By Paul Harkenrider (Canandaigua, NY) | Jason Barney continued his 2018 winning ways Saturday night at Land of Legends Raceway by grabbing the race lead on lap 10 from Chuck Hebing and taking home his first Patriot Sprint Tour win of the season, his second overall.
39 cars made the trip to the northern Finger Lakes region to do battle with heat races won by Steve Poirier, Dylan Westbrook, Jeff Cook, and Chuck Hebing. Brockville’s Matt Billings took home his first Evingham Site Excavation Dash for Cash of his career.
2017 PST-Canada champ Dylan Westbrook started on the front row with local favorite, Chuck Hebing igniting the very stout 26 car field.
Hebing would grab the early race lead pulling away from Westbrook and Bryan Howland before Scott Goodrich would find himself tipped over bringing out the events only red flag.
The field would get realigned with Hebing still having command over Howland, Barney, Westbrook and Jonathan Preston at the time.
On the ensuing restart, Barney would begin to move forward clearing the 51 of Howland and start to track down the race leader Hebing. Battle for position inside the top five would also continue between Steve Poirier, Jonathan Preston, and Dylan Westbrook.
Lap traffic suddenly became an issue for the cobra on lap nine which erased any advantage he had on the charging Barney. Then on lap ten, Barney shifted to the outside of Hebing and took the lead heading down the back stretch.
The Brewerton, NY driver continued weave his way through lap traffic only to build his lead on the rest of the field.
Steve Poirier and Dylan Westbrook would also race for that fourth spot with Poirier finally pulling away from Westbrook on lap 18.
Then on lap 21, Hebing would jump an implement tire exiting turn four which allowed Bryan Howland to squeeze on by for that runner up spot.
Howland, nor did anyone else have anything for Barney and he would go on to win by incredible six seconds over Howland, Hebing, Poirier, Westbrook completing the top five.
2017 PST newcomer Jordan Thomas made his first ever start at the Land of Legends Raceway but had to take a provisional after failing to qualify during heat race and B-Main competition. However, Thomas would go on to advance 14 positions and take an 11th place finish back to Harding, PA. This would also earn him the Casey’s Truck Salvage ‘Salvage of the night’ award.
Derek Jonathan would also use a PST Provisional and take home a 24th place finish. He would go on to earn the Prestige Pool & Spa ‘Final Finisher’ award from being the last car to take the checkered flag.
26 cars would end up starting the 25 lap A-Main, Scott Goodrich and Tim Schneider Jr would be the only two drivers to not finish.
The series now heads to the southern tier as we visit Woodhull Raceway for the first of two occasions in 2018 on Saturday May 12. Please be sure to visit www.patriotsprinttour.com, or you can also like ‘Patriot Sprint Tour’ on facebook and by following us on Instagram and Twitter @PatriotSprints.
The Patriot Sprint Tour recognizes the following marketing partners for the 2018 season: A-Verdi Storage Containers, Hoosier Racing Tires, Prestige Pool & Spa, Einstein Construction Group, Bonnell’s Auto Group, Evingham Site Excavation, Fine Touch Collision, Mike Emhof Motorsports Inc., Super Gen Products with Champion Power Equipment, Patriot Tank Lines, Danny Willmes Enterprises, Casey’s Truck Salvage, Just Signs & Designs, Brodix Cylinder Heads, Sunoco Race Fuels, Insinger Performance, Shuttleworth Asphalt Sealing, ASI Racewear, Curtis Berleue Photography.
Patriot Sprint Tour Quick Results
May 5, 2018
A-Main: 1) 87*-JASON BARNEY 2) 51- Bryan Howland 3) 45- Chuck Hebing 4) 28FM Steve Poirier 5) 47x-Dylan Westbrook 6) 10c-Jeff Cook 7) 36-Matt Billings 8) 22-Jonathan Preston 9) 98-Joe Trenca 10) 9-Josh Pieniazek 11) 79-Jordan Thomas 12) 53-Shawn Donath 13) 36d-Steve Doell 14) 14-Coleman Gulick 15) 14b-Brett Wright 16) 10LC-Kelly Hebing 17) 47-Kyle Drum 18) 98x-Mike Stelter 19) 48jr-Darryl Ruggles 20) 67-Steve Collins 21) 10-Paulie Colagiovanni 22) X-Dan Bennett 23) 11j-Chris Jones 24) 81-Derek Jonathan 25) 3-Tim Schneider Jr 26) 30- Scott Goodrich
Heat 1: 1) 28fm-Steve Poirier 2) 14-Coleman Gulick 3) 87-Jason Barney 4) 14-Brett Wright 5) 98x-Mike Stelter 6) 11J- Chris Jones 7) 54jr-Scott Just 8) 17 Josh Azzi 9) 67r-Pete Richardson 10) 1HD-Cory Sparks
Heat 2: 1) 47x-Dylan Westbrook 2) 51-Bryan Howland 3) 36-Matt Billings 4) 98-Joe Trenca 5) X-Dan Bennett 6) 0-Glenn Styres 7) 2-Steven Hutchinson Jr 8) 79-Jordan Thomas 9) 80- Dave Wickham 10) 61-Parker Evans
Heat 3: 10c-Jeff Cook 2) 36d-Steve Doell 3) 3-Tim Schneider 4) 9-Josh Pieniazek 5) 53-Shawn Donath 6) 47-Kyle Drum 7) 48jr-Darryl Ruggles 8) 10- Paulie Colagiovanni 9) 121-Steve Glover 10) 1J-Derrick Juliano
Heat 4: 1) 45-Chuck Hebing 2) 67-Steve Collins 3) 22-Jonathan Preston 4) 30 Scott Goodrich 5) 10LC-Kelly Hebing 6) 99k-Dan Kuhn 7) 90-Matt Tanner 8) 81-Derek Jonathan 9) 54-Dave Just
Evingham Site Excavation Dash for Cash
1)36- Matt Billings 2) 98- Joe Trenca 3) 36- Steve Doell 4) 67- Steve Collins 5) 14-Coleman Gulick
Top Two Transfer
B Main 1: 1) 48jr- Darryl Ruggles 2) 11j-Chris Jones 3) 0- Glenn Styres 4) 99-Dan Kuhn 5) 79-Jordan Thomas 6) 17z-Josh Azzi 7) 1J-Derrick Juliano 8) 54j-David Just 9) 61-Parker Evans (DNS)
B Main 2: 1) 47-Kyle Drum 2) 10-Paulie Colagiovanni 3) 121- Steve Glover 4) 67r- Pete Richardson 5) 81-Derek Jonathan 6) 80-Dave Wickham 7) 90-Matt Tanner 8) 54jr-Scott Just
Casey’s Truck Salvage ‘Salvage of the Night’: 79-Jordan Thomas
Prestige Pool & Spa Final Finisher: 81-Derek Jonathan