Larry Wight Comes From Deep In The Field For Fourth Fulton Speedway Modified Win; DIRTcar 358 Modified Series Showdown at Sundown 100 Thursday, June 27
Posted Jun 24, 2019 by David
FULTON, NY – JUNE 22,2019 - Saturday night at the Fulton Speedway Larry Wight from Phoenix, NY put win number four of the season in the record books and now will set his sights, with others on the Thursday, June 27th St. Lawrence Radiology ‘Showdown at Sundown’ 100-lap DIRTcar 358 Modified Series event on the ‘Highbanks’.
Wight would start 18th in the 35-lap Tracey Road Equipment DIRTcar Modified feature and would methodically work his way to the front, with his car working on every lane of the speedway, racing into the top-five. Wight then turned the pressure up, moving into third on lap 27, second in lap 28 and then on lap 29 he would make the winning pass driving by leader Dale Planck. Planck would fight back but Wight was too quick going under the checkers 0.885 of a second ahead Planck.
Joe Shields and Jeff Sykes would lead the 25-car starting field down to the green with Sykes grabbing the early advantage in the 35-lap Modified feature.
Sykes would still be setting a fast pace out front at lap 10. Behind Sykes, Dale Planck, Nick Krause and Tim Sears Jr. ran under a blanket with Ron Davis III running fifth.
On lap 15 Planck erased Sykes’ advantage as they went under the starter’s stand side by side. One lap later, Planck drove under and by Sykes to be scored the new leader just short of halfway.
With 20-laps showing on the scoring tower, Planck, a 61-time Fulton feature winner opened about a ten car length advantage over the tight battle behind him between Sykes, Sears and Davis.
The first caution of the race that would slow fast paced battles throughout the field came on lap 23.
With 10 laps to go everyone started showing their hand as Planck, Sears, Larry Wight, Krause, and Davis slugged it out, racing bumper-to-bumper and side-by-side as the final laps started clicking off the lap counter.
On lap 27 it was ‘Go time’ for Wight as he moved into third, then second on lap 28 and then set his sights squarely on Planck for the lead. It would take Wight just one more lap to drive into the top-spot.
Over the final laps, Dale Planck could keep pace with Larry Wight, but Wight was too quick as he went under the checkers 0.885 ahead of Planck. Tim Sears Jr., Nick Krause and Ron Davis III finished third through fifth.
McDonald’s® Restaurants & Burdick Ford Family Autograph Night June 22 Results
(Tracey Road Equipment DIRTcar Modifieds 35 Laps) – LARRY WIGHT, Dale Planck, Tim Sears Jr., Nick Krause, Ron Davis III, Jeff Sykes, Billy Whittaker, Tom Sears Jr., Rob Bellinger, Bobby Herrington, Tyler Trump, Jeremy Dygert, Pat Ward, Todd Root, Glenn Forward, AJ Kingsley, Joe Shields, Ben Bushaw, Billy Shantel, DJ Forbes, Brent Cross, Chris Hulsizer, Jeff McGinnis, Dave Marcuccilli, Jim Walsh.