STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn. – Stafford Speedway hosted its second event of the season on Friday, with the Street Stock division taking center stage with the extra distance Midstate Site Development Street Stock 30.
The street stocks raced for total posted awards of over $5,000 with defending track champion Zack Robinson taking home the winner’s share of $700, with contingency bonuses from Big Haus USA, New England Racing Fuel, Sunoco Brand and Del’s Vinyl Siding and Bob’s Painting that pushing that winning total up to $900.
In the 30-lap Casagrande Builders Street Stock event, Brandon Michael took the lead at the green with Adrien Paradis III in second. The field was only able to complete one lap before Meg Fuller and John Orsini made contact with Fuller spinning into turn one to bring the caution out. Orsini was disqualified from the feature for the contact with Fuller by NASCAR officials.
Michael and Paradis went side by side for the lead on the restart with Paradis taking the lead after Michael got loose in turn four. Zack Robinson went by Michael to move into second on lap three and Michael would lose third to Jason Lafayette on lap four. Moose Douton was up to fifth behind Michael with five laps complete as Robinson held the race lead. Douton spun in turn four to bring the caution back out with nine laps complete and Robinson still leading Paradis.
Robinson took the lead back under green with Lafayette taking second from Paradis. Al Stone III was up to fourth with Travis Hydar in fifth. Paradis got back around Lafayette to retake second before the caution came out for a spin by Tyrone Crews with 11 laps complete. Hydar spun one lap after the restart to bring the caution right back out. The next restart saw Lafayette and Chris Meyer get into the turn two wall with several other cars, including Shawn Gaedeke, Tess Beyer, and Daltin McCarthy, hitting the turn two wall to bring the yellow right back out before a lap could be completed.
Robinson resumed his place at front of the field with Stone getting by Paradis to move into second. Meg Fuller was up to third after her early race misfortune and Douton was back up to fourth after his early race spin. Nickolas Hovey’s car came to a stop in the middle of turns one and two to bring the caution out with 14 laps complete.
Robinson charged back into the lead on the restart with Fuller taking second. Douton moved up to third with Paradis falling back to fourth. Stone was fifth with Hydar right behind him in sixth. Bill Staves got into the turn four wall to bring the caution out with 18 laps complete.
Robinson again took the lead on the restart with Fuller right behind him in second. Douton was third with Paradis fourth, but Douton got loose on lap-20 and Paradis was able to move into third. Hydar followed Paradis by Douton to drop him back to fifth place while Robinson and Fuller were starting to pull away with all the activity behind them.
Douton lost several more spots on lap 27 as Stone and Lafayette moved into fifth and sixth to drop Douton to seventh while Robinson and Fuller were continuing to stretch out their advantage to settle the race between themselves.
Fuller couldn’t get close enough to Robinson to make a bid for the lead as Robinson scored his first win of the season. Paradis finished third with Hydar and Lafayette rounding out the top-five.
Keith Rocco and Andrew Durand both made it two for two in 2020 as they won the SK Modified and Limited Late Model features respectively while Al Saunders won the Late Model feature and Brian Sullivan won the SK Light feature.