TRACKS: Moore shakes bad luck, takes modified win at Lebanon Valley
20 August 2000
WEST LEBANON, NY- Chris Moore was finally able to shake a string of bad luck
to capture the 30-lap modified feature at Lebanon Valley Saturday night. Roy
Bridge dominated the 20-lap sportsman feature for his second win of the
season. Jim Lagenback was victorious in the 20-lap street stock main. Parts
Plus was the main sponsor for the evenings entertainment.
Mark Fluery was the early race leader in the 30-lap modified feature. He
was able to hold on to the lead until lap four when Chris Moore was able to
make the pass. Tim Dwyer was charging toward the front early and was up to
second by lap eight. What is becoming a weekly occurrence at the Valley
happened on lap nine as a multi-car crash brought out the first caution of
the race. At least eight cars were piled into each other in turn three
including J.R. Heffner, Kenny Tremont and John Hewitt. The caution flew again
on lap nine as John Lutes stopped on the frontstretch with heavy right
front-end damage. Mark Fluery slowed dramatically on the restart with made
the cars behind him have to check up. That was nearly disaster for current
point leader Rich Ricci Jr as he and Donnie Corellis were stuck together.
Fortunately they were able to separate without needing a caution.
Meanwhile, Moore and Dwyer had pulled away from the rest of the pack.
Brian "The Dream" Weaver was on hand Saturday night for the first time and
had a good run going in the feature and was racing Ricci for tenth on lap 13.
Matt Quinn spun coming off turn two and brought out the caution on lap 13, he
would retire from the event three laps later. Ricci was able to vault up to
sixth on the restart. Corellis took fifth away from Jason Goff on lap 18. The
caution came out again on lap 20 as Dave Leckonby got spun around in turn
two. Dave Mosher and John Hewitt would crash under the yellow flag ending
Mosher's night. Ricci moved up to third on the restart. Moore had opened a
nice five-car cushion over Dwyer as the race reached the three-quarter mark.
Moore narrowly avoided disaster on lap 28 as Eddie Maxon's car dropped the
contents of his radiator going into turn one. Moore was able to slow his car
down in time to avoid the turn one wall.
The rest of the rest went rather uneventful and Moore was able to cruise
home for the win. Dwyer was second, Ricci was third, Dickie Larkin fourth and
Corellis was fifth. It was a very bad night for Kenny Tremont as he started
the race from the last position with a back-up car. Tremont was able to
salvage a seventh by night's end.
John Hotchkiss was the early leader in the 20-lap sportsman feature.
Lorne Browe took the lead from Hotchkiss by lap three. Roy Bridge moved up to
third by lap five and was able to take the lead by lap nine. The first
caution of the race did not come out until the field had taken the halfway
sign. Mike Mason spun out in turn one and was not able to re-fire quickly.
Stan Jablonka was able to move into fourth on the restart. Don Miller tagged
the wall in turn two bringing out the second caution of the race on lap 13.
Bridge had a super strong car on this night and he was able to open a large
advantage after every restart. There was some great racing behind Bridge for
the runner-up spot.
Browe, Jablonka and Bobby Knipe put on one heck of a show for second.
Browe was able to hang on to second with Knipe third, Jablonka fourth and
K.C. Goewey rounded out the top five.
Ed Bachand had command of the 20-lap street stock feature in the early
stages. The first caution of the race came out on lap five when Nick Rogers
came to a stop on the frontstretch. Scott Govertsen was not able to avoid the
disabled car and wound up in the frontstretch wall. Bobby Duzlak used the lap
five restart to take the lead from Bachand. Last week's winner, Dan Burl;
would not be as fortunate on this night as he wound up on his lid on the
backstretch. Bachand tried to get back around Duzlak on the restart, but
Duzlak held him off. The caution came out on lap eight as Don Ely spun out in
turn two. Jim Lagenback was able to take the lead on the restart.
Ricky Duzlak got his chance to lead on lap ten, but heavy smoke began to
show from his car. The leader shuffle continued on lap 13 as Paul LaRochelle
made the pass for the lead. Kevin Jordan made a surprise appearance Saturday
night and was running in the top ten; He would drop from the event on lap 16.
LaRochelle spun out by himself in turn one, which gave the lead back to
Lagenback. Robbie Speed deserved the hard charger award in the feature. Speed
started the race from the 29th position and was able to get all the way up to
fourth by the end of the race. Ricky Duzlak hit the turn two wall hard on lap
18, which brought out the final caution of the event. Lagenback was able to
hang on for the victory; Ted Teal and Todd Goldstein followed him across the
line.
