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Bartlett notches 358 Mod win number two, while Power ends Six year dry spell at Can Am

Photo Credit: Rick Young

Bob Johnson Auto Group was on hand for another great card of racing at the Can Am Speedway this past Friday night. Hot temperatures meant for some intense racing as the points races are going down to the wire. With track titles on the line soon, every point is critical. Plus it was Ladies Night, which meant the popular Powder Puff was the main event of the evening.

Stephen Bushey invaded the Can Am Speedway Friday night and was the early pace setter in the 15 lap Donath Motorworx Limited Sportsman feature with Brianna Murtaugh and Caleb Howard chasing him. Bushey led the opening 4 laps until a yellow flew for a two car spin in turns 1 and 2. When the green flew Brianna Murtaugh put the pressure on and by lap 7 would take the lead away but Caleb Howard and Mason Rogers were on the move. Howard suffered a mechanical problem late in the race and was forced pitside, which put Rogers into second as another caution flew for debris. On the final restart Brianna Murtaugh would jump out front and put a comfortable gap between herself and Rogers to collect her first Can Am win after 4 runner up finishes this year. Mason Rogers would cross in second over veteran Mike Durham, Stephen Bushey and Jackson Welling.

In the 25 lap Whitesboro Plow Shop DIRTcar 358 Modified feature Ryan Bartlett was able to grab the top spot away from early leader Shaun Shaw with Lance Willix holding onto third. Bartlett had a fast car on a track that was table top smooth once again, while Willix, Shaw, Tim Fuller and Billy Dunn were all looking to move up. Behind the leader, Lance Willix was able to hold second and close the gap slightly with Tim Fuller taking away the number three spot from Shaun Shaw as the laps clicked off. With 10 laps remaining Ryan Bartlett’s lead started to shrink as Lance Willix drew closer while Fuller remained close by in the third spot. Despite lapped traffic Ryan Bartlett was not to be denied as he scored an emotional second win of the season. Willix crossed second in the caution free event, with Tim Fuller Shaun Shaw and points leader Billy Dunn 5th.

It had been since August 2nd of 2019 since Jessica Power last won at the Can Am Speedway in the Bob Johnson Auto Group DIRTcar Sportsman division. She took the lead from Brady Howard on lap 3 and drove away in the early laps with Keegan Nier close by in the number three spot. On lap 8 Haily Brownell slowed to a stop on the front stretch setting up a restart that everyone needed. When the green flew Power had no problems pulling away while Nier had to battle with last Friday night’s winner Tyler Stevenson, who would take over the runner up spot, but by then Power had driven away from the field. Power would build up well over a straight away and a half lead over the final laps as Stevenson did everything he could to run her down. After a long time out of the winner’s circle Jessica Power finally put it all together scoring her 6th career Can Am win in dominant fashion. Tyler Stevenson would take second ahead of Keegan Nier, Owen Nier and Taylor Doxtator, who came from the back to finish 5th.

Andrew Hennessy and George Sanford were the early pace setters in the 20 lap Panther Frameworx Crate Sprint Cars but the race quickly went under red as Patrick Nolan took a slow roll over in turn two. Nolan was not hurt but the car was done for the night. This restart was key as Bruno Richard made his presence known, charging around both Sanford and Hennessy for the top spot as Josh Verne Jr. also was on the move grabbing the number three spot. Richard had a fast car and was driving away from a quality field, but the yellow would fly on lap 11 as James Kiah pulled to the infield with a small fire in his car. Track crews quickly put out the fire and Kiah was uninjured but the car was done for the evening. On the final restart Bruno Richard would jump out front and no matter what Andrew Hennessy and Josh Verne Jr. did, it was not enough as Richard would go unchallenged to record his third win of the season at Can Am. Hennessy and Verne would complete the podium, with Nick Webb and George Sanford the top 5.

Corey Valade had been on a roll the last few nights out in the Sundance Leisure Thundercars. He won Monday at Can Am, second at Mohawk the next night and was back in front this past Friday night on home turf looking for another win but Tony Frezzo was on the charge to second, but had a long way to go to catch the leader. Valade looked like he was going to lead wire to wire for the win but the yellow flew for Colby Hibbard, who spun in turn 4. On the final restart Tony Frezzo and Jared Gilson did all they could to get the lead, but this night belonged to Corey Valade as he went unchallenged for his 2nd in a row and 6th win of the season. Tony Frezzo, Jared Gilson, David Rasmussen and Collin Bauter completed the top 5.

At the end of Ladies Night a special 5 lap Powder Puff took place with 8 drivers taking part in the special event for the DIRTcar Sportsman. Drivers took the green and Danielle Nier used the experience from her racing family to take the lead early. Nier would drive away unchallenged to score the win by nearly a half track at the finish.

