New York’s Stewart Friesen Claims Short Track Super Series Velocita South Region Championship, Will Earn $8,500-Plus;

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New York’s Stewart Friesen Claims Short Track Super Series Velocita South Region Championship, Will Earn $8,500-Plus; Series Averages 40 Modifieds During Seven-Race Schedule

Story By: Bret Deyo/SSTS – Photos By: Pete MacDonald/RacersGuide.com

GEORGETOWN, DE – Some 114 competitors tried their hand at a Bob Hilbert Sportswear Short Track Super Series (STSS) Fueled By VP Velocita South Region event in 2016.

One driver emerged as the champion: Stewart Friesen.

Last Tuesday night (August 30) at Delaware’s historic Georgetown Speedway, Sprakers, N.Y.’s Friesen locked up the STSS South Region championship in winning style, when he bested an all-star field to earn the ‘Blast at the Beach’ victory.

Friesen took the title by 54 points over Boyertown, Pa., star Ryan Watt, the 2015 South Region champ.

En route to the South Region crown – for which Friesen will earn $8,500 plus product and contingency awards – he finished every one of the series’ 314 feature laps. Friesen, driving Halmar International-backed No. 44 big- and small-block Modifieds, placed inside the top-10 in all seven races and won twice, first at Delaware International Speedway in May and again at Georgetown in the series’ finale.

The final spread for Friesen to Watt was 660-606 points.

Friesen had previously won the STSS North Region crown a year ago. He chased South points for the first time this season.

The top-10 drivers will share in the $25,250 cash posted point fund to be distributed in December.

They standings are as follows:

1. Stewart Friesen/Sprakers, N.Y. – 660
2. Ryan Watt/Boyertown, Pa. – 606
3. Duane Howard/Oley, Pa. – 568
4. Ryan Godown/Ringoes, N.J. – 525
5. Craig Von Dohren/Oley, Pa. – 524
6. Jordan Watson/Milford, Del. – 506
7. Billy Pauch/Frenchtown, N.J. – 480
8. Billy Pauch Jr./Milford, N.J. – 464
9. Rick Laubach/Hellertown, Pa. – 447
10. David Van Horn/Harmony, N.J. – 443

The STSS South program saw six different winners in its seven races: Friesen’s Georgetown/Delaware International scores; Anthony Perrego at Georgetown in March; Wade Hendrickson in April at Bridgeport (N.J.); Watt at Pa.’s Big Diamond in May; Pauch Jr. at N.J.’s New Egypt in June and Godown at Pa.’s Susquehanna in August.

The series averaged 40 big-block/small-block Modifieds per event during a successful STSS South Region season.

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The 2016 Short Track Super Series is presented by American Racer/Lias Tire, VP Racing Fuel, Bob Hilbert Sportswear, Halmar International, Allstar Performance, ATL Racing Fuel Cells, Behrent’s Performance Warehouse, Bicknell Racing Products, COMP Performance Group, Dirt Track Digest, Fast Axle, Fox Racing Shocks, Hig Fab, Henry’s Exhaust, Hurlock Auto & Speed Supply, HyperCo, Kirkey Racing Fabrication, K&N, Race Pro Weekly, Racing Optics, Teo-Pro Car, Vahlco Wheels & Velocita

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