Greg Belyea Gets Second Place Finish on Sunday at Mohawk International Raceway; Final Points Night and Great Crate Race Coming up at Brighton

A scheduled two-day weekend event at Mohawk International Raceway in Hogansburg, New York quickly turned into three days as Mother Nature made her presence known most of the afternoon on Friday with a steady drizzle, forcing track officials to postpone Friday night’s events to Sunday afternoon.

Saturday’s event featured a 40 lap main event as part of the Excel Tower Northern Division for the Go Nuclear Late Model Series. Belyea timed fastest in his time trial group, and started his heat race from third place. He finished the qualifier in fourth place, just missing the redraw. Greg started the feature race from 10th place, and fought handling issues throughout the race, finishing 13th.

“That was a disappointing run tonight”, commented Belyea after the race. “We just over-adjusted the car and battled all night. We will work on it and hopefully we will have better results tomorrow”.

Sunday was a new day, and Belyea was hopeful that the changes they made would be in the right direction. He started sixth in his qualifying heat race, and quickly moved forward and crossed the line with a solid second place result, making the redraw. Greg started the main event from third place, and was running in second for much of the 25 lap event. On lap 19, the leader tangled with a lapped car, causing significant damage to the handling of his car, and this opened the door for Belyea as he battled for the lead in the late stages of the event. A second place finish was the end result, ending the weekend on a positive note.

“All in all it was a good day for us”, says Belyea. “We were able to lead some laps, but in the end we just got beat by a faster car. We will take it and move on to the next couple weeks with some big events at Brighton”.

This coming Saturday night is the final points night at Brighton Speedway and will be part of the annual Applefest Weekend. The following Saturday, September 28th is the rescheduled Great Crate Race, paying $5000 to win with a total purse in excess of $20000.

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