Stafford Speedway Late Model to #92 Tom Fearn

                         Posted by Wayne G. Barber

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In the 30-lap Late Model feature event, Tom Butler spun in turn 1 to bring the yellow out before a lap could be completed.  Ed Ricard took the lead at the drop of the green, but he was quickly overtaken by Kevin Gambacorta.  Josh Wood followed Gambacorta by Ricard, with Tom Fearn, Michael Bennett, and Michael Wray all getting by Ricard. Ricard fell back to eighth while at the front of the pack Fearn moved into the lead on lap-4 and Gambacorta slid back to eighth, just in front of Ricard as Bennett, Wood, Wray, Jim Mavlouganes, Michael Scorzelli, and Butler made up the top-7 in the running order.

Mavlouganes moved around Wray to take over fourth place on lap-10 while Fearn continued to lead Bennett and Wood.  The caution came out with 12 laps complete for an incident in turn 3 involving the cars of Michael Scorzelli and Kyle Casagrande.  The 2 cars came together with Scorzelli backing into the wall and Casagrande hitting the wall with his right front.

Fearn took the lead back under green with Wood pulling alongside Bennett in a fight for second.  Mavlouganes was fourth with Butler right behind him in fifth.  Wood and Bennett ran side by side for 2 laps before Wood got clear into second and now Mavlouganes was challenging Bennett for third.  The side by side racing between Wood and Bennett allowed Fearn to pull away from his closes pursuers.  The caution came out with 16 laps complete as Kevin Gambacorta make contact with Bennett which sent Bennett into the wall on the frontstretch and then back across the track into the path of P.J. Zarrella, who then went into the turn 1 wall.  Gambacorta was parked on pit road for the contact with Bennett.

Fearn took the lead back under the green flag with Mavlouganes taking second ahead of Butler, Ricard, and Wood.  Fearn again began to slowly pull away from Mavlouganes and he had a half straightaway lead built up with 5 laps to go.  Butler was able to work his way past Mavlouganes to take over second on lap-26 but he didn’t have enough time to catch up to Fearn as Fearn collected his first win of the 2015 season.  Mavlouganes finished third, with Wood and Ricard rounding out the top-5.

 Source Scott Running Stafford Speedway Press Release