PJ Evans Wins Midstate Site Development Street Stock 30 at Stafford; Christopher, Gambacorta, Lambros, & Jencik Also Score Feature Wins
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway’s Street Stock division took center stage on Friday, June 27 with their lone extra distance feature event of the 2025 season, the Midstate Site Development 30. PJ Evans was the big winner of the night, scoring his first career Stafford Speedway feature victory in the biggest Street Stock event of the season, the MSD 30. Evans became the 701st different feature winner in Stafford history just after Dean Lambros notched his first career Stafford feature victory in the SK Light feature and became the 700th different winner. Other feature winners on the night were Michael Christopher, Jr., who drove to his third consecutive SK Modified® feature win of the season, Kevin Gambacorta in the Late Model feature, and Devon Jencik in the Limited Late Model feature.
In the 30-lap Midstate Site Development Street Stock feature event, Jeff Asselin took the early race lead ahead of Brandon Warren, Tyler Trott, Jason Raymond, and Bert Ouellette. Asselin’s time at the front was short as Warren made a move to take over the lead on lap-3. Trott followed him by Asselin as did Raymond and Ouellette, which dropped Asselin from the lead back to fifth place. Asselin would lose two more spots as PJ Evans took fifth and Brent Gleason took sixth with Asselin falling back to seventh. The caution flag came out with 8 laps complete for a spin coming out of turn 4 by Sean Petlock.
Warren and Trott went door to door for the lead on the restart with Warren getting clear into the lead on lap-10. Raymond was third in line with Evans fourth and Ouellette fifth. The caution came back out with 11 laps complete for a spin in turn 2 by Steven Brown.
Warren and Trott again raced door to door for the lead with Raymond third, Ouellette fourth, and Travis Downey fifth. Warren got clear into the lead on lap-13 and Raymond was now door to door with Trott for second. Brown spun in turn 3 to bring the caution flag back out with 13 laps complete.
The restart saw Ouellette go around in turn 3 with Asselin also going around to bring the caution right back out with 14 laps complete.
Warren took the lead on the restart with Trott and Raymond behind him. Trott and Raymond touched with Trott going through the backstretch grass and spinning in turn 3 while Aaron Plemons took a hard hit into the turn 1 wall to bring the caution back out with 16 laps complete.
Warren again took the lead on the restart with Evans moving up to second. Raymond was third in line with Mike Caprio fourth and Downey fifth. Gleason was sixth followed by Cote, Kolton Gambacorta, Ouellette, and Isabella Minchella. Downey took fourth place from Caprio on lap-20 and began to set his sights on the top-3 cars. Matt Martel spun in turn 4 to bring the caution back out with 23 laps complete.
Evans was able to hang with Warren but the caution came right back out with 24 laps complete for a spin by Raymond in turn 1.
Warren went around on the restart but he was able to get his car moving and the race stayed green. Evans was the new race leader with Downey in second. Gleason was up to third with Cote in fourth and Ouellette up to fifth. Ouellette went by Cote for fourth place and Kolton Gambacorta took fifth on lap-28 to drop Cote back to sixth. Downey made one last effort but couldn’t get close enough to Evans to make a move for the lead as Evans took down his first career feature victory at Stafford. Downey finished second with Gleason, Ouellette, and Gambacorta rounding out the top-5.
June 27 Midstate Site Development Street Stock 30 Feature Results
In the 40-lap SK Modified® feature event, Steven Chapman took the early lead at the drop of the green flag with Tyler Chapman and Dylan Izzo going wheel to wheel for second. Tyler Chapman took second on lap-2 witih Izzo slotting into third. The caution came out with 2 laps complete as David Flammia, Jr. got into the frontstretch wall and Wade Gagner spun in turn 1.
Tyler Chapman took the lead on the restart with Steven Chapman in second. Izzo was third behind the Chapman brothers with David Arute fourth and Cory DiMatteo fifth. Troy Talman went by DiMatteo on lap-7 to move into fifth place behind Arute as the two Chapmans and Izzo continued to occupy the top-3 positions.
Michael Christopher, Jr. worked his way around Talman to move into fifth place on lap-10 just before the caution came back out with 11 laps complete for Wesley Prucker, who spun coming out of turn 4.
Tyler and Steven Chapman resumed their places at the front of the field back under green with Izzo third. Christopher was now up to fourth with Arute holding down fifth place. Just behind Arute was Marcello Rufrano, Talman, Mikey Flynn, Keith Rocco, and Jon Puleo. Rufrano took fifth from Arute on lap-17 while Christopher got around Izzo to move into third place behind the Chapman brothers with Tyler still leading Steven.
Christopher worked his way around Steven Chapman for second and he made his move for the lead on lap-24 to take the lead from Tyler Chapman. The order with 25 laps complete was now Christopher, Tyler Chapman, Steven Chapman, Rufrano, and Arute.
