This past Saturday night at the Meadowlands Racetrack, 10 different drivers won races during the track’s 13-race program.
The card featured three stakes finals and two opening-leg divisions of the Buddy Gilmour Series. The drivers that won races during the card were Corey Callahan, John Campbell, Yannick Gingras, Andrew McCarthy, Ron Pierce, Andy Miller, Brett Miller, David Miller, Scott Zeron and Montrell Teague.
The list of the Saturday winners doesn’t include Tim Tetrick, a fixture near the top of the Meadowlands standings, who has been absent the past two weeks while representing Team USA at the World Driving Championships in Australia.
When asked by the Meadowlands’ PR team, Corey Callahan, North America’s leading money-winning driver so far in 2015, said that “The Meadowlands is, and always has been, the toughest place to win races.”
Callahan went on to say that the Meadowlands is “the equivalent of ‘the big leagues’ in baseball. Every driver there has been a dominant force in their respective areas of the country and they've migrated to the Meadowlands to compete against the best North America has to offer.”
Four of the top five leading money-winning drivers of 2014 are Meadowlands regulars, including Gingras, who led North America in earnings with $17,295,456.
“Anytime you win a race at the Meadowlands you know you have done something right,” said Gingras. “In any 10-horse field everybody gets quality a driver.”
Further depth in the Meadowlands driver colony comes courtesy of newcomer Brett Miller, second in the standings in just his first full season competing at the Big M, and breakout star Jim Marohn Jr., a perennial leading driver at Tioga Downs and Monticello Raceway, who is 10th in the Big M standings.
(With files from the Meadowlands)