Drama Reigns During And After As Jason Finkbein Grabs First SK Light Modified Victory At Stafford 

STAFFORD – A final last lap saw Jason Finkbein go from third place to victory lane in the final two corners to get his first SK Light Modified victory in dramatic style. 

At the culmination of a green-white-checkered restart, contact between race leader Robert Bloxsom III and second place Nick Anglace sent both cars up the track in turns three and allowed Finkbein to slide to the low lane and get by both of them to win the 20-lap SK Light Modified feature Friday at Stafford Speedway. 

“This is awesome,” said Finkbein, of Coventry. “After last week … we tried our best to get the car back together and here it is in victory lane.” 

The drama on track on the final lap continued after the checkered flag flew. 

The finishing order on the track had Finkbein in first, Tyler Barry in second, Anglace in third and Bloxsom in fourth. 

But Anglace was penalized immediate following the checkered for rough driving on Bloxsom, moving Bloxsom to a third place finish. Then Bloxsom was disqualified from the third place finish in post-race tech for height and weight violations. 

It ultimately moved Chris Matthews of Stafford, who finished fifth on the track, to the third place finishing spot. It continued a streak for Matthews of podium finishes in all seven of his starts this season. Matthews has a win, five seconds and a third place. 

“Yeah, it was crazy just trying to make our way through traffic and got to the end, it got real crazy on that last lap and kind of went back a little further and settled in and figured that was it with a fifth and lo and behold, next thing you know we’re somehow third,” Matthews said. 

Barry, of Griswold, and Bloxsom had spent about 12 laps of the feature either racing side-by-side for the lead, or bumper-to-bumper. 

“It seemed like [Anglace] and [Bloxsom] didn’t get along as well as we did,” Barry said. “[Anglace] seemed like he just kind of sent it in there, last kind of hurrah, and just kind of worked out for me [and Finkbein] there.” 

Had Anglace drove to the checkered behind Bloxsom he would have ultimately got the win with Bloxsom getting disqualified. Anglace said a broken steering rack caused him to get into Bloxsom the way he did. 

Said Anglace: “Honestly, I don’t blame Stafford at all [for the post-race penalty]. … So I set [Bloxsom] up going into three on the last lap. He slid up, left the bottom open, went for it, and as soon as I turned the wheel, the rack just stopped turning. So it’s unfortunate that people are going to think that it was intentional, but it wasn’t. We have $100 piece of shit NAPA racks on this thing. It’s not a $1,200 Sweet rack, but they’re not really meant for this, so I guess that’s on us. And it sucks to take away a win from somebody. You know, there’s going to be people that say it was intentional because I just don’t like them. That’s whatever. Yeah, it just sucks.”

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