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TRACKS: Holmes takes modifieds checkered at Fonda

6 August 2000

Fonda, NY Ronnie "Hot Shoe" Holmes of Oneida, NY survived a first lap caution and grabbed the lead from Rich Pennock, Jr. on the restart to continued on to his fourth checkered flag of the season (his 2nd big block win).

"I knew I had the lead but I thought A. J. was on my bumper, said Holmes in the post race interview. My car was getting tighter and tighter as the race progressed."

A. J. Romano, Bobby Albert, Bobby Varin and Tony Pepicelli followed Holmes to the line.

Frank Hoard, Jr. turned his first career win of two weeks ago into back to back wins when he picked up the checker in the sportsman main.

Rob Noviczski picked up win number six on the season in the Pro Stock main event.

Steve Hough took home his first win of the season in the I.M.C.A. modifieds. In Street Stock A action Ed Bradt put his name along side the other first time winners at the track this season. The Street Stock B feature win went to Dave Horning, Jr. The ELS Sprint win went to Dan Kaszubinski

Saturday, August 12, 2000 - 6:00 p.m.- Regular show sponsored by Nations Rent. The Michael Waltrip Nations Rent Winston Cup car will be on display.

Also on the schedule for the Fonda Future’s kids club is the annual Law Enforcement Night featuring the county sheriff organizations from Fulton, Montgomery and Schoharie that sponsor the kids club throughout the year.

Modified action saw Rich Pennock, Jr. lead the field to the green flag while being chased by Bob Sitterly and Bob Vedder. As the field came around to complete the first circuit the cars of Dave Lape and Mike Romano touched on the frontstretch, sending Romano around and headed toward turn four. He was clipped by the cars of Alton Palmer and Kenny Martin as the two tried to avoid the incident. Martin's car made a hard hit into the inside wall. The Romano car was towed to the pits. He was unable to return.

Holmes took the lead on the restart and within two laps began to pull away from the field. Tony Pepicelli sat third behind Rich Pennock with A. J. Romano fourth and Bob Vedder now fifth.

Holmes continued to put distance between him and the rest of the field. Behind him the race was now between A. J. Romano, Bobby Albert, Craig Criscone and Bobby Varin.

The final caution on lap 21 closed up the field and put Romano, Albert, Pepicelli and Varin nose to tail behind Holmes for the restart. Holmes easily pulled away and made his way to the checker.

Young Jessica Zemken led the sportsman field of 28 cars to the green. Jessica led until the first caution when her No. 1P experienced transmission problems under caution and was forced into the pits.

Mike Ballestero was now in the lead for the next five laps until his No. 27 began to smoke him to the pits.

Frank Greco took the lead from Ballestero and ran for two laps until debris on the track brought out the next caution and restart.

Frank Hoard, Jr. took the lead on the restart and never looked back. Hoard, Jr. recorded his second win of the year giving back to back wins in the division.

The Pro Stock action came to the green with Kerry Jordan on the point. Jordan led lap one and on the lap two restart spun in front of the field and collected Steve Burega.

Phlan Hart led lap three and was quickly overtaken by eventual winner Noviczski on the backstretch.

Noviczski continued to stretch his lead. With only two laps to go Noviczski had some tense moments in lap traffic when he had to pick his way around the No. 42 of Tom LaPlante.

Noviczski continued his smooth methodical way for the final circuit and recorded his sixth win of the 2000 season.

The fifteen lap I.M.C.A. Modified action began with rookie Bill Ward, Jr. at the head of the field. The No. 92 of Kevin Buff quickly overtook Ward. Buff held the lead until lap seven when Steve Hough put his No. 25 in the lead. Hough pulled away but was being pursued by Buff and Steve Bidwell who was now third. Bidwell got by Buff on lap nine and on lap eleven Buff slid high and slammed the backstretch wall. Hough was never seriously challenged after that and went on to claim his first ever win at the track.

The Street Stock A action saw four different leaders in twelve laps and a first time winner at the checker. Don Warner was the early leader until Dan Rickard took over on lap six. Joe Donato led lap eight and when the final lap was complete it was Ed Bradt on the point to take his first ever checker and make a trip to Checkerboard Square.

Ken Barth was the early leader in the Street Stock B feature and held the lead for nine of the twelve laps. In the end it was Dave Horning, Jr. taking the victory for his 8th of the season.

