzig |
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