Apr 25, 2026 10:34 AM EDT
11th ANNUAL SPRING NATIONALS CAL LANE MEMORIAL AT OUTLAW SPEEDWAY
Jordan Hutton takes first ever ESS victory. Alex Payne makes it two for two in Modified action. Garrett Chillot goes back-to-back in Sportsman. Danny Kerrick remains perfect in Hobby Stocks and Jimmy Grant claims his second win of 2026 in Street Stocks.
Story by Kenny Shupp Jr.
(Dundee, NY) For the first time in recent memory Outlaw Speedway was able to put all of its scheduled month of April events into the record books as for the third time thus far in 2026 Mother Nature played nice allowing track owner, Tyler Siri and his staff to once again provide an action packed night of competition with hefty car counts and superb racing on a wide and fast racing surface.
Alex Payne of Hopewell, NY was on his game for the second time after picking up the win on Lucas Oil Nationals Night on April 4 as he took control of the thirty-lap Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modified feature on lap fifteen after a spirited battle with Bobby Varin as the two put on a torrid battle at the head of the class after comprising the front starting row for the 11th Annual Spring Nationals Cal Lane Memorial Event.
After mechanical woes hampered Varin last week, he was able to rebound nicely and lead the first fourteen circuits from his pole position staring spot, but he was constantly hounded by the Slide Job Express (Alex Payne) throughout the first half of the event.
Once in clean air, Payne the 2024 Track Champ was able to pick and choose his lines, however 2025 Outlaw Modified Track Champion, Michael Maresca entered the picture from his outside row five starting slot and it was game on between the past two Outlaw Track Champs in the premier Modified Division.
The task for Maresca was much more challenging having once again drawn poorly for the feature event burying him near mid pack at the start of the feature, however he was able to dispose of some really good cars including the likes of The Doctor Danny Johnson, Super Matt Sheppard, Jeffery Daugherty, Pat Ward and Brady Fultz in route to the front.
With Payne in front at the halfway mark of the thirty-lap grind, Maresca had mowed the field down and was there to challenge Payne with Varin still within striking distance in third.
Lap after lap Maresca and Payne went at it with the capacity crowd on their feet and by the three-quarter mark, Matt Sheppard entered the mix after getting past Varin for third.
With no yellow flag slow downs from lap sixteen till the finish things would be decided man to man between the high-flying duo of Payne and Maresca in a real classic battle with Payne working his familiar high line and Maresca digging hard on the bottom of the Fast 4/10 of a Mile Clay Oval.
With the laps winding down Maresca gave it a couple more tries but to no avail as Alex Payne was able to hold on for the Spring Nationals $4,220 payday and the Cal Lane Memorial Trophy.
For Payne in his Tim Gibson owned machine, it keeps their perfect season in tack as Payne is now two for two having missed the previous event due to Super Dirtcar Series commitments.
Maresca had to settle for a disappointing runner-up finish with Matt Sheppard completing the podium after advancing from the eighth starting position.
The Breese, Bobby Varin, had perhaps his best performance thus far in 2026 in his Siri Motorsports owned machine finishing a solid fourth after racing within the lead pack throughout the entire distance.
In a late race rally after going very quietly about his business, Tommy Collins slipped into the fifth spot after struggling in his qualifying heat and was relegated to the twentieth starting position in his Herbie Wright owned machine.
The 360 Empire Super Sprints made their first start to the 2026 season in what will be their first of four appearances at Outlaw during the 2026 campaign.
A solid field of twenty-seven Wonderful Winged Creations found their way to the popular Yates County Oval requiring time trialing, heats, a B Main, Dash along with their twenty-five lap A-Main.
A pair of former CRSA Series Champions in Jordan Hutton and Zach Sobotka would lead the charge of the twenty-four-car field to the opening green with Sobotka getting the jump and leading the opening circuit.
Inside row two starter and defending ESS Champion, French Canadian Jordan Porier made his move past Sobotka on lap two and would assume control leading the next nine laps before Hutton was able to dispose of both Sobotka and Porier and take over the top spot which he would never relinquish and from there go on to his first ever ESS 360 Sprint triumph and the $4220 pay check.
Porier was able to hold a late race charge by No Panic Davey Franek as the pair would go on to join Hutton on the podium.
Jordan Thomas would advance a couple of positions from sixth to fourth at the double checkered flags with Sobotka completing the top five.
For a closer look at the complete rundown and a concise wrap up of the entire ESS portion of the 11th Annual Summer Nationals Cal Lane Memorial simply log on at www.empiresupersprints.com.
For the second straight week, Keystone State driver, Garrett Chillot found his way to Outlaw Speedway and like last week’s performance he once again put a butt kicking on the stacked-up field of Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman.
