The pre-race hype for Kelly Bires and Travis dassow was not wasted ink as race day came to pass at the Oswego Speedway. Bires and Dassow, who were call-in guests on Joe Marotta’s radio show on June 4th and live guests on the Fleet Pride Pre Race Report on June 10th, came home with podium finishes at Oswego in the Fleet Pride ASA 200. Bires piloted his #89 to his second win in three weeks and Dassow brought his #92 home in third place.

The story of the night, for one local charity, was the ride turned in by runner-up Chad Wood in the deuce. Trackside Charities and the Oswego Speedway had been working on a deal the week prior to the Fleet Pride ASA 200 which would benefit a local charity. Friends of Track Side Charities, TDS and the band Emerson Drive team up with a local non-for-profit charity when they come into a community for a race.

The Oswego Speedway selected Integrated Community Planning as the charity of choice because of its relationship with several agencies that operate out of that office. Under the specific deal, the better that Chad Wood does in the ASA feature the better the donation and the matching money becomes. With Wood’s second place finish in the Fleet Pride ASA 200 at Oswego, Integrated Community Planning will receive a check from Trackside Charities for $4,000.

Kelly Bires may have taken home the lions share of the purse in the Fleet Pride ASA 200, but Friends of Trackside Charities, Chad Wood, TDS and Emerson Drive left behind a gift of $4,000 to aid children’s programs in Oswego.