Jul 4, 2026 12:02 PM EDT

OUTLAW SPEEDWAY JULY 3, 2026, WINS GO TO MATT SHEPPARD IN MODIFIEDS, DARYL KREBS BAGS FIRST EVER IN CRATE SPORTSMAN, GLENN WHRITENOUR IN STREET STOCKS, MARC MINUTOLO CLAIMS HOBBY STOCKS AND CRAIG DECAMP ONCE IN AGAIN IN MINI STOCKS

Story by Kenny Shupp Jr.

(Dundee, NY). For fans of both racing and fireworks it was the biggest night of the 2026 season thus far at Outlaw Speedway as track owner/promoter, Tyler Siri rolled the red carpet to a massive crowd as part of the Annual $25,000 Fireworks Extravaganza.

A much-needed rain shower moved through the Dundee area around 3:00 PM helping the track preparation crew add additional H2O to the Fast 4/10 of a Mile during a week filled with daytime temperatures nearing 100 degrees and high humidity and as quickly as the rain arrived it left the area and all gates opened at their scheduled times.

On track for the Fast 5* Show the Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds sent twenty-two high powered machines to the post with The Big Show, Dave Rauscher of Waterloo along with Will Shields of Kings Ferry leading the field to green for their 30-lap feature.

Shields, who was able to pick-up one feature event during the 2025 campaign jumped into the early lead pulling the train for the first nine circuits before being overhauled by Brady Fultz of Dundee who has been showing steady improvement over the past several weeks and the second gen pilot looked poised to finally break into the feature win column.

However, Fultz lead would come to an end on lap seventeen and after a restart due to a caution flag on that lap, Super Matt Sheppard assumed control of the top spot on lap eighteen and from there the Savannah, NY veteran would have to contend with an onslaught of top-notch drivers including Michael Maresca, Alex Payne and Justin Wright and Jeff Daugherty.

After a lap twenty-one caution which wiped out Sheppard’s commanding lead he would once again be tested by 2025 Outlaw Track Champion, Maresca.  But Sheppard was just too much to manage on this night and he would hold off Maresca by just a half second.   

Chasing the top two machines of Sheppard and Maresca to the double checkered flags was Doctor Danny Johnson who had a poor starting spot lining up fourteenth on the opening grid as he raced to a hard earned third while his teammate Alex Payne of Hopewell in the Big Boy Motorsports operation nailed fourth at the finish after having issues in this qualifying heat and had to begin the event in position eighteen on the opening green flag.   

Jeff Daugherty of Elmira had to go to a back-up car for the night as a problem was found in his regular car during the day on Friday and he brought the Mullen powered Bicknell from third to completing the top five after racing within the lead pack through the entire event.

Like Payne, The Breeze Bobby Varin of the Siri Motorsports Team had to start near the back of the field, and the Johnstown veteran would weave his way through traffic to finish seventh at the finish in an event which saw only three yellow flags slowing the pace.

Sheppard’s win was his third of the season and helped increase his point lead in the Modified Division.

In 25-lap Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman action a solid field of twenty-two cars took the green with Scott Torbitt of Freeville getting the jump from his front row starting slot and lead the opening seventeen green flag circuits prior to the first yellow flag of the event on lap seventeen.

On the restart Daryl Krebs would assume the top spot and from there he would have to navigate through one final caution on lap twenty-three and cruise to his first ever Crate Sportsman feature win at Outlaw Speedway and he added his name to a growing list of 2026 feature winners similar to last year’s where over a dozen different drivers visited victory lane.

With Krebs safely in control a spirited battle for second was brewing between a pair of class heavy weights in Tim Guild of Rathbone who entered the night with a pair of feature wins along with Blake Parsons of Beaver Dams who has one win to his credit on May eighth and that is how they would finish with Guild and Parsons joining Krebs on the podium.

Fourth place went to Andrew Clark who picked up a feature win during the classes last outing on June 12 as June 5 winner, Colton Coots of Bath rounded the top five after lining up in position eight on the opening grid.

Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks found sixteen cars running a 20-lap feature with Jasper native Glenn Whritenour returning to action after several weeks off due to work commitments and taking the popular win.

