Red Light Racing at SoBo
Skitter Creek SK Modified Series
Season 13 Race 9
South Boston Speedway
March 6, 2015
by Tim Corder
Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds drivers roared into historic South Boston Speedway on March 6, 2025. It was a return to winning ways for Eric Stout. Stout and his teammate, AJ Hamel, appeared to be the class of the field before disappointment struck Hamel. Hamel had a late race spin while battling for the lead with Stout, Hamel finishing in 18th as a result. Bradley Stefane came home second, and Scott Negus completed the podium with his third place finish. Brian Bianchi and Kenny Allen rounded out the top 5.
Stout claimed the pole position in qualifying, turning a 14.432 second lap. Rex Hoyle, Hamel, Brian Bianchi, and Scott Negus qualified 2nd – 5th, respectively, all turning laps less than a tenth of a second off of Stout’s pace.
The race had 4 cautions, the most significant being the tangle between Stout and Hamel while battling for the lead on lap 98. Hamel, on the inside line, made light contact with Stout on the outside, which sent Stout spinning toward the inside wall. Hamel had put on an impressive performance prior to the spin. He took the lead from Stout on a restart on lap 36. Hamel led a total of 63 laps, the most of any driver in the race.
Stout led a total of 40 laps and Bradley Stefane led a single lap of the green-white-checkered extended event. Other notable performances included Stefane and Fred LeClair both winning the Hard Charger of the Race Award, each gaining 9 spots from their starting positions. Stefane started in 11th and finished 2nd and LeClair started 18th and finished 9th. Eric Stout turned the fastest lap of the race completing lap 10 in just 14.501 seconds. Nine drivers finished the race without any incident points: Negus, Bianchi, Allen, Stefane, Buckley, LeClair, Oliver, Blake, and Haizlip.
With the win, Stout extends his grip on the championship point standings, he’s now 47 points ahead of Stefane, who moved into 2nd place in the standings. Rex Hoyle, Kenny Allen, and Brian Bianchi round out the top 5 in the standings, all within 10 points of Stefane for second place.
The series turns to Southern National Speedway on March 13th for the tenth race of the season. The green flag drops at 7:55 PM Eastern. Catch all of the action LIVE on the Virtual Grip Network.
Red Light Racing at The Glen
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 3rd. Rounding out the top 5 were AJ Hamel in 4th and Kenny Allen in 5th.
Stout claimed the pole with a 1 minute, 12.916 second lap. The rest of the top five in qualifying were Stefane (started 2nd, finished 2nd), Ken Allen (started 3rd, finished 5th), Luke Allen (started 4th, finished 3rd), and TJ Henson (started 5th, finished 16th). Henson pitted from 3rd 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 6th, gaining 4 spots from his 10th 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 7th maintaining his 7th 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 3rd in the points, just one point ahead of Chad Alcares in 4th. Rex Hoyle rounds out the top 5 in the championship standings.
The series returns to its normal short track schedule on February 27th. The green flag will wave over USA Speedway at 7:55 PM Eastern. Catch all of the action LIVE on the Virtual Grip Network.
Red Light Racing at Lanier
Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 6
Lanier National Speedway
February 13, 2025
by Tim Corder
Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds held its 6th race of the season at Lanier National Speedway on Valentine’s Day Eve, February 13. The 3/8 mile oval was sweet on Eric Stout with Stout effectively leading from flag-to-flag. The performance was a continuance of Stout’s domination from last week’s event at Stafford, where he also led flag-to-flag. The win extended Stout’s points lead, he’s now 26 points ahead of Bradley Stefane.
Stout brought the RaceDayCT.com starting grid to the green flag after turning a 13.048 second lap in qualifying. Rounding out the top 5 in qualifying were AJ Hamel, Jeff Aho, Ken Allen and Chad Alcares, all of whom were less than 1/10th of a second off of Stout’s qualifying pace.
The event was slowed by 5 cautions for a total of 20 laps. The biggest disruption occurred on lap 39 when TJ Henson and Brian Neff got together in turn four. Several other drivers were caught up in the resulting brouhaha including Donny Moore, Chris Haizlip, Lowell Jewell, Scott Negus, Fred LeClair, and Bob Higgins.
Two drivers managed to beat Stout to the line on restarts limiting Stout to leading an impressive 99 of the 102 laps. Second place finisher AJ Hamel led 2 laps, and third place finisher Brian Bianchi led a lap as well. Hamel and Bianchi were separated by just 4-thousandths of a second at the checkered flag. Jeff Aho and Rex Hoyle finished the event in 4th and 5th, respectively.
