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Newberrytown, PA (June 23, 2007) – Stock Car Saturday night at the Susquehanna Speedway Park found Steve Billet, son of current SSP point leader Carl Billet, picking up his first career win in the 20-lap Late Model feature with a last lap pass of Jeremy Knoll. Paul Morgan won the Street Stock feature event over the “new father,” Wes Alleman. Sam Rial passed current point leader Michael Goodwin on a restart with two laps to go to win the Xtreme Stock Car feature event. Daryl Sipe picked up the in the York Haven Auto Sales Mini Van feature. Kendra Knaub led the most laps for the win in the Women on Wheels (W.O.W.) Stock Car Summer Championship. Ricky Hippensteel won the won XSC Rookie Rumble race.
In the 20-lap Late Model feature event, Jeremy Knoll jumped out to the early lead over Steve Billet. A caution on the second lap for a spinning John Moser, Jr. regrouped the field. On the restart, Knoll continued to lead over Billet and Sam Leonard, Jr. Meanwhile, a lot of action found side-by-side battles for position thoughout the rest of the field. The green stayed out until another caution on lap 15 found Darrel Henry spinning coming off turn four. On the ensuing restart, Billet was unable to find the fast way around Knoll. Fortunately for Billet, he had one last chance to make the pass for the lead when the caution once again flew with one lap to go in the race. The third time was the charm as Billet was able to get by Knoll going into turn one and held on to the lead to pick up his first career win. Knoll held on to a close second behind Billet with Carl Billet finishing third. Jake Jones and Scott Richwine finished fourth and fifth, respectively. Rounding out the top ten was Sam Leonard, Jr., Chuck Yingling, Charles Potts, Carl Graves and Justn Ehrhart.
In the 20-lap Street Stock feature, Dustin Hollinger jumped out to the early lead for the second week in a row and didn’t look back in the early stages of the race. As in last week’s feature event, there were many two, three and four battles all the way back to the last spot. A caution on lap four bunched up the field. Hollinger once again continued to lead after the restart, but Paul Morgan snatched it away on the eighth circuit from Hollinger. Morgan started fifth. Morgan continued to lead for the remainder of the race to pick up his second SSP win of the season. The hard charger was Wes Alleman who came all the way from eleventh to finish in the runner-up spot behind Morgan. Brian Hauenstein, Steven Dove and Scott Thunberg rounded out the top five.
In the 30-lap Xtreme Stock Car feature, John Scrivens was the leader for the first three laps. Travis Horan took the lead from Scrivens on lap 4 and continued to lead for the next 20 laps with Mike Goodwin stalking him the entire time. On the 26th lap, Goodwin finally made the pass to take the lead away from Horan. Horan did not give up and continued to challenge for the lead, however, on lap 28, Horan spun coming out of turn four. On the double file restart, each driver may choose either the inside or outside row before they take the green. Goodwin chose the high side and Sam Rial moved to the inside on the restart with 2 laps to go. When the green came out, Rial jumped into the lead and never looked back to pick up the win over Goodwin. Donnie Broderick finished third. Brent Fogelsanger and Scrivens rounded out the top five.
Kendra Knaub won the 20-lap Women on Wheels Summer Championship after battling runner-up Beth Burhman side-by-side for the lead early in the race. Karen Hawthorne finished third. Kim Flanagan and Renee Luckenbaugh rounded out the top five.
In a wild 15-lap Classic Car feature event, Brian Diehl led from start to finish from his pole position starting spot. Second place finisher Jack Yingling was penalized to the tail of the lead lap after spinning Al Daniels coming out of the fourth turn on the final lap. This put Charlie Summers as the runner-up finisher, followed by Bill Brown, Sr., Jim Crocker and Kevin Palmer.
Daryl Sipe won the 10-lap York Haven Auto Sales Mini Van feature over David Snelbaker, Brnadon Ort, Butch Richcreek and Lance Donmoyer.
Ricky Hippensteel won the 15-lap XSC Rookie Rumble over Alex Updegraff and Matt Sowers.
Linda Klinger of Camp Hill took the ride of her life as she was last week’s winner for the Superior Home Race Car Ride-Along with Ray Broderick. She received a few three laps in the passenger seat of Ray’s Xtreme Stock Car. Everyweek one ticket will be drawn from the adult general admission tickets to win a ride for the week after. This week’s winner for the ride-along on Saturday, June 30 is Angel Hunt of Wellsville.
Racing returns to SSP on Saturday, June 23, when Stock Car Saturday Night continues with the Late Models, Street Stocks, Xtreme Stock Cars, Four Cylinder Stock Cars and The Great American School Bus race.
General Admission Grandstand ticket prices for Saturday night will be Adults and Teens (13 & older) $12.00; Children (12 & under) are free. Pit pass prices are $20.00 with a reduced price of $18.00 for all pit competitor license holders. The minimum age requirement to purchase a pit pass is 14 years of age with a copy of a birth certificate is required for all ages 14 to 17.
