Lebanon Valley Speedway Finishes 53 Season
Collins Snags $1,000 DMC Bonus, Season Comes to a Close! By: Rodney Rescott Saturday, September 17, 2005 West Lebanon, NY: Lebanon Valley Speedway wrote its final chapter of its 53rd season this past Saturday, with plenty to of action to keep fans and teams talking for the long winter months to come. DMC Racing Products presenting the final night's program with a full card of events that included a Sportsman 30 lap Classic, the Pro Stock/Rookie Challenge, as well as 4 cylinder feature. Under heavy cloud cover for most of the day, the Valley of Speed was fast, and tricky. But it didn't take long for the winningest Sportsman driver at the Valley to figure it out! As the full moon off the west banking spotlighted the Sportsman division. As the field went under green, it was evident that the night wasn't going to go easy. With 4 cautions by lap 6 six, it was clear that the 30 lap feature was going to be raced in segments. But by lap 11, Collins made his way through the field from his 7th starting spot, and was now comfortably on the front row. With the ensuing restart, Collins, but the field behind, and ran away with the show. Hot on his rear bumper was Lorne Browe's #14, and the hard charging K.C. Goewey. Goewey was running in the top 5 earlier in the event, but contact with another car had shuffled him back to nearly the rear of the field on lap 8. But by the time the last caution flew on lap 27, he was back into the top 5, and coming hard. But it wasn't going to be enough for Browe or Goewey, as Collins put it on cruise control and sailed away, winning the $1,000.00 DMC Racing Products Sportsman Classic. 2nd was Browe, followed by Goewey, Jeff Watson was 4th, and Frankie Harper's #25 capped off the top 5. Other Notables; Donnie Ackner aboard the #78 salvaged a 6th place run after being involved in several incidence early in the feature, the #95 of Carmon Carnibucci power his Toyota sponsored ride back to 7th after a late race spin, as well as the #9H of Ed Harkins whom also spun, and came back to finished 9th. Also on tap were the Pro Stocks and rookies, as they capped off their season with a shootout of their own. The 20 lap feature was packed with the "full moon fever" that was running rampant throughout much of the night. By the conclusion of lap 1, there had already been 3 cautions, involving 8 cars. Out of the race early, before lap 2, was Jimmy Langenback's 54L, Jason Casey's #324, Chris Claus' #80, the #48 of Mike Fachini, Kyle Hosier's #71 , and the #50 of Adam Lackey. But up front, it was another story as Robbie Speed held down the top spot for most of the 20 lap feature. But in the closing laps, tire wear became an issue, and Speed began to slow, and that's all the rest of the field needed. As the freight train went by, the top spot was held by Jay Casey's #322, followed by the returning #55 of Adam Haas. In the closing laps, the battle was on, but nothing could deny the Casey family a return to victory lane. Casey crossed the line first, followed by Haas, 3rd was Mike Middleton, 4th was Robbie Speed, and 5th was the 1st Rookie car of John Rivers Jr. in his #14R. Following Rivers was the #3 of Bill Hammell, 7th was Brian Keough's #311, 8th was Rob Maxon's #17, followed by Hugh Page aboard his #143, and the #118 of Jeff Kelmel rounded out the final top 10 of the season. The Pure Stock division also put on a show as their season came to a close. To celebrate, a 5th feature was added to the normal four as a "Top 5 Shootout", with the top 5 finishers from each getting a chance at the 15 lap feature. The regular show saw Pure Stock#1 captured by 1st time winner Gerald Simpson in his #36. Pure Stock#2 saw Brian Houghtaling's #28 squeak out David Bink for the win. Jon Routhier captured Pure Stock #3, and Nick Hilt finished first in Pure Stock #4. That set the field for the Pure Stock Feature. In the feature, it was good, hard racing. Lap after lap the field diced it out. And what looked like a runaway by the #015 of Jon Routhier, soon changed as the cautions played to the favor of the rest of the field. With just 3 laps remaining in the event, the #99 of Pete DeFiglio charged into the lead after a short caution, he was under pressure. The #015 was sitting 2nd with the #04 of Tom Harkins hovering in 3rd. Behind him was a fast closing #78 of Pete Wiegand who was involved in an earlier incident that dropped him to the back of the field. But it was not going to be enough for anyone, as the American Heart Assoc. #99 of Peter DeFiglio captured the extra distance race and bragging rights for the winter months ahead. 