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Elite Championship, South Region Points Up for Grabs at Port Royal Speedway this Weekend

Written by Chris Moore

PORT ROYAL, PA Elite title fight.

When the 75-lap Speed Showcase™ ends for the Bob Hilbert Sportswear Short Track Super Series (STSS) Fueled By Sunoco, the $15,000 Ollie™s Elite™ Series Champion will be crowned.

The full weekend of racing takes place Thurs.-Sat. Oct. 12-14, culminating in Saturday™s 75-lap, $50,000-to-win main event for the STSS big-block/small-block Modifieds.

The fourth leg of the Ollie™s Elite™ Series represents the final one, with the previous three being contested at Orange County Fair Speedway in Middletown, N.Y., Utica-Rome Speedway in Vernon, N.Y., and N.Y.™s Fonda Speedway.

The Ollie™s Elite Series™ opening round was scheduled to take place at Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway in March but was nixed due to rain.

With three races in the books, Savannah, N.Y.™s Matt Sheppard leads the standings looking for his second consecutive Elite™ Series Championship.

Sheppard holds a 58-point advantage on the strength of two Elite™ victories over St. Catherines, Ontario, Canada™s Mat Williamson.

Unadilla, N.Y.™s Billy Decker sits third in points, 98 markers off Sheppard™s pace. Guilderland, N.Y.™s Marc Johnson (103 points behind)and Sheffield, Mass., resident Andy Bachetti (109 points behind) round out the top five.

The 75-lap, $50,000-to-winmain event on Saturday (Oct. 14) also serves as Round No. 6 of the Rent Equip/Party Central South Region $15,000 title pursuit.

Round No. 5 of the South Region takes place to open the weekend (Oct. 12) as part of Behrent™s Performance Warehouse Preliminary Night.

The STSS big-block/small-block Modifieds go for 40 laps and $5,500 winner™s share as preclude to the $50,000 prize at the end of the weekend.

Sheppard also heads the South Region class heading into the weekend, by just 23 points over Frenchtown, N.J.™s Billy Pauch Jr. King Ferry, N.Y.™s Mike Mahaney rounds out the top three, 84 markers behind Sheppard.

Ringoes, N.J.™s Ryan Godown (88 points behind) and Boyertown, Pa.™s Mike Gular (93 points behind) round out the top five.

The STSS Crate 602 Sportsman will also be on hand for a 50-lap, $4,000-to-win main event, their biggest paying race of the 2023 campaign.

Recently crowned Precision Hydraulic & Oil North Region Champion Joe Toth sits atop the Belmont™s Garage South Region standings as well, looking for his third consecutive South Region Championship.

Toth holds a 57-point advantage over Spencertown, N.Y.™s Dylan Madsen who won the most recent race at Georgetown (Del.) Speedway in late August.

Fleetwood, Pa.™s Kyle Smith, Cream Ridge, N.J.™s Ryan Simmons, and Kutztown, Pa.™s Dakota Kohler round out the top five.

For complete STSS standings click the following link: https://shorttracksuperseries.com/point-standings/

Speed Showcase™ weekend will be broadcast live on FloRacing (www.floracing.tv) as part of the annual subscription.

To learn more about the Short Track Super Series Fueled By Sunoco, visit www.shorttracksuperseries.com, e-mail bdmotorsportsmedia@gmail.com, check out Short Track Super Series™ on Facebook or @ShortTrackSS on Twitter or Instagram.

The Short Track Super Series is presented by American Racer/Lias Tire, Sunoco Race Fuel, FloSports, Bob Hilbert Sportswear, Rent Equip/Party Central, BDR Speed, Bicknell Racing Products, Ollie™s, Penske Racing Shocks, Wegner Automotive, River Valley Builders, Behrent™s Performance Warehouse, DIG Race Products, Velocita-USA, Franklin Products, Design for Vision & Sunglass Central, Belmont™s Garage, Quality Drywall, Precision Hydraulic & Oil, Prime MAC Tools, F.X. Caprara Car Companies, Algonkin Motel, Beyea Custom Headers, Dirt Track Digest, EIBACH, Electric Neon Custom Signs, Fastline Performance, Flach Performance Products, Henry™s Exhaust, Hig Fab, Schultz Racing Fuel Cells, Spyder Filters, Superior Remodeling, Teo-Pro Car, VAHLCO & Wilwood.

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