Kenny Allen turned the fastest lap of the race with a 13.072 second lap, narrowly beating Jeff Aho’s best lap by just 1-thousandths of a second. Scott Negus was the Hard Charger of the Race, picking up an impressive 11 spots to finish 9th after starting 20th. Only four drivers left the event without any incident points, those being Stout, Hoyle, Stefane (finished 7th), and LeClair (finished 11th).
Stout’s and Stefane’s status of being at the top of the points race remained after the event. Rex Hoyle, Chad Alcares, and Jeff Aho complete the top 5. Only 32 points separate Stout and Aho with 10 races yet to go in the season.
The drivers will have the opportunity to turn both right and left at next week’s race at Watkins Glen International. Catch all of the action LIVE on Virtual Grip Network, the green flag is scheduled to drop at 7:55 PM Eastern on Thursday, February 20th.
Red Light Racing at Stafford
Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 5
Stafford Motor Speedway
February 6, 2025
by Tim Corder
Historic Stafford Motor Speedway hosted Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds on Thursday, February 6, 2025. The fifth race of season 13 would prove to be in stark contrast to the previous four races of the season. While the drivers still showcased hard racing, the yellow flag failed to wave once during the 100-lap event. Eric Stout led from flag-to-flag to claim his second win of the season and kept the points lead.
Stout won the pole with a 19.259 second qualifying lap, just 0.007 seconds quicker than both Jeff Aho and Ken Allen, who qualified second and third respectively. Rounding out the top 5 in the RaceDayCT.com starting grid were Brian Bianchi and Rob Higgins.
Stout, Aho, Bianchi and K. Allen were fixtures in the top 5 for the first 75 laps of the event. For much of the event AJ Hamel ran in 5th place. These top 5 drivers had almost a one-second lead on 6th place Rex Hoyle on lap 68 when a disaster nearly occurred for all of the front runners. Coming into turn one on lap 68, Eric Stout saw Brian Neff recovering from a spin to the infield. Stout, wanting to ensure not tangling with Neff, left the bottom line slightly open in turn 2. Aho attempted to seize the opportunity to take over the lead but made slight contact with Stout in the process. Aho slowed to give himself and Stout the opportunity to regain control of their cars. Bianchi unfortunately contacted the slowing car of Aho which sent Bianchi toward the outside wall. In Bianchi regaining control, he and Hamel contacted each other. The two cars then spun toward the infield, with Hamel hammering the inside wall. Hamel was unable to continue and finished in 24th place. Bianchi still managed to hold on to a top 10 finish, finishing in 8th.
Throughout the entire event, Stout and Aho put on a clinic of clean close racing. At times Stout seemed to be pulling away from Aho, but Aho would close back up. For much of the event the two were separated by no more than 2-tenths of a second.
Despite the event running entirely under the green flag, only six cars didn’t finish on the lead lap. The Hard Charger of the race was Bradley Stefane, who managed to pick up 8 spots, moving his 21st starting position to finish 13th. A testament to the clean racing throughout the field was that 17 of the 24 racers left the event without any incident points.
With the win, Stout extended his lead in the points, leaving the event 15 points ahead of Stefane. Chad Alcares, Ken Allen, and Rex Hoyle complete the top five in the championship running.
The series heads to Lanier National Speedway on February 13th. Catch all of the action LIVE on Virtual Grip Racing, the green flag is scheduled to drop at 7:55 PM Eastern.
Red Light Racing at Concord
Skitter Creek SK Modified Series
Season 13 Race 4
Concord Speedway
January 30, 2025
by Tim Corder
Red Light Racing League’s Skitter Creek SK Modified Series headed to Concord Speedway on January 30, 2025, for the fourth race of Season 13 of the series. In a theme consistent with the earlier three events of the season, the leader of the most laps during the race would not take home the checkered flag. Eric Stout led 98 laps of the event which was extended to 104 laps because of a green-white-checkered finish. In the end, Brian Bianchi won the race after starting 4th. Fred Leclair gained 13 spots from his 15th place qualifying position to finish 2nd. TJ Henson climbed from 14th on the RACEDAYCT.com starting grid to round out the podium in third. Joshua Buckley and Luke Logan Allen rounded out the top 5.
Eric Stout won the pole turning a lap of 15.187 seconds around the ½ mile triangular speedway. The first 27 laps ran caution free with Stout at the point, and Kenny Allen and AJ Hamel in second and third, respectively. The first caution came out on lap 28 after Brandon Feeney spun attempting to make an inside move on Chris Haizlip in turn one.
By the end of the race, the caution flag would wave another 5 times. The largest number of drivers involved in a caution during the event occurred on lap 84. Kenny Allen tried to move to the inside line but contacted the front of Luke Logan Allen’s car, with Kenny spinning as a result. Several drivers were gathered in the accident including Bradley Stefane, Bruce Pearson, Jeff Aho, and Rob Higgins.