Twenty-nine stout Sportsman checked in for the night of competition and in their twenty-five lap feature it was a pair of track regulars Blake Parsons and Quintin Buchanan leading the field to green with Parsons holding the top spot for the first nine laps.
A pair of caution flags on laps three and nine would keep the field bunched, but on lap ten the high flying Chillot was able to make his move around Parsons after lining up in the fourth starting spot on the opening grid and once in front was able to distance himself from the rest of the field.
The final yellow flag waved on lap fifteen allowing Parsons and Brent Ayers who was now up to third one final shot at Chillot, but he was just too much to manage and cruised to second and a half win over Ayers of Dundee who put on a brilliant drive coming from ninth to finish second.
Veteran competitor, Tim Guild of Rathbone, had the drive on the night. After struggling in qualifying, Guild was buried deep on the starting grid lining up inside row eight but playing the caution flags to perfection along with some nifty moves coming through traffic he was able to slip by both Dale Welty and Parsons to join Chillot and Ayers on the podium.
Parsons would have to settle for fourth with Welty of Montour Falls completing the top five finishers.
For Chillot his performance garnered him another hefty payday as he proudly hoisted the Cal Lane Memorial Trophy and accompanying $2,220 check.
In Swarthout Recycling Street Stock twenty-lap $1520 to win feature action, Jimmy Grant was able to lead the entire distance from his pole position starting spot in claiming the popular Lane Memorial victory and in doing so made it two wins in three outings at Outlaw during the April Month of Money.
For Swarthout Street Stocks it would be a green to checkered performance with no caution flags.
Thunder Mountain Speedway regular competitor, Jerry Lobdell Jr. was able to make it up to second from his fourth starting position, but that is as far as he could get to eventual winner, Grant.
Last week’s feature winner, Willy Easling would join Grant on the front row leading the field to green but was not able to contain either Grant or Lobdell as the Beaver Damns speedster would have to settle for third on this night.
Yet another Bever Dams native, Joe Giardina had another solid finish racing within the lead pack throughout the entire distance coming home fourth with 2024 SS Track Champ, Gene Sharpsteen of Chemung finishing right where he started in completing the top five.
Completing the aggressive card of events and wrapping up the 11th Annual Spring Nationals Cal Lane Memorial was the Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville NAPA Hobby Stock Division with the biggest question entering the $1220 to win twenty-lap feature, could Stanley, NY third gen driver, Danny Kerrick keep his perfect record intact.
The answer to that would be a simple yes as Kerrick led the entire distance in route to win three in three starts thus far in 2026 at Outlaw.
By luck of the redraw, Kerrick and pole starter Damon Decker would bring the fourteen-car field to green with Kerrick getting the jump.
However, it would be no walk in the park for Kerrick as Decker kept up the pressure the entire distance.
A couple caution flags on laps nine and ten would allow Decker the opportunity to put Kerrick squarely in the cross hairs, however the defending NAPA Hobby Stock Track Champion was once again on his game and in control as he flashed under the double checkered rags, getting out the broom and completing the Month of April Hobby Stock Sweep.
Decker would settle for second as he was chased across the line by multi time Outlaw and Land of Legends Hobby Stock Champ, Mr. Smooth Marc Minutolo who would complete the top three podium finishers.
Jerry Lobdell would line up fourth and finish fourth like Jared Hill who completed the top five after lining up inside row three on the opening grid.
Congratulations to all competitors.
For the second straight week Outlaw Speedway topped the 100-car count mark for a five division show as racers will now begin the 2026 point paying season starting next week on Friday, May 1, with the Annual Roy Silvers Memorial.
The Friendly Chrysler, dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds will headline the FAST 5* Show as they will be complemented by the Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman, Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks, Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville NAPA Hobby Stocks and the MR Grafix 4 Cylinder Mini Stocks.
The Fritz Masonry Youth Bandit Division will make their first appearance of the 2026 season.
All the information you could need heading into the May 1 event including daily up to date reports, ticket giveaways, photos statistics and much more are just a click away at www.Facebook.com/OutlawSpeedwayLLC/.
Friendly Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep, Ram Modifieds. 23 entries.
