WEST LEBANON, N.Y. — Steve Poirier celebrated the Lucas Oil Empire Super Sprint Series’ first visit to Lebanon Valley Speedway since 1987 with his ninth victory of the season Saturday night.
Poirier started his AMB Moteurs powered J&J on the outside front row after the inversion, and once the green flag waved, quickly jumped to the lead on the high side of turn one. After the red flag waved on lap two, Poirier jumped to the point on the restart, managing to amass a full-straightaway lead before the caution flew again.
Poirier kept a strong lead on two subsequent restarts over second-running Justin Barger to take home the $2,000 purse.
Barger managed to pull into the runner-up position by the halfway mark, but couldn’t get a good enough run on Poirier to make the pass and settled for second. Jessica Zemken finished third while pole-sitter Jared Fink had his best finish of the season in fourth. Brian McDonald filled the top five.
The finish:
Steve Poirier, Justin Barger, Jessica Zemken, Jared Fink, Brian McDonald, Doug Emery, Alain Bergeron, Jason Barney, Tommy Wickham, Warren Alexson, Cory Sparks, Russ Bennett, Jeff Cook, Michael Parent, Anthony Cain, Mike Stelter, Normand Beaudreault, Geoff Quackenbush, Lee Ladouceur, Adam Gordon, Jami Russell, Josh Weller, Lance Yonge.