8-19 PARTS PLUS / INSTITUTE FOR ENTREPRENUERSHIP NIGHT MODIFIED SUMMARY (30
LAPS) - 1) CHRIS MOORE, 2) Tim Dwyer, 3) Rich Ricci Jr, 4) Dickie Larkin, 5)
Donnie Corellis, 6) David Sanchez, 7) Kenny Tremont Jr, 8) Denny Soltis, 9)
Ronnie Johnson, 10) J.R. Heffner, 11) Russ Reckner, 12) Jason Goff, 13) Brian
Weaver, 14) Dave Leckonby, 15) Steve Devine, 16) Guy Sheldon, 17) John
Hewitt, 18) John Alberti, 19) Al McCoy, 20) Ed Maxon, 21) John Lutes Jr, 22)
Dave Baranowski, 23) Dave Mosher, 24) Matt Quinn, 25) John G. Wolfe, 26)
Donnie Ackner, 27) Hollis Morrisey, 28) Mark Fluery, 29) Maynard Forrette,
30) Rob Pitcher, 31) Chris Kokosa
SPORTSMAN SUMMARY (20 LAPS) - 1) ROY BRIDGE, 2) Lorne Browe, 3) Bobby Knipe,
4) Stan Jablonka, 5) K.C. Goewey, 6) George Marcus, 7) Art Collins, 8) Sparky
Lowe, 9) Jason Tompkins, 10) Hawley Smith, 11) Jay Casey, 12) Danny Watson,
13) Mike Visconti, 14) Frank Harper, 15) Jeff Carr, 16) Darral Hulbert, 17)
Ed Harkin, 18) John Hotchkiss, 19) Mark Flach Jr, 20) Mike Mason, 21) Phil
Arnold, 22) Paul Gilardi, 23) Tony Fiearro, 24) Don Miller
IMCA MODIFIED SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) PETE TUCKER, 2) Chris Crews
STREET STOCK SUMMARY (20 LAPS) - 1) JIM LANGENBACK, 2) Ted Teal, 3) Todd
Goldstein, 4) Robbie Speed, 5) Adam Haas, 6) Victor Hopkins, 7) Tom Brandt,
8) Paul Rogers, 9) Al Blackburn, 10) Brian Wilber, 11) Butch Irwin, 12) Dave
Striebel, 13) Joe Humet, 14) Jeff Kelmel, 15) Ricky Duzlak, 16) Ed Bachand,
17) Steve Brownell, 18) Paul LaRochelle, 19) Kevin Jordan, 20) Bob Duzlak,
21) Don Ely, 22) Pete DeFiglio, 23) Danny Sanchez, 24) Earl Mellan, 25) Dan
Burl, 26) John Denue, 27) Nick Rogers, 28) Scott Govertsen, 29) Rob Yetman
ROOKIE STREET STOCK SUMMARY (10 LAPS) - 1) DAVE COLWELL, 2) Charlie Woodard,
3) Dan Humes, 4) Rick Spencer, 5) Mike Fachini, 6) Brian Keough, 7) Phil
Wood, 8) E.J. LeGeyt, 9) Jim Keough, 10) Lawrence Ball, 11) Phil DeFiglio,
12) Geo. Stalker Jr, 13) Tony Gale, 14) Rick Fosby, 15) Kevin Arnold, 16)
Walt Clark, 17) Don Belanger
PURE STOCK "A" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) - 1) BRUCE PECORELLA, 2) Mark Houston, 3)
Jason Dibello, 4) Randy Meyers, 5) Phil Decker Jr, 6) Chrissy Hilt, 7) Ken
Scofield, 8) Chad Ritrovato, 9) Shawn Dixon, 10) Doug Moore, 11) Guy Hughes,
12) Bud Noble, 13) Lloyd Tomlin, 14) Dean Cushman, 15) Jim O'Neil, 16) Ron
Hapeman, DQ) Jacob Coons
PURE STOCK "B" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) -1) GEORGE MILES JR, 2) Jim Hankey, 3) Bob
Gibson, 4) Steve Hatch, 5) Wally Engel, 6) Anthony Cotugno, 7) Richard
Harkins, 8) Lloyd Fosby, 9) Lee Gallant, 10) Earl Soulier, 11) Marcus Tifft,
12) Joe DiStefano, 13) Jacob Coons Jr, 14) Art Lafferty, 15) Keith Barlow,
16) Donald Coon, 17) Bruce Moffitt
PURE STOCK "C" SUMMARY (8 LAPS) -1) BILL HUGHES, 2) Brian Tator, 3) Brian
Sandstadt, 4) Ronnie Jacobsen, 5) Scott Kilmer, 6) Ron Tritschler, 7) Rich.
Schumann, 8) Pete Wiegand, 9) Philip Moffit, 10) Ray Pierre Jr, 11) Ronald
Johnson, 12) Kevin Dolan, 13) Ryan Crellin, 14) Fran Marchand, 15) Bob
Palmer, 16) Joe Mottoshiski