Sullivan Supreme In Stafford SK Lights

STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn. — Stafford Speedway returned to racing action on Friday, with the SK Lights taking center stage with their first of two 40-lap Double Down extra distance feature events of the season. 

Brian Sullivan was the big winner of the night taking down his second win of the season in the 40-lap SK Light feature event. 

The caution came out right at the start as the car of Tyler Chapman came to a stop in turn three. Cassandra Cole shot into the lead on the next start with Tyler Barry and Jason Chapman wheel to wheel for second.  Barry took to the outside lane and he went around Cole to take the lead on lap two. 

Nick Anglace followed in Barry’s tire tracks and moved around Cole and took second. Sullivan followed the lead two cars by Cole on lap three and took third before the caution and red flags came out with three laps complete for a multi-car incident in turn three involving Casey Vogt, Frank L’Etoile, Jr., Josh Morrison, David Webb, Hailey Desaulniers, Ed Chicoski, Matt Brewer and several others.

Barry took the lead back under green while Sullivan and Anglace nearly went three-wide with Barry as they completed lap four. Anglace powered his way around Barry on lap six to move into the lead with Sullivan also going around Barry on lap-7 to move into second. 

Just behind the lead trio Jason Chapman and Tyler Alkas were racing wheel to wheel for fourth place.  George Bessette, Jr. was sixth followed by Cassandra Cole, Chris Matthews, Alexander Pearl, and Joey Ferrigno. 

Jason Chapman won the duel with Alkas for fourth place and Bessette worked his way around Alkas to take fifth and drop Alkas from fourth back to sixth. 

Sullivan took the lead from Anglace on lap 12 and Barry went by Anglace on lap 13 to move into second and drop Anglace back to third just before the caution came back out for a spin coming out of turn 4 by Stephen Kalogiannis.

Sullivan took the lead on the restart with Barry taking second.  Anglace and Chapman were side-by-side for third with Bessette in fifth.

Pear and Matthews were wheel-to-wheel for sixth just behind Bessette with Alkas and Cole behind them. Chapman took third from Anglace on lap 18 while Sullivan was starting to stretch out his lead over Barry. 

At the halfway point it was Sullivan in the lead followed by a five-car train with Barry leading the side-by-side duos of Chapman and Anglace and Bessette and Pearl.  Barry spun in turn two on lap 23 but he kept going and the race stayed green. 

With 10 laps to go, Sullivan was stretching out his lead over Bessette and Chapman with Anglace in fourth and Pearl fifth after Matthews was shown a black flag.  Pearl and Anglace were trading fourth place between themselves which allowed Meghan Fuller to close in on them from sixth while Sullivan was still leading Bessette and Chapman. 

Webb spun through the frontstretch grass on lap 34 but kept on going and the race stayed green.

Bessette closed in on Sullivan’s back bumper and he gave Sullivan a shot going into turn three on the final lap but Sullivan was able to hold on and take the checkered flag for his second win of the season. Chapman finished third with Pearl and Anglace rounding out the top five. 

In the 40-lap SK Modified feature event, Dylan Kopec took the early lead but he gave way to Marcello Rufrano on lap-3.  Stephen Kopcik made a power move to the inside of Kopec on lap-5 to move into second with Keith Rocco fourth and Todd Owen fifth. 

Stephen Kopcik scored his first win of the season in the SK Modified feature. Adam Gray was a first-time winner in the late model feature, with Matt Clement notching win No. 2 of the season in the limited late model feature.

Travis Hydar won the street stock feature after finishing first in the first two races of the season.