Kart racing winds down

Name tags weren’t needed in victory lane Tuesday night when Merrittville Speedway hosted is second-last program of the kart racing season.

Drivers who have collected at least four checkered flags led the field across the finish line in all seven divisions.

Most familiar face of all in the winners circle was Travis Majuery, who won his track-high 14th feature, out of 17 starts, in the Wilder Racing Engines Senior Animal class.

Nigel Pendykoski’s latest victory in the Vansickle Pet Valu Novice 1 division was his eighth of the year, while Donny Lampman won his seventh of the season in the Ed MacPherson Construction Junior 2 feature.

Three drivers raced to their fifth victories of year on the clay track’s inside racing surface: Cohen Corbett, Tim Phillips Garage-St. Catharines Discount Auto Parts Novice2; John Farnan Lindberg, Cassell Manufacturing Senior Fun Division; and Kyle Phillips, Superior Petro Fuels Junior Restricted.

Zach Trotter won his fourth of 2016 in the RCM Racing Equipment Junior 1 Division.

Dinner proved to be a good omen for the Phillips family, who stopped for a bite to eat on their way to the Thorold track.

“When our bill camp up, it was $21.21. I just had this feeling then that tonight was going to be our night,” Tim Phillips wrote in a Facebook post.

The number on his son Kyle’s kart is 21.

Following are results from Tuesday night’s feature races: Novice 1 division, 8 laps: Nigel Pendykoski, Christopher Crowe, Jacob Mamo, William Younger, Scarlett Gaboury, Benjamin Colavecchia. Novice 2 division, 8 laps: Hana Rothwell, Madelyn Goulding, Hayden Klager, Trevor Evans, Amber White. Junior 1 division, 15 laps: Zach Trotter, Aiden Lavallee, Logan Illiffe, Spencer Maytum. Junior 2 division, 15 laps:

Donny Lampman, Jaedon Lawson, Joey Priestley, Davis Grocott, Aiden Speck. Junior restricted division, 15 laps: Kyle Phillips, Dalton Slack, Randy Giroux, Trevor Wright, Noah Mamo, Austyn Werstroh.

Senior Fun division, 20 laps:

John Farnan Lindberg, Brandon Black, Mike Speck, Stephen Koop, Paul Lindberg, Scott Andres, John Pendykoski; did not start, Jenna Andres. Senior Animal division, 20

laps: Travis Majuery, Dylan Culp, Kathleen Lampman, Ashley Moore, Nathan Boisvert, Daniel McKay.

Merrittville’s karting season concludes next Tuesaday. Pits open at 5:30 p.m. and grandstand admission is free after racing gets underway at 7 p.m.