Aug 29, 2026 09:31 PM EDT
MICHAEL MARESCA CLAIMS MODIFIED DOUBLE POINT FINALE BUT FALLS SHORT OF PICKING UP HIS SECOND CONSEAUTIVE OUTLAW SPEEDWAY CHAMPIONSHIP
Super Matt Sheppard finishes second to Maresca on track but goes on to claim Outlaw Speedway Championship number four.
Tim Guild wins Crate Sportsman with Blake Parsons taking home his first title.
Brett Crawford claims Street Stock feature as Jimmy Grant wins first ever Outlaw Track Championship.
Kenneth Evans wins first Mini Stock feature of the year, but it is Craig Decamp taking home his first MS Championship.
Danny Kerrick nips Marc Minutolo at the wire to win Hobby Stock feature, but it is Mr. Smooth taking home his 6th Outlaw HS Track Title.
Story by Kenny Shupp Jr.
(Dundee, NY) All the hype, stress and pressure that was put onto the current point leaders entering the final Double Point Championship Night of the 2026 season did not pan out as once again the cream that was at the top entering the night wound up staying there to complete their respective championship runs.
In Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modified action, 2025 Track Champion, Michael Maresca took a huge hit in the points two weeks ago when he had problems winding up with an extremely poor feature finish.
Maresca’s downfall on that night gave both Matt Sheppard, who was leading the point battle, and second place runner, Alex Payne some breathing room in their quest to upend Maresca.
On Friday night, August 28, 2026, Maresca was on a mission and was not going to be denied a feature win and still the possibility of leap frogging over both Payne and Sheppard to have back-to-back Championship Seasons.
Waterloo’s Tommy Paine and Pat Kelly of Fowlerville would lead the eighteen-car field to the opening green for their final point paying thirty lap feature of the 2026 season with Kelly getting the jump and leading the opening pair of circuits before the third place starting machine of Mike Maresca powered around to take control and from there, he would never relinquish the top spot.
Behind Maresca, all eyes were on Super Matt Sheppard and Alex Payne who lined up tenth and twelfth respectively on the opening grid as the pair raced through traffic looking not only for the feature win but to also keep Maresca from claiming his second Outlaw Speedway Modified Track Title.
Three caution flags would slow the pace coming on laps ten, sixteen and twenty-four with the lap ten yellow sending Payne pit side with a flat tire, however this is not the first time that Alex Payne has suffered from a flat tire and was able to mount a rally in making his way back through the field.
With Maresca comfortably in front, Sheppard had once again very methodically worked his way through traffic and was up to second by mid-race and was set to challenge Maresca for the win.
With five to go Maresca was poised and able to keep Sheppard at bay, but a furious battle was going on behind the lead duo between The Breeze Bobby Varin, his team The Genoa Giant Pat Ward and Alex Payne who was now back in the picture.
As the double checkered rags dropped ending the thirty-lap grind it was Mike Maresca picking up his fourth feature win of the campaign and by virtue of his runner-up finish, Matt Sheppard was crowned the 2026 Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modified Champion and will claim the $10,000 winners check that goes along with his fourth Outlaw Speedway Track Championship backing up his previous titles in 2017, 2019 and 2020.
Varin of Johnstown has had an up and down season, however his solid third place finish on the night after starting fifth on the grid will solidify another top point finishing position driving for track owner, Bossman Tyler Siri and his Siri Motorsports Team.
The Slide job Express Alex Payne was able to rally in finishing fourth and unofficially will trail Sheppard in the last point tally coming up short of attempting to make it two Outlaw Speedway Track Titles in the past three seasons.
Pat Ward once again went very quietly about his business lining up seventh at the start, kept his nose clean the entire distance and brought his Siri Motorsports machine home to complete the top five.
Blake Parsons held a slim twelve-point advantage over Brent Ayers entering the decisive point show of 2026 and mathematically there were a dozen others still in the hunt to pick up the $2,500 Track Championship.
A pair of veteran drivers in Tim Guild of Rathbone and AJ Lloyd of Canandaigua would bring the twenty-two-car field to green with Guild getting the jump and leading all twenty-five laps in route to his third Outlaw Speedway win of 2026.
Only one lone caution flag would wave coming on lap sixteen and with Guild in a league all his own all eyes were on Blake Parsons who was buried in tenth spot and was working his way through traffic.
With the laps clicking off at a record pace Parsons was holding his own as a slew of other top runners ahead of him were in a slug fest to secure top five spots.
Dale Welty of Montour Falls lined up fifth on the grid and was able to break free of traffic and get to second but that is where his rally would end.
Third generation, Bath, NY young gun Colton Coots started inside row two and was looking to find victory lane for the second time in 2026 backing up his June 5 victory.
However, Guild and Welty were too much for the teenager to manage as he would hang on to complete the top three podium finishers,
Darly Krebs who picked up a Crate Sportsman feature win on July 3 started eight on the opening green and advanced to claim fourth at the finish as he was chased across the line by Lloyd who raced within the lead pack throughout the entire event after starting outside pole position.
