By Dean Reynolds
SYRACUSE, NY – The 33rd Anniversary season for the Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprints (ESS) had to wait one week to get the point season started. With last week’s postponed event at Outlaw Speedway, the stars and cars will now converge to the Fulton Speedway to get the 2016 tour underway.
It what is now turned into a special two-day event, the Highbank Holdup Weekend will get it’s start this Friday night when the ESS joins the DIRTcar Sportsman Championship Series for a big night. The 25 lap A-Main will pay the winner $2,000 and will award points for the overall Lucas Oil Championship, the NAPA Auto Parts US Tour and the SUNY Canton Series.
Quebec’s Steve Poirier will head in what looks to be a large field of sprinters to the track where ESS got it’s start back in 1983. Jason Barney, Paul Kinney, Matt Tanner, Tommy Wickham, Paulie Colagiovanni, Shawn Donath, Dave Axton, Mike Stelter, Parker Evans, Chad Miller and Sammy Reakes IV will also be in the field.
However, the list doesn’t stop there, Bryan Howland, George Suprick, Larry Wight, Denny Peebles, Pete Richardson, Tim Axton, Yan Bilodeau, Larry Kelleher, Dan Douville, Keith Granholm, Steve Hutchinson, Jonathan Preston, Derrick Juliano, Scott Holcomb and others look to be on hand.
The Beard Sewer and Drain Timed Hot Laps starts off the night followed by the Car Mate Trailer Heats, Pitre Painting is sponsoring the Cobra Coaches Dash, the Lacaillade Masonry B-Main will fill the final qualifiers before the $2,000 to win finale’.
A new tradition, Highbank Holdup Weekend, the Lucas Oil ESS winged warriors at the Fulton Speedway this Friday…it will be excitement guaranteed!
Past Empire Super Sprint Winners at Fulton Speedway.
| Aug. 13, 1983 | Bob Featherly |
| Aug. 20, 1983 | Don Buchanan |
| Sept. 3, 1983 | Don Buchanan |
| Sept. 10, 1983 | Gordy Button |
| Sept. 17, 1983 | Gordy Button |
| Sept. 24, 1983 | Gordy Button |
| Oct. 1, 1983 | Alan Lane |
| Oct. 15, 1983 | Craig Keel |
| Apr. 14, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| April 21, 1984 | Alan Lane |
| May 5, 1984 | Jon King |
| May 12, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| May 26, 1984 | John Brutcher |
| June 2, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| June 9, 1984 | Craig Keel |
| June 16, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| June 30, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| July 7, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| July 14, 1984 | Gordy Button |
| July 28, 1984 | Jeff Taylor |
| Aug. 4, 1984 | Craig Keel |
| Aug. 18, 1984 | Craig Keel |
| Aug. 25, 1984 | Craig Keel |
| Sept. 1, 1984 | Brett Barnett |
| Sept. 8, 1984 | Jeff Taylor |
| Sept. 22, 1984 | Jeff Taylor |
| Sept. 29, 1984 | Alan Lane |
| Apr. 20, 1985 | John Brutcher |
| May 30, 1987 | Gordy Button |
| June 27, 1987 | Tom Bliss |
| July 11, 1987 | Mal Lane |
| Aug. 8, 1987 | Mal Lane |
| Sept. 20, 1987 | Lonny Riehlman |
| Apr. 30, 1988 | Mike VanDusen |
| May 28, 1988 | Bob Podolak |
| July 9, 1988 | Bob Podolak |
| Aug. 13, 1988 | Mike VanDusen |
| Sept. 6, 1988 | Gordy Button |
| Sept. 17, 1988 | John Brutcher |
| Sept. 24, 1988 | Mike VanDusen |
| Apr. 22, 1989 | Mal Lane |
| May 13, 1989 | Mal Lane |
| June 3, 1989 | John Birosh |
| June 24, 1989 | Bob Podolak |
| July 15, 1989 | Mal Lane |
| Sept. 30, 1989 | Mal Lane |
| June 2, 1990 | Mal Lane |
| Aug. 11, 1990 | Mal Lane |
| May 30, 1992 | Mal Lane |
| Sept. 4, 1993 | Mike Woodring |
| June 4, 1994 | Craig Keel |
| Sept. 3, 1994 | Mike Woodring |
| June 3, 1995 | Craig Keel |
| Sept. 9, 1995 | Craig Keel |
| Sept. 16, 1995 | Craig Keel |
| June 1, 1996 | Mike Woodring |
| July 27, 1996 | Mark Bragman |
| Oct. 4, 1996 | Mike Woodring |
| Aug. 15, 2000 | Dan Kaszubinski |
| May 23, 2001 | R.C. Faigle |
| July 27, 2002 | Rick Wilson |
| May 6, 2006 | Bryan Howland |
| July 16, 2011 | Steve Poirier |
| July 6, 2013 | Bryan Howland |
| July 5, 2014 | Jason Barney |
| July 4, 2015 | Steve Poirier |
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