The pit gates will open 4:30 p.m. Grandstand gates will open at 5:00 p.m. Warmups begin at 6:30 p.m. with qualifying races at 7:00 p.m. followed by consolation races and feature events.
There is a $2.00 repeat fan discount for each person with a ticket stub from races during the previous week’s events completed only. Returning fans are encouraged to write their name, address and phone number on the back of the stub to be entered into special drawings during the season for great prizes. Last season, 10 winners were drawn from the repeat fans and each winner received $30 in SSP Gift Certificates for tickets or concessions. The Repeat Fan Discount is not valid for pit pass purchases.
The Susquehanna Speedway Park is located off I-83 to exit 32, then 1.4 miles NW on SR382 to York Road , then 1.3 miles south. For more information, contact the speedway offices at (717) 292-1696 or visit online at sspracing.net. On raceday, use the track phone at (717) 938-9170 for up-to-date information.
Race Results from Saturday, June 23, 2007
Late Model Feature (20 laps): 1. Steve Billet; 2. Jeremy Knoll; 3. Carl Billet; 4. Jake Jones; 5. Scott Richwine; 6. Sam Leonard, Jr.; 7. Chuck Yingling; 8. Charles Potts; 9. Carl Graves; 10. Justin Ehrhart; 11. Randy Christine; 12. John Baker; 13. Bob Scott, Jr.; 14. Kyle Saylor; 15. Bob Minnich; 16. Sterling Kinard; 17. Darrell Henry; 18. John Moser, Jr.; 19. Bud Witmer.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Knoll (1-19); S. Billet (20)
HEAT RACE WINNERS: S. Billet and Leonard, Jr.
Street Stock Feature (20 laps): 1. Paul Morgan; 2. Wes Alleman; 3. Brian Hauenstein; 4. Steven Dove; 5. Scott Thunberg; 6. Eric Walker; 7. Bryan Shue; 8. Joe Whiteley; 9. Skip Findley; 10. Kevin Sigler; 11. George Eash; 12. Joey Hoffer; 13. Gary Johnston; 14. Justin Rhoads; 15. Carmen Catabiano; 16. Jenn Scott; 17. Jim Ruby; 18. Eric Lingle; 19. Dustin Hollinger; 20. Dave Thompson, Jr.; 21. Lance Grove; 22. Craig Morgan; DNS – Todd Bwersox; Jason Failor; Calvin Herman.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Hollinger (1-7); P. Morgan (8-20)
HEAT RACE WINNERS: C. Morgan; Hollinger; Dove.
Xtreme Stock Cars Feature (30 laps): 1. Sam Rial; 2. Mike Goodwin; 3. Donnie Broderick; 4. Brent Fogelsanger; 5. John Scrivens; 6. Bill Fulton; 7. Travis Horan; 8. Larry Landis; 9. Sean Higgins; 10. Chris Heller; 11. Tim Hahn; 12. Les Scrivens; 13. Randy Blank; 14. Bill Beck; 15. Ray Broderick; 16. Bob Bender, Jr.; 17. Rich Lomman; 18. Tom Johns; 19. John Remlein; 20. Jason Failor; 21. Matt Wampler; 22. Gary Cekovich.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Scrivens (1-3); Horan (4-25); Goodwin (26-28); Rial (29-30).
XSC Rookie Rumble Feature (15 laps): 1. Ricky Hippensteel; 2. Alex Updegraff; 3. Matt Sowers; 4. Adam Doll; 5. Nolan Barshinger; 6. Mike Lomman; 7. Matt Adams; 8. Nancy Horan Frye.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Hippensteel (1-15)
Women on Wheels Stocks Mid-Summer Championship (20 laps): 1. Kendra Knaub; 2. Beth Burhman; 3. Karen Hawthorne; 4. Kim Flanagan; 5. Renee Luckenbaugh; 6. Deanna Frye; DNS – Nancy Horan Frye.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Knaub (1-20)
Classic Cars Feature (15 laps): 1. Brian Diehl; 2. Charlie Summers; 3. Bill Brown, Sr.; 4. Jim Crocker; 5. Kevin Palmer; 6. Brooks Coleman; 7. Joe Snodgrass; 8. Charlie Weaver; 9. Tommy Crummitt; 10. Philip Alexander; 11. Al Daniels; 12. Jack Yingling; 13. Glenn Elliott; 14. Joe Alder; DQ – Kurt Welsh.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Diehl (1-15)
HEAT RACE WINNERS: Brown, Sr. and Diehl
York Haven Auto SalesMini Van Feature (10 laps): 1. Daryl Sipe; 2. David Snelbaker; 3. Brandon Ort; 4. Butch Richcreek; 5. Lance Donmoyer; 6. Jason Anderson; 7. Mike Taft; 8. John Durusell; 9. Sherry Kitner; 10. Rodney Groves; 11. Chad Gracey; 12. Tana Reisinger; 13. Jeff Svendson; 14. Steve Smith; 15. Brian Lefebvre; 16. Brandon Hedstrom.
FEATURE LAP LEADERS: Donmoyer (1-2); Snelbaker (3); Sipe (4-10).
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