Modified finish (30 laps) 1. RONNIE HOLMES, 2) A. J. Romano, 3) Bobby Albert, 4) Bobby Varin, 5) Tony Pepicelli, 6) Craig Criscone, 7) Tim Clemons, 8) Jeff Trombley, 9) Dave Lape, 10) Bob Sitterly, 11) Floyd Billington, 12) David Towns, 13) Seth Gano, 14) Frank Hoard, 15) Mike Fusco, 16) Bob Vedder, 17) Rich Pennock, 18) Lee Nutting, 19) Dave Sargent, 20) John Marsh, 21) Mike Dillenbeck, 22) John Scarborough, 23) Matt DeLorenzo, 24) Jerry Pennock, Jr., 25) Bob Savoie, 26) Alton Palmer, 27) Mike Romano, 28) Kenny Martin.

Modified Heat Winners: David Towns, Rich Pennock, Jr., and Dave Lape. The consi winners were Frank Hoard and Floyd Billington.

Sportsman finish (20 laps)1. FRANK HOARD, JR., 2) Ryan Odasz, 3) John McAuliffe, 4) Drew Fallis, 5) Frank Greco, 6) Jeremiah Munson, 7) Joe Geniti, 8) John Constantino, 9) Mike Ketchum, 10) Ray Zemken, 11) Dan Trombley, 12) Matt Larkin, 13) Tim Sanders, 14) Darren Keyser, 15) Joe Rando, 16) Tim Mayne, 17) Jim Davis, 18) Jessica Zemken, 19) Craig Boehler, 20) Rick Wozniak, 21) Mike Ballestero, 22) Steve Akers, 23) Eddie SanSoucie, 24) Nick Nichols, 25) Johnny LeClair 26) Mike Fraiser, 27) Jeff Holt, 28) Robert Perry.

Sportsman Heat Winners: Mike Ballestero, Eddie SanSoucie, Steve Akers and Jessica Zemken. Consi wins went to Tim Mayne and Craig Boehler.

IMCA Modified feature finish (15 laps) 1.STEVE HOUGH, 2) Steve Bidwell, 3) George Catanzano, 4) Danny Ballard, 5) Joe Locorini, 6) Mike Bungay, 7) Kevin Priest, 8) George Proctor, 9) Bill Ward, Jr., 10) Aaron Jacobs, 11) Skip Pabis, 12) Bud Hernberg, 13) Kevin Buff, 14) Dan Krajewski.

IMCA Heat Winners: Kevin Priest and Joe Locorini.

Pro Stock finish (20 laps) 1. ROB NOVICZSKI, 2) Nick Stone, 3) Phlan Hart, 4) Jeff Patrick, 5) Chris Morris, 6) Mike Fritz, 7) Kenny Gates, 8) Dave Viall, 9) Jamie Proctor, 10) Jim Burton, 11) James Normoyle, 12) Kerry Jordan, 13) Luke Klob, 14) Chuck McSpirit, 15) Tom LaPlante, 16) Geoff Manning, 17) Wayne Walker, 18) Joe Duncan, 19) Hondo Carpenter, 20) Bryan Jordan, 21) Steve Cosselman, 22) Tom Denton, 23) Steve Skinner, 24) Jim Duncan, 25) Steve Burega, 26) Steve Welch.

Pro Stock Heat Winners: Chris Morris, Phlan Hart, and Steve Burega.

Street Stock A finish (12 laps) 1. ED BRADT, 2) Joe Donato, 3) Rocky Warner, 4) Shawn Simmons, 5) Joe Smith, 6) Scott Wells, 7) Eric Harper, 8) Eric Milewski, 9) Brian Cosselman, 10) Dan Rickard, 11) Ellis Shaffer, 12) Ken Hollenbeck, 13) Don Oldick, 14) Charlie Krause, 15) Don Warner.

Street Stock B finish (12 laps) 1. DAVE HORNING, JR., 2) Jerry Pepper, 3) Ken Barth, 4) Bob VanAernam, 5) Dave Bayes, 6) John Babcock, 7) Dick Nichols, 8) Dave Hewitt, 9) Keith Ackerknecht, 10) Guy Klob, 11) Dan Rickard, 12) Chris Porcari, 13) Jim Olsen, 14) Rob VanAernam.

ELS Sprints finish (20 laps) 1. DAN KASZUBINSKI, 2) Rick Hart, 3) Bill Bailey, 4) Mike Barlow, 5) Howard Singer, 6) John Lieto, 7) Mike Young, 8) Carmen Carnibucci, 9) John Karklin, 10) Warren Alexson, 11) Steve Rutkowski, 12) Eric Robinson, 13) Bill Guertin, 14) Brian Grisel, 15) Fred Dittmer, 16) Mike Miller, 17) Jeff "Spider" Thomas, 18) Darrell Bragman, 19) Brian Dumigan, 20) Bob Wade, 21) Jim McCaffrey, 22) Dave Wickham.

ELS Sprint Heat Winners: Dan Kaszubinski, Rick Hart, and Rich Wood.

ELS Dash Winner: Dan Kaszubinski