Legends were in action Saturday, June 29, at Riverhead Raceway (NY), with Kyle Ellwood winning the feature. Read the track story below by Bob Finan (Legends portion of event story extracted for posting on LN).
If Kyle Ellwood of Riverhead were a baseball player, he’d be batting .500 after winning his fourth of eight INEX Legend Race Car feature events on the season Saturday. Joey Braun led the first lap at the start before Ray Fitzgerald got by on the second cycle. Braun gave chase until he was passed to the outside by a high-flying Chevy Rommeney on lap 6. However, two laps later Braun was able to get back by Rommeney for second, the trio raced under a blanket until disaster struck on a unlucky lap 13. Rommeney once again got good drive off the second turn gaining a run to leader Fitzgerald. Unaware his challenger was outside, Ray moved up the track and Chevy was hard into the wall ending his race. Kevin Nowak and Jason Castaldo were innocent victim of the crash, Fitzgerald was sent to the rear for his role, he parked his car instead. Kyle Ellwood suddenly found himself in the right place at the right time and assumed the lead for the restart. When the race resumed Ellwood kept the Star Metal Buildings machine out front, notching his 23rd career win tying him with Kevin Nowak for second all-time. Braun was runner-up in his HighMark Building Efficiency coupe while Anthony Marsh of Riverhead collected third place money in his Riverhead Trailer mount.
Legend Race Cars 1. Kyle Ellwood 2. Joey Braun 3. Anthony Marsh 4. Riely O’Keefe 5. Jim Sylvester 6. Jeff Farruggia Jr. 7. Jayden Glennerster 8. Ryan Lutz 9. Alex Halinar 10. Chris Sinatro 11. Ryan Barbieri 12. Mike Van Houten Jr. 13. Rodney Dowless 14. Charkes Hodge 15. Kevin Ohrnberger 16. Ed Stadtlander 17. Ray Stulz 18. Michael Metcalf 19. Will Sipala 20. Rich Braun 21. Marc Godnick 22. Phillip Alaimo 23. Ray Fitzgerald 24. Chevy Rommeney 25. Kevin Nowak 26. Jason Castaldo
Photo credit: Krista King
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