Write a commentThis past Saturday night's Pathfinder Bank SBS main event at Oswego Speedway saw a familiar face in victory lane at the end of the 30-lap feature in Fulton's Jack Patrick, who picked up his seventh career victory behind the wheel of the No. 9 Mopar powered machine.
The field was lead to green by Mike Bruce and Camden Proud and it was Bruce the early leader, jumping out to the top spot from the inside of the front row. Proud dropped back a bit early on the outside, falling back to the five spot before Patrick, along with fifth starting Brad Haynes and seventh starting Russ Brown found their way back under Bruce battling for spots in the top five.
Patrick made his move by Bruce for the lead early on lap 2 and checked out before a yellow flag flew early on lap 6 for Rookie of the Year contender Tony Pisa, who found the first turn foam in the No. 89. Pisa was done for the night.
On the restart, Brown later worked by Haynes and Proud to take second with Dalton Doyle pulling in behind the No. 54 of Proud to try and take the four spot.
Patrick and Brown pulled away from Haynes and fortunately for the driver of the Step One Creative sponsored Small Block, Proud was able to find his way under the No. 88 of Haynes, who was running rather strong this past weekend inside the top five, to take the third spot away on lap 22. Doyle followed suit into fourth as Haynes fell to fifth.
As Brown stalked Patrick for the lead in the all new Hedger Fabrication No. 13 with the laps winding down, it appeared Patrick would hold Brown off and that was solidified on lap 29 when the caution came out just after the white flag for Brown as he had radiator issues which caused the 21-time SBS feature winner to leak water over the racing surface.
Brown was stopped on the start finish line and then asked to take the 13 to the pits, handing second to Proud and third to Doyle with Haynes moving back up to fourth.
The restart was green-checkered and Patrick was able to hold off Proud without issue to go on to win the 30-lap main event, the seventh of his career. Proud settled for second, with Doyle in third, Haynes in fourth, and invader Tyler Shullick, who spends most of his weekends working for ThorSport Racing in the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, drove the Four Sevens Motorsports No. 67 machine up to a fifth place finish.
Championship runner up Andrew Schartner, a hard charging Kreig Heroth, polesitter Bruce, Rob Pullen in the Castiglia 69, and Cameron Rowe filled in the remaining top ten positions.
Patrick was very excited to pick up his first victory of the season and the first with his girlfriend Kristie, as well as to keep Brown in his tire tracks for the duration of the eventful 30-lap feature.
"There's no doubt about it, this car was really fast tonight," said an excited Patrick. "I just want to thank my entire crew, my girlfriend, my sponsors Longley Dodge, Kool Kitty Toys, Big Kahuna Party Rentals and Red Baron Pizza for all the support. My car was fast all night right after we pulled it off the trailer, this thing was a rocketship. We just fine tuned it and had it going really good for the feature. I saw Russ (Brown) back there, I could tell he was back there and I just knew if I hung onto my line that he wasn't going to be able to get by me. You never forget about the guys that are behind you when you start up front. Just try to keep your head down, not look at the TV screen, hit your marks and don't give up the bottom and it handled their great tonight."
Proud, who has moved from ninth to third in the points race over two weeks of compeition, was thirlled with another runner up effort but the 18 year-old speedway PR director and recent high school graduate remains very hungry in search of his first career Pathfinder Bank SBS triumph driving his homebuilt Proud Chassis machine.
"Two seconds in a row isn't bad at all," Proud commented. "I'm just wondering when that first win is coming. It was tough starting on the outside pole, I knew Mike (Bruce) would give me a good look out there and try to take my momentum away. Unfortunately I allowed that to happen and we fell back a bit. I think we've had a winning car the past two weeks, it just took me too long to get by the 88 tonight, but once I did it was smooth sailing in third. Russ (Brown) had some misfortune that we were able to take advantage of to bring it home runner up. All in all I couldn't be prouder of this small family team to put together two awesome runs in a row, we're right back in the points race and hopefully the win we're all waiting for is coming soon. I think we've really hit on something."
Doyle, who was behind Proud all race long, was never quite able to sneak his way by despite trying the top side on multiple occasions with his Hawk Jr. Chassis No. 01 machine. The former quarter midget racer was strong all evening long and went on to pick up his second top five of the season.
"Luck was on our side tonoght and we ended up with a podium," Doyle said "I thought things would get interesting on the last restart, I tried the outside as a last ditch effort to gain some more position but couldn't make it happen. Overall we are happy with the podium, the car is one piece and that's all you can ask for."
Approaching this Saturday, July 15th's C's Beverage Summer Championship, defending champion Dave Cliff, who found himself with an unfortunate eleventh place result this past weekend after getting caught up in a jam up between Jesse Bearup and Shullick, still leads the standings by nearly 30 points over Schartner, Proud, Doyle and Patrick.
Oswego Speedway
Saturday, July 8 2017
Pathfinder Bank SBS
BOX SCORE
Timed Hot Laps: 1. 13 Russ Brown - 18.739, 2. 9 Jack Patrick - 18.878, 3. 54 Camden Proud - 19.034, 4. 67 Tyler Shullick - 19.102, 5. 22 Mike Bruce - 19.142, 6. 04 Kreig Heroth - 19.146, 7. 37 Jesse Bearup - 19.147, 8. 01 Dalton Doyle - 19.163, 9. 50 Dave Cliff - 19.250, 10. 77 Cameron Rowe - 19.287, 11. 74 Mike Bond - 19.312, 12. 91 Barry Kingsley - 19.367, 13. 18 Andrew Schartner - 19.402, 14. 89 Tony Pisa - 19.440, 15. 69 - Rob Pullen - 19.444, 16. 88 Brad Haynes - 19.554, 17. 90 Greg O'Connor - 19.568, 18. 15 James Babcock - 19.868, 19. 23 Cameron Black - 20.024, 20. 99 Dennis Rupert - 20.051
Heat 1 (10 laps): 1. 74 Mike Bond, 2. 9 Jack Patrick, 3. 01 Dalton Doyle, 4. 22 Mike Bruce, 5. 90 Greg O'Connor, 6. 89 Tony Pisa, 7. 23 Cameron Black
Heat 2 (10 laps): 1. 13 Russ Brown, 2. 37 Jesse Bearup, 3. 67 Tyler Shullick, 4. 88 Brad Haynes, 5. 18 Andrew Schartner, 6. 99 Dennis Rupert, 7. 77 Cameron Rowe
Heat 3 (10 laps): 1. 69 Rob Pullen, 2. 50 Dave Cliff, 3. 54 Camden Proud, 4. 91 Barry Kingsley, 5. 04 Kreig Heroth, 6. 15 James Babcock, 7. Steve Wood
Feature (30 laps): 1. 9 Jack Patrick, 2. 54 Camden Proud, 3. 01 Dalton Doyle, 4. 88 Brad Haynes, 5. 67 Tyler Shullick, 6. 18 Andrew Schartner, 7. 04 Kreig Heroth, 8. 22 Mike Bruce, 9. 69 Rob Pullen, 10. 77 Cameron Rowe, 11. 37 Jesse Bearup, 12. 50 Dave Cliff, 13. 90 Greg O"Connor, 14. 91 Barry Kingsley, 15. 13 Russ Brown, 16. 74 Mike Bond, 17. 99 Dennis Rupert, 18. 15 James Babcock, 19. 89 Tony Pisa, 20. 23 Cameron Black, 21. 93 Steve Wood
D&S Landscaping Hard Charger: 18 - Andrew Schartner
Sherwood Racing Wheels Lap Leader Award: 9 - Jack Patrick
White's Car Care 4th Place Award: 88 - Brad Haynes
