Jul 10, 2026 11:51 AM EDT
MICHAEL MARESCA TAKES 4TH ANNUAL DAVE MACHUGA MEMORIAL SHORT TRACK SUPER SERIES EVENT AT OUTLAW SPEEDWAY
Josh Nobriga claims first ever at Outlaw in Crate Sportsman, Glenn Whrietnour takes home Empire Street Stock Series win for his third trip to victory lane in 2026 and Collins Mills makes it two wins in last three events in Mini Stock action.
Story by Kenny Shupp Jr.
(Dundee, NY) The Short Track Super Series made its annual trek to the Outlaw Speedway and even a late afternoon shower could not deter the cars, stars and fans from turning out for the 4th Annual Dave Machuga Memorial Outlaw Showdown at the popular Yates County Oval.
The event marked the ninth appearance of the Brett Deyo led STSS at Outlaw since the track was purchased by current owner, Tyler Siri, now in his eleventh season at the helm.
Twenty-seven of the high-powered Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds signed in for the night of competition requiring three qualifying heats and a consolation to set the field for their 50-lap feature event.
By the luck of the re-draw a pair of veterans in the sport of Northeast Modified Racing, The Breeze Bobby Varin of Johnstown and Savannah’s Super Matt Sheppard would bring the field to the opening green flag.
A rash of early event caution flags and an abnormal amount of attrition would eliminate many of the heavy weights in the field prior to the halfway mark including Danny Johnson, Anthony Perrego, Ajay Potrzebowski Jr., Ron Cartwright Jr., Kreg Crooker and Bobby Varin.
After a lap twenty-four caution flag for Varin things began to settle down with Mat Williamson in command of the field after charging into the top spot from his outside row six starting position.
After having a pair of successful feature finishes at Outlaw during the month of April 2026, Williamson looked poised to finally get a STSS win at the track which has haunted him throughout the years.
However, that was before 2025 Outlaw Speedway Modified Track Champion, Michael Maresca got heat in his right rear tire and cut William’s advantage to just a few car lengths with still plenty of laps remaining.
The final caution flag of the fifty-lap grind would unfurl on lap thirty-nine and it was on lap forty-four that Maresca made a power move around the outside of Williamson and from there go uncontested to the double checkered flags.
Williams who made the long tow from St. Catherines, Ontario would settle for the runner-up spot and with that will have to wait another year to seek our his first STSS feature win at Outlaw.
Alex Yankowski would line up sixth on the opening grid, kept the lead group in sight throughout the entire distance and wound up finishing third to complete the podium.
Fourth place went to current Modified point leader Matt Sheppard who ran within the top two or three for most of the event before fading a bit as we was under fire from Dundee’s Brady Fultz who gave it everything he had but wound up following Sheppard across the finish line to claim fifth.
The victory for Maresca was his third of the season and first ever STSS win at Outlaw as well as his third overall STSS A-Main feature win.
For his effort Maresca walked off with the winner’s share of $7,078 for his win.
For a complete and concise look at all the post-race contingencies for the Modifieds go to the Short Track Super Series on the web.
Twenty-five Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman would take the green for their 30-lap $2078 to win feature with veteran Tim Guild of Rathbone getting the early jump.
However, before the first lap could get into the books a bone jarring multi-car wreck happened on the front straightaway eliminating several cars.
Once back to green Guild would stay in control and set a blistering pace, however by lap-thirteen the sixth place starting machine of Josh Nobriga was on the move and was able to slide by Guild and from there he would stretch his advantage to a full 2 seconds over Guild who was pressured by Al Lloyd who was third after starting alongside Guild on the opening green.
And that is how they would finish as they flashed under the start/finish line to complete lap thirty with Nobriga claiming his first ever Sportsman feature win at Outlaw and it happened to come on the night his car owner and major sponsor, Will Wood of Chemung Concrete was onboard as the nightly event sponsor.
Guild and Lloyd would complete the podium with Quintin Buchanan putting on another steady driving performance in holding his ground finishing fourth after starting in that same spot.
Donnie Lawson would begin the feature outside row four and advance three positions to complete the top five.
Glenn Whritenour of Jasper, a multi-time Outlaw Speedway Street Stock Track Champion, has been keeping things simple in 2026 by running a limited schedule due to job commitments.
However, with $1,500 up for grabs and the chance to win another Empire Street Stock Series event, Whritenour found his way back to the Fast 4/10 of a Mile Clay Oval and after dominating the action in the thirty-lap feature GW would cruise to his third win at Outlaw in “26”.
By the luck of the re-draw Whritenour would line up fifth on the grid and was into the top spot by lap six after disposing race leader, Jerry Lobdell Jr. who began the event outside the front starting row.
From there Whritenour had to hold off a hard charging Willy Easling who was in second after starting third.
Easling, who was last seasons Swarthout Recycling Street Stock Rookie of the Year, had won a feature at Outlaw previously on April 17 and was looking to pick up his first ever Empire Street Stock Series victory, but came up a few car lengths short at the finish.
Lobdell Jr. who had previously won at Outlaw just a few weeks ago on June 12 would finish third as he was chased across the line by CJ Guererri who began the event in ninth as he was involved in a slugfest with Teddy Morseman of Cameron Mills as the pair would complete the top five.
A very uncharastic six yellow flag slow downs would keep the event at a snail’s pace for the first thirteen-laps with the final caution flying on lap twenty-seven, however none of that would keep Whritenour from capturing the Empire Street Stock Series victory.
