Third for Anthony Sergi in Clyde Hart Memorial at New Smyrna

Late Race Restarts Help Sergi Grab Top-Five Finish

Anthony Sergi started 10th in Saturday night’s 14th Annual Clyde Hart Memorial at New Smyrna Speedway and it was only a few laps before he started working his way up through the field without looking back. 

“We qualified 10th,” said Sergi.  “So we did

alright to start.  I had a pretty fast first lap but

I messed up on the second lap so we didn’t

qualify quite as well as we wanted.  But when

we went into the race, we had a real good car

setup.  We restarted sixth on the second

restart and stayed there for most of the race.”

As the laps wound down, things got exciting

and Sergi used every caution to make up

ground on the leaders.

“We had a quick caution with 25 laps to go

and I started on the outside, sixth again,” said

Sergi.  “And it looked like Tim Russell missed a

shift or something.  He was restarting from the pole position, and the whole top line just went, so I got up to third.  With about 15 laps to I started racing David Rogers side-by-side for probably 10 laps before he got around me. 

“We were settled into fourth trying to catch David and something happened to his car, I think he popped it out of gear or something, and I got by him and walked away with it and finished third.”

Sergi will be back in action, this time with the Florida United Promoters Late Model Series, at Citrus County Speedway on September 15th.