2nd was Jon Routhier, followed by Tom Harkins, Pete Wiegand charged into 4th, and Bob Palmer rounded out the top 5. Jesse Murphy was 6th, 7th was Dave Streibel, 8th was Brian Houghtaling, followed by Jay LaMountain, and Tom Murphy rounding out the Pure Stock final top 10. The 4 cylinder feature was captured by the #28 of Phil DeFiglio, Tim Sayers finished 2nd, and Chris Delfino had a podium finish, crossing the line in 3rd. The Final Point Champions for the 2005 at Lebanon Valley look like this: Modifieds - Brett Hearn 358 Modifieds - Andy Bachetti Sportsman - Art Collins Pro Stock - Rob Yetman Rookie Pro Stock - Jim Cronk Pure Stock - Pete Wiegand Congratulations to all the winners, and to our Champions! Good luck to all our competitors who are participating at various different races in the upcoming weeks, including Syracuse, NY for Super Dirt Week. The final event at Lebanon Valley Speedway is the 23rd Annual Swap Meet scheduled for Sunday, November 6th, 2005, rain of shine. For more information on the Swap Meet, visit our website at www.LebanonValley.com, or call the speedway offices at (518) 794-7606, or (518) 794-9965. SATURDAY SEPTEMBER 17, 2005 - DMC RACING PRODUCTS SPORTSMAN RESULTS (30 LAPS) - 1 Art Collins, 2 Lorne Browe, 3 KC Goewey, 4 Jeff Watson, 5 Frank Harper, 6 Donnie Ackner, 7 Brian Sandstedt, 8 Ed Harkin, 9 Kory Sandstedt, 10 Ryan Larkin, 11 Mike Molloy, 12 Kyle Hoffman, 13 Chad Pierce, 14 Kent Clark, 15 Wayne Keyes, 16 Pauly Szenat, 17 Neil Stratton, 18 Walt McKay, 19 Chris Kokosa, 20 Kim LaVoy, 21 Larry VanAlstyne, 22 Mike Mason, 23 Don Miller, 24 Carmon Carnibucci, 25 Rob Barile, 26 Jason Tompkins, 27 Paul Knox PIT STOP AUTOMOTIVE PRO STOCK / ROOKIE CHALLANGE (20 LAPS) - 1 Jay Casey, 2 Adam Haas, 3 Mike Middleton, 4 Robbie Speed, 5 John Rivers Jr, 6 Bill Hammell, 7 Brian Keough, 8 Rob Maxon, 9 Hugh Page, 10 Jeff Kelmel, 11 John Santolin, 12 Jim Cronk, 13 Frankie Twing, 14 Paul LaRochelle, 15 Jim Langenback, 16 Jason Casey, 17 Chris Claus, 18 Mike Fachini 19 Kyle Hosier, 20 Adam Lackey ROOKIE PRO STOCK RESULTS (12 LAPS) - 1 Brian Keough, 2 Bill Hammell, 3 John Santolin, 4 Jim Cronk, 5 John Rivers Jr, 6 Kyle Hosier, 7 Frankie Twing, 8 Eric Sbrega, 9 Rob Maxon, 10 Adam Lackey, 11 Mike Fachini PURE STOCK #1 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Gerald Simpson, 2 Don Coon, 3 Lynn Wesley, 4 Duane Quenneville, 5 Steve Kahler Jr, 6 Aaron Fachini, 7 Nick Regis, 8 Anthony Maddalla, 9 Windy Winters, 10 Chuck Lampe, 11 Wuggie Burdick, 12 Cindy McConville, 13 Ed Hatch, 14 Jim Fachini PURE STOCK #2 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Brian Houghtaling, 2 David Bink, 3 Rich Douglass, 4 Jesse Murphy, 5 Larry Ball, 6 Kirk Stanaway, 7 Howard Madsen, 8 Jim O'Neil, 9 Mark Stevens, 10 Paul Harding, 11 Douglas Olds, 12 Joe Chenail, 13 Joe Walcott, 14 John Chapman PURE STOCK #3 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Jon Routhier, 2 Tom Harkins, 3 Al Relyea, 4 Pete Wiegand, 5 Pete Defiglio, 6 Jay Casey, 7 Phil Wood, 8 Bob Palmer, 9 Shannon McDermott, 10 Ryan Coon, 11 Dave Stickles, 12 Dave Houser, 13 Chip Martin, 14 Richard Puff, 15 Chrissy Hilt, 16 Jeff Kreutziger PURE STOCK #4 RESULTS (8 LAPS) - 1 Nick Hilt, 2 Dave Streibel, 3 Mike Eichstedt, 4 Tom Murphy, 5 Jay LaMountain, 6 Steve Hatch, 7 Johnny Lane, 8 Todd Pelkey, 9 Robert Hammell, 10 Gary VanDenberg, 11 Mike Acker, 12 John Quigley, 13 Kevin Winters, 14 Karl Castagna, 15 John Denue, 16 Chris Stalker BOOMER'S PERFORMANCE PURE STOCK FEATURE (15 LAPS) - 1 Pete Defiglio, 2 Jon Routhier, 3 Tom Harkins, 4 Pete Wiegand, 5 Bob Palmer, 6 Jesse Murphy, 7 Dave Streibel, 8 Brian Houghtaling, 9 Jay LaMountain, 10 Tom Murphy, 11 Rich Douglass, 12 Steve Kahler Jr, 13 David Bink, 14 Lynn Wesley, 15 Larry Ball, 16 Mike Eichstedt, 17 Duane Quenneville, 18 Nick Hilt 4 CYLINDER FEATURE (15 LAPS) - 1 Phil DeFiglio, 2 Tim Sayers, 3 Chris Delfino, 4 D. J. Faulkner, 5 Chris White, 6 Phil Bink, 7 Raymond Hontoon, 8 Windy Winters, 9 Frank Sorrento, 10 Eric Budd, 11 Brian Walsh, 12 Jim Williams, 13 Todd Goldstein Heather O'Dell Lebanon Valley Speedway Phone: 518-794-9606