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By: Rodney Rescott – Saturday May 5, 2007
West Lebanon, NY: The Valley of Speed was packed in both the stands,
and in
the action this past Saturday night. Full cards of events were on tap
for
night of hot action, including some bizarre finishes, and serious
incidents.
With a week off of action due to last week’s rain out, the Big Blocks
Mods
were geared up and ready for action for their Benjamin Moore Paints 30
lap
feature event. At the drop of the green, the #88D of Ronnie Dwyer led
the
field to turn one. While the field exited turn two, Paul Gilardi’s
#87X
broke cause the rest of the field to scramble to get out the way.
Several
cars were damaged, including the Andy Bachetti, Kenny Tremont, Russ
Reckner,
and Guy Sheldon. The only car that had to retire was Gilardi.
At the next green flag, Dwyer once again took the top spot and paced
the
field for most of the night. Hounded the #88D was the new guy, Jeff
Trombley aboard his #21J. Dwyer proved too strong early in the event.
On
Lap 11, Tremont, while marching through the field with Bachetti,
suffered
another flat tire as the caution flew. But all eyes were out front, as
Dwyer was getting pressure from Trombley, and a charging J.R Heffner.
The night turned bizarre when the #88D was about to complete lap 23
when
going into turn three he suffered brake failure and careened into the
outside wall; causing several damage to the car. While he did walk
away
from the incident just shaken and sore, the car was done for the night.
This handed the lead over to another hard charger, Hollywood Guy
Sheldon.
When the green flew; the #42 of Sheldon paced the field for the
remaining 7
circuits to complete a history making event. For the first time in
Lebanon
Valley history, a Father, Son won a Modified event back to back.
Sheldon crossed the line first, followed by Heffner. Third was the #34
of
Steve Hough, followed by Jeff Trombley, and Kyle Sheldon. Notable
were:
Eddie Marshall 6th, Kenny Tremont 9th, and Andy Bachetti 10th.
Also on tap was the CR Concrete $1,000.00 to win Sportsman Classic 20
lap
event. At the drop of the green the #J5 of Bob Bouchard looked to have
the
car to beat, until he was reeled in by veteran racer Chris Kokosa
aboard his
familiar #00. But Bouchard’s led soon evaporated on lap 14 when
contact
between the #25B of Rob Barilie and the #95 of Carmon Carnibucci on the
backstretch caused a multi-car pile-up resulting in a red flag for
nearly 10
minutes.
Carnibucci was the last to exit his wrecked racer under his own power,
but
was very sore after multiple contacts. Cars that were retired for the
night
were the #25B of Barilie, Carnabucci’s #95, the #83 of Chad Pierce,
the #87
of Neil Stratton, the #9 of Ed Harkins, and the #80 of Kory Sandstedt.
Once
the green flew it was the Bouchard and Kokosa out front, but during the
long
red flag, something went away on the #00, and he quickly faded back
through
the field. Then by lap 17, he was out of the event after spinning in
turn
three. But Bouchard could hold on, as the #16 of Kyle Hoffman charged
to
the top spot with just a few laps remaining to take the CR Concrete
$1,000.00 20 lap Sportsman feature.
Following Hoffman to the checkers was Bouchard, followed by Chris
Tryon,
Frankie Harper, and Alan Houghtaling rounding out the top 5.
The Pro Stocks had their chance at the Valley of Speed with their 20
lap
feature event, and thankfully, this one was pretty uneventful, as Jay
Corbin
passed Chris Crews and Jay Casey to take the top spot on lap 15, and
never
looked back. Corbin takes his first of the year followed by Casey,
Crews,
Kevin Arnold, and Mike Middleton rounding out your top 5.
The Limited Pro Stocks had a scary moment as the #6 of John Santolin
made
hard contact with the infamous turn three wall, careening him back
across
the speedway into the #41 of Rob Maxon. Maxon’s car then made hard
contact
into the turn four wall, damaging the wall itself. Thought the car was
damaged beyond repair, Maxon was done for the night, Santolin was later
transported to a local hospital suffering from back pain, but was said
to be
ok at press time.
After repairing the boilerplate in turn four, the racing continued with
the
#98 of Justin Herron capturing his first win this season, followed by
Nick
Hilt, Dave Colwell, Joe Mennite, and Kevin Winters.
Another special event on the night was the 20 lap Boomer’s
Performance Pure
Stock Clash. The Legend, Pete Wiegand charged from the back of the
pack to
take the checkers, followed by Tim Sayers, Tom Harkins, Shannon
McDermott,
and Mike Eichstedt.
In addition, to the Clash, the regular Pure Stock features were in the
house
with Ray Hall, Sr. taking PS#1; Lou Ganzar captured PS#2, while Shannon
McDermott captured PS#3.
The last event on the night was the 4 cylinders, as Phil Defiglio took
the
checkers in the Double Cam class, and Jim Williams took the checkers in
the
Single Cam class.
Next Saturday night is the Doherty Brothers Construction and Chatham
Printing presenting the Royals Garage $3,000.00 to win Big Block
Modified
Feature. You are surely not gonna want to miss this one!
For more information, current points, or just directions to the
Speedway,
visit our website at www.LebanonValley.com, click on “Speedway”.
Or call
the Speedway Offices during normal business hours at (518) 794-9606,
(518)
794-9965.
