|
ZONA, PETRILAK, POLHAMUS, DEINHARDT, AND KINNE WIN AT PENN CAN
Susquehanna, PA…One of the largest crowds in recent Penn Can history was treated to an exciting display of motorsports action with the monster trucks of Big Foot, Viper, and Storm Damage, along with a thrilling stuntman exhibition, all performing between qualify and feature race action. When the popular Penn Can cars took to the track for their main events, the crowd was not disappointed as the racing was just as exciting.
Dave Zona of Montrose , PA made it two in a row in the late model feature backing up his win the previous week. Nick Petrilak of Greenfield did the same duplicating last week’s feature win making it three for the season. A first time winner pulled into Victory Lane when Doug Polhamus held off another great super stock field. In the pure stock main event, Steve Deinhardt returned to the winner’s circle with his third win of 2008. Point leader Gary Kinne patiently worked his way through the field and dodged a lapped car coming to the flag to get another win in the 4 cylinder division.
Allan Kellogg lead a strong field of late models to Gary Folk’s green flag. Kellogg jumped to the early lead with Adam MacGeorge, and Curt Tunelo following closely. The only caution of the feature came on lap eight when Bud Phillips slowed on the track bring the field back together. At this point Kellogg had the lead followed by Dave Zona, Tracy Gregory, James Cornell, and Dan Stone. When the green came back out, Zona moved to the outside of the track and took the lead. Kellogg would keep his car glued to Zona’s bumper lap after lap while some real exciting racing took place for the third spot between Gregory, Cornell, Stone, Randall Paxton. When the checkered flag flew, Zona held on for his second win of the year with Kellogg coming home a strong second. Gregory was scored third with Stone getting by Cornell late in the race for fourth. Cornell settled for fifth at the finish of the nine minute twenty lap feature event.
The sportsman feature would be every bite as exciting and like the late model feature, it too would only have one caution flag. Bob Janesky and Rick Brown started on the front row of the twenty lap race. Brown would lead lap one before third starting Paul Rooney took control. Rooney would lead until lap six when Nick Petrilak went to the outside of the track and took control. While Petrilak had the front spot covered, Paul Strohl, Rooney, Grant Hilfiger, and Mike Nagel Jr all battled for the runner-up spot. Without a caution, Petrilak easily won the race with Strohl getting second followed by Hilfiger, Rooney, Nagel, and a fast charging Joey Colsten.
Doug Polhamus used his third starting position to his advantage by jumping to the front of the sixteen super stock field. With Jim Sykes riveted to his rear bumper, Polhamus kept the cars behind for the first eight circuits until caution flew. Three time winner, Chris Strohl was now in second but on the restart Polhamus was able to pull away. Strohl went pitside on lap twelve with Carl Heater now in the second position followed by Neil Palladino. The last six laps went caution free with Polhamus claiming his first super stock feature followed across by Heater, Palladino, Frank Payne, and Tom Herman.
It looked like Rich Green would pick up another win in the pure stock division when he grabbed the lead from Jon Carpenter on lap eight. Steve Deinhardt had other ideas as the two put on a fierce battle for the lead over the last laps of another exciting pure stock feature. Without the aid of a caution, Deinhardt caught Green and the two ran side by side lap after lap. Deinhardt took to the outside on lap sixteen and made the pass for his third win of the season. Green got second followed by Ryan Stone, Tom Garren, and Harry Marvin III.
The four cylinder feature was another battle with any number of cars looking like winners of the fifteen lap event. With racing all through the pack, Beezer Wilkie took a turn out front only to be caught by Andy Brigham. These two competitors raced side by side while point leader Gary Kinne wait for his turn. Kinne moved past Wilkie on lap six then took the lead from Brigham on lap nine. Kinne then dodge a couple lapped cars to finish out front. Wilkie came in second followed across by Brigham, Dan Wood, and Andy Colwell.
PENN NOTES: A huge crowd turned out to see the monster trucks and stuntmen of KSR Motorsports. Their one hour show was topped off by Big Foot crushing yet another car and doing wild spins in front of the main grandstand. King Kong Knevil set another world record by jumping thirty six bananas to the thrill of the crowd. The next big event at the speedway comes Tuesday July 29th with the annual “Hot Summer Night” special with ROC Modifieds, ROC Sportsman, and Dart Pure Stocks. The modifieds return nest Friday with late models, sportsman, super/pure stocks, and CRSA Sprints.
MXM Motorsports Late Model Feature: Dave Zona, Alan Kellogg, Tracy Gregory, Dan Stone, James Cornell, Randall Paxton, Curt Tunilo Jr, Joe Domiano, Adam McGeorge, Dan Snyder, Jeremy Randall, Chad Hollenbeck, Adam Diaz, Ben Whithaker, Chris Hunsinger, Ernie Millon, Bud Phillips, Scott Adams
MXM Motorsports Sportsman Feature: Nick Petrilak, Paul Strohl, Paul Rooney, Grant Hilfiger, Mike Nagel Jr, Joey Colsten, Justin Holland, Jeff Crambo, Les Gillette, Mike Lartz, Mike Loney, Jamie Cortazar, Tim Howell, Dwayne Robbins, Casey Plummer, Josh Ainey, Rick Whitney, Eric Griffin, Bob Janesky, Jonathan Kemnitsky, Stanley Wilkins, Jim Hughes Sr, Tom Witko, Rick Brown
MXM Motorsports Super Stock Feature: Doug Polhamus, Carl Heater, Neil Polladino, Frank Payne, Tom Herman, Pat Nolan, David Brown, Andrew Alia, Chris Strohl, Mark Hiller, Bill Metschulat, Darren Stout, Jim Sykes, Dick Koch, John Lewis, Fred Christ, DNS: Bimmer Gulley
MXM Motorsports Pure Stock Feature: Steve Deinhardt, Rich Green, Ryan Stone, Tom Garren, Harry Marvin III, Steve Polhamus, Ray Lindquist, Jon Carpenter, Becky Davies, Jim Thompson-Ortiz, Carl Shimer, Toby Sparks, Glen Robinson, Butch Green, Chris Shimer, DNS:Doug O'Hara
MXM Motorsports Four Cylinder Feature: Gary Kinne, Beezer Wilkie, Andy Brigham, Dan Wood, Andy Colwell, Josh Wilder, Rob Nober, Tim Leonard, Chris Taylor, Chris Conrad, Robert Fleming, Jason Colwell, Leo Shew, John Hoover, Mike Taylor, Ed Dyson
|
|
