Frank L’Etoile, Jr. Wins Midstate Site Development Street Stock 30 at Stafford Speedway;

 Posted by Wayne G. Barber 

In the 30-lap Midstate Site Development Street Stock event, Kyle Johnson took the early lead with Bobby Stirk, III, Jeremy Washburn, and Bert Ouellette behind him but the caution flew with 1 lap complete for a spin coming out of turn 2 by Chris Danielczuk that collected the cars of Travis Hydar and Nickolas Hovey.  Danielczuk was towed off the track while Hovey and Hydar were able to continue racing.

Johnson took the lead on the restart with Ouellette taking second.  Chris Meyer quickly worked his way through traffic into third with Stirk back to fourth and Washburn in fifth.  The caution flew with 7 laps complete for a spin in turn 1 by Patrick Jenks.

Ouellette took the lead back under green with Johnson and Frank L’Etoile, Jr. side by side for second.  Meyer was fourth in line with Adrien Paradis, III up to fifth while Stirk, who restarted fourth, was off the pace and fell to the rear of the field. 

Ouellette slipped up the track in turn 3 on lap-11, which allowed Johnson to power his way into the lead.  Meyer came up to second with Ouellette falling back to third with Paradis fourth and L’Etoile fifth.  Meyer went by Johnson to take the lead on lap-13 and his move brought Ouellette to second, Paradis to third, L’Etoile to fourth, and dropped Johnson from the lead back to fifth.  Bill Cote and David Macha, Sr. came together and spun to bring the caution back out with 13 laps complete.

Meyer took the lead on the restart but Ouellette did a half spin in turn 3 in front of the entire field which collected several cars to bring the caution right back out. 

Meyer took the lead after a lap of side by side racing with Ouellette with Ouellette slipping back to fifth in line as L’Etoile took second, Paradis third, and Nickolas Hovey, who was collected in the first caution flag incident of the race, back up to fourth. 

L’Etoile was starting to apply heavy pressure to Meyer for the lead on lap-21 while Hovey got around Paradis to move up to third place.  L’Etoile was able to get alongside Meyer as they completed lap-23 and he took the lead in turn 1 on lap-24 only to have Meyer make a crossover move to get back to the inside of L’Etoile.  L’Etoile held the lead by a half car length to complete lap-24 and on lap-26 Meyer went back to the front of the pack.  The jockeying between L’Etoile and Meyer allowed Hovey, Paradis, and Ouellette to close right in on the two leaders to make it a 5-way fight for the lead. 

L’Etoile went back to the front on lap-27 with Hovey still leading Ouellette and Paradis.  Meyer couldn’t get close enough to L’Etoile over the final 2 laps as L’Etoile scored his fourth win of the 2021 season.  Hovey finished third with Ouellette and Paradis rounding out the top-5.

1) Frank L'Etoile, Jr., Wethersfield

2) Chris Meyer, North Franklin

3) Nickolas Hovey, Chaplin

4) Bert Ouellette, Ellington

5) Adrien Paradis, III, Plainville

6) Jason Finkbein, Manchester

7) Tyler Trott, East Hartford

8) Bobby Stirk, III, Naugatuck

9) Daltin Mccarthy, Oxford, MA

10) Kyle Johnson, Manchester

11) John Orsini, Morris

12) Marvin Minkler, Stamford

13) Rob Sears, Stafford Springs

14) Samantha Dell, Harrisville, RI

15) Christopher Phelps, New Salem, MA

16) Christopher Orsini, Morris

17) Patrick Grady, Berlin

18) Sam Calvo, East Berlin

19) Jeremy Washburn, Willimantic

20) Bill Cote, Belchertown, MA

21) David Macha, Sr., Columbia

22) Travis Downey, Barkhamsted

23) Patrick Jenks, Scranton, PA

24) Chris Danielczuk, Goshen

25) Travis Hydar, Woodbury