Saturday May 5, 2007 - Benjamin Moore Paints and Boomer's Performance
Present the CR Concrete $1,000 to Win Sportsman Classic Results (20
Laps) -
1 Kyle Hoffman, 2 Bob Bouchard, 3 Chris Tryon, 4 Frank Harper, 5 Alan
Houghtaling, 6 Danny Sanchez, 7 K. C. Goewey, 8 Art Collins, 9 Jeff
Watson,
10 Don Miller, 11 Mike Mason, 12 Derek Schibi, 13 Kevin Lynch, 14 Earl
Thitchener, 15 Wayne Keyes, 16 Bill Singer, 17 Chris Kokosa, 18 Brian
Sandstedt, 19 Rob Barilie, 20 Carmon Carnibucci,21 Chad Pierce, 22 Neil
Stratton, 23 Kory Sandstedt, 24 Ed Harkin
Modified Results (30 Laps) - 1 Guy Sheldon, 2 J. R. Heffner, 3 Steve
Hough,
4 Jeff Trombley, 5 Kyle Sheldon, 6 Eddie Marshall, 7 Mark Flach Jr, 8
Keith
Flach, 9 Kenny Tremont, 10 Andy Bachetti, 11 Brian Berger, 12 Matt
Quinn, 13
Russ Reckner, 14 Dickie Larkin, 15 Dave McFeeters, 16 Mike King, 17
John
Ruchel, 18 Wayne Jelley, 19 J. C. Flach, 20 Ray Hoard, 21 Ron Dwyer, 22
Tom
Faxon, 23 Mark Pullen, 24 Korey Gurney, 25 Rich Salisbury, 26 Ryan
Larkin,
27 Tim Dwyer, 28 Hector Stratton, 29 John Hewitt, 30 Paul Gilardi
Pro Stock Results (20 Laps) - 1 Jay Corbin, 2 Jay Casey, 3 Chris Crews,
4
Kevin Arnold, 5 Mike Middleton, 6 Don Carlson, 7 Rick Dempsey, 8 Robbie
Speed, 9 Jim Langenback, 10 Ed Bachand, 11 Jason Casey, 12 Ed Bishop,
13
Victor Hopkins, 14 Brian Keough, 15 Kyle Hosier, 16 Johnny Rivers, 17
Jon
Routhier, 18 Jeff Kelmel, 19 Mike Stebbins, 20 Steve Goodermote, 21
Steve
Hankle, 22 Don Collins, 23 Bob Duzlak, 25 Paul LaRochelle, DNS Paul
Rogers
Limited Pro Stock Results (10 Laps) - 1 Justin Herron, 2 Nick Hilt, 3
Dave
Colwell, 4 Joe Mennite, 5 Kevin Winters, 6 Dirk Lapierre, 7 Chad Jeseo,
8
Don Kennedy, 9 John Santolin, 10 Rob Maxon, 11 Jay Kretuziger Jr
Pure Stock #1 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Ray Hall Sr, 2 Tom Harkins, 3 Mike
Eichstedt, 4 Dave Streibel, 5 Dave Houser, 6 Jesse Murphy, 7 Dan Olds,
8
Randy Meyers, 9 Jay Casey, 10 Steve Hatch, 11 Dave Fachini Jr, 12 Brian
Houghtaling, 13 Dave Stickles, 14 Joe Walcott, 15 Johnny Lane, 16 Rich
Douglass, 17 Joe Chenail
Pure Stock #2 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Lou Ganzar, 2 Howard Madsen, 3 Tim
Sayers, 4 Kirk Stanaway, 5 Chris Keller, 6 Lynn Wesley, 7 Tom Murphy, 8
Gary
Osterhout, 9 Gary VanDenburg, 10 John Quiqley, 11 Shawn Dixon, 12 Jeff
Douglass, 13 Brian Walsh, 14 Cord Becker, 15 Lloyd Tomlin, DQ Chris
Streeter
Pure Stock #3 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Shannon McDermott, 2 Al Relyea, 3
Pete
Weigand, 4 Matt Humes, 5 Richard Puff, 6 Bob Palmer, 7 Ed Hatch, 8
Larry
Ball, 9 Jery Helms Jr, 10 Karl Castagna, 11 Robert Hammell, 12 Doug
Olds, 13
John Chapman
Boomer's Performance 20 Lap Pure Stock Clash Results - 1 Pete Weigand,
2 Tim
Sayers, 3 Tom Harkins, 4 Shannon McDermott, 5 Mike Eichstedt, 6 Bob
Palmer,
7 Dave Houser, 8 Matt Humes, 9 Al Relya, 10 Howard Madsen, 11 Dave
Stickles,
12 Lou Ganzar, 13 Richard Puff, 14 Tom Murphy, 15 Kirk Stanaway, 16 Ray
Hall
Sr, 17 Jesse Murphy, 18 Lynn Wesley, 19 Ed Hatch, 20 Chris Keller, 21
Dave
Streibel
4 Cylinder Single Cam Results (15 Laps) - 1 Jim Williams, 2 Chris
White, 3
Shawn Perez, 4 Shane Barto, 5 Mark Intelisano
4 Cylinder Dual Cam Results (15 Laps) - 1 Phil Defiglio, 2 Mark Burke,
3
Todd Bartley, 4 Matt Mooradian, 5 Cody Speed
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