Next week Can Am Speedway honors our great First Responders across our region. Several fire trucks, police cars and EMS vehicles will be on hand with a special intermission parade to take place. Gates open at 5pm with the first green flag flying at 7pm. Be sure to give the track a follow on our Facebook page and don’t forget to add us to your favorites on My Race Pass to get all the up-to-date results, alerts and media releases at the speedway. To check out everything that’s going on all season long check out our website at racecanam.com. Can’t make it to he track? All the racing action will be broadcast live on Dirt Track Digest TV.

Whitesboro Plow Shop DIRTcar 358 Modified

• Feature (25 Laps): 1. 39-Ryan Bartlett[4]; 2. 31-Lance Willix[3]; 3. 19-Tim Fuller[5]; 4. 7S-Shaun Shaw[2]; 5. 49-Billy Dunn[7]; 6. 28-Jordan McCreadie[8]; 7. 18W-Scott Webb[13]; 8. 45R-Preston Forbes[6]; 9. 21-Andrew Howard[9]; 10. 36B-Dan Beachard[12]; 11. 63-Adam Roberts[10]; 12. (DNF) 66W-Derek Webb[1]; 13. (DNS) L39-Larry Welling
• Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 31-Lance Willix[3]; 2. 19-Tim Fuller[4]; 3. 66W-Derek Webb[2]; 4. 28-Jordan McCreadie[7]; 5. 21-Andrew Howard[1]; 6. (DNF) L39-Larry Welling[6]; 7. (DQ) 18W-Scott Webb[5]
• Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 49-Billy Dunn[5]; 2. 7S-Shaun Shaw[2]; 3. 39-Ryan Bartlett[3]; 4. 45R-Preston Forbes[4]; 5. (DNF) 63-Adam Roberts[1]; 6. (DNF) 36B-Dan Beachard[6]
• Hot Laps (3 Laps): 1. 19-Tim Fuller, 00:18.507[5]; 2. 49-Billy Dunn, 00:18.538[3]; 3. 45R-Preston Forbes, 00:18.822[4]; 4. 28-Jordan McCreadie, 00:18.856[7]; 5. 7S-Shaun Shaw, 00:18.935[9]; 6. 21-Andrew Howard, 00:19.053[6]; 7. 36B-Dan Beachard, 00:19.069[2]; 8. 18W-Scott Webb, 00:19.210[11]; 9. 66W-Derek Webb, 00:19.228[10]; 10. 63-Adam Roberts, 00:19.604[8]; 11. (DNS) 39-Ryan Bartlett; 12. (DNS) L39-Larry Welling; 13. (DNS) 31-Lance Willix

Bob Johnson DIRTcar Sportsman

• Feature (20 Laps): 1. 52-Jessica Power[3]; 2. FOX28-Tyler Stevenson[8]; 3. 34K-Keegan Nier[5]; 4. 17-Owen Nier[4]; 5. 44-Taylor Doxtater[20]; 6. 18-Gavin Eisele[10]; 7. 33-Richard Murtaugh[7]; 8. 34-Eric Nier[6]; 9. 18G-Justin Gadbaw[9]; 10. 9-Logan Brown[14]; 11. 621G-Trevor Gibbons[2]; 12. 54-Brady Howard[1]; 13. 1D-Paul DeRuyter[19]; 14. 2-Greg Henry[17]; 15. 62-Jonathan Murphy[11]; 16. 83-Grayson Adderley[15]; 17. (DNF) 7O7-Greg Brinklow[13]; 18. (DNF) 747-Haily Brownell[16]; 19. (DNF) 92-Frank Sibley[12]; 20. (DNF) 9B-Gregory Gould[18]
• Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 621G-Trevor Gibbons[2]; 2. 34-Eric Nier[6]; 3. 17-Owen Nier[5]; 4. FOX28-Tyler Stevenson[8]; 5. 18G-Justin Gadbaw[3]; 6. 62-Jonathan Murphy[7]; 7. 7O7-Greg Brinklow[10]; 8. 83-Grayson Adderley[9]; 9. (DNF) 2-Greg Henry[1]; 10. (DNF) 1D-Paul DeRuyter[4]
• Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 54-Brady Howard[1]; 2. 52-Jessica Power[4]; 3. 33-Richard Murtaugh[7]; 4. 34K-Keegan Nier[5]; 5. 18-Gavin Eisele[6]; 6. 92-Frank Sibley[3]; 7. 9-Logan Brown[2]; 8. 747-Haily Brownell[9]; 9. 9B-Gregory Gould[10]; 10. (DNF) 44-Taylor Doxtater[8]
• Hot Laps (3 Laps): 1. 44-Taylor Doxtater, 00:19.859[6]; 2. 621G-Trevor Gibbons, 00:19.898[9]; 3. 18-Gavin Eisele, 00:19.923[7]; 4. 9-Logan Brown, 00:19.926[3]; 5. FOX28-Tyler Stevenson, 00:20.000[20]; 6. 1D-Paul DeRuyter, 00:20.009[5]; 7. 34-Eric Nier, 00:20.039[15]; 8. 33-Richard Murtaugh, 00:20.098[14]; 9. 54-Brady Howard, 00:20.124[12]; 10. 52-Jessica Power, 00:20.189[18]; 11. 17-Owen Nier, 00:20.198[17]; 12. 83-Grayson Adderley, 00:20.260[1]; 13. 34K-Keegan Nier, 00:20.529[16]; 14. 7O7-Greg Brinklow, 00:20.535[2]; 15. 62-Jonathan Murphy, 00:20.799[13]; 16. 2-Greg Henry, 00:21.306[11]; 17. 747-Haily Brownell, 00:22.482[4]; 18. 9B-Gregory Gould, 00:26.565[10]; 19. (DNS) 18G-Justin Gadbaw; 20. (DNS) 92-Frank Sibley

