Rilat led the final two thirds of the ASCS Gulf South Region Ronald Laney Memorial last Saturday at Battleground Speedway in the Richard Saumure owned No. 39c. It was Rilat’s first victory of the season in the United States and his first since claiming the Tyson Perez Memorial in Australia in February.
Scelzi made his season debut at the quarter-mile track on Friday during a local event. He qualified 14th quickest to make the heat race inversion and start on the pole of his heat.
The team headed to Lawton Speedway for the ASCS Sooner Region event with a new chassis and the primary engine back in the sprint car.
“We had a string of bad runs going,” he said. “We learned some stuff this weekend and it was good to wrap it up with a solid finish. We needed a couple of more laps at Susquehanna and we might have had a top five.”
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