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SATURDAY, OCT. 5th
NEMA MIDGETS & NEMA LITES
SAMMY SWINDELL - BERTRAND #47
Photos by
Norm Marx
NEMA MIDGETS - OKTOBERFEST - 10/5/19
Pos. # Driver  Hometown Owner
1 47 Sammy Swindell Germantown, TN Bertrand Motorsports
2 39 Avery Stoehr Lakeville, MA Bertrand Motorsports
3 17 Alby Ovitt Somersworth, NH Bertrand Motorsports
4 48 Todd Bertrand Danielson, CT Bertrand Motorsports
5 21 Jim Chambers Atkinson, NH Jim Chambers
6 74 Randy Cabral Kingston, MA Bertrand Motorsports
7 30 Paul Scally Raynham, MA Paul Scally
8 7 Alan Chambers Atkinson, NH Mike Chambers
9 18 Andy Lunt Marion, MA Christian Briggs
10 50 Lanson Fornoro Brockton, MA Peter Pernesiglio Sr.
11 77 Eddie LeClerc Jr. Taunton, MA Mike Luggelle
DNS 9 John Zych Jr. Mendon, MA John Zych Sr.
DNS A1 Mike Horn Ashland, MA Jeff Horn
HEAT 1: 48, 74, 7, 21, 50, 77
HEAT 2: 47, 17, 30, 18, 39
               
IT'S A  BOY!
Rowan Lawrence Lunt
               
PJ STERGIOS - #11 LITES
MERRY - STERGIOS - COY
NEMA LITES  - OKTOBERFEST - 10/5/19
Pos. # Driver  Hometown Owner
1 11 PJ Stergios Candia, NH Bill Stergios
2 19 Richie Coy Haskell, NJ Richie Coy
3 38 Ryan Locke Chester, NH Ken Locke
4 35 Anthony Marvuglio Bridgewater, MA Glen Cabral
5 30 Paul Scally Raynham, MA Paul Scally
6 3 Chris Vose Gloversville, NY Chris Vose
7 99 Jim Santa Maria Burlington, Ct Jim Santa Maria
8 17 Kyle Valeri Monument Beach, MA Peter Valeri
9 5 Jim Cataldo Sterling, MA Jim Cataldo
10 16  Dennis O'Brien Deerfield, NH Christopher Butterweck 
11 55 Drew Eldridge No Chelmsford, MA Drew Eldridge
12 8t Jake Trainor Medway, MA Mike Trainor
13 94 Tiana Kibbe Fairfield, CT Curt Kibbe
14 18 DJ Moniz New Bedford, MA Dave Moniz
15 88 Chase Locke Chester, NH Ken Locke
16 76 Randy Cabral Kingston, MA Frank Manafort
DQ 69 Matt Merry Plaistow, NH Matt Merry
               
               
Swindell Keeps 49 Year Win Streak
Alive with NEMA Win at LEE USA’s
Oktoberfest; Stergios Takes Lites
Three time World of Outlaws champion Sammy Swindell invaded the Northeastern Midget Association this past Saturday night at the LEE USA Speedway to take down the NEMA portion of the event in convincing style, winning by nearly 4 seconds over teammate and points leader Avery Stoehr. Swindell kept what is to believed to be the longest winning streak of any American race car driver alive, with a win in 49 consecutive seasons. In the Lites portion of the event, PJ Stergios took down the victory.

In the NEMA feature, an oiled down track made for a difficult first lap as the cars headed into turn one. Alan Chambers shot into the lead off of turn two, and fourth place starter Sammy Swindell followed him in tow, with teammate Todd Bertrand following around the outside.

On lap three, Swindell drove to the outside of Chambers in turns three and four, and completed the pass entering turns one and two. A lap later, Bertrand would take second, and the chase was on. As the field neared the halfway point, the smooth and consistent Swindell opened up his lead to nearly a straightaway over Bertrand.

With five to go, Swindell had opened up his lead to nearly a half track over the field, and Bertrand was fading, after having to pit before the green flag with a flat tire, and fighting stagger issues. Swindell would go on to take down the well celebrated vitroy, over teammates Avery Stoehr, Alby Ovitt and Bertrand. Jim Chambers finished fifth, followed by Randy Cabral, Paul Scally, Alan Chambers, Andy Lunt and Lanson Fornoro.

"Wow, I really need to thank Tim and the Bertrand crew for tonight. We had it all going perfect tonight, and its just great to win here at LEE and keep the win streak alive," said Swindell. "This is a fun, racy place and we had come here a few weeks back so it was nice to be able to come back and finish it off. Thanks to the track for having us," he said.

In the Lites feature, Chase Locke jumped out from the pole into the lead. Locke began to set a torrid pace, after setting the Lites track record of 13.7 earlier in the evening. Disaster struck for Locke on lap eight, as the came into contact with the turn two wall, ending his night. Locke had the fastest lap of the feature, at 13.9 seconds.

When the green flag flew, PJ Stergios vaulted into the lead, with Richie Coy in tow. As the laps counted down, Stergios poured on the heat, pulling away from the field. Stergios, consistently running laps in the 14.0 second range, would go on to take down the victory over Coy by a margin of 4 seconds.

Following them across the line were Matt Merry, who was later determined to fail a width inspection, Ryan Locke, Anthony Marvuglio, Paul Scally, Chris Vose, Kyle Valeri, Jim Cataldo and Drew Eldridge.

"With the weather so cold, we made some major adjustments to the car before the feature event and it worked out really well to get the Oktoberfest monkey off our back. I hated to see Chase get into the wall. I'd rather finish second than to win this way. He was real fast," said Stergios.

NEMA conludes its season this coming weekend at the Thompson Speedway World Series of Racing.
               

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