“Entrance Row” Joe Nemechek returned to the highest step of the rostrum whereas Pat Womack continued his current successful roll Saturday in HSR NASCAR Basic offered by Goodyear competitors on the Go Bowling at The Glen NASCAR race weekend at Watkins Glen Worldwide. A robust subject of acquainted NASCAR inventory automobiles and vans now retired from lively competitors ran a pair of 20 minute dash races to each start and finish the day Saturday at The Glen because the second-year HSR NASCAR Basic sequence raced for the primary time this season on a NASCAR Cup Sequence race weekend.
Nemechek drove his NEMCO Motorsports 2007 No. 47 Made in The USA Chevrolet Silverado to the general and Professional Class victories in Saturday afternoon’s function race. His fundamental competitors got here from the ever-improving Womack, who battled with Nemechek all day in his ex-FedEx Joe Gibbs Racing 2014 No. 11 Toyota Camry ready by NEMCO. Womack prevailed for his third and fourth straight NASCAR Basic Am-class victories and truly beat Nemechek to the road for general honors as nicely in Saturday morning’s qualifying race.
The win put Womack on the pole for that afternoon’s function occasion and he capably held off Nemechek earlier than “Entrance Row” edged previous for his first NASCAR Basic general race win since April’s HSR The Mitty offered by Hagerty at Michelin Raceway Highway Atlanta
Womack stayed near take the checkered flag second general whereas sealing the Am division win as Nemechek’s strongest challenger for the second race weekend in a row. In June’s NASCAR Basic race at Lime Rock Park, Nemechek and Womack battled in that occasion’s function race for second place as Ryan Gemmell stepped as much as sweep the Professional and general wins after a dominating efficiency in his NEMCO Motorsports No. 6 Toyota Camry.
At The Glen, Gemmell was starting to maneuver into the general battle for the win Saturday afternoon solely to sluggish with a mechanical problem. Nonetheless, he was categorized third in school and joined Nemechek and series-debuting Brian Keselowski within the Professional top-three. Keselowski, the older brother of 2012 NASCAR Cup Sequence champion Brad Keselowski, garnered second-place Professional honors driving a 2000 No. 1 Dodge Ram campaigned in its prime by Dennis Setzer.
It was one other fast NASCAR truck that claimed third general, nonetheless, on Saturday as Sam LeComte accomplished the outright podium and took second in Am within the 2012 No. 69 Chevrolet Silverado.
Third in Am and fourth general was secured by Mark Mercurio and his Flyin Wrenchz racing staff that introduced a fast 2012 No. 55 Toyota Camry with Mercurio on the wheel to a “House Sport” at The Glen. Mercurio and his staff are headquartered solely a few hours from Watkins Glen within the Buffalo-area neighborhood of East Aurora.
The general top-five was accomplished by returning NASCAR Basic driver Chris Evans who confirmed no rust regardless of competing in his first race of the 12 months in his Petty’s Storage 2013 No. 43 “By no means Overlook – 9/11/01” Chevrolet Camaro ZL1.
Subsequent up on the 2025 schedule is the HSR NASCAR Basic offered by Goodyear Celebration at VIRginia Worldwide Raceway, which can be among the many featured races on the HSR VIR Historics, Sept. 4-7, on the three.27-mile Southern Virginia street course.
