9-01 Press Release & Results

TREMONT WINS 9TH RACE OF SEASON, LOWE TAKES SPORTSMAN TITLE BY TWO POINTS

SEPTEMBER 1, 2001
WEST LEBANON, NY- Kenny Tremont Jr. took his ninth victory of the season 
Saturday night at Lebanon Valley. Rich Ricci Jr. took the win in the 
358-modified feature and along with it the 358-modified track title. Bobby 
Knipe won the 20-lap sportsman feature, but Sparky Lowe walked away with the 
2001 sportsman track championship. Rob Yetman was victorious in the 20-lap 
pro stock main event. The fine folks at Gable Auto Sales brought this great 
night of racing to us.
    The format for the modified division was a little different Saturday 
night in that time trial helped set the starting grid for the feature. Two 
races were run for the cars that finished outside the top twelve in time 
trials. Guy Sheldon and Hector Stratton won the two events and picked up $250 
compliments of Jody Gable. J.R. Heffner was the fastest time trialer and 
started fifth. Chris Moore and Ronnie Johnson were the fastest two cars in 
time trials without a feature win this season and they comprised the front 
row for the start of the race. Moore had brake problems on the start of the 
race and dropped quickly to the middle of the field. Johnson took advantage 
and was the early race leader. Kenny Tremont Jr. started eighth and was up to 
fifth by lap two. The first caution of the race came on lap seven as Dave 
Mosher sat facing the wrong way in turn one. Tremont moved up to third on the 
restart and took over second one lap later.
    Tim Dwyer was looking for his second win of the season as he moved into 
third on lap nine. The best race for position was between Eddie Marshall and 
Heffner. The two waged a war for sixth racing side by side for many laps. 
Johnson began to encounter lapped traffic just past the halfway point. That 
lapped traffic would get really heavy around lap 19, which allowed Tremont to 
close in on Johnson. The top three cars had pulled away from the rest of the 
pack with ten laps remaining in the race. The second and final caution came 
out on lap 25. Rich Ricci Jr moved into fourth on the restart. Tremont made 
his bid for the lead going into turn one on lap 26. He was able to pull off 
the slide job and pull away from Johnson. Dwyer battled with Johnson in the 
final laps but Johnson was able to hold on for the runner-up finish.  
    It is the 12th career modified championship for Tremont at Lebanon 
Valley. It was his 96th career modified victory at the track.
The 358-modifieds were also on hand Saturday night. J.R. Heffner was one of 
many drivers doing double duty and he led a majority of the event. Rich Ricci 
Jr was on the move and looking for a win and the 358-point title. He moved 
passed Eddie Marshall into the fifth position on lap seven. Heffner had a 
super fast racecar and had checked out on the rest of the field by lap nine. 
Craig Simmons started the race on the pole and ran a good race coming home 
fifth. Marshall's night came to an end as he went pitside on lap 13. 
    Kenny Tremont Jr. started 14th in the race but cracked the top five on 
lap 14. The only caution of the race came on lap 16 when Bobby Chalmers 
dumped fluid on the track and went spinning in turn one. Ricci moved into 
second on the restart and Tremont moved into third. Ricci quickly went to 
work on Heffner. The two put on a great show in the final stages of the race 
as they bounced off each other more than once. The two made contact going 
down the backstretch on the final lap and went into turn three side by side. 
Ricci was able to get the advantage and took the victory by half a car length 
over Heffner. Tremont came home third and Todd Wilkinson fourth.
    The closest point battle of the night came in the sportsman division. 
Sparky Lowe came into the event just six points ahead of Bobby Knipe and 
eighteen points over Art Collins. The caution came out immediately as Don 
Miller made contact with the turn four wall. Lowe ran into problems as he did 
not see the caution flag and spun around in turn two to avoid driving into 
the back of Knipe's car. The restart saw Knipe take off like a rocket going 
from 13th to fourth in one lap. Three more cautions by lap three forced 
speedway officials to make the restarts single file. One of the cautions took 
Collins out of the point title as he suffered a flat tire and had to go to 
the pits. Knipe took the lead for good on one of the lap three restarts.
    Lowe was recovering nicely form his early race woes to sit eighth by lap 
five. Lowe and Roy Bridge bounced off each other dropping Lowe back in the 
running order several spots. Lowe recovered once again to crack to top five 
by lap nine. Lowe continued his charge forward and took over second on lap 
12. If the race finished this way Lowe would be the champion by two points. 
Roy Bridge had a top five run disappear as he suffered a left rear flat tire 
on lap 14. K.C. Goewey was looking to play the role of spoiler on the restart 
as he moved into third and went to work on second. Lowe had other ideas as he 
began to challenge Knipe for the lead on lap 15. Knipe and Lowe battled side 
by side for several laps, but Knipe held off his advances. Lowe had to then 
concentrate on holding off Goewey for second. The two made contact on the 
final lap and Lowe was able to take over second for good. Knipe took the 
victory, but it was not enough as Lowe won the 2001 track championship. 
    The Pro Stocks took to the track for their 20-lap feature. Robbie Speed 
had trouble on the start and dropped off the pace quickly. Buddy Hencke was 
shown as the leader for the first four laps of the race. Several cautions in 
the early going kept bunching up the field. Danny Sanchez had made his way up 
to second, but spun out on a lap two restart. Rob Yetman took the lead from 
Hencke on lap four. Behind him Jim Lagenback, Bob Duzlak and Ed Bachand raced 
three-wide for fourth. Lagenback came away with the advantage over the other 
two and quickly moved into third by lap six. Bachand started to have problems 
as early as lap seven with the hood on his car coming off. Sanchez had worked 
his way up to sixth after his lap two problems, but he spun around again on 
lap 15 when Ed Bachand dumped fluid in turn three.
    Paul LaRochelle and Lagenback raced hard for second for the final two 
laps, with LaRochelle holding the advantage at the end. It was the third 
victory of the season for Yetman in the Pro Stock division.
    Rich Harkins, Fran Marchand Jr., Pete Wiegand and Bruce Moffitt won the 
Pure Stock features. Jason Dibello and Mike Fachini won the rookie features.
    The Kings 200 Weekend takes center stage next weekend. Two great days of 
action ending with the CARQUEST 200 for the modifieds.

