Hardy & Winger Among Winners At East Bay

Ashton Winger in victory lane at East Bay Raceway Park on Thursday. (Ashton Winger Racing photo)

GIBSONTON, Fla. – Kyle Hardy, Ashton Winger, Tucker Anderson, and Drew Kennedy all tasted Crate Racin’ USA late model glory during the Winternationals kickoff at East Bay Raceway Park.

The quartet won their respective 25-lap features Thursday night, with all four drivers starting from the pole en route to their respective victories.

Phillip Cobb, Derrick Shaw, Baily Cardwell, and Daniel Woody trailed Hardy in the first feature, while Winger led Matt Henderson, Tyler Millwood, Daniel Dial, and Brent Trimble to the line in feature two.

Jeremy Wonderling finished second to Anderson in the third feature, followed by Mario Gresham, Zack Carley, and Nevin Gainey. Kennedy bested Nick Davis, Freddie Carpenter, Jason Welshan, and Corey Neil Jr. in the nightcap.

The features were part of Crate Racin’ USA’s ninth annual Winter Shootout Series. Thursday’s action at East Bay was the sixth of nine events on the mini-series calendar.

Twin 20-lap street stock features were also held during the program, with Michael Santangelo and Dalton Peavy picking up those wins.

Santangelo won from the pole over seventh-starting Cody Allen in race one, while Peavy started second in his race and bested polesitter Tim Gay.

The results:

Winter Nationals A Feature 1 (25 laps): 1. 99-Kyle Hardy [1]; 2. 11C-Phillip Cobb [5]; 3. 27-Derrick Shaw [2]; 4. 07B-Baily Cardwell [3]; 5. 29-Daniel Woody [6]; 6. 22BO-Will Roland [8]; 7. 95V-Travis Varnadore [9]; 8. 31G-Stephen Pedulla [11]; 9. 87C-Jarrod Carey [7]; 10. 21M-Braden Mitchell [16]; 11. 22B-Jonah Bozeman [4]; 12. 01-Ronnie Graham [13]; 13. 7J-Dalton Jacobs [12]; 14. 21H-Bryton Horner [15]; 15. 05-TJ Brittain [18]; 16. 21J-Josh Amacher [22]; 17. 21P-Josh Peacock [19]; 18. 29T-JJ Templeton [10]; 19. 20-Glen Hounshell [21]; 20. 30-Steven Stratton Jr. [23]; 21. 4-Kyle Beck [17]; 22. 32-Jesse Brown [20]; 23. 17-Rob Pitcher [14](DNS).

Winter Nationals A Feature 2 (25 laps): 1. 12-Ashton Winger [1]; 2. 22H-Matt Henderson [11]; 3. 31-Tyler Millwood [18]; 4. 11-Daniel Dial [13]; 5. 1T-Brent Trimble [4]; 6. 95-Steven Mathis Jr. [22]; 7. 7S-Jimmy Smith [9]; 8. 2S-Bo Slay [12]; 9. 4C-Cole Crawford [7]; 10. 01S-Robert Smith [15]; 11. 96-Josh Vinyard [21]; 12. 729-Mike Winn [19]; 13. 47-Jeffrey Abbey [3]; 14. 18-Matt Dooley [16]; 15. 14A-Lucas Adams [17]; 16. 71M-Pierce McCarter [6]; 17. 00-Richie Stephens [10]; 18. 119-Jade Luzenberg [5]; 19. 6-Hunter Boyd [20]; 20. 7W-Scotty Williams [23]; 21. 42-Steven Stratton Sr. [2]; 22. 7BS-Brian Smith [8]; 23. 71-Davey Cline [14].

Winter Nationals A Feature 3 (25 laps): 1. 22-Tucker Anderson [1]; 2. 3J-Jeremy Wonderling [6]; 3. 21-Mario Gresham [5]; 4. 2-Zack Carley [2]; 5. 17G-Nevin Gainey [8]; 6. 89-Brandon Miller [3]; 7. 7-Andy Nezworski [13]; 8. 28P-Zane Powell [23]; 9. 131-Matt Herlong [20]; 10. 33L-Colton Leyendecker [14]; 11. 77-Doug Stevens [16]; 12. 17J-John Winge [4]; 13. 3-Mike Collins [22]; 14. 52-John Wayne Haynes [17]; 15. 89H-Timmie Harrelson [12]; 16. 49-Ray Ciccarelli [11]; 17. 73-Larry Fitzsimmons [21]; 18. 33-Jeff Mathews [10]; 19. 17X-Andy Michael [9]; 20. 72-Trevor Collins [15]; 21. 47S-David Smith [7]; 22. 39-Jake Rainey [19]; 23. 111-Demetrios Drellos [23](DNS).

Winter Nationals A Feature 4 (25 laps): 1. K37-Drew Kennedy [1]; 2. 92-Nick Davis [3]; 3. C4-Freddie Carpenter [4]; 4. 01W-Jason Welshan [5]; 5. 7N-Corey Neil Jr. [7]; 6. 46M-Bryson Mitchell [9]; 7. 24-Anthony White Jr. [2]; 8. 24X-Anthony White [11]; 9. 26-Kurt Stebbins [20]; 10. 49R-Kyle Lear [17]; 11. 9A-Matt Adams [21]; 12. 12L-Dave Loudin [6]; 13. 92J-Brian Coe Jr. [13]; 14. 127-Austin Yarbrough [8]; 15. 46-Doug Horton [19]; 16. 14AJ-AJ Miller [15]; 17. 1-Daniel Shelton [22]; 18. 21X-Ryan French [10]; 19. 02-Keith Nosbisch [12]; 20. 47E-Tom Earl III [14]; 21. 46L-Andrew Lankford [16]; 22. 78-Wyatt Wilkerson [18].