Weedsport, NY - July 17, 2010 - It was a fitting finish to All-Star Weekend II after Matt Sheppard and Jimmy Phelps traded opening round 50-lappers Thursday at Brewerton Speedway and last night at Cayuga County Fair Speedway.
In one final bump and grind maneuver between DIRTcar Northeast's winningest drivers in 2010, Sheppard took the tie-breaker Saturday night at Cayuga County an collected $10,000 for his decisive victory in the All-Star 100 at the home of DIRTcar Northeast.
"We fought through a lot of adversity tonight," noted Sheppard, 28, after registering his Series-best fourth win of the season using a second car from the JB Motorsports shop. "Have to thank all the guys, I messed up the car real bad in the first race and we actually had to switch to a back-up."
"We started last in that second one and we're coming up through when I got caught up in that accident and had to go last again. It was just a tough night right until the end."
After powering under Phelps with plenty of contact on the low side exiting turn four, Sheppard forged the final lead change on lap 43 and opened up a dozen car-length advantage under the checkered flag. Tim McCreadie's rally to the front carried the Watertown, N.Y. driver to third-place ahead of Gypsum teammates Pat Ward and Billy Decker.
In the initial 25-lap segments that ultimately worked to set the starting grid for the big 50-lap, Canadian standout Stewart Friesen and Tom Sears Jr. from Clay, N.Y. each received $5,000 paydays out of the total All-Star Weekend purse that bordered on $100,000.
Super DIRTcar Series travelers return to action in less than 48 hours when they take the annual trek into Quebec for stops at autodromes Granby and Drummond in the annual doubleheader on Monday, July 19 & Tuesday, July 20.
QUICK RESULTS-CAYUGA COUNTY FAIR SPEEDWAY-ALL STAR WEEKEND JULY 17, 2010
Modified Super DIRTcar Series Finale (50 laps-$10,000 to win) 1. MATT SHEPPARD 2. Jimmy Phelps 3. Tim McCreadie 4. Pat Ward 5. Billy Decker 6. Stewart Friesen 7. Justin Haers 8. Billy Dunn 9. Larry Wight 10. Brett Hearn 11. Alan Johnson 12. Tom Sears Jr. 13. Dale Planck 14. Chad Brachmann 15. Michael Storms 16. Ryan Phelps 17. Tim Fuller 18. Gary Tomkins 19. Steve Paine 20. Derrick Podsiadlo 21. Peter Britten 22. Mike Mahaney 23. Rich Scagiotta 24. Eric Fisher 25. Chuck Bower 26. Danny Johnson 27. Rob Bellinger 28. Chris Hile 29. Ryan Bartlett 30. Mike Bowman.
Mr. DIRTcar Sportsman Championship Series (30 laps-$1,000 to win) 1. DAVE MARCUCCILLI 2. Tim Sears Jr. 3. Steve Gray 4. Ryan Susice 5. Justin Wright 6. Jipp Ortiz 7. Mark Chiddy 8. Matt Hulsizer 9. Jesse Cotriss 10. Eric Giguere 11. Jim Spano 12. Dan Wiesner 13. Adam Hilton 14. Daryl Hilkert 15. Earl Rudy 16. Karl Comfort 17. Ben Wheeler 18. Chris Raabe 19. Jamie Platt 20. John Juhl 21. Jeremy Pitcher 22. Bill Clark 23. Shane Pecore 24. Mark Dixon 25. Rob Bussey 26. Christine Martin 27. Dave Dykstra 28. Greg Mrzywka 29. Loren Lincoln 30. Kevin Ridley 31. Ricky Newton.
Modified Super DIRTcar Series Segment #1 (25 laps-$5000 to win) 1. STEWART FRIESEN 2. Pat Ward 3. Ryan Phelps 4. Rob Bellinger 5. Matt Sheppard 6. Brett Hearn 7. Justin Haers 8. Billy Decker 9. Larry Wight 10. Billy Dunn 11. Jimmy Phelps 12. Danny Johnson 13. Chad Brachmann 14. Michael Storms 15. Dale Planck 16. Alan Johnson 17. Derrick Podsiadlo 18. Tim Fuller 19. Mike Mahaney 20. Mike Bowman 21. Chris Hile 22. Peter Britten 23. Steve Paine 24. Tim McCreadie 25. Tom Sears Jr. 26. Rich Scagliotta 27. Gary Tomkins 28. Chuck Bower 29. Eric Fisher 30. Ryan Bartlett.
Modified Super DIRTcar Series Segment #2 (25 laps-$5000 to win) 1. TOM SEARS JR 2. Tim McCreadie 3. Gary Tomkins 4. Jimmy Phelps 5. Ryan Bartlett 6. Pat Ward 7. Chuck Bower 8. Rich Scagliotta 9. Billy Decker 10. Alan Johnson 11. Steve Paine 12. Matt Sheppard 13. Stewart Friesen 14. Billy Dunn 15. Brett Hearn 16. Michael Storms 17. Peter Britten 18. Ryan Phelps 19. Justin Haers 20. Larry Wight 21. Derrick Podsiadlo 22. Chad Brachmann 23. Tim Fuller 24. Danny Johnson 25. Dale Planck 26. Eric Fisher 27. Rob Bellinger 28. Mike Mahaney 29. Chris Hile 30. Mike Bowman.
Tobias SpeedSTRs (20 laps) 1. CARL LABONTE 2. Mario Page 3. Mike Mahaney 4. Denny Poirier 5. Chris Stockham 6. Kyle Hieber 7. Don Zrinski 8. Daniel Nadeau 9. Fred Rahmer Jr. 10. Gary Hieber 11. Gabriel Richer 12. Tyler Potts 13. Brandon Rahmer 14. Kenny Johnson 15. Brittany Wixon 16. Katie McCardle 17. Doug Sherwood 18. Richie Tobias 19. D. J. Marci 20. Jeff Gallup 21. Jean Nicolas 22. Scott Monroe.
Courtesy: Weedsport Speedway
