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All season long there has been the question as to who is racing where and some of those have been answered. Here are a few drivers that passed along some infomation on Saturday night.
Tim Fuller plans to race at Can-Am Motorsports Park on Saturday night’s while running a limited Late Model schedule. He plans to make some appearances at Gene Cole’s Utica-Rome Speedway on Sunday night’s as well.
Brian Weaver plans to run for Randy Decker on the RoC South Tour as well as Penn-Can Speedway. He’ll then pilot a Big Block Modified on Saturday at Can-Am (almost set in stone) and on Sunday at Cayuga County Fair Speedway. As of right now, there will be very little 358-Modified racing.
“At this point it cost us about the same to run both,” stated Weaver. “I would love to run the 358 at Utica-Rome on Sunday’s but it takes a lot to do well there and now I have a few Big Block motors put together.
“I had a ton of fun there the last two years but I just didn’t have any luck.”
Ryan Odasz secured a ride with long time Lebanon Valley Speedway owner Stan Wetmore to pilot his no. 77 ride weekly at Fonda Speedway and he’ll hold the driving duties of Wayne Podbielski’s no. 14R. Get this week’s AARN for more details.
Brett Tonkin’s no. 15 is ready to compete Friday night’s at Penn Can Speedway and then Saturday’s at Fulton Speedway.
As of right now it looks like Brett Hearn is leaning towards running at Fonda Speedway this coming Saturday in the R.o.C. opening event rather than New Egypt Speedway. But as is the case with everything, things can change.
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Fuller had some help in the Modified feature as Late Model standout, Gary Stuhler, stood along the inside wall passing along info on how large his lead was.
“That helped me a lot,” stated Fuller. “But he had to get ready for the Late Model feature and left with ten laps to go.”
After having a quality qualifying run, Jimmy Phelps struggled in the feature event behind the wheel of his H&H Motorsports Troyer ride.
“We got hit in the rear on an early restart (lap 13) and it really messed something up,” stated the Baldwinsville, N.Y. driver. “We changed the tire and it didn’t help.”
He ended up finishing in the 12th position.
John Pfeffer ran some laps in the backup 98H car to shake it down for future competition.
What happened to Danny Johnson? Johnson pitted after caution laps began counting on lap 26 to change the right rear. The team struggled to change the right rear tire and he went several laps down eventually finishing 20th.
In the Late Model feature, Vic Coffey had a solid run going when mechanical problems forced his no. 32c into the pit area. Meanwhile, Fuller broke a ball joint causing the right front tire to come off late in the event. He was running inside the top ten. Billy Decker was the highest finishing Modified driver. He finished fifth.
Jeremy Miller captured the Late Model event as he led all 25-laps.
If you have any questions or comments I can be reached at mikemallett@dirttrackdigest.com.
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