Another rainy race day in Owego, N.Y. dampened the crowd at Champion Speedway in the evening, but the track staff worked hard to save the surface and soldiered on with a smooth track and well-run program that concluded by 9:15 p.m.
In the Scratch portion of the event it was Casey Donholt, Jeremy Parsons, Adam Mittl and Len McBride who looked the strongest early on and would make it through the semifinals to earn births in the Main. Young Spencer Portararo, of Newark Valley, took home the win in the last chance to earn the final starting position in the feature.
Donholt would once again use his starting line skills to get the gate and lead into turn one. He would end up running a perfect four laps to take his sixth scratch Main win of the season on his Sammy Tanner Arai Helmets sponsored Jawa!
Mittl would again finish second, with Portararo third, Parsons fourth, and Len McBride, who was struggling with a lost shock mount, fifth.
When the handicap Main blasted off it was the up and coming Portararo, from the 30-yard line, who was ready to make his mark. Despite extreme pressure from Mittl for the last four laps, he hung on the pole and rode a mistake free final – taking his first Main Event win of the 2018 season on his TnT Welding sponsored machine. Mittl would also grab second in this race. Parsons, who was fast on the night, took third!
Don Tonkin held off the charges of young Dylan Hawk to take the checkered flag in the Quad Pro final while Hunter Singer and Jimmer Ulrich battled hard for the Quad Am feature, with Singer scoring the victory by a small margin.
The track is now gearing up for the biggest event of the year, the two-day U.S. Open National Championships on Sept. 1 and 2.
More information can be had at eastcoastspeedway.com.
Here are the Aug. 18 Champion Speedway Results.
Scratch Main: 1. Casey Donholt, 2. Adam Mittl, 3. Spencer Portararo, 4. Jeremy Parsons, 5. Len McBride
Handicap Main: 1. Spencer Portararo, 2. Adam Mittl, 3. Jeremy Parsons, 4. Mike Cortese Jr., 5. Len McBride, 6. Casey Donholt
D-2: 1. Mike Cortese Jr., 2. Mason Higley, 3. Battlescar Bradley
JR speedway: 1. Caleb Stewart, 2. Levi Harris
Quad Pro: 1. Don Tonkin, 2. Dylan Hawk, 3. Jimmer Ulrich
Quad Am: 1. Hunter Singer, 2. Jimmer Ulrich, 3. Tony Hanbury, 4. Noah Stauder, 5. Ashlee Retorto
Mini Quad: 1. Katelyn Orcott, 2. Kelsie Orcott, 3. Mason Ulrich
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