MECHANICSBURG, Pa. — Cameron Smith drove the race of his young sprint car career at Williams Grove Speedway on Friday night, overtaking outlaw invader Buddy Kofoid not once but twice to score an $8,000 payday in the Eash Brothers Tribute Race.
In other action, the 20-lap PASS IMCA 305 sprint main was scored by Jeff Paulson.
Smith started on the pole of the 25-lap Eash Tribute feature for the 410 sprints flanked by Kofoid.
And the polesitter got a good start at the drop of the green to beat Kofoid onto the frontstretch with the lead.
Kofoid kept the leader in his sights early in the main and when the rear of the field entered the picture for Smith, he was there to challenge.
The Californian took the lead away from Smith’s No. 75 for the first time on lap nine only to see Smith muscle back in front with a power move the next time around.
But Kofoid wasn’t finished and again returned the favor on the 11th tour before beginning to thread his way through traffic.
However, a bobble and near spin on the first turn cushion by Kofoid played into Smith’s hands on the 13th lap and when the door opened the talented youngster was there to drive through it.
And by lap 15 Smith had built a more than one second lead over Kofoid before the only caution flag of the race appeared with nine laps to go.
With clear track in front of him, Smith pulled away down the backchute when green replaced the yellow before again entering the backmarkers on the final lap.
But this time Kofoid wasn’t close enough to challenge as Smith instead drove to this second career oval win by 1.350 seconds.
Troy Wagaman Jr. was third followed by Nash Ely and T.J. Stutts.
Ely set quick time over the 32-car field with a lap of 16.736 seconds.
Polesitter Landon Price led the first six laps of the 305 sprint main before crashing out and handing the lead over to Jeff Paulson of Honey Brook.
Paulson would lead the rest of the distance to score the victory over Mike Melair, Kasey Weaver, Shelby Kelly and Mike Alleman.
The wingless super sportsman feature was postponed until a later date.
The start of the racing program was delayed more than an hour after a rain shower hit the oval prior to the posted starting time.
The finish:
Feature (25 laps): 1. Cameron Smith, 2. Buddy Kofoid, 3. Troy Wagaman Jr., 4. Nash Ely, 5. TJ Stutts, 6. Freddie Rahmer, 7. Garet Williamson, 8. Lucas Wolfe, 9. Kody Hartlaub, 10. Matt Campbell, 11. Dylan Norris, 12. Chad Trout, 13. JT Ferry, 14. Steve Buckwalter, 15. Derek Locke, 16. Ryan Taylor, 17. Aaron Bollinger, 18. Jake Karklin, 19. Ryan Newton, 20. Preston Lattomus, 21. Joey Amantea, 22. Tim Shaffer, 23. Kyle Moody, 24. Davie Franek
