Richie Davidowitz took the checkered flag first at Riverhead Raceway in New York in the Legend Cars feature on Sunday, May 21. Below is the race recap from the track’s press release (Legends portion extracted for posting on LN). Photo credit: Richie Grodski
“Big Money” Richie Davidowitz may have gone winless in 2022, but early on in 2023 he is proving that was a fluke as he scored his second straight INEX Legend Race Car victory. Joey Braun moved to the early race lead at the throw of the green with Davidowitz and Jeff Farruggia tucking in right behind. With an early green flag run Braun was able to keep his challengers a couple car lengths back but that was erased on lap 7 when Kendall Van Houten spun drawing a yellow. When the race resumed Braun maintained his lead at first but Davidowitz quickly crossed the leader over and by the time they hit the stripe to start lap 9 Davidowitz was the new race leader with Farruggia following in Richie’s tire tracks to come to second. Over the final half of the race Richie Davidowitz, a UPS package truck driver during the week kept the Freddie & Megan Kraft back racer out front for his 27th career win, tops in class. Jeff Farruggia of Riverhead was second in the Chris Mohr Landscaping machine while Joey Braun of Manorville completed the podium in the Uncle Carmine’s Hot Peppers mount.
Legend Race Cars: 1. Richie Davidowitz 2. Jeff Farruggia Jr. 3. Joey Braun 4. Nick Morabito 5. Chase Van Houten 6. Eric Hersey 7. Brad Van Houten 8. Riely O’Keefe 9. Jason Castaldo 10. Ryan Lutz 11. Jim Sylvester 12. Charlie Hodge 13. Rodney Dowless Jr. 14. Mike Van Houten Jr. 15. Jayden Glennerster 16. Ray Stulz 17. Alex Halinar 18. Pat Moore 19. Chris Sinatro 20. Kim Daniel 21. Michael Metcalf 22. Steve Woytysiak 23. Kendall Van Houten 24. Kevin Ohrnberger 25. Marc Godnick 26. Ryan Barbieri
