ADAM ASHCROFT AND BRUNO MOWERY
CAPTURE ARCADE SEASON FINALE FEATURES

BY: Mark Southcott

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      Delevan, NY: Arcade International Raceway closed out its 2009 season with a Mini Stock and Street Stock special show. Bruno Mowery of Olean, NY took the Mini Stock feature which was worth $500 for winning while Adam Ashcroft of Freedom, NY drove to the $1,500 first place prize in the Street Stock main event. Heat finishes set the feature starting fields with a heads up start.
      Bruno Mowery took the lead at the start of Mini Stock feature from his outside pole starting spot over fourth place starter and Genesee Speedway champion Dan Norton. Mowery managed to keep ahead of him until lap ten when Norton officially led that lap at the line. Mowery regained the lead the next lap as Brad Ullman and Steve Mowery stayed close with them in the third and fourth place positions. Bruno hung on for the win as Ullman was able to slip under Norton late in the feature for the second place finish. Steve Mowery and Jim Galloway made up the top five finishers.
      Steve Mowery blasted off from his pole starting spot for the lead with Arcade and Little Valley champion Andy Michael in hot pursuit after starting fourth. Mini Stock feature winner Bruno Mowery lost a wheel on lap two for the race's first caution and retired from the event. Michael was testing Mowery for the lead, but Mowery retained the front spot. Michael's chase ended on lap eleven with a flat tire for another caution, and he lost a lap. Adam Ashcroft, after steadily moving forward from his twentieth starting spot, moved into the second spot as Genesee Speedway champion Josh Smallidge ran third for the lap thirteen restart. Dundee, NY's Bob Buono moved under Smallidge for the third spot as one more lap was completed as Adam Sixt was running fifth after starting sixteenth. Sixt moved around Smallidge for the fourth spot just before the lap twenty point with many-time Fulton and Utica-Rome champion Dave Mannise now holding down fifth place. Sixt dropped to the infield with a problem on lap twenty two as Joe Chamberlain came to a stop before the turn three exit for another caution. The restart order was Mowery, Ashcroft, Buono, Mannise, John Gagner and Smallidge in the top six spots. Ashcroft was able to move around Mowery for the lead on the restart as the halfway point was reached and the top five drivers pulled away from the rest of the field. Buono took second from Mowery during the chase. Caution waved again for debris in turn three on lap thirty one as Gagner made a pit stop. Mowery experienced a flat tire while running third on lap thirty two and had to stop for a new one. Ashcroft led Buono, Mannise and Damon Lewis at this point. Lewis brought out a caution on lap thirty eight when his ride came to a stop on the backstretch. Ashcroft again was keeping a comfortable edge over Buono on the restart with Mannise holding down third place. Ashcroft had the car the beat and took the checkers first over Buono. John Gagner made a late race charge to grab third place from Mannise while early leader Steve Mowery rounded out the top five after his run from the back of the pack. Buono was disqualified in post-race tech though. The revised top five finish showed Ashcroft, Gagner, Mannise, Mowery and Leon Szweda, III.

RESULTS

Mini Stock - 25 laps:
1. #48x BRUNO MOWERY (started 2nd)
2. #46x Brad Ullman
3. #0 Dan Norton
4. #48 Steve Mowery
5. #69 Jim Galloway
6. #61 Derek Wagner
7. #46 Greg Haynoski
8. #21 Davey Lowe
9. #10 Bill McKinney
10. #14B Brian Conn
11. #74 George Keech
12. #12 Nick Snayczuk
13. #2 Dave Lowe

Heat winners: #46x Brad Ullman, #48x Bruno Mowery

Street Stock - 50 laps:
1. #6R ADAM ASHCROFT (started 20th)
2. #3J John Gagner
3. #18 (#8) Dave Mannise
4. #48S Steve Mowery
5. #26 Leon Szweda, III
6. #6T Adam Sixt
7. #6 Joe Layfield
8. #41 Nathan Arnold
9. #61 Art Peterson
10. #7J Josh Smallidge
11. #00 Damon Lewis
12. #19 Paul Gerace
13. #37J Scott Fuller
14. #8 Dan Giboo
15. #17x Andy Michael
16. #46 Joe Chamberlain
17. #87 Brandon Sherwood
18. #41P Tony Pangrazio
19. #2H Jeff Hellwig
20. #98 Kevin Hill
21. #92 Dave Bansmer
22. #48 Bruno Mowery
DQ from 2nd: #81 (#8) Bob Buono
DNS:
#J2 Mike Jackson
#16 Dan Scharf
#75D Jason Dobson
#93 Jared Hill

Heat winners: #48S Steve Mowery, #00 Damon Lewis, #98 Kevin Hill, #17x Andy Michael