For Eric Stout the most significant caution would occur on lap 98 when Brian Neff contacted the left rear of Feeney on the front stretch, spinning them both. The resultant green flag came out on lap 103 with Stout at the point, AJ Hamel in second and Fred Leclair in third. Leclair was passing Hamel in turn two and three when he contacted the left rear of Stout’s machine. Stout spun as a result collecting Hamel and others. Bianchi, who restarted in 5th, escaped the melee with the lead and lead the last lap of the race for the win. Surprisingly, no caution came out because of the wreck at the front of the field.
Joining Bianchi and Stout as leaders of the event were Neff and Hamel. In addition to sitting on the pole and leading the most laps, Stout also turned the fastest lap of the race, completing lap 5 in just 15.2 seconds. The numerous cautions in the last three-fourths of the race would ensure that most drivers left the event with incident points. Only Ritch Blake and Doyle Lowrance had no incident points. The two finished in 16th and 21st, respectively.
The series goes to historic Stafford Speedway on February 6th. Catch all of the action LIVE on VGN, green flag is scheduled to drop at 7:55 PM Eastern.
Red Light Racing at Thompson
Red Light Racing
Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 3
Thompson Speedway
January 23, 2025
by Tim Corder
Race 3 of Season 13 of Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds series was held at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on January 23rd. Chad Alcares brought the field to the green flag and held the lead for 16 laps. Jeff Aho took over the point and, for the third week in a row, would lead the most laps of the race. Ultimately it was Eric Stout that took the checkered flag of the 100-lap event. Alcares finished second and Andrew Massey improved an impressive 17 spots from his 20th place starting position to take 3rd place. Rounding out the top 5 were AJ Hamel in 4th and Rex Hoyle in 5th.
The event saw the caution flag wave 9 times for a total of 36 laps. Many of the cautions started with self-spins, a sign that the drivers were challenged to keep their rear tires from trying to pass their front tires.
One of the larger cautions of the night happened after a restart on lap 61. Hoyle and Hamel made contact on the backstretch that sent Hoyle bouncing off of the inside wall. At least 8 drivers were caught up in the mayhem, including Donnie Moore who did a barrel roll as a result of the wreckage around him.
The green would come out following the caution on lap 66, with Stout restarting 2nd on the inside beneath leader Aho. Bucking the trend of the night, Stout was able to take over the point from the inside line. Stout was able to hold off all challengers for the rest of the event. Aho would finish in 6th, his highest finish of the season despite the early dominance he’s shown in all three events so far.
Following suit for the first two race of the season, no drivers escaped the event without incident points.
AJ Hamel joined Stout, Alcares, and Aho as the leaders of the event. Three drivers picked up double digit places from the starting positions to finish in the top 10, Chris Haizlip improved from 23rd to finish 7th, Bruce Pearson finished 9th from 24th and the aforementioned Andrew Massey was the hardest charger of the event picking up 17 spots to finish third. Twelve cars finished the event on the lead lap. For the third race in a row no drivers escaped the event without incident points.
Stout’s win catapulted him up 10 spots in the championship standings and had him tied with Bradley Stefane in the early standings. Brandon Feeney left the race in 3rd and Andrew Massey moved up to 4th. Jeff Aho and Brian Neff are tied for 5th in the championship.
The series take to triangular Concord Speedway on January 30th. Virtual Grip Racing is broadcasting live all events this season, so, be sure to tune in for another exciting race, green flag is scheduled to drop at 7:55 PM Eastern.
Red Light Racing at Langley
Red Light Racing
Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 2
Langley Speedway
January 16, 2025
by Tim Corder
Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds took to Langley speedway for its second race of Season 13. Twenty-six drivers took to the Langley’s essentially flat track under the lights Thursday night. In many ways the race seemed to be a sequel to last week’s event at New Smyrna as the two events shared similar themes, including Jeff Aho (#21) leading most of the early laps but ultimately not having a finish reflecting that performance. In the end, Brandon Feeney climbed 16 spots from his 17th place starting position to claim the win. Rounding out the top 5 were last week’s winner Bradley Stefane (#89), Eric Stout (#12), Brian Neff (#60), and TJ Henson (#62).
Repeating his starting position from last week, Aho was the class of the RaceDayCT.com starting grid, winning the pole with a 14.858 second trip around the 4/10 of a mile track. The remaining drivers making completing the top 5 starting positions were Brina Bianchi (#14), Fred LeClair (#71), Kenny Allen (#81), and Brian Neff (#60). As testament to how tumultuous the race would turn out, only Neff and LeClair would finish the race in the top 10.
