LEBANON VALLEY RESULTS
HEARN, BACHETTI, COLLINS & LANGENBACK ALL WINNERS AT LEBANON VALLEY
July 20, 2002 WEST LEBANON, NY- A huge crowd was on hand at Lebanon Valley
Speedway Saturday for RIFENBURG night. Those on hand witnessed Brett Hearn
visit victory lane in the 30-lap modified feature. The 358-modifieds were on
hand once again in '02 at the Valley and that 24-lap feature went to Andy
Bachetti. Art Collins was victorious in the 20-lap sportsman feature and Jim
Langenback was in victory lane once again in the 20-lap Pro Stock main.
Sparky Lowe took command of the 30-lap modified feature at the green flag and
held the lead for nearly ten laps. Chris Moore made a great save on the
frontstretch on lap four and prevented a huge wreck from happening. Rich
Ricci Jr's night came to an abrupt end on lap nine as the yoke on the
transmission broke. Donnie Corellis took his Rifenburg #57 into the lead on
the restart. J.R. Heffner and Matt Quinn made incidental contact on lap ten,
which resulted in Quinn making heavy contact with the turn four wall. Andy
Bachetti was up to fourth by lap ten with Brett Hearn right behind him in
fifth. Two laps later Bachetti moved his Coors Light #21 passed Maynard
Forrette into third. The top five in the running order at the halfway point
was Corellis, Lowe, Bachetti, Hearn and Kenny Tremont Jr.
Corellis looked very strong up on the point and had opened up a half
straightaway lead before another caution on lap 16. Lowe would begin to feel
the pressure from Bachetti for second on lap 16. Hearn joined the fray on lap
18 and quickly worked his way past both into the runner-up position. This
side by side racing allowed Tremont to join Lowe and Bachetti in a three-wide
battle for third on lap 19. Tremont would gain the upper hand for third on
lap 20 while Hearn was beginning to reel in the leader. Hearn was able to get
his Budweiser #1 into the lead by lap 21 and he quickly checked out from the
rest of the pack. Eddie Marshall moved his Marshall Oil #98 into fifth on lap
23. Tremont moved his Emerick Associates #115 into second on lap 25.
The only thing that slowed Hearn in the final stages was lapped traffic.
Hearn narrowly avoided disaster with a couple of laps remaining when a lapped
car slid into his path. But Tremont was too far back to have a shot and Hearn
picked up his second win in a row at the Valley. For Hearn it was career
victory 590. Tremont had to settle for second, Corellis was third, Bachetti
finished fourth and Marshall was fifth.
Lucas Baker was the early race leader in the 24-lap 358-modified feature.
Andy Bachetti used a lap four restart to move from fourth into second. He
took the lead from Baker on lap six and would never look back. Rich Ricci Jr
duplicated Bachetti's early move on a lap nine restart to vault from fourth
to second. Right behind him there was a great three-way battle for third
between Donnie Corellis, Baker and Kenny Tremont Jr. Corellis would hold
third by the halfway point of the event. Brett Hearn worked his way up to
sixth by lap 15. Tremont grabbed third on lap 16. The 358-modified feature
winner two weeks ago was Matt Quinn. Things didn't work out quite the same
this week as he retired from the event on lap 17
Bachetti was the class of the field on this night and easily cruised home for
the victory. Ricci and Tremont were second and third respectively .The closet
battle in the final stages was for fourth between Corellis and Hearn.
Corellis was able to hang on for fourth with Hearn having to settle for
fifth.
Problems right at the start of the 20-lap sportsman feature caused the red
flag to be flown with no laps completed. Twelve cars were involved in a
pileup in turn one. When racing resumed Walt McKay was the race leader.
Several multi-car incidents on lap four forced speedway officials to go
single file early for the second time in three weeks. Art Collins had his St.
Lawrence Cement #68 dialed in Saturday night. He had worked his way into the
top five on the second lap and into third before the first lap four caution.
Collins grabbed the lead on the second lap four restart. Mike Keeler moved
into third on lap five and into second by lap seven. Bobby Knipe moved into
third just before halfway.
K.C. Goewey dropped from the event on lap 12. Rookie driver, Ryan Larkin had
a strong run in the feature, He was involved in one of those early race
incidents but was back into the top five by lap 16. Collins took home the
victory with Keeler in second. Knipe held off Roy Bridge in the final stages
on the race for third and Larkin rounded out the top five.
One of the best features of the night was the 20-lap Pro Stock main.
Everywhere you looked the cars were running two-wide battling lap after lap.
Paul LaRochelle led from the start of the race and appeared to be headed to
victory lane. He had to hold off early challenges from Danny Sanchez and Bob
Duzlak. Dan Blackburn spun while running in the top five but he was able to
continue with no caution necessary. Jim Langenback was looking to add another
win to his season and was up to third by lap 11. Rob Yetman slowed suddenly
on the backstretch on lap 14 and dropped out on the top ten.
The car appeared to come back to life, but he had already dropped to the tail
of the field. He recovered nicely to move up to sixth by the end of the
event. Langenback moved into second on lap 13, which set up a fantastic
finish! LaRochelle and Langenback raced door to door for the in the final
laps. Langenback was able to grab the advantage with one lap to go.
LaRochelle tried to make a pass on the backstretch and the two made contact
sending LaRochelle into the backstretch wall. The incident also collected up
last week's winner, Al Blackburn. There was a restart with one lap remaining
but Langenback held on for the win. In victory lane Langenback credited Denny
and Chris Soltis for the strong motor that they build for his Advance Auto
Parts #54L. Duzlak was second, Adam Haas third, Sanchez fourth and Ed Bachand
rounded out the top five.
