STAFFORD SPRINGS, Conn. — Stafford Speedway’s Street Stock division took center stage on Friday with their lone extra distance feature event of the 2023 season, the Midstate Site Development 30.
Ryan Waterman continued his dominant ways in 2023 by picking up his fifth win of the season in seven races.
Jason Raymond took the early lead at the drop of the green but Chris Danielczuk took over the lead on lap two. Aaron Plemons was third with Jason Finkbein fourth and Waterman was quickly up to fifth after starting 11th.
The caution came out with six laps complete for a multi-car incident on the frontstretch involving Marvin Minkler, Jeff Asselin, David Macha Jr., Brandon Warren, David Ciastko and several others.
Plemons took the lead on the restart with Waterman moving up to second. Johnny Walker was up to third with Finkbein fourth and Bert Ouellette up to fifth.
Just behind Ouellette was Travis Hydar and Travis Downey. Waterman quickly took the lead from Plemons, who slid back to fourth as Walker took second and Finkbein took third. Hydar was fifth but he went by Plemons on lap 13 to move into fourth and drop Plemons back to fifth.
Downey spun in the middle of turns three and four to bring the caution back out with 15 laps complete.
Waterman again took the lead back under green with Walker in second. Finkbein and Hydar were locked in a door-to-door duel for third with Plemons in fifth. Hydar took third on lap 17 and Plemons took fourth on lap 18 to drop Finkbein from third back to fifth.
With eight laps to go, Waterman was in the lead with Hydar now in second. Walker was third with Plemons and Finkbein making up the top-five.
Hydar couldn’t get close enough to Waterman as Waterman took down his fifth win from seven races this season at Stafford. Walker finished third with Plemons and Finkbein rounding out the top-five.
Cory DiMatteo was a first time winner in the SK Modified feature, Kevin Gambacorta became the first repeat Late Model feature winner of the 2023 season, Tyler Chapman scored his second win of the year in the SK Light feature and Devon Jencik was a first time winner in the Limited Late Model feature event.