Aho set the pace for a field leading 64 laps before spinning on a lap 68 following a restart. Aho and Neff were battling for the lead in turn when Aho seemed to slow to avoid contact with Neff. Leclair was close behind the slowing Aho, unable to slow in time, Leclair tapped Aho’s rear bumper sending Aho spinning as he did last week in front of the field. Aho would finish the night in 22nd.
As with last week, the race finished in extra innings, except with two green-white-checker attempts this week. The first GWC attempt had Brian Neff bring the field to the green with Brian Feeney restarting on Neff’s outside in second. Feeney jumped to the lead on the restart. Before the white flag could wave a pile-up happened behind the leaders when Kenny Allen contacted the back bumper of Donny Moore (#26), Moore then tapping the bumper of Andrew Massey #83, sending all three spinning and collecting several cars behind the initial melee.
As mentioned, Aho led the most laps of the race. As a result of the caution flag waving a total of 12 times, the pace car led the second most laps with 48 laps at the point under the yellow flag. Another repeat from last week was that none of the drivers escaped the battle with no incident points.
The hard charger of the race was Eric Stout, he gained 21 spots to finish 3rd from his 24th starting position. The fastest lap of the race was once again turned by Jeff Aho on his 44th lap around the circuit. Joining Aho, Neff, and Feeney was Fred LeClair who led one lap.
With the win, Brandon Feeney jumped 13 spots in the early championship standing to tie Stefane at the top of the standings. Eric Stout was also a big mover in the championship race, up 11 spots to tie for third with Allen and Higgins. 505 Motorsports leads the team standing by 16 points over BFee Motorsports.
The series turns to Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on January 23rd. Virtual Grip Racing is broadcasting live all events this season, so, be sure to tune in for another action-packed race, green flag is scheduled to drop at 7:55 PM Eastern.
Red Light Racing at New Smyrna
Red Light Racing
Skitter Creek SK Modifieds
Season 13 Race 1
New Smyrna
By Tim Corder – January 9, 2025
Red Light Racing’s Skitter Creek SK Modifieds kicked off the first race of Season 13 with an action-packed 150 laps at New Smyrna Speedway. The race was a cornucopia of excitement including classic short track racing, a “Big One” that would make Talladega jealous, pit-strategy, and a green-white-checkered finish.
After a pole-winning 17.383 second qualifying lap Jeff Aho (#21) brought the RaceDayCT.com starting grid to the green-flag under the New Smyrna Speedway lights. Aho would continue to set the pace for much of the first two-thirds of the race, leading 72 of the first 100 laps. Aho’s night took a turn after he pitted during a caution on lap 98. Aho would rejoin the field in 12th, the last car on the lead lap, and he would gain 3 spots to finish the event in 9th.
Ultimately it was Bradley Stefane (#89) that would claim the first trophy of Season 13. After starting in 5th, Stefane would lead an impressive 53 laps of the event. Stefane also recorded the fastest lap of the race, completing lap 105 in just 17.354 seconds. Stefane passed Luke Allen (#6) on lap 101 following a restart and would keep the point for the remainder of the event.
The most memorable part of the night for many spectators, and drivers, likely was the massive lap 34 pile-up that appeared to involve every car in the field to some degree. The chaos was triggered when Aho and Eric Stout (#12) made contact in turn 2 while leading the field after a restart on lap 33. After the contact, the two leading cars turned sideways and blocked much of the backstretch leaving the already tightly packed field with essentially nowhere to go other than into each other. Searching for words to describe the melee announcer Soup Zahn summarized the scene in the best way possible, “It’s an octopus trying to put on its socks.” This kerfuffle, and other contact of much less magnitude, ensured that none of the 25 drivers would leave the event without incident points.
While Aho and Stefane led a combined 125 of the green-white-checker extended 151 laps, five other drivers lead at least one lap. The other leaders were Luke Allen and Eric Stout as well as Chris Haizlip (#93), Kenny Allen (#81), and Bruce Pearson (22).
Due in large part to the field-encompassing lap 34 pile-up, only 11 drivers would finish on the lead lap. Allen Wannamaker (#9) was the last car to finish on the lead lap, and the top ten finishers were Stefane, Rob Higgins , Kenny Allen, Bruce Pearson, Adin All-Vecchione, Fred LeClair, Chris Haizlip, Luke Allen, Aho, and Rex Hoyle.
With 4 bonus points for the win, Stefane left the event with 47 points. Higgins and Allen are tied for second in the points, each have 41 points after Season 13’s inaugural event. The series visits Langley Speedway Thursday, January 16th, with a 7:55 Eastern start. All the series races will be broadcasted live on Virtual Grip Network (VGN).
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