GW would start the feature in position seven as Jerry Lobdell of Freeville along with Beaver Dams native Joe Giardina would lead the field to green.

However it did not take Whritenour long to blast through the field and go on to claim win two on the season as he was chased across the line by Lobdell who was trying to back-up his lone feature win on June 12, however GW was too much to control on this night as he cruised to the victory in front of a packed house of fans with Giardina once again putting on another one of his patented steady performances as he finished third.

Fourth and fifth went to Willy Easling who advanced from seventh starting spot as he was chased across the line by four-time 2026 feature winner, Jimmy Grant of Penn Yan who completed the top five. 

Keegan Smith of Lindley along with Dundee’s Jared Hill brought the field to the opening green flag for Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville Hobby Stock 20-lap A Main event.

Hill would lead briefly before being overhauled by Marc Minutolo of Newark who blasted through the field from his seventh starting slot.

A barrage of caution flags on laps 8, 9, 10 and 17 would keep the event at a snail’s pace, however, Mr. Smooth was able to control the pace on every restart and go on to his fourth feature win of the season.

With Minutolo maintaining a safe distance between himself and the rest of the field the battle was on between former Mini Stock Track Champion now turned full time Hobby Stock competitor, Mike Stone of Campbell along with Rookie of the Year contender, seventeen-year-old Brighton Grant of Penn Yan.

For Minutolo, the victory pulled him within a couple of points of current leader, Danny Kerrick who wound up fifth at the finish.

Sandwiched in between Stone, who had one of his best finishes in a Hobby Stock in claiming the runner-up position was Brighton Grant who continues to have an outstanding year as he would complete the top three podium finishers. 

Jared Hill would slip a few positions from his front row starting spot to claim fourth with Kaiden Dgien fifth.

Last but certainly not least the MR Grafix 4 Cylinder Mini Stocks raced in a 20-lap feature with Craig DeCamp getting the win, his fifth of the season as he continues his reign of terror over the rest of the field.

Marvin Jenkins of Elmira along with last year’s Bandit Track Champion and 2026 Rookie of the Year contender Kolston DeCamp would bring the fifteen-car field to green with Jenkins setting the early pace leading the opening four circuits before giving way to seventh place starter, Kenneth Evans of Elmira who barnstormed through the field to take command on lap five.

Evans would hold court at the top of the heap until lap ten when Craig DeCamp would wrestle away the lead and from there never look back as he would cruise to win number five on the season.

The battle for second was now the focus of the capacity crowd as Evans had his hands full with former Track Champion, Jayson Smart of Branchport who was in third after lining up fifth on the opening grid, Nash Ford of Afton who began the twenty-lap feature outside row five and Jack Ormsby from nearby Penn Yan.

As DeCamp crossed under the double checkered flags for his fifth win of 2026, Evans would hold on for second with Ford getting by Smart on the last lap to complete the top three podium finishing spots.

Smart would hold off Ormsby as they would complete the top five. 

Congratulations to all competitors.

A late afternoon shower made for some challenging work for the track preparation crew as work had to be performed after hot laps and again at intermission on the Fast 4/10 of a mile Oval, but the time taken made for exceptional racing in the feature events for all five classes of competition.

A packed house both in the main grandstand seating area as well as in the pit area was on hand to witness the $25,000 Fireworks Extravaganza and the pyrotechnic team did not disappoint as a massive fireworks program went off as planned lighting up the sky much to the delight of the massive crowd in attendance.

Up next at Outlaw the track will have less than a week to prepare for this year’s Thursday Night Thunder, 4th Annual Dave Machuga Memorial featuring the return of the Short Track Super Series for Modifieds.

Joining the Mighty Modifieds will be the Crate Sportsman, Empire Street Stock Series along with the Mini Stocks.

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RESULTS.  Friday, July 3, 2026.  

Friendly Chrysler Dodge Jeep, Ram Modifieds.  22 cars.

Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 9S-MATT SHEPPARD[10]; 2. 7MM-Mike Maresca[9]; 3. 27J-Danny Johnson[14]; 4. 19G-Alex Payne[18]; 5. 22JZ-Jeff Daugherty[3]; 6. 19W-Justin Wright[8]; 7. 18V-Bobby Varin[21]; 8. 72-Ajay Potrzebowski Jr[12]; 9. 42P-Pat Ward[5]; 10. 5*-Tyler Siri[7]; 11. 1J-Stacy Jackson[20]; 12. 82S-Will Shields[2]; 13. 6-Tommy Paine[19]; 14. 48TOO-Dave Rauscher[1]; 15. M13-David Matwiejow[16]; 16. 70-Brady Fultz[6]; 17. 17-Dayton Brewer[17]; 18. 81-Justin Lovejoy[15]; 19. 88-Ron Cartwright Jr[11]; 20. 007-Jordan Siri[13]; 21. 21G-Aiden Grover[4]; 22. 713-Tommy Collins[22]

Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman.  22 cars.

Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 13K-DARYL KREBS[6]; 2. 06-Tim Guild[7]; 3. 55-Blake Parsons[12]; 4. 20-Andrew Clark[5]; 5. 84-Colton Coots[8]; 6. 5-Brent Ayers[19]; 7. 1F-AJ Lloyd[4]; 8. 27B-Quintin Buchanan[13]; 9. 41S-Chase Spoor[20]; 10. 87-Collin Brown[14]; 11. 4R-Bryan Rhoads[3]; 12. 23B-Timmy Borden Jr[15]; 13. 22K-Kevin DeCamp[1]; 14. 123-Dale Welty[11]; 15. 41-Josh Nobriga[9]; 16. 23-Collin Wyant[16]; 17. 34S-Reid Stiles[21]; 18. 44-Bradly Morseman[17]; 19. 714-Chris Darling[18]; 20. 88T-Scot Torbitt[2]; 21. 11-Cayden Lawson[10]; 22. 17-Mikenna Buchanan[22]

Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks.  16 cars

Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 15-GLENN WHRITENOUR[7]; 2. 2L-Jerry Lobdell Jr[1]; 3. 25J-Joe Giardina[2]; 4. 28-Willy Easling[3]; 5. 36-Jimmy Grant[5]; 6. 7-Gene Sharpsteen[4]; 7. 44-Teddy Morseman Jr[16]; 8. 8-Brett Crawford[13]; 9. 9-Aksel Jensen[12]; 10. 99-Kenny Hunt[11]; 11. 45-Sparky Hills[15]; 12. 6-Zach Teed[14]; 13. 97-Chris Woodard[8]; 14. 57J-Ely Mangiarelli[10]; 15. 12-John Burritt[6]; 16. 88-Doug Webster[9]

Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville NAPA Hobby Stocks.  13 cars

Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 25B-MARC MINUTOLO[7]; 2. 23-Mike Stone[3]; 3. 36X-Brighton Grant[4]; 4. 93-Jared Hill[2]; 5. 3X-Meadow Dgien[5]; 6. 23C-Chaz Vanderwall[8]; 7. 61-Danny Kerrick[6]; 8. X30-Don Slover[10]; 9. 36K-Keegan Smith[1]; 10. 21B-William Bradley[9]; 11. 00-Mike Charette[11]; 12. 23D-Eric Dorn[12]; 13. (DNS) 3-Jesse Ballance

MR Grafix Mini Stock 4 Cylinder.  15 cars.

Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 22C-CRAIG DECAMP[8]; 2. 27-Kenneth Evans[7]; 3. 87-Nash Ford[10]; 4. 8-Jayson Smart[5]; 5. 52J-Jack Ormsby[4]; 6. 9-Kolston DeCamp[2]; 7. 7-Gavin Gifford[11]; 8. 14S-Ralph Teeter[9]; 9. 15-Marvin Jenkins[1]; 10. 44M-Courtney Thomas[15]; 11. 61-Timathy Hendrikx[6]; 12. 40-Ricky VanZile[13]; 13. 22E-Eric Inman[12]; 14. 21X-Mike Ayers[3]; 15. 22-Zach Daugherty[14]

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