Epping, NH - The ground-pounding E Keys 4 Cars Modifieds were the headline attraction at Star Speedway on Saturday night, and they didn’t disappoint the fans, running a rough and tumble 40-lapper which was eventually won by defending champ Josh Cantara in the Anne and Goodwin Hannaford entry.

Ageless veteran Rusty Ball manned the point when the race went green, holding on to the top spot until second-generation Star racer Mike Douglas, Jr. made his way past on lap 10. Jacob Dore moved in quickly to challenge Douglas, but the two tangled on lap 13 and were knocked from contention.

Cantara, now a two-time winner, survived a close call and moved to the lead for the ensuing restart. It was all but over from there, as Cantara led the balance of the event to collect his first checkered flag of the 2012 season. Steve Dickey, Jr. was next across the stripe, with George Sherman getting his first podium of the year in the third spot.

One of the biggest fields of the year was on hand for the running of the Woody’s Auto Strictly Stocks “Woody’s Furious 40”, although an incident during qualifying sent several teams scrambling to make repairs in time for the feature, and feature winner Grant Aither home with a badly bent racecar.

Fifth place starter “Slammin” Sammy Peabody wasted little time making his way to the lead, and once he got there, he was not planning on giving it up. Multi-time feature winner Steve Douphinette challenged him for several laps to no avail before he finally dropped off the pace, and Peabody was gone from there.

Despite a car that wasn‘t handling quite the way he would have liked it, Peabody was never seriously challenged over the second half of the race, leading the field under Mike Walker‘s checkers to take down the big win over Chris Augevich and Bill Helliwell.

Shaun Waites, Jr. picked up the win in the Kimball Auto Body Roadrunners, with Jarrod Soucy second and Ken McIlvaine third, while T.J. Bleau won the Star 4 Modified feature.

Emerson Cayer scored the 50-lap NEMST feature event win over Star Speedway Roadrunner ace Billy Osborne, who led several laps before losing the top spot to the eventual winner. John Kelly, Mike Parker, Cris King, Jeff Beaule, Loren Smith, Loren Smith, Jr., Danny Field, and Cory Centino were third through tenth.