Rob Summers, Erica Santos, Jeff Zuidema take down wins on Extreme Tuesday.

As always on Extreme Tuesday the highlight of the evening is the ISMA SuperModified. When the green flag flew it was the #70 of Dave Trytek jumping into the lead. By lap seven Trytek was already putting the end of the field a lap down. Before I get too deep into talking about these guys, I just want to say that the average speed of the SuperModifieds was 107mph, which is the new track record. While the leader was picking off cars at the back of the field the rest of the field was putting on great battles. I couldn’t choose one of the battles. During the fifty lap event I was shocked because there were only three cautions. After the third and final caution was when the #97 of Rob Summers caught up to the leader. Summers had little trouble taking the lead from Trytek. Once Summers got passed him he never looked back. Summers went on to take down the feature win.

Also competing Tuesday was my favorite type of cars--- midgets. To be exact, it was the NEMA Midgets. Leading at the drop of the green was the #44 of Erica Santos. As Santos lead the rest of the field spread out into single file racing. As the race went on Santos lost the lead for only a short amount of time. Santos was able to pull off a spectacular pass in turns one and two to regain the lead. Santos was able to take down the win. She was also the first female to win a NEMA feature event in history.

Lastly the Pro-4 Modifieds competed on the half mile. Early on there were many swaps for the lead. Swapping the lead was between the #29 of Matt Sagar and the #12 of Rob Richardi. At the end of the battle it was Sagar setting the pace. Quietly making his way up to the front was the #37 of Jeff Zuidema. Zuidema was able to take the lead on lap nineteen. Once Zuidema was in the lead he went on to take down the feature win.

Keith Rocco, Glenn Reen, Andrew Durand and Carla Botticello take down feature wins Friday night

Every week now I seem to be asking myself the same question, how long will it take to complete the SK Modified feature event. And I know I’m not the only one to think that. The field didn’t even complete one lap and they had their first of five cautions. When the field finally was able to complete the first lap it was the #81 of Kerry Malone leading the field. Right on his tail though was the #9 of Brad Hietala. Hietala searched high and low to get around Malone. Hietala was able to get around him on lap two. Following Hietala around Malone was the #91 of Frank Ruocco. Ruocco though didn’t want to settle for second. He was able to take it right away from Hietala. As all this was happening I found that the field was extremely racy early on. Once the race progressed, the field had settled down and the best battles were on the restarts. Making his way forward in the field was the #78 of Keith Rocco. Rocco had to challenge Ruocco a long time before he was able to take the le ad. Rocco was finally able to get into the lead. After facing many hard charges it was Keith Rocco taking down the win. 

In the SK Lights it was the #23 of Alan Provost grabbing the lead early on. But Provost was challenged right away by the #52 of Mark Bakaj. Provost, being the experienced driver that he is didn’t give in to the pressure of Bakaj. On lap one the first caution came out. When the green came back out Provost was able to secure the lead until lap six when the next yellow came out. Taking the lead on that restart was the #17 of Glenn Reen When the checkers flew out it was Glenn Reen leading with the #29 of Chris Matthews in second and Alan Provost taking down his best finish of season.

Getting back into victory lane in the Limited Late Models was the #43 R.A.D powered machine driven by Andrew Durand.

Also winning Friday night was Carla Botticello in the D.A.R.E Stock