http://www.dirttrackdigest.com/New17/?p=4607 has the full story on tonight’s race.
Here is the recap:
Bachetti Runs Away and Hides from Afton Modified Field for Second Consecutive Win — Travis Smith, Damon Decker, Cody Clark, and Trey Palmer Also Claim Feature Wins
Afton Motorsports Park recap for May 12, 2017
Afton, NY — A jammed pit area of 103 cars at the Afton Motorsports Park on Friday night put on an entertaining racing show for those in attendance. Feature winners on the night were Andy Bachetti of Sheffield, MA who won his second consecutive Modified feature.
Andy Bachetti and Mitch Gibbs paced the Modified field to green to start the 30 lap feature. Bachetti who won his heat impressively after starting near the rear jumped out to the lead over Nick Nye, Gibbs, Mike Trautschold, and Ryan Jordan. Nye hung with Bachetti for the first few laps until the defending track champion got heat into his American Racer tires and he started to pull away.
Bachetti was slowed by three caution flag periods as lap 12 was trying to be scored and on the double file restart Gibbs was able to sneak under Nye for second and that left a exciting battle for fourth between Alan Barker, Rusty Smith, and Brandon Walters.
With the top three all racing by themselves attention was focused on the battle for fourth and Walters finding the extreme bottom groove to his liking moved into fourth on lap 19. Barker did his best in an attempt to hold off Smith for fifth until lap 23 when Smith was able to move into fifth.
At the checkers Bachetti in for the win by nearly a half a track over Gibbs, Nye, Walters, and Smith.
Qualifying races for the Modifieds were won by Bachetti, Gibbs, and Nye.
Top Five Finishers:
- ANDY BACHETTI
- Mitch Gibbs
- Nick Nye
- Brandon Walters
- Rusty Smith