The MR Grafix Mini Stocks were on the card of events as they would send eighteen cars to the post for their twenty-lap $1,078 to win feature go.
Journeyman driver, Collin Mills of Deposit, NY made a return to Outlaw looking to back up his June 12 victory and he made things look relatively easy as he would begin the Machuga Memorial for the Mini Stocks on the pole position and lead every lap in route to victory.
Lee Fritz would join Mills in the front row, but he could not keep pace with the high-flying Mills at the start as Zach Daugherty of Elmira had moved into the runner-up slot after starting ninth.
At the halfway mark it was still Mills in command with Daugherty now under attack by Craig DeCamp who entered the event as the odds-on favorite with five feature wins to his credit entering the night.
The second half of the main was filled with four yellow flag slowdowns allowing Daugherty and DeCamp the opportunity to keep pace with Mills, however Daugherty had problems and fell off the pace eventually winding up thirteenth.
That left DeCamp of Beaver Dams and Jayson Smart of Branchport the only two competitors any realistic chance of knocking Mills off the top step of the podium, but time ran out and that is how they would finish with Mills taking home the big check and hardware with Craig DeCamp and Jayson Smart completing the podium.
Fourth place went to Jack Ormsby of Penn Yan as he would be followed across the line by Elmira’s Marvin Jenkins.
Congratulations to all competitors.
With another Outlaw Showdown Dave Machuga Memorial Short Track Super Series Event into the books track owner, Tyler Siri and his staff will now shift their attention to the next event, which is set for Friday, July 17 featuring a Regular FAST 5* Show will all the weekly divisions.
RESULTS
Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds. 27 cars.
Feature (50 Laps): 1. 7MM-MICHAEL MARESCA[8]; 2. 6-Mat Williamson[12]; 3. 84Y-Alex Yankowski[6]; 4. 9S-Matt Sheppard[2]; 5. 70-Brady Fultz[7]; 6. 5*-Tyler Siri[17]; 7. 70A-Alex Payne[10]; 8. 42P-Pat Ward[14]; 9. 713-Tommy Collins[11]; 10. 22-Jeffery Daugherty[19]; 11. ONE-Felix Roy[20]; 12. 27-Tanner Van Doren[23]; 13. 10-Karl Comfort[13]; 14. 19W-Justin Wright[5]; 15. 18V-Bobby Varin[1]; 16. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr[3]; 17. 21G-Aiden Grover[26]; 18. 4-Anthony Perrego[4]; 19. 27J-Danny Johnson[9]; 20. 6P-Tommy Paine[16]; 21. 82S-Will Shields[21]; 22. 88-Ron Cartwright Jr[24]; 23. 9K-Blaine Klinger[22]; 24. 72-Ajay Potrzebowski II[15]; 25. 47-Kreg Crooker[25]; 26. 06-Jackson Gill[18]
Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman. 25 cars.
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 41-JOSH NOBRIGA[6]; 2. 06-Tim Guild[1]; 3. 1F-AJ Lloyd[2]; 4. 27B-Quintin Buchanan[4]; 5. 118-Donnie Lawson[8]; 6. 55-Blake Parsons[15]; 7. 9G-Tyler Peet[10]; 8. 123-Dale Welty[12]; 9. 41S-Chase Spoor[9]; 10. 714-Chris Darling[11]; 11. 5-Brent Ayers[7]; 12. 78JR-Nigel Pendykoski[5]; 13. 4R-Bryan Rhoads[3]; 14. 88T-Scot Torbitt[14]; 15. 22K-Kevin DeCamp[17]; 16. 44-Bradly Morseman[18]; 17. 84-Colton Coots[13]; 18. 11-Cayden Lawson[16]; 19. 23B-Timmy Borden Jr[23]; 20. 1-Steve Lead[19]; 21. 88-Frank Guererri[22]; 22. 87-Collin Brown[21]; 23. 13K-Daryl Krebs[20]; 24. 20-Andrew Clark[24]; 25. (DNS) 34S-Reid Stiles
Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks. 17 cars
Feature (30 Laps): 1. 15-GLENN WHRITENOUR[5]; 2. 28-Willy Easling[3]; 3. 2L-Jerry Lobdell Jr[2]; 4. CJ1-CJ Guererri[9]; 5. 44-Teddy Morseman Jr[11]; 6. 25B-Marc Minutolo[15]; 7. 7-Gene Sharpsteen[7]; 8. 25J-Joe Giardina[8]; 9. 57J-Ely Mangiarelli[4]; 10. 00M-Luke Boom[14]; 11. 88-Doug Webster[1]; 12. 9-Aksel Jensen[17]; 13. 36-Jimmy Grant[6]; 14. 00D-Damian Long[12]; 15. 00-Mike Welch[13]; 16. 8-Brett Crawford[10]; 17. (DNS) 99-Kenny Hunt
MR Grafix Mini Stocks. 18 entries
20 lap feature. COLLIN MILLS, Craig DeCamp, Jayson Smart, Jack Ormsby, Marvin Jenkins, Gavin Hall, Lee Fritz, Brad Whiteside, Austyn Diaz, Mike Ayers, Courtney Thomas, Kolston DeCamp, 22-Zach Daugherty, 40-Ricky VanZile, Nick Brown, Nash Ford, (DNS) 113-Nathan Powers; 18. (DNS) 88-Kenneth Evans
