Sand, Jr. is SUPRS Mid-Season Champion Once Again

Maxon, Warren Win Features, Ray Sand, Jr. Claims Wing Supermodified Mid-Season Championship

Oswego, NY – January, 27, 2015…As hard as Myles Maxon and Rob Warren tried by each winning a feature race, they couldn’t stop Ray Sand, Jr. of Rochester, NY from chalking up enough points to claim the Supermodified Ultimate Pavement Racing Series Mid-Season Championship at Oswego Speedway.

“This is pretty cool, to be able to do this again, and let me tell you it wasn’t easy, is just cool, but the best part it just being able to be here and run with everybody,” said Sand, Jr. after being declared the Mid-Season Champion.

Sand’s consistency was what ultimately gave him the lock on his fifth SUPRS Gold Crest Wing Mid-Season Championship, and while he didn’t win either of the 35 lap feature races, he claimed second in both. He also had the fastest lap of both features, qualified second and was awarded the SUPRSCharger in the second Twin 35.

Current point leader Myles Maxon won the first feature but after the full inversion for the second was unable to move forward like Sand, Jr. and ended up fifth.

The winner of the second feature, Rob Warren of Pulaski, NY ended up one lap down in the first Twin but took advantage of his outside row one starting spot in the second to motor past pole sitter Joey Callahan on lap 2 and go to the line for the win.

Bob Gangwer and Callahan were on the podium for each twin respectively while Joey’s father Steve brought the CPR Motorsports “Double Nickle” home for fourth in both races.

Earlier in the evening Myles Maxon his fifth new track record of the season when he stopped the Oswego Speedway chronograph at 15.576 seconds, just topping the old mark of 15.759 set by Ray Sand, Jr. in January of 2010. Carl Becker grabbed the heat race win. Maxon also grabbed the SUPRSCharger award in the first feature.

The SUPRS racers move just a bit further east next week for the 11th Annual Groundhog Day Derby at Derry Raceway Park in Derry, ME. The format for this race depends on Punxsutawney Phil. If he see’s his shadow and declares six more weeks of winter, there will be no time trials and the line-up for the feature will be random. If Phil says spring is just around the corner, the race will use the regular SUPRS format of time trials, heats, and handicapped feature line-up.

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SUPRS RACE RESULTS:

• Mid-Season Championship
• Empire State Super Series
• January 27, 2015

Oswego Speedway

Time Trials (showing car number, driver name, hometown, sponsors, lap 1, lap 2-best lap underlined)

1. 79-Myles Maxon; Oswego, NY; Tamarack Golf Club, The Swamp: 15.576, 15.815
2. 18-Ray Sand, Jr.; Rochester, NY; SandmanRacing.com: 15.782, 15826
3. 55-Steve Callahan; Cayuhoga Falls, OH; Ice Oil, CPR Motorsports: 15.867,  15.915
4. 25-Bob Gangwer; Goshen, IN; Wing Side Up Enterprises, Ricky’s Sideline Shots: 16.217, 15.877
5. 23-Chris Meyers; Amherst, OH; Burch’s Full Throttle Soda Blasting, Oswego Sub Shop: 15.897, 15.892
6. 52-Dave Brigandi; Syracuse, NY; Buffalo Bio-Diesel, Terry: 15..984, 16.114
7. 35-Rob Warren; Pulaski, NY; 1st to Finish Docks & Hoists, Designs of Elegance: 15.998, 15.976
8. 42-Carl Becker; Lansing, MI; Wholesale Diamond Exchange, Michigan Hill Gang: 16.025, 16.082
9. 15-Joey Callahan; Attaboy, IL; Exide Battery, CPR Motorsports: 16.574, 16.679

Heat Race -13 Laps (showing finish, car number, driver name-top 2 get handicap back)

1. 42-Carl Becker
2. 52-Dave Brigandi
3. 23-Chris Meyers
4. 35-Rob Warren
5. 15-Joey Callahan

Feature 1-35 Laps (showing car number, driver, name, bonus, fastest lap, distance behind winner)

1. 79-Myles Maxon; * ** 15.803
2. 18-Ray Sand, Jr.; * ! 15.776 | +0.387
3. 25-Bob Gangwer; * 15.814 | +0.687
4. 55-Steve Callahan; 16.023 | +8.448
5. 42-Carl Becker; 16.045 | +11.261
6. 52-Dave Brigandi; 16.262 | +1 Lap
7. 35-Rob Warren; 16.114 | +1 Lap
8. 15-Joey Callahan; 14.765 | +2 Laps
9. 23-Chris Meyers; 16.101 | DNF

Time of Race:  11:17.789

• * Denotes Lap Led
• ** Denotes Most Laps Led
• ! Denotes Fastest Lap of Race
• ^ Denotes SUPRSCharger

Feature 2-35 Laps (showing car number, driver, name, bonus, fastest lap, distance behind winner)

1. 35-Rob Warren; * ** 15.908
2. 18-Ray Sand, Jr.; ! 15.807 | +0.135
3. 15-Joey Callahan; * 15.902 | +1.642
4. 55-Steve Callahan; 15.952 | +1.926
5. 79-Myles Maxon; 15.917 | +2.030
6. 42-Carl Becker; 16.067 | +7.403
7. 52-Dave Brigandi; 15.966 | +8.132
8. 25-Bob Gangwer; 16.047 | +8.144
9. 23-Chris Meyers; DNS

Time of Race:  10:30.560

• * Denotes Lap Led
• ** Denotes Most Laps Led
• ! Denotes Fastest Lap of Race
• ^ Denotes SUPRSCharger

 Mid-Season Championship Final Points

1. Ray Sand , Jr.-161
2. Myles Maxon-152
3. Steve Callahan-140
4. Rob Warren-131
5. Bob Gangwer-119
6. Carl Becker-115
7. Joey Callahan-112
8. Dave Brigandi-102
9. Chris Meyers-35