8/30/2025
GLSS-Great Lakes Super Sprints
Riding High! GLSS Champion, Ridenour Snaps Five Year Winless Streak at Tri City Friday
Auburn, MI - In five years, almost to the day, since Chase Ridenour last went to victory lane, a lot has changed. Ridenour was with a different team. Smith Motorsports was en route to their first career Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by PERFIT & ARP Championship. Phil Gressman was the defending Champion, and the world was pulling itself together amid a Global pandemic.
Ridenour led the field to green alongside Mike Keegan. The pair battled closely on the opening lap for who would take hold of the field early. Ridenour put his No.38 to the pin and began his pursuit of the back of the field.
Turns one and two were uniquely different from that of turns three and four at Tri-City on Friday night. The bottom was in early around the entire race track, but quickly the top of one and two became the preferred line and the bottom was the place to be in three and four. Keegan found that combination first and took the lead momentarily near the halfway point of the race, but Ridenour quickly crossed Keegan over in lapped traffic and was back out front.
With less than 10 laps to go, Ridenour took lapped traffic three-wide to gap himself back to Jared Horstman and Dustin Daggett who had worked around Keegan in the traffic. Three former GLSS Champions at the front of the field was a thrill for a nearly packed house. With traffic clear inside of five laps to go, Horstman began reeling in Ridenour, but ran out of time as the Perry, Michigan native grabbed his first win since August 19, 2020 at Hartford Speedway. Horstman held on for second ahead of Daggett, Max Stambaugh fourth, and Keegan fifth.
The next event for the MacAllister CAT Great Lakes Super Sprints Presented by PERFIT & ARP is Sunday, August 31st at Crystal Motor Speedway for the final points race of the 2025 season. Stambaugh is likely to be crowned the Tour Champion for the fourth consecutive season, while Jared Horstman hopes to hold on for the MacAllister CAT Championship. Fans who can’t make the trip can watch the action on GreatLakeSprints.TV.
Phil Gressman won the Ti22 Performance Fast Qualifier Award.
Engler Machine & Tool Heat Race One was won by Jared Horstman.
Beacon & Bridge Markets Heat Race Two was won by Steve Irwin.
Miami Paint Heat Race Three was won by Chase Ridenour.
MacAllister Cat A Feature 1: 1. 38-Chase Ridenour[1]; 2. 17-Jared Horstman[4]; 3. 85-Dustin Daggett[6]; 4. 71H-Max Stambaugh[7]; 5. X-Mike Keegan[2]; 6. 7C-Phil Gressman[5]; 7. 5M-Steve Irwin[3]; 8. 49T-Gregg Dalman[8]; 9. 11G-Luke Griffith[9]; 10. 22-Tom Lowe[14]; 11. 27K-Zac Broughman[18]; 12. 88N-Frank Neill[15]; 13. 3A-Mike Astrauskas[10]; 14. 49-Brian Ruhlman[11]; 15. 13-Andy Teunessen[12]; 16. 67-Kevin Martens[13]; 17. 31-Jim Girard[17]; 18. 33-Jeremy Ferguson[16]; 19. 10-Cody Howard[19]
Article Credit: Zach Hiser
Submitted By: Zach Hiser
