Driverz Cup 2025 – Race 4 – Roebling Road Raceway
Thank you to everyone who joined us in Savannah for round 3 of the Driverz Cup 2025 series. The weekend was filled with competitive racing, the return of some familiar faces to Driverz Cup, and great comradery as always.
Qualifying session one saw Driverz Cup president Mike Lawrence at the top of the board followed by Mitchell Ferguson and Stevan Davis. Our top 3 in Q1 were separated by only 9 hundredths of a second. Sherman Engler and Smith Ragsdale rounded out the top 5 while Laurin Brallier, Keith Lawrence, Chris Frassetti, Steve Eaton, and Jeff Tapolci rounded out the top 10. A gap of only 2.7 seconds existed between the top ten competitors rolling into race 1.
Race 1 provided no lack of drama with a few first lap spins and offs which shook up the field and led to the pack including Mitchell Ferguson, Stevan Davis, Sherman Engler, Smith Ragsdale, and Mike Lawrence breaking away. Laurin Brallier was hot on their tails in her first race back after 3 years while the pack of Chris Frassetti, Matt Bruns, Steve Eaton, and Keith Lawrence had a 25 minute battle with countless changes in positions.
Eventually when the checkered flag flew, Mitchell Ferguson brought home the 1st place trophy followed by Stevan Davis in 2nd and Sherman Engler in 3rd. Matt Bruns was the hard charger of race one moving from 11th to 8th.
Saturday evening the group enjoyed a spread from Moes organized by Zach Wojtalik as well as the awarding of numerous giveaways thanks to our generous sponsors. Laurin Brallier came out the big winner of the evening by being awarded the $500 cash prize thanks to Automotive Safety Consulting. Driverz Cup newcomer Barry Shelton was selected as the winner of the $150 gift certificate thanks to Bugs Life VW Transmissions and Jeff Tapolci secured the $50 cash prize thanks to Kearny Driver Development. Chris Frassetti was lucky enough to be drawn by his daughter Ashlyn to win the $100 off an engine rebuild from Mitchell Motors while Stevan Davis was drawn to win the $50 gift certificate to Pegasus Auto Racing. Series sponsor Mitchell Ferguson came home with a $100 gift certificate to Caracal Cars curtesy of Fred Clark and Cam McMillin was drawn to receive the Quixote Racing gift certificate in his Driverz Cup return. Sherman Engler’s good luck continued into the evening when he was selected as the winner of the Velo Stak just before Matt Bruns secured the last cash prize of the evening curtesy of Lawrence Racing. Bob Liu, Steve Eaton, and Smith Ragsdale in his return to Driverz Cup were all selected to win a Driverz Cup merch pack. Last but certainly not least, our registrar Cece Rice was selected as as the winner of the volunteer cash prize thanks to Sherman and Toni Engler at TenVee Racing.
Sunday morning qualifying saw even more impressive driving from Laurin Brallier as she won the pole for race two. Mike Lawrence, Smith Ragsdale, Sherman Engler, and Stevan Davis rounded out the top 5 to start race 2.
After hard fought battles and clean racing throughout the field, race 2 ended with back to back wins for Mitchell Ferguson followed by Smith Ragsdale and Mike Lawrence. After a truly impressive drive, Chris Frassetti was the hard charger for race 2 bumping him up into 4th place in the Driverz Cup 2025 points standings.
