CLAREMONT, N.H. — Ricky Bly won the big bucks, Trevor Rocke found the magic that had eluded him in the first month of the season, and Erin Aiken closed out her marvelous month of May with her eighth win of the young season on Friday night at Claremont Motorsports Park.
Other winners on the storied third-mile speedplant’s eighth event of the 2024 season included Nolan McClay, victorious in the Mini Stocks, young star Gage Dillingham, who won his second Pure Stock main event of the summer, and Space Cowboy Steve Miller St., who powered to victory in the first of two Friday night Six Shooter features.
Travis Sykes and David Thibodeau led the R.E. Hinkley Fuels Super Streets to the green, with Sykes pouncing on the green flag lead and threatening to wire the 30-lapper to earn his first win of the season. Trevor Rocke though, firing from row three, had different plans.
Gunning for his own first victory lap of the summer, Rocke was in the mix all night. Jimmy Zullo held the deuce the first nine go-rounds, with Rocke then moving up and quickly closing Sykes’ huge early-race lead.
Blasting around the top of the track, he took the lead on lap 28 and then held Sykes behind him for the Friday night victory. Matt Sonnhalter, coming from way back in row five was third, just inches ahead of Dave Greenslit.
Sonnhalter’s big run was important, as he picked up 30 points on division leader Brandon Gray, who struggled with mechanical woes that dropped him to 15th on the night.