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Sheldon Makes Valley History in Bizarre Night of Action |
May 5, 2007 |
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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 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 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 Feaure. You are surely not gonna want to miss this one! For more information, current points, or just directions to the Saturday 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 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 Rndy 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 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 4 Cylinder Dual |
       
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