GABLE AUTO STORES MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1) Kenny Tremont Jr, 2) Ronnie 
Johnson, 3) Tim Dwyer, 4) Rich Ricci Jr, 5) Donnie Corellis, 6) Eddie 
Marshall, 7) Matt Quinn, 8) J.R. Heffner, 9) Dave Leckonby, 10) Mike Benson, 
11) Hector Stratton, 12) Chris Moore, 13) Guy Sheldon, 14) Steve Devine, 15) 
John Alberti, 16) Maynard Forrette, 17) Denny Soltis, 18) Chip Mitchell, 19) 
Mike King, 20) Jason Goff, 21) Hollis Morrisey, 22) Skippy Fox, 23) Wes 
Powell, 24) John Tucker, 25) Mark Bird, 26) Dave Mosher, 27) Dave McFeeters, 
28) John G Wolfe

358 MODIFIED RESULTS (24 LAPS) - 1) Rich Ricci Jr, 2) J.R. Heffner, 3) Kenny 
Tremont Jr, 4) Todd Wilkinson, 5) Craig Simmons, 6) Wayne Jelley, 7) Dickie 
Larkin, 8) John Finley, 9) Tom Sanchez Jr, 10) Chris Moore, 11) Lee 
Gagliardi, 12) Vince Quenneville, 13) Lance Harting, 14) Rich Ricci Sr, 15) 
Lucas Baker, 16) John Lutes Jr, 17) Todd Morey, 18) Mark Pullen, 19) Dave 
Baranowski, 20) Bobby Chalmers, 21) Rob Pitcher, 22) Eddie Marshall, 23) 
Danny Watson, 24) Denny Young

SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Bobby Knipe, 2) Sparky Lowe, 3) K.C. Goewey, 
4) Jason Tompkins, 5) Art Collins, 6) Frank Harper, 7) Ernie Palmer Jr, 8) 
Carmon Carnibucci, 9) Don Miller, 10) John Scarborough, 11) Mike Mason, 12) 
Mike Keeler, 13) Joe Bennett, 14) Roy Bridge, 15) Lorne Browe, 16) Charlie 
Humes, 17) Neal Erickson, 18) Whitey Slavin, 19) Dave Tanguay, 20) Ed Harkin,
21) John Hotchkiss, 22) Pat O'Hanlon, 23) Jeff Carr, 24) Mike Molloy, 25) 
Walt McKay, 26) Dan Humes, 27) Jay Casey

PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Rob Yetman, 2) Paul LaRochelle, 3) Jim 
Langenback, 4) Chris Morris, 5) Tom Brandt, 6) Ricky Duzlak, 7) Ray Hall, 8) 
Rob Noviczki, 9) Chris Crews, 10) Ed Bachand, 11) Danny Sanchez, 12) Don Ely, 
13) Buddy Hencke, 14) Rick Fosby, 15) Bob Duzlak Jr, 16) Jeff Kelmel, 17) Joe 
Santoro, 18) Robbie Speed

ROOKIE A RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Jason DiBello, 2) Scott Kilmer, 3) Charlie 
Woodard, 4) Henry Warner, 5) Dan Blackburn, 6) Ralph Hotchkiss, 7) Jery 
Helms, 8) Phil Moffit, 9) Joe Mabb Jr, 10) Dave Colwell

ROOKIE B RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Mike Fachini, 2) Phil Wood, 3) Wayne Keyes, 4) 
Chris DeCiel, 5) E. J. Legeyt, 6) Tom Bungay, 7) John Hynes, 8) Bill Hammell, 
9) Jim Rhodes, 10) Chris Claus, 11) Shane Mickle, 12) Don Belanger, 13) 
Michael Kratz
    
PURE STOCK "A" RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Rich Harkins, 2) Bill Hughes, 3) Ryan 
Larkin, 4) Jon Betz, 5) Paul Handlowich, 6) Steve Hatch, 7) Dan Crosby, 8) 
Sid Smith, 9) Pierre Dupont, 10) Jeff Kuhnow, 11) Chrissy Hilt, 12) Fay 
Fachini, 13) Larry Megan, 14) Nick Hilt, 15) Keith Barlow, 16) Robert Brown, 
17) Kevin Dolan

PURE STOCK "B" RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Fran Marchand Jr, 2) Jay Martin, 3) Gene 
Cushman, 4) Jeff Douglass, 5) Rich Douglass, 6) Marcus Tifft, 7) Bob Burl, 8) 
Glenn Miller, 9) Mark Houston, 10) Joe DiStefano, 11) Bruce Pecorella, 12) 
Jim O'Neil, 13) Mike Middleton, 14) Don Johnson, 15) Seth Spencer, 16) Randy 
Brink, 17) Joshua Brandt

PURE STOCK "C" RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Peter Wiegand, 2) Wally Engel, 3) Brian 
Sandstedt, 4) Jim Hankey, 5) Robert Gibson, 6) Darryl Baker, 7) George Miles 
Jr, 8) Kory Sandstadt, 9) Jim Dellea, 10) Michael Davis, 11) Bob Palmer, 12) 
Dave Atwater, 13) Jamie Reutenauer, 14) Randy Myers, 15) Earl Soulier Jr, 16) 
Chris Streeter, 17) Ryan Coon

PURE STOCK "D" RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Bruce Moffit, 2) Jim Fachini, 3) Ronald 
Johnson, 4) Ron Tritschler, 5) John Denue, 6) Mike Witherell, 7) Eric Sbrega, 
8) Ron Hapeman, 9) John Connor Jr, 10) D.T. Pickard, 11) Todd Pelkey, 12) 
Buck Gasner, 13) Lee Gallant, 14) Dwayne Dauski, 15) Ed Ashley, 16) Don Coon, 
17) Jason Casey, 18) Mark Stevens