A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 19G-Alex Payne[3]; 2. 7MM-Mike Maresca[10]; 3. 9S-Matt Sheppard[8]; 4. 18V-Bobby Varin[1]; 5. 88-Tommy Collins[20]; 6. 27J-Danny Johnson[2]; 7. 82S-Will Shields[14]; 8. 27JR-Daniel Johnson[11]; 9. 19W-Justin Wright[13]; 10. 5*-Tyler Siri[12]; 11. 70-Brady Fultz[7]; 12. 47-Kreg Crooker[22]; 13. 23JR-John Michael Phillips[9]; 14. 6-Billy Paine[17]; 15. 1J-Stacy Jackson[16]; 16. 57-Pat Kelly[18]; 17. 10-Karl Comfort[15]; 18. 22JZ-Jeff Daugherty[6]; 19. 29B-Ron Cartwright Jr[21]; 20. 42P-Pat Ward[5]; 21. 9-Ken Titus[19]; 22. (DNS) 222-Chris Daugherty; 23. (DNS) 29J-Chris Ostrowsky
Knapp and Schlappi Lumber Crate Sportsman. 29 entries
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 349-Garrett Chillot[4]; 2. 5-Brent Ayers[9]; 3. 06-Tim Guild[15]; 4. 55-Blake Parsons[1]; 5. 123-Dale Welty[6]; 6. 87-Collin Brown[7]; 7. 41-Josh Nobriga[11]; 8. 118-Cayden Lawson[16]; 9. 88T-Scot Torbitt[12]; 10. 714-Chris Darling[20]; 11. 27Z-Ray Bliss[19]; 12. 1F-AJ Lloyd[22]; 13. 13K-Daryl Krebs[8]; 14. 4R-Bryan Rhoads[23]; 15. 1-Steve Lead[21]; 16. 17-Mikenna Buchanan[17]; 17. 69-Jerry Roys[13]; 18. 5XJR-Darl Ellis[18]; 19. 84-Colton Coots[3]; 20. 27B-Quintin Buchanan[2]; 21. 181-Justice Mayo[5]; 22. 9G-Tyler Peet[10]; 23. 44-Bradly Morseman[14]; 24. 11-Braylon Lawson[24]
Swarthout Recycling Street Stocks. 12 entries
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 36-Jimmy Grant[1]; 2. 2L-Jerry Lobdell Jr[4]; 3. 28-Willy Easling[2]; 4. 25J-Joe Giardina[3]; 5. 7-Gene Sharpsteen[5]; 6. 15-Glenn Whritenour[6]; 7. 57J-Ely Mangiarelli[7]; 8. 8-Brett Crawford[8]; 9. 88-Doug Webster[11]; 10. 9-Axel Jensen[9]; 11. 99-Kenny Hunt[10]; 12. (DNS) 226-James Conner
Addison, Corning, Hornell, Wellsville Hobby Stocks. 14 entries
A Feature 1 (20 Laps): 1. 61-Danny Kerrick[2]; 2. 57-Damon Decker[1]; 3. 25B-Marc Minutolo[3]; 4. 202L-Jerry Lobdell Jr[4]; 5. 93-Jared Hill[5]; 6. 23S-Kyle Spoor[7]; 7. 90-Nate Peckham[9]; 8. 36X-Brighton Grant[8]; 9. 22L-Harold Lobdell Jr[6]; 10. 3X-Meadow Dgien[12]; 11. 36K-Keegan Smith[13]; 12. 23D-Eric Dorn[14]; 13. 23-Mike Stone[10]; 14. 21B-William Bradley[11]
ESS 360 Sprints. 27 entries
A Feature 1 (25 Laps): 1. 66-Jordan Hutton[2]; 2. 28-Jordan Poirier[3]; 3. 28F-Davie Franek[4]; 4. 79-Jordan Thomas[6]; 5. 38-Zach Sobotka[1]; 6. 7C-Dylan Swiernik[20]; 7. 35-Jared Zimbardi[5]; 8. 36-Jonathan Preston[10]; 9. 10C-Paulie Colagiovanni[19]; 10. 41-Dalton Rombough[9]; 11. 13T-Trevor Years[7]; 12. 90-Matt Tanner[18]; 13. 98-Joe Trenca[13]; 14. 15-Ryan Turner[21]; 15. 33-Lacey Hanson[16]; 16. 87XS-Skyler Evans[17]; 17. 121-Steve Glover[23]; 18. 32-Kyle Smith[12]; 19. 7NY-Matt Farnham[11]; 20. 53-Shawn Donath[8]; 21. 30-Kirsten Dombroski[22]; 22. 3A-Jeff Trombley[15]; 23. 87-Jason Barney[14]; 24. 50-Blaze Silva[24]
B Feature 1 (10 Laps): 1. 10C-Paulie Colagiovanni[1]; 2. 7C-Dylan Swiernik[3]; 3. 15-Ryan Turner[2]; 4. 30-Kirsten Dombroski[4]; 5. 121-Steve Glover[7]; 6. 50-Blaze Silva[5]; 7. 22-Gary Drum[8]; 8. (DNS) 8-Dillon Paddock; 9. (DNS) 21B-Spencer Burley
