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Justin Carlson Bests
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June 18, 2010 |
| Delevan, NY- Friday
night’s racing at South Arcade Speedway would feature many of the region’s best E-mod competitors with the Kinzua Water Service United E-mod Series on hand for a 25 lap, $1000-to-win event. Taking home the win was Justin Carlson of Sherman. Steve Dixon won his third FASTRAK Late Model main event in as many tries. Bruno Mowery survived to win the street stock feature. Chris Paar and Zach Hamer would score wins in the Mini Stocks and Pure Stocks, respectively. With racers from around the tri-state (NY/PA/OH) region in attendance, weekly South Arcade regulars John Woodward Jr. (18) and TJ Downs (03) were looking to hold off the outsiders on their home turf. Many of the outsiders were not newcomers to the speedway however, with current UEMS point leader Randy Hall (10), Justin Carlson (27H), and Vic Vena (01) all former winners in weekly competition at the Delevan 1/3 mile. Woodward and Carlson would lead the field to the green flag in their main event. Woodward would lead the first lap, but Justin Carlson was able to get past on lap two. TJ Downs would work past Woodward as well on lap four. Following a short caution period, Randy Hall would get a huge run down the backstretch to dive into turn three underneath Downs and Woodward to grab away second from both of them. On the move was Vic Vena. After starting ninth, Vena would get past Nathan Hill (38) on lap nine for sixth and would go on to challenge Kari Gasser (0k) for fifth before a caution for the slowing car of John Woodward. Woodward would head pitside and return at the tail of the field. Out front it remained Carlson and Hall, while back in the pack there was a lot of great racing going on with drivers racing three and four wide at times. The race would be slowed once more with a spin by Mike Eschrich (9E). Under the same caution period, TJ Downs would exit the track while running third. At the final restart, with just four laps remaining Randy Hall went to work on Carlson, trying every line he could to get by to no avail. Kari Gasser would challenge Hall for second on the final circuit, but taking the win, his first ever UEMS victory, was Justin Carlson. Carlson’s win came piloting an unfamiliar car, the “High Voltage” #27H owned by Tom Hagberg, rather than his usual #16. On what was Sixt Lumber night at the speedway, Adam Sixt (6T) was in pursuit of his first-ever Jerge’s Auto Parts FASTRAK Late Model Victory. Also hungry for a win after a rough start to the season was 2009 track champion John Lacki (7). The pair would lead the field to the green with Sixt going to the lead off the start. Lacki would not let Sixt in the Sixt Lumber car get away however, as he would try to get his B&L Wholesale, Duggan & Duggan Construction #7 past Sixt in any way possible. Lacki would run the bottom side of the speedway, making advances which had him door-to-door with Sixt several times, but he was just not able to make a pass stick. When the leaders caught traffic, previous two weeks feature winner Steve Dixon (50) was able to catch the pair and join in the battle. The trio would go three-wide into turn three with Sixt up high, Lacki in the middle, and Dixon to the extreme low side of the speedway. Sixt and Lacki would tangle with Ron Baker (74), leaving Dixon to lead. After the restart, Steve Dixon would cruise to his third South Arcade Speedway victory in a row followed by the Jerge’s Auto Parts Sponsored machines of Bob Kish (5), and Justin Tatlow (81). The heat events for the Lauterborn Electric Street Stocks were some of the best races of the evening with three wide battles for position and plenty of passing. The main event however, did not work out the same. Dan Giboo ( 8 ) and Tim Bruce (75) would lead the start of the event with Bruce leading the first few laps. Giboo would go to the lead at lap three. Bruno Mowery (49) would recover from a lap one spin to make his way all the way up to seventh by lap four. Last week’s feature winner, Ron Mogavero (75x) would run third and move up to second when Tim Bruce caught the turn four wall around lap eight. By lap