Jeffrey Battle Clinches Another 350 Supers Title While His Brother Wins Steve Krupski Memorial; Macrae Wins Mlm Fast 40, Baldwin Clinches Fast 40 Title; Knowles, Quinlan, Osborne & Lamson Win Sunday Races
(August 7, 2023) — Although mother nature refused to cooperate on what was originally scheduled to be a Friday night at the race track, Sunday was a beautiful day for racing and the Star Speedway staff was able to make all the changes necessary to get the scheduled program done in full with a 1:30PM Sunday afternoon start time.
Sunday’s races also honored longtime track worker, the mayor of Epping, Steve Krupski. The Krupski Cup was also the championship race for the 350 Supermodifieds and the championship was also decided in the MLM Fast 40 Series presented by CATCO for the Woody’s Street Stocks.
In 350 Supermodified action, it was Ryan Battle who took home top honors, grabbing checkers in the Krupski Cup race. Veteran Jim Storace took home the second position behind Battle. Defending track champion Jeffrey Battle Jr. rounded off the podium in third and the finish was enough to clinch consecutive track titles for the Massachusetts driver in a close points race that came down to the wire with this year’s championship runner-up Ryan Locke.
The last leg of the 2023 MLM Fast 40 presented by CATCO series for the Woody’s Auto Street Stocks was on the Sunday schedule and Rob MacRae was the man on top when checkers flew. MacRae was followed to the line by this year’s MLM Fast 40 champion Charlie Baldwin, who was able to lock up the championship with the second place finish. Shane Gendron continued to build on his string of recent success rounding off the podium in third.
The 2 To Go Show Six Shooters were on track as well Sunday and it was Adam Knowles who beat all comers after coming back from some recent time off from racing to take the feature win.
Veteran driver Billy Osborne grabbed the win in the first MLM Diagnostic Pure Stock main event on Sunday adding another victory to his 2023 season total. Second place went to the always fast Andrew Harmon, who trailed Osborne to the line, and last year’s track champion, the always consistent George Riley Jr., rounded off the podium with a third place finish. In the second Pure Stock race of the night, Darryl Quinlan went to Victory Lane.
The Mighty Truck division was also in action on Sunday afternoon and for the second straight race it was Dave Lamson who took home the feature win. Multiple-time 2023 winner John Curtis was second at the line with CJ McNall trailing him in third.
Sources: Star Speedway