Alex Bright Scores ARDC First Friday at Potoma

From Doug Watson

Budds Creek, MD — (May 17, 2013) — Collegeville Pa.’s Alex Bright snapped the three-race win streak by former ARDC champion Steve Buckwalter with his first win of the season in last Friday nights 25-lap ARDC Midget feature at Potomac speedway.

ARDC rookie Tony DiMattia and Brett Arndt lead the field to the initial green flag of the event. As the mob roared off turn-two third-starting Shawn Jackson zipped into the race lead. As Jackson lead 12th-starting Alex Bright was on the move. Bright made his way to second by lap-11when a timely caution slowed the field. Jackson now had Bright in his tire tracks for the re-start and Bright made the most of his good fortune as he shot by Jackson to take the race lead heading into turn-one. Bright would go on to lead the distance, but would have to survive a late race flurry by PJ Gargiulo to post the popular win. “I love racetracks like this.” Bright stated during his post-race interview. “We got a little behind in qualifying which put us in mid-pack for the start, but this car was awesome and I just want to thank my mom and dad and all the crew for this win tonight.” A lap-23 caution made bright get up on the wheel over the final two-circuits. “I saw PJ there in second on the scoreboard and he’s tough.” Bright stated. “I knew if I could protect the bottom PJ would have a tough time up top and it all worked out. It feels great to win.” 2012 Potomac ARDC winner Trevor Kobylarz came from eleventh for third, ninth-starting Ryan Greth took fourth with fourteenth-starting Steven Drevicki rounding-out the top-five. Heats for the 21 cars on hand went to Brendan Bright, Jimmy Glenn and Shawn Jackson.