Panther Frameworx 602 Crate Sprint Cars

• Feature (25 Laps): 1. 72-Bruno Richard[6]; 2. 87-Andrew Hennessy[2]; 3. 1V-Josh Verne Jr[5]; 4. 27W-Nick Webb[3]; 5. 25-George Sanford[1]; 6. Z28-Tucker Donath[11]; 7. 71R-Rachel Zacharias[9]; 8. 271-Tiger Chapman[7]; 9. (DNF) 08-James Kiah[10]; 10. (DNF) 557-Patrick Nolan[8]; 11. (DNF) 30-Ken Klinkowsky[4]
• Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 72-Bruno Richard[6]; 2. 27W-Nick Webb[3]; 3. 87-Andrew Hennessy[2]; 4. 271-Tiger Chapman[5]; 5. 71R-Rachel Zacharias[1]; 6. Z28-Tucker Donath[4]
• Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 1V-Josh Verne Jr[5]; 2. 30-Ken Klinkowsky[3]; 3. 25-George Sanford[1]; 4. 557-Patrick Nolan[2]; 5. 08-James Kiah[4]
• Hot Laps (3 Laps): 1. 1V-Josh Verne Jr, 00:17.989[9]; 2. 72-Bruno Richard, 00:18.037[7]; 3. 71R-Rachel Zacharias, 00:18.299[11]; 4. 87-Andrew Hennessy, 00:18.330[3]; 5. Z28-Tucker Donath, 00:18.356[2]; 6. 27W-Nick Webb, 00:18.384[10]; 7. 30-Ken Klinkowsky, 00:18.448[5]; 8. 271-Tiger Chapman, 00:18.648[1]; 9. 08-James Kiah, 00:18.740[4]; 10. 557-Patrick Nolan, 00:18.789[6]; 11. 25-George Sanford, 00:18.853[8]

Sundance Leisure ThunderCar

• Feature (15 Laps): 1. 21V-Corey Valade[2]; 2. 22-Tony Frezzo[8]; 3. 22J-Jared Gilson[3]; 4. 3R-David Rasmussen[5]; 5. 19-Collin Bauter[6]; 6. 28-Colby Hibbard[7]; 7. 94-OJ White[1]; 8. (DNF) 60-Francis White[4]
• Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 21V-Corey Valade[5]; 2. 94-OJ White[3]; 3. 22J-Jared Gilson[6]; 4. 60-Francis White[8]; 5. 3R-David Rasmussen[4]; 6. 19-Collin Bauter[2]; 7. 28-Colby Hibbard[1]; 8. (DNF) 22-Tony Frezzo[7]

Donath Motor Worx Limited Sportsman

• Feature (15 Laps): 1. 33B-Brianna Murtaugh[3]; 2. 44-Mason Rogers[6]; 3. 6-Mike Durham[7]; 4. 8-Stephen Bushey[1]; 5. 21J-Jackson Welling[4]; 6. 11-Genavieve Bartlett[8]; 7. 21-Hayden Howard[2]; 8. 1A-Alex Reif[11]; 9. 401K-Joseph Fargo[10]; 10. 4-Jason Rarick[9]; 11. (DNF) 90-Caleb Howard[5]
• Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 21J-Jackson Welling[4]; 2. 21-Hayden Howard[2]; 3. 90-Caleb Howard[5]; 4. 6-Mike Durham[3]; 5. 4-Jason Rarick[1]; 6. (DNF) 1A-Alex Reif[6]
• Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 8-Stephen Bushey[1]; 2. 33B-Brianna Murtaugh[3]; 3. 44-Mason Rogers[5]; 4. 11-Genavieve Bartlett[2]; 5. 401K-Joseph Fargo[4]
• Hot Laps (3 Laps): 1. 44-Mason Rogers, 00:20.040[10]; 2. 90-Caleb Howard, 00:20.101[5]; 3. 6-Mike Durham, 00:20.155[3]; 4. 33B-Brianna Murtaugh, 00:20.338[7]; 5. 11-Genavieve Bartlett, 00:20.423[1]; 6. 8-Stephen Bushey, 00:20.767[2]; 7. 401K-Joseph Fargo, 00:21.496[4]; 8. 21-Hayden Howard, 00:21.527[6]; 9. 4-Jason Rarick, 00:21.664[8]; 10. 1A-Alex Reif, 00:21.665[9]; 11. (DNS) 21J-Jackson Welling

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