With 5 laps to go, Christopher was still in the lead with Rufrano now up to second. Tyler Chapman was third with Steven Chapman fourth and Arute fifth. Christopher led the field to the checkered flag to pick up his third consecutive win of the 2025 season. Rufrano finished second with Tyler Chapman, Steven Chapman, and Arute rounding out the top-5.
June 27 SK Modified® Feature Results
In the 30-lap Late Model feature event, Tom Fearn led the field to the green flag and he led the first lap, but it was by only a nose as Darrell Keane worked his way to the inside of Fearn. Keane took over the lead on lap-2 with Kevin Gambacorta taking second. Adam Gray took third on lap-4 with Alexandra Fearn taking fourth and Wayne Coury, Jr. fifth as Tom Fearn slid backwards all the way to 13th place. With 10 laps complete, Keane was still in command with Gambacorta right behind him in second. Gray was third with Alexandra Fearn fourth and Coury fifth.
Varricchio took fifth from Coury on lap-12 and Chris Meyer took sixth to drop Coury back to seventh place. At the front of the field, Gambacorta was glued to Keane’s back bumper while Gray was closing in on the top-2 to make it a 3-car fight for the lead. Gambacorta was able to make his move and take over the lead on lap-17 and Gray followed him by to take second and drop Keane back to third. Varricchio was now fourth in line with Alexandra Fearn in fifth.
With 5 laps to go, Gambacorta had pulled out to a comfortable lead over Gray with Varricchio up to third. Keane was fourth followed by Meyer, Coury, Alexandra Fearn, Tom Butler, Christopher Buffone, and Bobby Stirk, III. Gambacorta led the field to the checkered flag to pick up his first win of the 2025 season. Gray finished second with Varricchio, Keane, and Meyer rounding out the top-5.
June 27 Late Model Feature Results
In the 20-lap SK Light feature event, Paul Arcari led the field to the green but just as the field was about to complete the first lap, there was a multi-car incident coming out of turn 4 involving at least 10 cars including Joey Ferrigno, Cassandra and Carsten Cole, Chris Matthews, Nick Anglace, Sophya Papp, Bob Charland, Jason Finkbein, Matt Brewer, Dylan Houghton, and Casey Vogt among others.
Arcari took the lead back under green with Norm Sears taking second. Amanda West was third with Paul Arute moving up to fourth and Nickolas Hovey fifth. The caution came back out with 4 laps complete for another multi-car incident on the frontstretch that involved several cars including Charland, Austin Goff, Kyle Pinkham, and several others.
West took the lead on the restart with Fuller following in her tire tracks to take second. Dean Lambros was third in line with Hovey and Robert Bloxsom, III wheel to wheel for fourth place. Hovey took fourth on lap-8 while Lambros was now to the outside of Fuller and he took second on lap-9. With 10 laps complete, the order was West, Lambros, Hovey, Fuller, and Bloxsom.
Lambros took the lead from West on lap-12 and West now had to contend with Hovey, who was looking high and low for a way around. Fuller was fourth with Bloxsom fifth. Hovey was able to make the pass on lap-18 but he wasn’t able to get close enough to Lambros who scored his first career feature win at Stafford and in the process became the 700th different feature winner in Stafford’s long and storied history. Hovey finished second with West, Bloxsom, and Sami Anderson rounding out the top-5.
June 27 SK Light Feature Results
In the 20-lap Limited Late Model feature event, Connor Jencik and Devon Jencik raced door to door for the lead on the first lap of the race with Connor emerging in the lead to complete lap-1. Adrien Paradis, III was third behind the two Jencik brothers with Matt Clement in fourth and Kevin Cormier in fifth. Kyle Theriault spun in the middle of turns 3+4 to bring the caution flag out with 9 laps complete and the two Jenciks still at the front of the field.
The race went back to green with Devon Jencik taking the lead. Clement moved into second with Cormier taking third to drop Connor Jencik back to fourth, just in front of Travis Hydar in fifth. Daryl Vertefeuille spun in turn 1 but got going and just as he got his car moving again, Connor Jencik’s car ended up coming to a complete stop against the backstretch wall just before the entrance to turn 3 to bring the caution back out with 10 laps complete.
Devon Jencik took the lead back under green with Cormier nearly taking the lead away from Jencik before settling into second place. Matt Clement was still third with Hydar up to fourth and Gary Patnode fifth. Cormier went up the track in turn 2 on lap-14, allowing Clement, and Patnode to get by and drop Cormier back to fifth. Cormier came right back to the inside of Patnode on lap-15 to take fourth place behind Devon Jencik, Matt Clement, and Hydar with Paradis now fifth.
Jencik led the field to the checkered flag to pick up his first win of the 2025 season. Clement finished second with Hydar, Cormier, and Paradis rounding out the top-5.
June 27 Limited Late Model Feature Results
Limited Late Model Points Standings
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