The A-Verdi Storage Containers CRSA Sprints powered by Super Gen Products kick off the Dandy Triple Play this weekend at Outlaw Speedway Friday and Woodhull Raceway Saturday.
Friday’s race at Outlaw Speedway was initially scheduled for June 21 but was postponed due to rain. It is the seventh time CRSA has made the trip to the track just north of the famed Watkins Glen (N.Y.) Int’l. Last year, current series points leader Tomy Moreau won his second career race.
Saturday is also the seventh time CRSA has pushed off at the Woodhull Raceway. In six races at “New York’s Toughest Bullring,” the series has seen six different winners. Last year, Jordan Hutton took the checkered flag en route to victory lane.
Here’s a look at the stories entering the weekend.
Last Week
CRSA returned to Thunder Mountain Speedway on Aug. 10 for the third round of the Joe’s Garage Southern Tier Series.
Kyle Pierce came from the fourth position and passed Billy VanInwegen underneath with eight to go to score his second win of the season.
This was a memorable win for “The Flyin’ School Teacher” as students of his fourth-grade class at Spencer-Van Etten were in attendance to watch him race.
“I hope they come back with us,” said Pierce in victory lane. “If you told me I was gonna do that, I wouldn’t believe you.”
Billy VanInwegen finished runner-up while Emily VanInwegen finished third.
Points Standings
With his win last Saturday, Pierce trimmed his points lead in the series championship to 26 on Tomy Moreau, who is still looking for his first win of the season after a fifth-place finish last night. Dalton Herrick also looks to close in, as he is now 28 points back on Moreau with a fourth-place run last weekend.
Blake Warner, 71, back on the leader, is in a battle for fourth with Ron Greek, the latter 11 behind Warner.
The top 10 are John Cunningham, sixth; Jordan Hutton, seventh; Adam Depuy, eighth; Jerry Sehn Jr., ninth; and Cliff Pierce, 10th.
A New Series
This Friday kicks off the Dandy Triple Play. This three-race series travels to Outlaw and Woodhull, both tracks near a local Dandy convenience store.
To celebrate the first race, the top three on Friday and Saturday will receive gift cards to Dandy.
Last Time at Outlaw & Woodhull
Last time at Outlaw, Moreau held off Dillon Paddock and Dalton Herrick to score his second career CRSA win.
In the feature, Moreau and Paddock would go to war in the opening laps, trading slidejobs, with Paddock taking the lead. Moreau would get a good restart before the halfway point and pass the No. 8, whose car wasn’t the same in dirty air. Herrick took advantage of it, closing in on “The Canadian Kid” at a point, but it wasn’t enough as Moreau picked up his second win of 2024, the last time he took the checkers.
Last year at Woodhull, Hutton took advantage of a Moreau mishap on lap seven to take the lead and beat Scott Landers to the line to win. It was one of the five wins that the No. 66 recorded.
Due Up
Moreau continues to control the 2024 overall season with five top fives and six top 10s but has yet to find victory lane. Could this weekend be the time?
Moreau last won at Outlaw on July 6, 2023, and knows how to get it done. As for Woodhull, Moreau led the first six laps before a flurry of restarts on lap seven and Moreau lost grip to bring out a yellow.
Moreau looks to better his best finish of the season, a third at Land of Legends back July 4.
By the Numbers
Outlaw has seen five winners, with Darryl Ruggles as the only repeat winner in 2014 and 2016. Dalton Herrick, in fact, joins Ruggles as the only active CRSA driver to have multiple top fives here.
For Woodhull, Billy VanInwegen, John Cunningham and Jeff Trombley are the only active drivers with multiple top fives at two. In six different races, Woodhull has yet to see any repeat winners. The most recent winners currently racing are Hutton and Trombley.
Up Next
CRSA gets set for its inaugural trip to Brewerton Speedway on Aug. 23.