September 14, 2024
There was no question that the fastest man of the 2024 ASA STARS National Tour season was inevitably going to end up in victory lane.
The series points leader started on pole and swept every stage on the way to his Glass City 200 win at Toledo Speedway.
Roderick’s only opposition came late in the race, in the form of some restart rumblings with Gio Ruggiero. Ruggiero took the lead on a restart following a lap 182 crash, but only held it for seven laps before Roderick found himself leading once again.
Ruggiero would have to settle for second, with his Wilson Motorsports teammate Gavan Boschele rounding out the podium in third.
Austin Nason and Jonathan Knee rounded out the top five.
“It’s easy to get upset when you have a flawless race and all of a sudden you get jacked up from behind,” stated Casey Roderick about the late-race restarts where he dueled with Gio Ruggiero.
“I’ll have to go back and watch it all to really see what all was going on, but I just know from the cockpit of the car I was jumped. Then we had a caution. We went green, I jumped and they called it back. I’m the leader of the race. I start the race.”
Roderick also spoke on how a premier Super Late Model win like this affects the financial side of things, with Roderick and his crew being no stranger to monetary woes.
“This will help us get to the next race. It’s always good to win and get something back. We’ve only finished outside the top five probably three times this year, but you don’t recuperate enough money to keep funding it.”
“It’s a losing battle every time you hit the race track. You lose money. Just a tough deal in our sport right now, raising money and keeping people involved in it.”
Also to note, the Glass City 200 was no stranger to big impacts, with Dawson Sutton and Jake Francis having big collisions with the track’s foam barriers on laps 55 and 134 respectively.
Another notable incident featured former NASCAR star Matt Tifft, whose return to pavement racing was ended prematurely on lap 47 after contact with Billy VanMeter and Evan Shotko halted his day.
ASA Glass City 200 Results
- Casey Roderick
- Gio Ruggiero
- Gavan Boschele
- Austin Nason
- Jonathan Knee
- Kyle Steckly
- Billy VanMeter
- Chase Pinsonneault
- Kendrick Kreyer -2 laps
- Blake Rowe -14 laps
- Brian Campbell -18 laps
- Chase Burda -18 laps
- Albert Francis -42 laps
- Michael Simko -50 laps
- Jake Francis -66 laps
- Derek Kraus -91 laps
- Brandon Barker -114 laps
- Dawson Sutton -145 laps
- Nick Neri -147 laps
- Matt Tifft -153 laps
- Evan Shotko -153 laps
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