RPW Column: Parrow Wins Amazing CRSA Sprint Show At Weedsport; Matt Guererri Tops Sportsman

Column By: MARTY CZEKALA / RPW – WEEDSPORT, NY – The CRSA Sprints put on an incredible showing in their second-ever trip to Weedsport.

Last week, fans were given a treat to watch at Land of Legends between Bobby Parrow and Alysha Bay. This week? Parrow, along with Darryl Ruggles and Jeff Trombley.

The 25 lap feature put Jordan Hutton and Dalton Herrick on the front row. Right out of the gate, Ruggles charged on the outside from 6th to 3rd in half a lap. On lap 2, he was already challenging for the runner-up spot looking on the bottoms and took P2 on lap seven from Herrick while in lap traffic. Lap 11 brought the first yellow out as Hank Katz spun.

On the restart, Jeff Trombley would get a significant jump on the single-file restart to get up to 3rd. Ruggles would then get the lead from Hutton immediately on the outside. Then Trombley entered the picture taking P2 at the line from Hutton. Trombley was not waiting to challenge. On lap 13, Trombley got to the inside on Ruggles, pulling a slide job to take the lead. In the same lap, Bobby Parrow got into the picture in third as he started from 11th on the grid. With 10 to go in lapped traffic, Ruggles tried to counter back on the bottom in 1 & 2, but it didn’t work. In 3 and 4, he pulls an UNO Reverse card on Trombley with a slide job of his own to snatch the lead back. Two laps later, Trombley’s chance at a win would end when he took it deep outside and tagged the outside concrete wall.

Ruggles would hold serve on the restart, but Parrow, like he has done at Land of Legends the past two weeks, tried the outside with six to go and took the lead out of turn 4. The racing would get as insane as it was as Ruggles put a slider on Parrow in 1 & 2 that barely led to contact and Parrow just scraping the wall without a hinder to it. Three to go as the top two got into lapped traffic, they split a backmarker as Parrow sent it in on the bottom of three and four to take the lead, bringing the crowd into a frantic frenzy. Coming to the white, Parrow had the race won until Dan Craun spun in turn four in front of the leaders, putting us in a green-white-checkered finish.

Attempt #1, Ruggles fired better on the restart in second and tried the inside after getting by the restart cone but got tight on the exit. It looked like his race was over but caught a break when Dana Wagner flipped in turn two to bring out a red flag. On the second attempt, though, Parrow fired better as Ruggles tried the outside in turns one & two to set him up for the second set of corners. Still, it did not work as Parrow went back-to-back in CRSA Sprint competition.

“The track came to us. I can’t believe it. We’ve been playing with the car all night and kept getting quicker and quicker and quicker just about anywhere,” Parrow said on the DIRTVision broadcast. “Lapped traffic helped a lot; it was really good for us.” 21 cars signed in for the 305 Sprint competition.

Matt Guererri, who claimed that he “sucked” at Weedsport last week after his Land of Legends win, took home the checkers in the Sportsman race by 4.5 seconds over Brett Senek. Guererri also recorded the fastest lap by four-tenths at 17.615s, the only driver in the 17-second club. This class saw a whopping 60 cars check-in, with only 24 making the field, bringing the total car count to 125.

CRSA Sprints (25 Laps)
53 Bobby Parrow, 2. 48J Darryl Ruggles (0.949s), 3. 29 Dalton Herrick (2.579s), 4. 66J Jordan Hutton (2.900s), 5. 41 Chase Moran (4.087s), 6. 41J Josh Flint (4.970s), 7. 410 Gerry Sehn (5.895s), 8. 13t Trevor Years (6.144s), 9. X Dan Bennett (6.981s), 10. 66 Erik Karlsen (7.616s), 11. 56d Peter Dance (9.064s), 12. 18c Dan Craun (9.291s), 13. 9k Kyle Pierce (-1L), 14. 45 David Ferguson (-2L), 15. 25w Dana Wagner (-2L), 16. 58a Alysha Bay (-2L), 17. 22m Matt Priscott (-3L), 18. 4 Hank Katz (-3L), 19. 3a Jeff Trombley (-7L), 20. 17e Ethan Gray (-20L), 21. 28 Ron Greek (DNS)
Heat Winners: 45 Ferguson, 3a Trombley, 53 Parrow
Fastest Lap: 53 Parrow 16.088s

Sportsman (25 Laps)
12g Matt Guererri, 2. 111 Brett Senek (4.581s), 3. 7z Zach Payne (6.146s), 4. 41 Dalton Rombaugh (8.446s), 5. 21c Brian Calabrese (8.748s), 6. 8 Alan Fink (10.009s), 7. 38 Zach Sobotka (11.181s), 8. 73 Kevin Chaffee (13.080s), 9. 410 Mike Fowler (13.352s), 10. 3 Chris Mackey (13.612s), 11. 33x Matt Janczuk (14.275s), 12. 92 Andrew Buff (14.437s), 13. 1m Tyler Murray (15.070s), 14. 82 Will Shields (15.507s), 15. 1x Willy Decker Jr. (16.160s), 16. 22 Noah Walker (16.839s), 17. 64 Tyler Corcoran (17.095s), 18. 70a Alex Payne (17.786s), 19. 6t Tanner VanDoran (-1L), 20. 18e Gavin Eisle (-1L), 21. 14AJ AJ Miller (-1L), 22. 132 Dalton Martin (-1L), 23. 32R Ryan Shanahan (-9L), 24. 21 Taylor Caprara (-13L)
Heat Winners: 26 Osgood, 7z Zach Payne, 12g Guererri, 38 Sobotka, 33x Janczuk, 410 Fowler
Fastest Lap: 12g Guererri 17.615s