Latham, NY’s Andrew Buff has won big races, he’s won track championships, even won DIRTcar Sportsman Region Championships. Wednesday night at the Land of Legends Raceway, he etched another mark into an already impressive career resume.
Taking advantage of his outside front row starting spot, Buff led all 30 laps to take home the $1,000 top prize in the Central and West Region combo event that was made up after a June 24th rain out. A big field of 40 cars filled the pit log for the event that also hosted the Super DIRTcar Series.
“The car was really good tonight, have to give a shout out to Joe Matthews from North Carolina who was taking my texts all night,” said the young driver in victory lane, “We put something together between my father and Joe and it really worked tonight.”
Even with a handful of restarts, Buff’s familiar #92 would choose the outside of the front row which proved to be the right choice every time the green waved. “I could get a really good jump in the middle of the track off four each time,” Buff went on, “I could rotate the car in the middle and that’s where I ran all night. This is a nice win for us and have to thank everyone that helps us.”
Cameron Tuttle started in fourth, used the extreme outside on the Ontario County Fairgrounds oval to take home a solid second place finish. It was a finish though that almost never happened. “We really didn’t decide to come hear until about lunch time yesterday,” Tuttle said matter of fact, “We have been having such a bad string of races and finishes we were just not sure to come or just take a little bit more time to get ready.”
The decision proved to be the right one and even though it wasn’t a win, it was a move forward, “It’s good just to get a good finish again. The 92 was tough, I don’t think I had anything for him. We tried on every restart but he was just a bit better.”
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