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Weedsport, NY – June 22, 2008 – By Dan Kapuscinski, Canandaigua Speedway PR and Promotions Coordinator
It had been nearly two years since the defending Rite Aid 200 Champion had visited victory lane at Canandaigua Speedway. Saturday night though, with an inside pass on Vinnie Vitale on lap-25, Vic Coffey returned to the promised land at the ‘Land of Legends’ recording his 17th Big-Block Modified win at the Finger Lakes oval.
Coffey’s win was worth $1,500 on Home Necessities Night at the Races, and served as a perfect warm-up to the World of Outlaws Late Model Series event coming up on Tuesday, June 24th.
“This new Troyer ran great tonight and I just tried to pass as many cars on restarts as I could because that is the easiest time to pass out there,” said Coffey in victory lane. “Hopefully we can keep this going on Tuesday night for the Outlaws race here.”
Despite starting scratch due to the change to a back-up car Steve Paine managed a fine second place run, followed by Gary Tomkins, Vitale, and Dave Rauscher in the top five. Contender Matt Sheppard had a rough night all around finishing in the 19th position in the no. 9s.
Todd Henderson picked up his second DIRTcar Sportsman Modified main event win of the season Saturday night. The no. 18h took the lead from Loren Lincoln on lap-5 and never looked back on his way to victory. Dan Wiesner, Lincoln, Kevin Ridley, and Nick Guererri finished the top five runners.
Tim Devendorf in the ESDCA Mod Lites, Chris Guererri in the PureStox, and Adam Depuy in the UMP Street Stocks also picked up main event wins Saturday night.
Doug Rose’s Green Mamba Jet Car also thrilled fans during intermissions and at the end of the evening. The Mamba filled the air with smoke, flames, and vibrating sound as it completely melted a mini-van in the Speedway infield.
Tuesday night the World of Outlaws Late Model Series makes its first visit to Canandaigua Speedway. Time trials begin at 6:30pm with racing kicking-off at 7pm. Watch the Outlaws take on local Big-Block heroes Vic Coffey, Tim McCreadie, Tim Fuller, Billy Decker, and Danny Johnson.
For more information call the DIRTcar NE headquarters at 315/834-6606 or visit www.canandaiguaspeedway.com.
Home Necessities “Green Mamba Jet Car” Event Summary (6-21-08):
ESDCA Mod Lites
Heat #1: Devendorf, Williams, Klager, Broedel, Zehr, Schartner, Bruce , Virginia , Thomas
Heat #2: Gwilt, Sobotka, Gamlen, Yelle, Jeffries, Townsend, Painter, Donovan
Feature (15-laps): 1) 5- TIM DEVENDORF, 2) 18- Joe Gwilt, 3) 1- Paul Klager, 4) 29- Lowell Zehr, 5) 75- Jason Broedel, 6) 42- Frank Sobotka, 7) 52- Rick Yelle, 8) 17- Gary Jeffries, 9) 22x- Ken Gamlen, 10) 99- Andrew Schartner, 11) 49- Rich Townsend, 12) 14- Calvin Painter, 13) 70- Ricky Donovan, 14) 10- Lisa Thomas, 15) 32- Mike Virginia, 16) 28- Mike Bruce, 17) 2- Doug Williams
PureStox
Feature (15-laps): 1) CJ1- CHRIS GUERERRI, 2) 83- Bryan Faulkner, 3) 3c- Jim Cronin, 4) 25b- Marc Minutolo, 5) 77- Corey Hunt, 6) 05- Ross Lurcock, 7) 22t- Eric Chapman, 8) 9r- Roger Bush, 9) 6- George LaVare Jr.
UMP Street Stocks
Feature (20-laps): 1) 99- ADAM DEPUY, 2) 33- Andy Fisk, 3) 00- Mike Welch, 4) 37- Chris Fisher, 5) 57b- Bubba Burnell, 6) 55b- Blane Smith, 7) 115- Nick Rizzo, 8) 75- Scott Smith, 9) 07- Leroy Lewis, 10) 55k- Kevin Smith, 11) 55- Larry Fenton Jr.
DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds
Heat #1: Rizzardo, P. LaVare, Gray, Cook Jr., Smith, K. LaVare, Lewis
Heat #2: Giguere, Dinkins, Henderson , Hoteling, Guererri, Hilton, Newton
Heat #3: Lincoln, Wiesner, Ridley, Hilkert, Currier, Bussey, Demalie
Feature (25-laps): 1) 18h- TODD HENDERSON, 2) 66- Dan Wiesner, 3) 2L- Loren Lincoln, 4) 20x- Kevin Ridley, 5) 25g- Nick Guererri, 6) 17- Marcus Dinkins, 7) 4- Daryl Hilkert, 8) 88- Kyle LaVare, 9) 3- Fran Hilton, 10) 99$- Anthony Rizzardo, 11) 44- Gary Hoteling, 12) 1- Matt Smith, 13) 8L- Phil LaVare, 14) 67g- Eric Giguere, 15) 29g- Steve Gray, 16) 74- Mike Demalie, 17) 76- Rob Bussey, 18) 11n- Rick Newton
DIRTcar Big-Block Modifieds
Heat #1: Rauscher, Payne Jr., Coffey, Fisher, Burley, Tegg, Bowman, Whaley
Heat #2: Vitale, Sheppard, Tomkins, Donk, Habeck, Pfeffer, Haers, Brownell Jr.
Heat #3: Podsiadlo, Paine, Bower, Vigneri, Guererri, Ward, Monroe, Slover, Homan
Feature (35-laps): 1) 32c- VIC COFFEY, 2) 7x- Steve Paine, 3) 84- Gary Tomkins, 4) 56- Vinnie Vitale, 5) 48T- Dave Rauscher, 6) 89b- Todd Burley, 7) 29- Jeff Brownell Jr., 8) 99b- Chuck Bower, 9) 28p- Eldon Payne Jr., 10) 44v- Phil Vigneri, 11) 16b- Mike Bowman, 12) 99- Charlie Donk, 13) 25- Paul Habeck, 14) 79- John Pfeffer, 15) 37c- Eric Fisher, 16) 44- Shannon Whaley, 17) 91- Chad Homan, 18) 2b- Ron Cartwright Jr., 19) 9s- Matt Sheppard, 20) 21- Derrick Podsiadlo, 21) 3- Justin Haers, 22) 22- Gil Tegg Jr., 23) 50- Don Slover, 24) 25g- Paul Guererri, 25) 45m- Mike Ward, 26) 4- Ed Monroe
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