With Blake Parsons eighth place finish he has Unofficially picked up his first ever Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman Track Championship, his first for the popular nineteen-year-old Beaver Dams resident.
Jimmy Grant entered the night with a class leading five feature wins in the Swarthout Recycling Street Stock Division.
Grant from nearby Penn Yan had a comfortable forty-eight-point advantage over Jerry Lobdell Jr. of Freeville and Willy Easling of Beaver Dams.
There were others in the Double Point Finale mix, but realistically it was Grant who could determine his own destiny.
Brett Crawford has had a yo-yo season with peaks and valleys at every turn. The Corning speedster and many time Woodhull Raceway Street Stock Champion who now competes full time at Outlaw hit pay dirt back on May 22 getting the monkey off his back. But since then, the top finishes have been rare.
Crawford, along with Eli Mangiarelli piloting the famed Schyler Family Racing 57j would bring the field to the opening green for the twenty-lap feature with Crawford asserting his authority and leading lap one.
Joe Giardina, who started third on the grid disposed of Mangiarelli and Crawford on lap two and took command leading laps two through ten when on a restart he gave up the lead to Crawford who would lead the final ten to pick-up win two on the season.
Jerry Lobdell, who chose Outlaw Speedway as his Friday Night Race Place in 2026 entered the night on a tear similar to Giardina as both drivers have been threats to win each and every week.
Lobdell would start sixth on the opening lap and move forward to finish in the runner-up spot as he was chased by Glenn Whritenour and although GW has run a limited schedule at Outlaw in 2026, he is still a threat whenever he shows up at 82 Main Street.
Mangiarelli would hang with the leaders throughout to claim fourth as early race leader, Joe Giardina would complete the top five.
Jimmy Grant began the twenty-lap feature inside row four would keep his nose clean and ran a thinking mans race knowing exactly where his toughest point competition was while at the same time keeping a keen eye on the big picture of winning the $2,500 Swarthout Recycling Street Stock Track Championship.
For Grant it was his first Unofficial Championship in Street Stock action after having chased both Glenn Whrietnour and Gene Sharpsteen over the past several seasons.
The MR Grafix Mini Stocks were up to bat next on this night and before a lap could be completed a red flag situation occurred and after the clean-up it was Elmira’s Kenneth Evans leap frogging over the entire four front rows and taking control and setting the pace as he would go on to win his first feature of the year at the famed Yates County Oval.
After the opening lap red only one yellow flag slowdown would occur with that coming on lap five, however Evans was in total control throughout the entire distance and came away with the victory.
A tight battle kept the fans on the edge of their seats with current point leader and six-time feature winner, Craig Decamp along with last season’s Champ, Zach Daugherty both chasing the track title.
Decamp would start the twenty-lap feature in slot nine with Daugherty one row behind in starting spot eleven.
With Evans comfortably in control all eyes were on Decamp and Daugherty to see which driver would win the title as the pair bobbed and weaved their way to the front and when the checkered flags dropped it was Craig Decamp finishing second and Daugherty climbing the third rung of the podium.
Former Track Champ and a man that is always a contender, Jayson Smart of Branchport rode home fourth advancing from sixth with Teddy Morseman Jr. completing the top five.
With his solid runner-up finish Beaver Dams native Craig Decamp has Unofficially claimed his first MR Grafix Mini Stock Track Championship.
Last but certainly not lease on the pecking order for the night was the highly popular Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville NAPA Hobby Stocks with a stout field of fifteen drivers taking to the opening bell.
Dundee native Jared Hill would get the jump from his pole position starting spot and lead laps one through ten before tenth place starter and five-time HS Track Champion, Marc Minutolo would wrestle away the top spot .
A rash of caution flags, four total on laps five, six, twelve and sixteen would keep the pace slowed and the field bunched helping Minutolo of Newark and his number one threat, Danny Kerrick from Stanley as the pair were going to the front.
With Mr. Smooth in control at the head of the class and Kerrick mowing the field down from starting spot eight after a slow start, the two were once again going at it for the win and the track title after Kerrick picked up the 2025 Hobby Stock Championship.
With $2,500 to win this years title it was extra incentive to race hard each and every lap and with the white flag flying it appeared like Minutolo was on his way to win eight on the year, however, never ever count Danny Kerrick out of any feature win as he was able to mount a last lap challenge and hip Smooth at the wire to win his sixth feature of the year.
However, Kerrick’s valiant attempt to back-up last years title came up just short as Unofficially Marc Minutolo was crowned the NAPA Hobby Stock Track Champion, his sixth overall with his last coming in 2023 after finishing runner-up to Jeredd Dennis in 2024 and Kerrick in 2025.
Chasing Kerrick and Minutolo to the double checkered flags were Jared Hill who led early and drifted to complete the podium with Penn Yan’s Brighton Grant and The Nature Boy Mike Stone of Campbell rounding out the top five.
As of this writing, all Track Championship Point Standings are Unofficial pending further review and a complete re-check before posting at www.outlawspeedwayllc.com.
Congratulations to all competitors.
