Chapman Clinches Stafford's SK Light Track Championship

STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn. — Stafford Speedway hosted its penultimate weekly racing event of the season on Friday.

Taking down feature wins on the night were Jon Puleo in the SK Modified feature, Adam Gray in the late model feature, Tyler Chapman in the SK Light feature, Rich Hammann in the limited late model feature and Travis Hydar in the street stock feature.

Champan’s SK Light victory, his ninth of the season, enabled him to clinch the SK Light track championship.

In the first 20-lap SK Light feature, Chris Matthews streaked into the lead at the drop of the green flag with Sami Anderson taking second. Chris Viens was third in line with Meghan Fuller and Nick Anglace racing wheel-to-wheel for fourth place. Cassandra Cole spun coming out of turn four, which collected several other cars including Bob Charland, Norm Sears, Brandon Michael, Dean Lambros, Casey Vogt and Nickolas Hovey to bring the caution flag out with seven laps complete.

Matthews took the lead back under green with Anderson in second. Anglace was third with Chapman up to fourth and Fuller and Viens dueling side-by-side for fifth. Chapman took third from Anglace on lap 14 and he went by Anderson on lap 15 to move into second. Viens won the duel with Fuller for fifth with Fuller, Robert Bloxsom, Brian Sullivan, Stephen Kalogiannis and Amanda West making up the top 10. Aiden D’Agata brought the caution out with 16 laps complete with a spin in turn two.

Matthews took the lead on the restart but Chapman pulled alongside Matthews as they completed lap 17 and he took the lead on lap 18 but that pass would be negated by the caution flag for spins in turn two by Bloxsom and Vogt.

Matthews took the lead on the restart with Chapman taking to the outside lane to try to get around Matthews. Chapman had the lead over Matthews by a nose as they came off turn four to the white flag. They continued to run side-by-side for the final lap with the two cars coming to the checkered flag in a photo finish with Chapman taking the win by inches. Fuller finished third with Anglace and Sullivan rounding out the top five.