CalSpeedJune2018

The Sprint Series has been no stranger to seeing new winners rising to the top with each successive season. With the dust now settling from Round 6, we are now seeing just who exactly are the ones to watch for the 2018 championship. For the first time this year, we see not only a two-time winner, but a back-to-back one as well… Teaming up for the top 2 in their heat race were Spencer Russell andSamuel Hunt, thepair immediately settling into a draft to gap the remainder of the field. Meanwhile, Rodney Bryant with his first Sprint Series start this year, led the best of the rest from the get go, jumping 2 spots at the green. The P3 battle ran deep at nearly 10 karts large. Once the half way point was reached, the impatience seemed to start showing. Before the white flag, Hunt took the inside at Long Beach for the lead. It would be with one to go where the action would happen once again: Hunt took a tight line through Long Beach to defend but Russell held the outside, managing to score the lead back for the heat 1C win and Bryant staving off the angry field for 3rd. The A-Main began with a clean start seeing 5 karts break away from the get-go. Racing hard at the front were the faces now familiar to the game: Russell, Hunt, Donnie Clarke, Evan Karp and Randy McKee. Russell had himself a 2 kart length lead and having clinched the Winter Sub-championship with his win last month, was on the verge of replicating his success. Hunt was now in P2 followed by McKee who was inching his way back within grasp of a podium. Behind them, it would be Michael Chen and Karp dueling for 4th. By the checkered flag, Russell would score an uncontested win, adding win #2 on top of his first career W from last round while Hunt and McKee followed to round out the podium, scoring huge points for the 2018 championship. Russell’s success begs the question: will he be able to continue carrying this huge momentum through the entirety of the series? Let’s see what goes down in Round 7 next month… A Main Podium B-Main Winner Robert Hernandez C-Main Winner Ethan West Round 6 June 9