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Breaking Down The Top 10: 2nd, Alex Bright

2/11/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 8 Features: 21 Wins: 6 Top 5: 16 Top 10: 19 Average Fin: 4th Earnings: $25,835 Alex Bright and the Hummer Motorsports team came into the 2022 USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series season, eager to keep on rolling with the momentum and speed they showed in 2021, en route to their first career championship. The season did not start out great for Bright and team, as a spin, and subsequent mechanical issue left the team with their worst finish of the season in the...more

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 4th, Joey Amantea

2/11/2023

NIck Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 2 Features: 19 Wins: 1 Top 5: 9 Top 10: 14 Average Fin: 7th Earnings: $12,085 Expectations for Joey Amantea and the Amantea Racing team were already on a high level heading into the 2022 season with the addition of championship winning crew chief Brian Zyck, but a solid season, with ups and downs, including a first trip to victory lane, were all a part of the game for the team in 2022. A mixture of podium runs, and top five runs started the season for...more

Tags: Joey Amantea, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 5th, Ed Aikin

2/3/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 1 Features: 18 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2 Top 10: 14 Average Fin: 8th Earnings: $7,680 Veteran Ed Aikin came into the 2022 USAC East Coast Season with a new car, and a new attitude of competing for wins and top fives, while still learning a new discipline of racing. Aikin started the year strong at one of his favorite tracks, the Bridgeport Speedway with a fourth place effort, and a stretch of seven straight top ten runs starting at the Port Royal Speedway in April...more

Tags: Ed Aikin, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 6th, Kenny Miller lll

1/15/2023

Heat wins: 2 Features: 15 Wins: 0, *Won Non-Winners Race at Bridgeport Top 5: 7 Top 10: 14 Earnings: $10,105 Average Fin: 6th Again, despite not running a full time season with the series in 2022, Kenny Miller lll and team had an incredible season on tour with the Rapid Tire, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, Presented by Capitol Renegade, ending the year with fourteen top ten runs of their fifteen starts. What else can be said about Kenny Miller other than he is smooth and consistent. While...more

Tags: Kenny Miller, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 7th, Preston Lattomus

1/11/2023

Heat Wins: 1 Features: 15 Wins: 1 Top 5: 2 Top 10: 11 Average Fin: 10th Earnings: $7,840 Lewes, Delaware rookie Preston Lattomus came into the 2022 USAC East Coast season ready to learn and ready to take on the series best drivers on the 2022 trail. An up and down start, after flips at Bridgeport and Port Royal at the beginning of the season, resulted in the team debuting a brand new Triple X chassis at Selinsgrove in late May. Only two races later Lattomus would out deal veteran open wheel...more

Tags: Preston Lattomus, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 8th, Mike Thompson

1/7/2023

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 3 Features: 13 Wins: 0 Top 5: 5 Top 10: 11 Average Fin: 7th Earnings: $6,100 Third generation driver Mike Thompson had what could only be described as a break out year in 2022, especially on the USAC East Coast Series trail. Thompson came out of the gate hot, with a top five run at Bridgeport, and two top ten runs at Bloomsburg to start the season. An unfortunate accident at Williams Grove that saw Thompson leave the speedway in turn three and four, left the...more

Tags: Mike Thompson, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 9th, Bruce Buckwalter J...

12/24/2022

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 1 Feature Events: 17 Wins: 0 Top 5: 0 Top 10: 6 Feature Wins: 0 Average Fin: 12th Earnings: $5,955 Bruce Buckwalter Jr came into the 2022 season, looking for more consistency and hoping to crack into victory lane, especially at the smaller venues like Winchester and Action Track USA. The veteran driver found success with runs inside the top ten on a handful of occasions starting at Delaware International early in the season. Like 10th place in points driver...more

Tags: Bruce Buckwalter, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Breaking Down The Top Ten: 10th, Christian Bruno

12/17/2022

Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC Heat Wins: 0 Feature Events: 13 Wins: 0 Top 5: 2 Top 10: 10 Average Fin: 8th Earnings: $5,280 Christian Bruno came into the 2022 Rapid Tire, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series Season in his third year of sprint car competition, but this time in new territory as a family owned team. Bruno and team started out the season red hot, with a runner up finish at the Bloomsburg Speedway to kick off their year, and rattled off a string of eight consecutive top ten finishes in...more

Tags: Christian Bruno, USAC Dirt, USAC East Coast Sprint Cars

Danner Caps off Championship with Sprintoberfest V...

11/2/2022

Swedesboro, NJ. October, 30th, 2022. Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC. In what could only be described as the race of the season for the Rapid Tire, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, Presented by Capitol Renegade season, Briggs Danner of Allentown, PA capitalized on the unfortunate accident of Bobby Butler to collect his twelfth win of the season, topping off a championship effort. Bobby Butler and Austin Graby lead the field to green for the forty lap feature event on the high banks of the Bridgeport...more

Tags: Alex Bright, Bobby Butler, Briggs Danner

Danner and Graby Take Sprintoberfest Qualifiers

10/30/2022

Swedesboro, NJ, October 29th, 2022. Nick Fillman, USAC ECSC 2022 Rapid Tire, USAC East Coast Sprint Car Series, Presented by Capitol Renegade series Champion Briggs Danner, and Lebanon, PA’s Austin Graby picked up the twin 15 qualifier wins at the Bridgeport Speedway on night two of Sprintoberfest. 29 cars registered for action on Saturday night, a season high for the series. Those drivers were split by a random draw at sign-in, into two separate 15 lap qualifying events, which served as heat...more

Tags: Austin Graby, Briggs Danner, Bridgeport Motorsports Park

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