Kye Kelley wins 2023 New England Great 8

By Anthony Caruso III | Publisher

Street Outlaws No Prep Kings star Kye Kelley has won his first Great 8 of the season. Kelley defeated Kallee Mills at New England Dragway in Epping, New Hampshire.

This race was originally scheduled to be finished on Friday night. However, due to curfew, the race was pushed to Saturday.

Kelley won the final round before the start of the Invitational.

Team Kye has now won four final round races thus far during the first half of the No Prep Kings season. They have two Invitational wins and two Great 8 wins.

Kelley has won three of these events. He won back to back invitationals.

He first won an Invitational over Damon Merchant at Virginia Motorsports Park in North Dinwiddie, Virginia. The following weekend, Kelley also defeated Merchant in the final round at Brainerd International Raceway in Brainerd, Minnesota.

Team Kye driver David Gates Jr. picked up his first No Prep Kings win at Brainerd. He defeated Giuseppe Gentile in the Great 8 final round.

Outside of Kelley and Gates Jr., there has been two other Great 8 winners. Ryan Martin won the Great 8 race at Virginia Motorsports Park.

Then, Larry “Axman” Roach won his first NPK event in the Great 8 in the GameChanger car last weekend at Beech Bend Raceway Park outside of Bowling Green, Kentucky.