KID CHAOS DEPRIVES SERYDYNSKI
IN WILD STREETERS BRAWL
COREY FANNING FOR THE WIN!
They don’t call Corey Fanning “Kid Chaos” for nothing. Fanning came through the smoke and fire that makes Street Stocks at Seekonk THE most exciting thing in racing today.
Serydinski had dominated the race for the second event in a row, only to be caught up in a wild finish which saw Fanning barge his way from brawling with Tyler Lallier for second to dashing under the checkers in front with Lallier, Mike Mitchel, Ant Kohler following in that order. Opening day’s winner, Scott Bruneau followed in sixth.
Scott started behind polesitter Stephen Potter and just ahead of Lallier, who had Streets rookie Jesse Melberg on his shoulder. Fanning was outside Paul Lallier in row five. Potter and Thomas Adams ran door-to-door from the start, with the next three rows following suit. As they ran, Serydynski ran up the middle for a three-wide and into the lead. Adams faded and Tyler challenged Potter for second as Serydynski ran out to a three-car lead on the second circuit. Potter tagged aloong in second and Tyler held on to third – they continued in that order into lap 23 in dog-eat-dog combat.
Fanning and Paul Lallier dueled each other as they moved through the field toward the leaders in a fierce duel with the competition and each other. Kohler preceded them, arriving on Tyler bumper by moving Adams out of third on lap 3. Paul jumped in behind him with Kid Chaos in tow, dumping Adams all the way back to seventh. Doug Rioux then added insult to injury by taking over seventh.
Serydynski was having a day for himself, going out to a full straightaway lead by lap six. On lap eight, he had lapped Chris Allen and continued to run away from the field. Lap ten saw Scott in the lead, practically out of sght of the rest of the field and Potter battling tokeep Tyler at bayl. The Ant pursued with Paul on his tail, Fanning on his bumper and Rioux flying along in fifth.
Serydynski was overhauling a group of four cars and about to lap them. The passing flag came out, but they didn’t move up to clear the track and he had to slow. At the same time, Paul Williams spun, bringing out Serydynski’s worst nightmare: a caution.
With his antagonists communing behind him, Serydynski took the pole for the restart with Potter on his outside. He nosed out on the green and pulled away as Tyler got under Potter. Mitchell roared up on the outside for a three-wide in second place. Potter slid back and Fanning came in underneath.
Serydynski had escaped the pack again but Potter, battling over second, went sideways and Paul Lallier got into him, tearing off most of the 2016’s fiberglass body back to the driver’s door, dragging it along behind him. He pitted to have it taken off and returned with no body ahead of the door. Tim Watson and Chris Allen got together as it took to tries for the restart with five laps remaining.
Serydynski now had to contend with Fanning on his shoulder for the restart and they came charging out of the green. Scott pulled ahead, but Fanning dropped underneath and established position alongside. They ground out the laps, side-by-side, whipsawing the lead. Mitchell was on Tyler’s bumper and, in the thick of things, elected to go three-wide for the win. At the same moment, Serydynski’s tires lost their grip and he came loose. Fanning got by, as well as Tyler, Mitchel and Kohler, leaving Serydynski in fifth.
Fanning unloaded and shot over the stripe just ahead of Tyler, who managed to outlast Mitchel.
Bruneau followed Scott under the green, followed by Mike Teague, Melberg, Vinny Pangelinan and Paul Lallier to round out the top ten.
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