Red Light Racing at The Glen

by Lowell Jewell

Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 7
Watkins Glen International
February 20, 2025

by Tim Corder

Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modified Series drivers had an opportunity to regain bicep symmetry when the series visited Watkins Glen International on February 20, 2025. The class of the field in turning both left AND right proved to be Eric Stout. Stout continued the dominance he’s shown over the past two weeks, leading all 41 of the laps around The Glen. Bradley Stefane held on to his second-place starting spot to finish second. Luke Allen moved up one spot from fourth on the RaceDayCT.com grid to finish 3^rd. Rounding out the top 5 were AJ Hamel in 4^th and Kenny Allen in 5^th.

Stout claimed the pole with a 1 minute, 12.916 second lap. The rest of the top five in qualifying were Stefane (started 2^nd, finished 2^nd), Ken Allen (started 3^rd, finished 5^th), Luke Allen (started 4^th, finished 3^rd), and TJ Henson (started 5^th, finished 16^th). Henson pitted from 3^rd on lap 13 and retired from the race after completing 22 laps.

The race by rule was run caution free and with unlimited incident points. With both Stout’s quick pace and the lack of cautions to gather a spread-out field back together, only the top five drivers finished on the lead lap.

The Clean Machines of the race were driven by Jeff Aho and Chad Alcares, both drivers finished the event without incident points. Aho finished 6^th, gaining 4 spots from his 10^th place start. Aho’s 4 position improvement made him the Hard Charger of the race as the driver that gained the most spots over the course of the event. Alcares finished 7^th maintaining his 7^th place starting position.

With their strong performances, Stout and Stefane remain at the top of the championship point standings. With the win, Stout’s lead grew to 32 points over Stefane. Jeff Aho moved up to 3^rd in the points, just one point ahead of Chad Alcares in 4^th. Rex Hoyle rounds out the top 5 in the championship standings.

The series returns to its normal short track schedule on February 27^th. The green flag will wave over USA Speedway at 7:55 PM Eastern. Catch all of the action LIVE on the Virtual Grip Network.