Duclos & Kelly Top Caroga Creek RacePark Saturday; Putnam & Chavis Victorious Friday Night

Story By: TOBY LAGRANGE / CAROGA CREEK RACEPARK – EPHRATAH, NY – The Caroga Creek RacePark had a great two nights of action this past Friday & Saturday.

The RacePark roared back to life for a special Friday night program featuring the Slingshot division as well as three karting classes, including the Wing Champs. When all was said and done a couple of familiar faces landed in victory lane.

Following a successful Friday night program, the track dropped the green once again on Saturday afternoon. With a few of the weekly classes off at some money events, Saturday afternoon was a chance for some of the younger competitors to get more track time.

When all was said and done Saturday, Chris Duclos and Matt Kelly were the big winners.

Duclos won both 20-lap feature events for the Junior 2 Turquoise class. The first was the USA Gas 20 which paid $100 to win. Duclos picked up the win over Jaden Pierce, Mason Redmond, Tyler Taber and Hunter Adams. Duclos also won the final event of the afternoon that paid out an 80 percent payback. The finishing order was the same as the first event. He also picked up the win in the Wing Champ 10-15 year old class.

Kelly meanwhile also picked up a pair of wins; his though were in different classes. Kelly won the 20-lap Heavy Tire Predator feature event over Derek McGrew, Jr., Tanner Beed, Frank Twing, Jr. and Eva Rakoske. He also won the Clone 360 event over Michael Witse.

Other Kart winners during the afternoon program were Dylan Mottoshisk (Open Pros and Gold), E.J. Hatch (Junior 1 and Wing Champ 5-9) and Molly Hatch (Box Stock).

Official Results

Junior 2 Turquoise – USA Gas 20 (20 Laps) – Chris Duclos, Jaden Pierce, Mason Redmond, Tyler Taber, Hunter Adams

Junior 2 Turquoise (20 Laps) – Chris Duclos, Jaden Pierce, Mason Redmond, Tyler Taber, Hunter Adams

Heavy Tire Predator (20 Laps) – Matt Kelly, Derek McGrew, Jr., Tanner Beed, Frank Twing, Jr., Eva Rakoske, Joe Rakoske, Aaron Rakoske, James Carroll, Tom Varin

Open Pros (15 Laps) – Dylan Mottoshisk, Michael Witse, Patricia Witse

Gold (15 Laps) – Dylan Mottoshisk, Alicia Franklin, Matt Evans

Clone 360 (15 Laps) – Matt Kelly, Michael Witse

Box Stock (12 Laps) – Molly Hatch, Cody Redmond, Joey Williams, Colin White

Junior 1 (15 Laps) – E.J. Hatch, James Hatch, Jr., Zoey Roberts, Will Sherman, Bayleigh Goodnow, Amelia Sherman, Thor Martin

Wing Champ 5-9 (12 Laps) – E.J. Hatch, Zoey Roberts, Colton Traylor, Wesson Delaney-Olson

Wing Champ 10-15 (15 Laps) – Chris Duclos, Jaden Pierce, Michael Evans

FRIDAY EVENING

Brett Putnam picked up the special 20-lap Slingshot feature event. The win was Putnam’s first of the season at the Fulton County Action Attraction. Putnam, behind the wheel of the Mohawk Valley Vintage Dirt Modified Series number one, brought home the win over Devin Pierce, last Saturday’s winner Joe Rando, Darryn Fallis and Blaine King.

With Putnam’s win, there have been three different winners in as many weeks in 2020 at Caroga Creek.

Heat races were won by Putnam and Rando.

The Wing Champ 20-Lap feature event was won by Matt Chavis for the second week in a row. Chavis, behind the wheel of the Chavis Motorsports #01 picked up the win over Matt Allery, Ronnie Smith, Josh Persse and opening day winner David Herrick, II.

Heat races for the Wing Champ class were won by Smith and Chavis.

Chavis had a banter night at Caroga Creek. In addition to the win in the Wing Champ feature he also won the Flat Kart Heavy and Flat Kart Lite feature events.

Official Results

Slingshot (20 Laps) – Brett Putnam, Devin Pierce, Joe Rando, Darryn Fallis, Blaine King, Jim Pollard, Margaret Wagner, Frank Twing, Jr (Jr. Slingshot), Kyle Fallis

Wing Champ (20 Laps) – Matt Chavis, Mike Allery, Ronnie Smith, Josh Persse, David Herrick, II, Kyle Dingman, Collin Williams, Chris Sweeney, Michael Evans, Steven Hulbert, Bobby Rhinehardt, Ashleigh Herrick

Flat Kart Heavy (20 Laps) – Matt Chavis, Maxwell Bourdeau, Jarrett Dyer, Josh Persse, Kevin George, Jeremy Miller

Flat Kart Lite (20 Laps) – Matt Chavis, Kirstin Swartz, T.J. Hues, Alyssa Pickard, Matt Evans, Ashleigh Herrick