LVS Results 07/15/2006 - Heffner Finally Visits Victory Lane

 
Saturday July 15, 2006 – By: Rodney Rescott

West Lebanon, NY:  There were no fireworks on the schedule for the night’s 
program, but there sure were fireworks on the track, as Rifenburg 
Construction presented the action along with the Benjamin Moore Paints 358 
Super Series.

It took nearly 9 weeks, or almost half the season for J.R. Heffner to drive 
to victory lane, but it took a lot of hard work, and a little bit of luck to 
finally break through in 2006.

The 30 lap Rifenburg Construction Modified feature event took to the Valley 
of Speed, with Denny Soltis and Russ Reckner at the helm.  At the drop of 
the green, Reckner charged out front, but Reckner was gonna get a chance to 
stretch it out as a multi-car pile up brought out the first caution in turns 
3 and 4.   When the mess was cleaned up, and most cars back on track, the 
green dropped again, this time, the caution waited till lap two, when 
several more cars got bobbled up, causing a few more repairs.  By lap 4, the 
race was finally under way, and this time Reckner took his Hough Motors #34R 
to the lead, then to another zip code.

Nothing was going to slow this kid down on his way to his first modified win 
of his career, except for another caution flag; and there was.  The first 
was for the #99m of Jeremy Matthies, and then a lap later; Denny Soltis’ 
ride finally lost steam and was forced pit side.  That made for a 4 lap 
shoot out for the win.  Sitting back in 2nd, was Heffner, who quietly march 
his way into the runner-up spot.  And at the drop of the green, he began the 
challenge.  The ACS Express tried high, and low, but Reckner was holding 
strong.  Finally, with two to go, slight contact going into three caused 
Reckner to check up, allowing for the A. Callarusso and Sons #74 to the 
bottom, and past Reckner for the lead.  At the checkers, Heffner took his 
first for 2006, followed by a strong run for Reckner.  Keith Flach’s #43 ran 
an impressive 3rd, followed by another rookie, Mark Flach Jr’s #77F.  Andy 
Bachetti charged through the field after spending several caution flag laps 
in the pits with damage to capture a well deserved 5th place finish.

The Benjamin Moore 358 Super Series had their 24 lap feature earlier in the 
evening, and the action was just as interesting.  Kory Gurney and Mark 
Pullen brought the field to the start.  It didn’t take long for the sparks 
to fly, and the field scrambled to vie for positions.  As the field charged 
down the backstretch, contact with the #32 of Quinn and the #1 of Sean 
Gallivan, caused the field to check up; as several cars spun to avoid 
contact.  Buddy Henke’s #24H suffered the most damage, and was out of the 
event.  After that clean up, the green fell again, but multiple contact with 
several cars caused the #30 of Pullen suffer severe damage, relegating him 
pit side for the night.  Bu the race belonged to the Rifenburg #21 of Donnie 
Corellis, who got to the front first, and checked out.  He led the last 13 
laps and took his first win in the 358’s for ’06.  J.R Heffner took home 
second place honors, while Andy Bachetti marches to a 3rd place run.  Forth 
place was captured by Roy Bridge, and Matt Quinn rallied back to finish 5th.

The Pro Stocks had their excitement as the show came to a brief halt on lap 
8 as part time driver Adam Haas lost control of his #55 after contact with 
the outside wall in turn 3, and rode the wall all the way around into turn 4 
on two wheels.  But his ride wasn’t over, as he took down a support pole, 
causing the car to flip several times, finally coming to a rest on its roof 
at the head of the front stretch.  After several seconds, the car burst into 
flames, but Haas was already making his exit from the car, and he got out 
safely with just minor bruises.  The race continued, Rob Yetman had already 
procured the lead, and just set sail with the cruise control on to take his 
6th victory of 2006.  Jay Corbin battled his way to 2nd, 3rd was Rob 
Langevin, 4th across the line was Paul LaRochelle, with an excellent run to 
fifth place for the #243 of Victor Hopkins.

The Sportsman division had their share of excitement as well as a lap 1 
incident in treturous turn 3 had the field come to a standstill as the #9 of 
Ed Harkin wedged his front end into the door window of the #16 of Kyle 
Hoffman.  After several minutes to get the two separated, the field was back 
under way.  But this night belonged to the #39 of Ryan Larkin who took his 
first win of the year, and the 7th different winner in ’06.  Jeff Watson 
took 2nd, as Frankie Harper charged to take 3rd.  4th across the line was 
K.C. Goewey, followed by the #00 of Chris Kokosa.

The Limited Pro Stocks were captured by George Miles, taking his 5th win of 
the year.  The Pure Stocks also had an action packed night of racing.  
Nearly 45 cars took to the speedway, the winners were:  PS# 1-Robert Hammell 
(1st win), PS# 2-Lynn Wesley (1st win), PS# 3-Pete Wiegand (6th win), and 
PS# 4-Dave Streibel (3rd win).

The Outlaws are coming to the High banks of Lebanon Valley.  Sunday July 
23rd, the World of Outlaws will take over the Valley of Speed and try and 
take over as the King of the Valley.  Tickets are going fast, so get your 
reserved seats now, while they last!

