Monster trucks thrilled the crowds at Saratoga Speedway last weekend. Photo by Fernando Pereira

Monster trucks thrilled the crowds at Saratoga Speedway last weekend. Photo by Fernando Pereira

Monster trucks take part in night of destruction

It was a busy weekend at Saratoga Speedway over the long weekend as the Black Creek oval hosted two days of Monster Truck action along with Mad Max, Crash to Pass, Road Runners and Hornet car racing. The two day weekend offered up 30 races, producing 27 different winners as the competition within the classes continues to increase allowing more drivers an opportunity to win on any given night.

It was a busy weekend at Saratoga Speedway over the long weekend as the Black Creek oval hosted two days of Monster Truck action along with Mad Max, Crash to Pass, Road Runners and Hornet car racing. The two day weekend offered up 30 races, producing 27 different winners as the competition within the classes continues to increase allowing more drivers an opportunity to win on any given night.

On Saturday night, before the biggest crowd of the season, the Napa Auto Parts sponsored night of racing saw 40 Hornet cars in the infield and their races saw heat race wins in the Hornet B for Kyle Leonzio, Peter Leonzio, Chevy Carlsen and Kiana Westra while Chris Hleck won the B main with the A main going to Carlsen.

In Hornet A racing, heat race wins went to Darren Monk and Ryan Jensen with Luke Dixon taking the win in the main event.

In Mad Max races, Brad Dimtrov took the win in the heat race with Damon Dunn coming away with the main event while in Road Runner racing Ryan Guest took wins in both the heat race and main event.

Rounding out the racing action were the Crash to Pass cars and race wins went to Troy Ordano in the heat while Monks took the win in the entertaining 20 lap main event.

On day two, Sunday night, the Dunn Right Towing sponsored race night, Hornet B racing saw heat race wins going to Jayden Rosner, Carlsen, Randi Joyce and Daniel Morrissey with main event wins going to Kyle Leonzio in the B main and Stephanie Addison in the A main.

In Hornet A racing, heat race wins went to Brian Lippy and Stephane Parent while the 30-lap main event saw Michael White take the win in the weekend’s best race.

In Mad Max racing, point leader Danielle Antonik took the heat race win with Dunn winning his second main event of the weekend while Guest repeated his Saturday performance by winning the heat race and main event in Road Runner racing.

In Crash to Pass racing, Cam Edwards made his return to racing this season with a win in the heat race while Chris Campbell won his first ever main event. The Crash to Pass, Road Runners and Hornet cars return Aug. 19., along with the Mad Max cars, with special attractions being the first ever Limo car jump where a full size Limo will make a gotta-see-to-believe jump into a stack of cars.

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