Prior to the night of action, it was announced that long time Outlaw Speedway supporter, Carl Sparky Hills of Corning was calling it a career after eight decades of competition as he was cinching the belts for the final time in his famed #45 Street Stock Machine.
Hills would line up eleventh on the grid for the twenty-lap Street Stock Feature and advance to eighth at the completion and with that ended a brilliant driving career that included everything from Modifieds to IMCA Modifieds and everything in between.
Now in his 90’s it was a significant effort for Sparky and his wife Fran who was always at his side throughout his dedicated career.
Outlaw Speedway will take a late summer break and lay dormant for the next two weeks in preparation for the MacMillian Memorial Event set for Friday, September 11, 2026, featuring the second and final appearance of the 2026 season for the high powered ULMS Super Late Model Series in addition to a full card of other weekly divisions including the Modifieds, Crate Sportsman along with the Mighty Mini Stocks.
For continual updates leading up to the next scheduled Post Season Special on Friday, September 11, 2026, go to www.Facebook.com/Outlaw SpeedwayLLC/.
RESULTS. Track Champions are Unofficial.
Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds 18 cars
Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 7MM-MIKE MARESCA[4]; 2. 9S-Matt Sheppard[10]; 3. 18V-Bobby Varin[5]; 4. 19G-Alex Payne[12]; 5. 42P-Pat Ward[7]; 6. 22JZ-Jeff Daugherty[18]; 7. 6-Tommy Paine[1]; 8. 14-Brian Swarthout[3]; 9. 5*-Tyler Siri[6]; 10. 70-Brady Fultz[8]; 11. 1P-Billy Paine[11]; 12. 11L-Dean Laughlin[16]; 13. 48TOO-Dave Rauscher[13]; 14. 81-Justin Lovejoy[17]; 15. 57-Pat Kelly[2]; 16. 1-Tommy Collins[9]; 17. 007-Christain Thompson[14]; 18. 47-Scot Torbitt[15].
Modified Track Champion, Matt Sheppard
Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman 22 cars
Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 06-TIM GUILD[1]; 2. 123-Dale Welty[5]; 3. 84-Colton Coots[3]; 4. 13K-Daryl Krebs[8]; 5. 1F-AJ Lloyd[2]; 6. 714-Chris Darling[12]; 7. 41-Josh Nobriga[7]; 8. 55-Blake Parsons[10]; 9. 181-Justice Mayo[6]; 10. 5-Brent Ayers[9]; 11. 27B-Quintin Buchanan[19]; 12. 36-Brandon Grover[4]; 13. 87-Collin Brown[15]; 14. 88T-Scot Torbitt[18]; 15. 14G-Craig Gardner[22]; 16. 14H-Chris Hall[14]; 17. 34S-Reid Stiles[17]; 18. 17-Mikenna Buchanan[13]; 19. 46-Justin Schenck[21]; 20. 37-Chris Fisher[11]; 21. 4R-Bryan Rhoads[16]; 22. 22K-Kevin Decamp[20]
Crate Sportsman Track Champion, Blake Parsons
Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks 11 cars.
Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 8-BRETT CRAWFORD[1]; 2. 2L-Jerry Lobdell Jr[6]; 3. 15-Glenn Whritenour[8]; 4. 57J-Ely Mangiarelli[2]; 5. 25J-Joe Giardina[4]; 6. 36-Jimmy Grant[7]; 7. 6-Zach Teed[10]; 8. 45-Sparky Hills[11]; 9. 28-Willy Easling[5]; 10. 9-Aksel Jensen[9]; 11. 7-Gene Sharpsteen[3]
Street Stock Track Champion, Jimmy Grant
Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville NAPA Hobby Stocks 15 cars
Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 61-DANNY KERRICK[8]; 2. 25B-Marc Minutolo[10]; 3. 93-Jared Hill[1]; 4. 36X-Brighton Grant[5]; 5. 23-Mike Stone[3]; 6. 3X-Meadow Dgien[4]; 7. 21-Jackson Dunning[11]; 8. 21B-William Bradley[13]; 9. 420-John Cogswell[12]; 10. X30-Don Slover[15]; 11. 36K-Keegan Smith[6]; 12. 90-Nate Peckham[9]; 13. 3-Jesse Ballance[2]; 14. 4-Jake Karlnoski[7]; 15. (DNS) 75-Zachary Pipe
Hobby Stock Track Champion, Marc Minutolo
MR Grafix Mini Stocks 16 cars
Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 15-KENNETH EVANS[7]; 2. 22C-Craig Decamp[9]; 3. 22-Zach Daugherty[10]; 4. 8-Jayson Smart[6]; 5. 11-Teddy Morseman Jr[15]; 6. 19-Lee Fritz[8]; 7. 96X-Brandon Smith[12]; 8. 52J-Jack Ormsby[5]; 9. 21X-Mike Ayers[14]; 10. 9-Kolston Decamp[2]; 11. 44M-Courtney Thomas[4]; 12. 926-Michael Abbey[11]; 13. 40-Ricky VanZile[13]; 14. 63-Gavin Hall[3]; 15. 88-Marvin Jenkins[1]
Mini Stock Track Champion, Craig Decamp
