Eastern Storm - Bridgeport NJ
6/14/23
A late afternoon heavy rain on an open track.... A lack of track owned equipment to run in a very wet track.... A lack of an under-card class to help run the track in... Whatever the reason, the great drivers of this USAC series, along with many top modified teams, never got to show their stuff on the track on this day.
Many thanks to the drivers/race teams that still made our trip to Bridgeport a pleasant one, stopping what they were doing for us to get a few pictures as we made our way through the pits prior to the word that the event would be canceled.
Here's a few from our Bridgeport visit.. where a late afternoon "Eastern Rain Storm" made for an early ride home.....
Way cool Flo Announcer "Chet"
One of the racing's really good guys, Jeff Strunk
1990 Flemington Rookie Champ, Sammy Martz eyes up the #3. Sammy's son Sammy Jr has become quite the wheelman too.
BGE Dougherty Motorsports cars
CJ Leary
Ed Aikin
Daison Pursley
Brady Bacon
Robert Ballou
Steve Drevicki
Preston Lattomos
Recent High School graduate and always near the front, Emerson Axsom
Current points leader, and previous nights winner at Grandview, Jake Swanson
Charles Davis Jr - Recent winner at Gas City Indiana
Logan Seevey
Justin Grant
Justin sets up his Go Pro
Tail tanks
T-Mez
Thomas Meseraull
Always fast, and always interesting, Thomas Meseraull
If you're not a fan already, check out TMez TV on YouTube and become one!: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ugc_4fmsKSE
Alex Bright
Alex Bright and AARN's Lenny Sammons
Tim Buckwalter
Kyle Cummins
Kyle wasn't planning on running the entire series, but he's been up near the top of the points battle so looks like he's all in!
Briggs Danner
Justin and T-Mez
Billy Pauch Sr was going to shake down the way cool #1 for son Billy Jr.
Billy Pauch Jr's ride.
Rick Laubach
Danny Bouc
Frank Cozze
Dave Hunt
Dave was ready to go before they decided to cancel due to the rain soaked track.
Under wraps.
Billy Osmun Jr with the great looking Norcia colors, complete with white bumpers and white nerf bars.
Matt Stangle has turned into one of the best at every track he runs.... More wins on the way in 2023.
Frank Cozze takes it all in stride... Turned out to be an early night for all.
It sure seemed strange walking around in the sunshine of a mid 70 degree late afternoon only to learn that the races would be cancelled, but if you've gone to the races long enough, you'll experience everything... at least twice!
Thank you to all USAC race teams, and all of the modified teams, that did what they had to do to be at Bridgeport on a Wednesday night to try to put on a show for us NJ fans.