eleven, John Ellwood (27) had driven his way from twelfth to challenge David Downs (02) for third. The rest of the event would turn into quite the mess with a couple of leader-on-leader incidents. Dan Giboo and Ron Mogavero would get together while leading, then again later in the event resulting in a black flag for Giboo. Inheriting the lead was David Downs, now with John Ellwood in hot pursuit. Ellwood would get past Downs for the lead on lap seventeen with Ellwood slamming doors with Downs on the way by. Downs would dump Ellwood in turn two. At this point, the race was ended with Bruno Mowery, who had been running third, declared the winner. In the Lauterborn Electric Mini Stocks, Sam Fuller’s win streak was halted this week, with Fuller starting ninth and not being able to make much progress. Mike Sweeney (73) would start on the outside front row for the start of the fifteen lap main event and would hold on to the lead for much of the race. Chris Paar (9x) of Mt. Jewett, PA was a late arrival to the speedway this night, missing his heat and starting scratch on the field. Paar didn’t let his poor starting position hinder him however, as he would march his #9x past the entire field of mini stocks to take the victory in his first visit to the speedway this season. Zach Hamer (7) and Fred Ely (00) would lead the Lauterborn Electric Pure Stocks to the green flag for their fifteen lap feature. Hamer would lead from the start with Ely following closely in second. In a situation just like in the mini stock feature, Blane Krott (72) was a late arrival and would start the main in last. Krott would work his way into fourth by lap two, and by lap four Zach Hamer, Ely, Curt Pastorius (42), and Krott had formed a four car breakaway from the rest of the field. While attempting to lap his father, Zach Hamer would get together with him (Dale Hamer #7D) allowing Ely to get by for the lead. Blane Krott would get by Pastorius in traffic at lap eleven for third and began reeling in the 7 of Hamer. Krott was able to make a few attempts at stealing away second following a lap twelve restart, however Hamer was able to hold him off while Ely went on for the win. Ely would be disqualified post-race for a weight infraction, handing the win to Hamer. South Arcade Speedway is back in action next week with another special event, this time featuring the 360 Late Models in another $1000-to-win race. The first event of this kind was held a month ago, with Glen Whritenour holding off Jeremy Wonderling in a thrilling finish. This week’s event is sure to be another great race that you won’t want to miss. For more information, Catch up with South Arcade Speedway on Facebook,
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RESULTS |
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Kinzua Water Service United E-mod
Series (25 laps):
1. JUSTIN CARLSON #27H, 2. Randy Hall #10, 3. Kari Gasser #0k, 4. Nathan Hill #38, 5. Vic Vena #01, 6. Al Brewer #71, 7. Carl McKinney #6M, 8. Jaben Hill #33, 9. George Ritter #72, 10. Tom Norland #52, 11. Mike Eschrich #9E, 12. John Woodward Jr. #18, 13. Greg Johnson #05, 14. TJ Downs #03, 15. Darren Tarabori #6, 16. Carl Ballinger #53, 17. Kyle Bedell #44. Heat Winners: Nathan Hill, Kari Gasser, Randy Hall. Jerge’s Auto Parts FASTRAK Late Models (25 laps): 1. STEVE DIXON #50, 2. Bob Kish #5, 3. Justin Tatlow #81, 4. Ike Fanton #41, 5. Tom Kemp #28, 6. Tim Schram #1s, 7. Adam Sixt #6T, 8. Ron Baker #74, 9. John Lacki #7. Heat Winners: John Lacki, Adam Sixt. Lauterborn Electric Street Stocks: 1. BRUNO MOWERY #49, 2. Leon Szweda #26, 3. Nate Arnold #41, 4. Ron Mogavero #75x, 5. John Ellwood #27, 6. Joe Chamberlain #46, 7. Jeff Woodward #18, 8. Matt Pfalzer #20, 9. Tim Bruce #75, 10. Doug Jones #87, 11. Ron Budinger #12, 12. Pat Powers #53, 13. David Downs #02, 14. Dan Giboo #8, 15. John Gagner #3J. Heat Winners: Tim Bruce, Ron Mogavero. Lauterborn Electric Mini Stocks (15 laps): 1. CHRIS PAAR #9x, 2. Dan Lockwood #08, 3. Richard Kline #23, 4. Mike Sweeney #73, 5. Dave Burdick #47, 6. Riley Ellison #24, 7. Shawn Kemp #23s, 8. Sam Fuller #38, 9. Jerry Carpenter #4. DNS: Craig Bedell #7J. Heat Winner: Mike Sweeney.
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