NEWMANSTOWN, Pa. — Alex Bright would lead all 25 laps to pocket the Preliminary Night Two victory in the third yearly installment of the Keith Kunz Motorsports Challenge presented by Start2Finish TV to claim his first career victory with the POWRi Non-Wing Outlaw Micro League at Clyde-Martin Memorial Speedway.
Going through a strong split-field of 26 entries on prelim night Two of the POWRi Outlaw Non-Wing Micro division in the KKM Challenge would find Jake Andreotti set the quick qualifying time with a time of 11.019 seconds. Brian Carber, Christian Bruno and James Morrin would each emerge victorious in heat racing action with Andreotti, Braden Jones and Bright all earning wins in qualifier competitions.
Soaring onto the smooth Clyde-Martin Memorial Speedway surfacewould seeBright battle outside front-row contender Bruno as the green flew. Bright held the front of the field after a trio of initial tries as Bruno, Andreotti, Jones and Jacob Severn all staying close inside the early contending top five.
Restarting with the POWRi chose cone in play early, Bright would not waver from the race lead with Bruno applying pressure in his tire tracks with Andreotti trying to smooth in the high groove as Jones and Chelby Hinton raced into the contending top five as laps began to tick away.
Clinging tightly to the top spot by mere tenths of seconds, Bright would continue to out-duel Bruno hitting the halfway point.
Holding steady on the low line, Bright would not falter to the checkered flag as Bruno would finish in the closely contended second spot with Andreotti finalizing the podium placements.
“We felt pretty good all night and just made some minor adjustments, good to roll the car back into the trailer the way it rolled out,” said Bright. “Kind of a last-minute deal to run this weekend and just got the car ready last night.
“I could hear them running closely behind me but if anyone was getting past they would have to go to the top.”
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
1. 20-Alex Bright[1]; 2. 5-Christian Bruno[2]; 3. 29A-Jake Andreotti[3]; 4. 5J-Braden Jones[5]; 5. 95H-Chelby Hinton[6]; 6. 23-Bradley Brown[4]; 7. 50-Jacob Severn[7]; 8. 95-Brian Carber[12]; 9. 126-Autumn Criste[10]; 10. 7L-Chase Layser[8]; 11. 08-Dominic Schmidt[15]; 12. 25-Kenneth Beinhower III[21]; 13. 98-Matthew Warner[16]; 14. 95M-Paige Moss[24]; 15. 12M-James Morris[9]; 16. 2B-Bubba Hughes[23]; 17. 74-Robby Brockman[14]; 18. 16-Logan Dontonville[19]; 19. 91-Nate Freed[20]; 20. 14C-Connor Gross[18]; 21. 14-Jason Swavely[11]; 22. 26-Corbin Rueschenberg[17]; 23. 9X-Connor Mirabelli[13]; 24. 32H-Wayne Scott[22].