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Hammett, PA, July 21, 2013: Auto Racers for Kids is an Erie charity benefitting area youth. Every ye

Auto Racing for Kids has successful night at Eriez Speedway! Both Blairs, Watson, McGuire,Schreckengost, and Burch pick up feature wins. : Eriez Speedway
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Hammett, PA, July 21, 2013: Auto Racers for Kids is an Erie charity benefitting area youth. Every year the group holds a charity racing extravaganza including a Chinese Auction, wood carving demonstration, and other activities plus extra purse money in every class. The evening started with WJET-TV personality Craig Smiley singing our National Anthem and serving as the honorary starter, waving the green to get the evening moving. During the second heat in the Street Stocks Matt Tuzynski got into the front straight wall and flipped several times along the fence, damaging it to the extent repairs were necessary, resulting in an approximate red flag delay of 25 minutes. Tuzynski was uninjured. Robbie Blair got his fifth Eriez Speedway packing paper win of the season with his son, the defending champion Max Blair, winning his third feature packing paper of the season in the FASTRAK Late Models. E-Mod defending champion Joel Watson went to the winner’s circle for the second time, taking the UEMS A&MP E-Mod feature, Chris McGuire got his first Limited Late Model feature win of the season, Paul Schreckengost got his first Street Stock feature of the year, and Casey Burch collected his fourth feature win of the season. Area kids were also winners packing paper as Auto Racing for Kids raised approximately $9000 to be divided among four children s charities in Erie, including CASA of Erie, Kaleidoscope, Bethesda Trinity Center, and the Safe Haven Child Care Center. packing paper
$3000 was the winner’s purse for the Jay’s Auto Wrecking Super Late Model feature and seventeen cars started heat races ton et the starting field for the feature with Robbie packing paper Blair and Jared Miley starting on the front row. Dave Hess experienced mechanical failure during his heat and was unable to start the main event. Blair, already a four-time winner his season led Miley with John Volpe third through the early laps. At eight laps compete Andy Boozel got next to Volpe for third but Was unable to complete the pass before Chris Peterson experienced mechanical ails and came to a halt on the front straight. The ensuing caution erased Blair’s lead but the “Titusville Terror” quickly established himself as the driver to beat. At the stripe it was Blair by five car-lengths over Pittsburgh’s Jared Miley, defending champion Mike Knight, Andy Boozel, and John Volpe.
The United E-Mod Series made a visit to Eriez Speedway with a full twenty-four car field. Plyler Overhead Door E-Mod champion Joel Watson was on the pole with UEMS A&MP regular Dan Davies outside. Current series points leader Steve Dixon started from the third position, looking for his sixth series win of the season and his second at Eriez. After many caution periods as cars were having trouble negotiating traffic on the hard, slick surface, the second half of the 25-lap affair went smoothly with only one caution, for a spin in turn two with three laps remaining. Joel Watson led the entire distance from the pole with Michael finishing second after starting eighth, packing paper Dave Hess third, after starting fourth, Ron Davies fourth, up from eighth, and Mike Smith coming to the line fifth after starting twelfth.
With $1000 up for the winner defending champion Max Blair and Scott Gurdak led the twenty Bonnell Collision Center FASTRAK Late Models to the green with third starting Bruce Hordusky diving low in turn two to make it three-wide down the back straight on lap one. Blair was the leader at the end of the first lap and opened packing paper a lead sufficient to start lapping cars by lap nine. At eleven complete Breyton Santee looped his mount in turn two for the race’s first caution. After the restart Hordusky came to second but Gurdak was back by him at the end of thirteen laps. At this point two time winner and points leader Chad Wright was up to fourth, from seventh at the green. Al Brewer spun coming out of turn two at lap eighteen, bringing packing paper caution packing paper number two over the field. Restarts within five laps of checkers are single file so it was Blair, Gurdak, Hordusky, Wright, and one-time winner Damien Bidwell bringing the field down for the two-lap dash for the win. In the final run Billy Henry got by Bidwell for fifth but

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