7-20 RIFENBURG CONSTRUCTION MODIFIED RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1) Brett Hearn, 2)
Kenny Tremont Jr, 3) Donnie Corellis, 4) Andy Bachetti, 5) Eddie Marshall, 6)
Chris Moore, 7) Sparky Lowe, 8) Maynard Forrette, 9) Hector Stratton, 10)
J.R. Heffner, 11) Dave Leckonby, 12) Stanley Wetmore, 13) Paul Gilardi, 14)
Guy Sheldon, 15) Rob Pitcher, 16) Ernie Palmer Jr, 17) John Alberti, 18)
Steve Devine, 19) Hawley Smith, 20) Ron Blake, 21) Dave McFeeters, 22) Mel
Schruffer, 23) Charlie Humes, 24) Ron Cartwright Sr, 25) Mike Ricci, 26)
Denny Soltis, 27) Matt Quinn, 28) Rich Ricci Jr, 29) Mike King, 30) Russ
Reckner, 31) Jason Goff
358 MODIFIED RESULTS (24 LAPS) - 1) Andy Bachetti, 2) Rich Ricci Jr, 3) Kenny
Tremont Jr, 4) Donnie Corellis, 5) Brett Hearn, 6) Lucas Baker, 7) J.R.
Heffner, 8) Wayne Jelley, 9) Eddie Marshall, 10) Guy Sheldon, 11) Jason
Herrington, 12) Ted Teal, 13) Wes Powell, 14) Denny Young Jr, 15) Rich
Salisbury, 16) Stan Lemiesz, 17) Dave Baranowski, 18) Donnie Ackner, 19) Matt
Quinn, 20) Ken Baker, 21) Ron Cartwright Jr, 22) Danny Watson, 23) John Lutes
Jr, 24) Mike Benson, 25) Art Collins
SPORTSMAN RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Art Collins, 2) Mike Keeler, 3) Bobby Knipe,
4) Roy Bridge, 5) Ryan Larkin, 6) Joe Bennett, 7) Jeff Watson, 8) Jeff Carr,
9) Jay Haviland, 10) Walt McKay, 11) Kory Gurney, 12) Dan Humes, 13) Tony
Ferriero, 14) Will Galm, 15) Mike Mason, 16) K.C. Goewey, 17) Whitey Slavin,
18) Frank Harper, 19) Carmon Carnibucci, 20) Mike Molloy, 21) Lorne Browe,
22) Don Miller, 23) John Hotchkiss, 24) Ed Harkin, 25) Ted Layton
PRO STOCK RESULTS (20 LAPS) - 1) Jim Langenback, 2) Bob Duzlak Jr, 3) Adam
Haas, 4) Danny Sanchez, 5) Ed Bachand, 6) Jason DiBello, 7) Victor Hopkins,
8) Rob Yetman, 9) Robbie Speed, 10) Dan Blackburn, 11) Rick Fosby, 12) Chris
Crews, 13) Brian Keough, 14) Paul LaRochelle, 15) Al Blackburn, 16) Jeff
Kelmel, 17) Don Ely
ROOKIE PRO STOCK RESULTS (10 LAPS) - 1) Henry Warner, 2) Jim Hankle, 3) Mike
Fachini, 4) Ralph Hotchkiss, 5) Jay Corbin, 6) Charlie Woodard, 7) Joe Mabb
Jr, 8) Jerry Wright, 9) John Santolin, 10) Bill Hammell, 11) Chris Claus, 12)
Ray Hall Jr, 13) Kim LaVoy, 14) Bill Lobdell
PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Mike Eichstedt, 2) Mark Huston, 3) Jim
O'Neil, 4) Rich Douglass, 5) Bob Burl, 6) Jeremy Pease, 7) Jay Martin,8) Dave
Atwater, 9) Chrissy Hilt, 10) Don Coon, 11) Paul Harding, 12) Chris Streeter,
13) Ross Zito, 14) Michael Dianda, 15) Mark Burke, 16) Pud Noble
PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Jason Casey, 2) John Betz, 3) Michael
Davis, 4) Ryan Coon, 5) Marcus Tifft, 6) Robert Gibson, 7) Steve Hatch, 8)
Kevin Dolan, 9) Pete Everett, 10) Chris Hutnik, 11) Randy Myers, 12) William
Fuchs, 13) Shannon McDermott, 14) John Rivers Jr, 15) Eric Sbrega, 16) Bob
Chenette, 17) Dave Houser
PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Pete DeFiglio, 2) Bill Hughes, 3) George
Miles Jr, 4) Peter Wiegand, 5) Bob Palmer, 6) D.T. Pickard, 7) Ronald
Johnson, 8) Michael Middleton, 9) Keith Barlow, 10) Ron Tritschler, 11) Ronny
Jacobsen, 12) John Chapman, 13) Alan Hill, 14) Larry Ball, 15) Dave Shepard,
16) Ed Hubbard, 17) Brian Sandstedt
PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1) Jim Hankey, 2) Earl Soulier Jr, 3) Kory
Sandstadt, 4) John Denue, 5) Poncho Hankey, 6) George Miles III, 7) Jeff
Douglass, 8) Dwayne Dauski, 9) Jeff Kuhnow, 10) Nick Hilt Jr, 11) John
Fachini, 12) David Stickles, 13) John Connor Jr, 14) Dan Crosby, 15) Jim
Fachini, 16) Paul Handlowich
