10.4.16 Empire Super Sprints Results
The 25 lap, $3,000 to win 360 Sprint A Main saw Lucas Wolfe immediately take the lead from his outside front row starting spot with Danny Varin jumping from his third starting spot to the runner-up spot and beginning his pursuit of Wolfe. The only caution of the event came out on lap five when pole sitter Mike Stelter made heavy contact with the wall exiting turn two with the rest of the field bearing down on him.
On the restart, Varin got around the outside of Wolfe to take over the lead with Wolfe applying heavy pressure. The duo crossed the line on lap five with Varin barely ahead and as the pair rounded turns three and four coming to complete lap six, Wolfe made his move. Burying the throttle going into the turn, Wolfe executed a classic slide job to wrestle the lead away from Varin. Wolfe would begin to steadily pull away.
While Wolfe had the lead secured, it was 12th place starter Jason Barney putting on a passing clinic in the first 10 laps of the 25 lap affair. Barney blasted to the front early, getting as high as second on eight, only to slip back to third a lap later. At the halfway point, it was Wolfe leading the way followed by Varin, Barney, Dylan Westbrook, and Cory Sparks.
Wolfe was setting a blistering pace but it was becoming a battle for the third spot as Barney held it while Westbrook was all over him for the spot. Wolfe dominated the remainder of the event to score his first ever Utica-Rome Speedway win with Danny Varin, Barney, Westbrook, and late race charger Paul Kinney rounding out the top five. Sparks, Shawn Donath, Bobby Varin, Billy VanInwegen, and Mahaney completed the top 10.
360 SPRINT A MAIN FINISH (25 LAPS)- LUCAS WOLFE, Danny Varin, Jason Barney, Dylan Westbrook, Paul Kinney, Cory Sparks, Shawn Donath, Bobby Varin, Billy VanInwegen, Mike Mahaney, Matt Tanner, Jeff Cook, Dave Axton, Pete Richardson, Scott Holcomb, Mike Stelter, Bob Gray, Denny Peebles, Kelly Hebing, Derrick Juliano, Chuck Hebing.