On Saturday July 22nd, it’s GE Plastics and Snap-On Tools night with a 
special Autograph Night, and a $3,000.00 to win Modified feature event.  
Bring the campers and make an entire weekend out it with tons of racing 
actions.  Get your tickets now.

For more information and tickets, visit our website at 
www.LebanonValley.com, or call the Speedway Offices at (518) 794-9606, or 
(518) 794-9965 during normal business hours.

Saturday July 15, 2006 - RIFENBURG Construction

Modified Results (30 Laps) -  1 J. R. Heffner, 2 Russ Reckner, 3 Keith 
Flach, 4 Mark Flach Jr, 5 Andy Bachetti, 6 Donnie Corellis, 7 Wayne Jelley, 
8 Paul Gilardi, 9 Steve Hough, 10 Eddie Marshall, 11 Lorne Browe, 12 Tim 
Dwyer, 13 John Hewitt, 14 Don Mattison, 15 John Ruchel, 16 Hector Stratton, 
17 Wayne Figler, 18 Charlie Humes, 19 Kenny Tremont, 20 Denny Soltis, 21 
Donnie Ackner, 22 Jeremy Matthies, 23 Mark Pullen, 24 Ron Dwyer, 25 Guy 
Sheldon, 26 Mike King, 27 Matt Quinn, 28 Brian Berger, 29 Kyle Sheldon, 30 
Skippy Fox, 31 Dave McFeeters, 32 John Alberti

Benjamin Moore Paints 358 Modified Super Series Results (24 Laps) - 1 Donnie 
Corellis, 2 J. R. Heffner, 3 Andy Bachetti, 4 Roy Bridge, 5 Matt Quinn, 6 
Keith Flach, 7 Ray Hoard, 8 Ryan Larkin, 9 Kenny Tremont Jr, 10 Wayne 
Jelley, 11 Tom Faxon, 12 Kory Gurney, 13 Sean Gallivan, 14 Ted Teal, 15 
Denny Young Jr, 16 Jim Van Anden, 17 Earl Thitchener, 18 Alan Houghtaling, 
19 Rich Salisbury, 20 Mark Pullen, 21 Buddy Henke

Sportsman Main Results (20 Laps) - 1 Ryan Larkin 2 Jeff Watson, 3 Frank 
Harper, 4 KC Goewey, 5 Chris Kokosa, 6 Chris Tryon, 7 Kevin Lynch, 8 Ed 
Harkin, 9 Chad Pierce, 10 Alan Houghtaling, 11 Brian Sandstedt, 12 Carmon 
Carnibucci, 13 Kory Sandstedt, 14 Rob Barilie, 15 Daryl Hulbert, 16 Bob 
Bouchard, 17 Neil Stratton, 18 Wayne Keyes, 19 Kim LaVoy, 20 Danny Sanchez, 
21 Joe Mabb Jr, 22 Derek Schibi, 23 Earl Thitchener, 24 Don Miller, 25 Kyle 
Hoffman

Pro Stock Main Results (20 Laps) - 1 Rob Yetman, 2 Jay Corbin, 3 Rob 
Langevin, 4 Paul LaRochelle, 5 Victor Hopkins, 6 Bob Duzlak, 7 Mike 
Middleton, 8 Chris Crews, 9 Dwayne Quennville, 10 Don Collins, 11 Jon 
Routhier, 12 Adam Haas, 13 Rick Dempsey, 14 Lori Cary, 15 Jeff Kelmel, 16 
Don Carlson, 17 Jason Casey, 18 Kevin Arnold

Limited Pro Stock Results (10 Laps) - 1 George Miles Jr, 2 John Santolin, 3 
Nick Hilt, 4 Brian Keough, 5 Justin Herron, 6 Jerry Helms Sr, 7 Dan 
Hartgraves, 8 Jim Keough, 9 Frankie Twing

Pure Stock #1 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Robert Hammell, 2 Jay Casey, 3 Jay 
Kreutziger Jr, 4 Ed Hatch, 5 Wuggie Burdick, 6 Don Coon, 7 Dave Houser, 8 
Joe Walcott, 9 John Quiqley, DNS Scott VanDenberg

Pure Stock #2 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Lynn Wesley, 2 Rich Douglass, 3 Gary 
VanDenberg, 4 Steve Hatch, 5 Joe Chenail, 6 Anthony Madalla, 7 Chris Keller, 
8 Karl Castagna, 9 Mike Arnold, 10 Richard Rogers

Pure Stock #3 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Pete Wiegand, 2 Matt Humes, 3 Shannon 
McDermott, 4 Bob Palmer, 5 Larry Ball, 6 Mike Eichstedt, 7 Al Relyea, 8 John 
Chapman, 9 Chrissy Hilt, 10 Kevin Winters, 11 Nick Regis, 12 Tom Harkins, 13 
Jesse Murphy

Pure Stock #4 Results (8 Laps) - 1 Dave Streibel, 2 Lou Ganczar, 3 Ray Hall 
Sr, 4 Steve Kahler Jr, 5 Dave Stickles, 6 Jim Fachini, 7 Jerry Helms Jr, 8 
Ron Hoyt Jr, 9 Tim Sayers, 10 Ryan Coon, 11 Kirk Stanaway