Ohio’s Dave Shullick Jr. took the lead on lap 18 and held off Timmy Jedrzejek to win the first 40-lap Burke’s Do-It Best MSA-Oswego Wing Series race, held Sunday at Oswego Speedway.

Shullick, of the Midwest Supermodified Association, chalked up his third consecutive Oswego Speedway winged supermodified victory. Jedrzejek, Charlie Schultz, Denny Fisher, and Bob Bond completed the top five.

Mexico’s Mike Bond dominated the companion Pathfinder Bank Small-Block Supermodified Series 30-lap feature.

The opening-day program was sponsored by Gater Racing News and Coca-Cola.
Here are recaps of the feature events.

Winged supers

Moe Lilje took the lead from the pole position in the #19 car. Through four laps, he was trailed by Randy Burch, Jack Smith, Greg Furlong, and Randy Ritskes in the 25-car starting field.

Burch, Furlong, and Ritskes moved up to second, third, and fourth, respectively, by lap 10. But an incident on lap 16 knocked all three of those contenders out of the race.

Ritskes, driving the #32 winged super, was trying get under the lapped #21 car of Matt Palmer coming out of turn 4. The cars touched tires, and the #32 car made a right turn into the outside wall, right in front of the cars of Furlong and Burch.

The #32 car was not only heavily damaged, but a fuel leak developed and a spark ignited a fire. Ritskes escaped and the quick-acting speedway safety crew was there right away to put out the fire. The drivers were apparently OK, but the Ritskes and Furlong cars were heavily damaged, and Burch’s car was also knocked out of action.

When racing resumed, Lilje stayed in front until his car slowed and went to the pits on lap 18 with an apparent engine problem.

Shullick inherited the lead, with Kelly Miller, Jedrzejek, Schultz, and Smith following.
A caution flag was waved for Miller, and he went to the pits. Jedrzejek who set a track record with his lap time of 15.542 seconds in time trials, was closing in on Shullick late in the race. On lap 35, it appeared both cars were going for the same spot in turn 2, and Jedrzejek’s #8 car lost a piece of its nose wing, bringing out the caution flag for debris.
That missing piece threw off Jedrzejek’s car just enough that it could no longer challenge Shullick.

“D.J.’s always tough, and he’s the king of MSA. We’re just trying to get closer,” Jedrzejek said.

Completing the top 10 in the feature were Jack Smith, Jason Spaulding, Bob Dawson, Shawn Muldoon, and Otto Sitterly.

Small-block supers

In the 30-lap feature for the Pathfinder Bank SBS Series, Bond cruised to the win over Kevin Knopp, Brian Sobus, Josh LaRochelle, and Shawn Walker.

“Today it was all working for us,” Bond said.

Starting 11th in the 19-car feature field, Bond quickly charged into the top five. Through four laps, the leaders were outside pole-sitter Walker, Stan Gates, pole-sitter Ken Pierce, Bond, and Jack Patrick.

Bond flew up to second place on the next lap. On lap 7, he made an outside move going into turn 3 and passed Walker for the lead.

A few minor crashed whittled the field to just 10 cars by the halfway mark. Through 15 laps, the top five were Bond, Walker, Gates, David Gruel, and Rob Pullen.

Pullen’s #2 car was flying toward the front, and was up to third place by lap 20, but the car touched the inside wall in turn 2 and spun. Damage to the car’s left front put it out of action.

Walker dropped back a few spots, and Gates took his car to the pits.

Knopp, Sobus, and LaRochelle moved up, but were no match for Bond.

Speedway notes

• Winning winged super heats were Lilje, Smith, and Furlong.

• Jedrzejek’s lap time of 15.542 seconds during winged super time trials broke a record set by Bentley Warren 15 years ago.

• Larry Muroski, Walker, and Gates won SBS heats.