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Paules, Frees and Truex Grab Mother’s Day Gold at Mountain Speedway
By: Gene Ostrowski
May
11, 2008
With mothers receiving free admission to the speedway Sunday, plenty of
drivers took part in the Mother’s Day Special at Mountain Speedway.
Earl Paules held off Shaun Carrig to score the sport modified victory
and Ron Frees extended his point lead after winning his second straight
super stock main event. Ryan Truex outlasted the field and notched the
win in the legend feature. Brian Braddock scored the micro stock
verdict and Tyler Truex scored his very first asphalt bandolarro main
event win.
After running heat races in the afternoon, the top six drivers in the
sport modified division redrew for starting spots to start the 40-lap
main event.
Rick Zacharias and Shaun Carrig shared the front row and when the
green flag flew, Zacharias shot into the early lead. Earl Paules
started third and quickly moved into second by lap two.
Paules finally found the opening he was looking for when Zacharias
slid up the race track in turn one. He grabbed the lead as Carrig
closed in on Zacharias for second.
With fifteen laps in the books, John Wilbur grabbed third from Carrig
and began to reel in the second place car, but only a few laps later
Wilbur ran up high off of turn two, which allowed Carrig to retake the
position.
The top two remained the same over the course of the event, with
Carrig and Wilbur swapping the third position from time-to-time.
The final caution flag waved with four laps remaining when Tom Kearns
spun in turns one and two. Wilbur was slow getting up to speed on the
restart and lost the fourth spot to Jason Hearne.
Paules held off Carrig over the remaining laps and went on to score
his first sport modified win of the season. Carrig crossed the stripe
in second, followed by Zacharias, Hearne and Kevin Davison.
Earl Paules, Shaun Carrig and Scott Riggleman were heat race winners.
After a six car redraw for starting positions, the super stocks hit
the speedway for their 25-lap feature. Gregg Miranda led the field down
to the drop of the green, but lost the top spot to Ron Frees after one
circuit.
Frank Reakes took command of the event only three laps later, but the
two were sent to the rear on lap eleven after Frees made contact and
spun Reakes off of turn two.
Miranda inherited the lead for the restart and held the top spot with
Nick Gargiulo in second.
The two tangled on lap thirteen, and again, the third place car
inherited the lead. This time is was Paul Thomas. Thomas led until lap
twenty-three, when he spun after being overtaken by Frees and Reakes.
Reakes attempted to get by Frees over the remaining laps, but had to
settle for second. Jerry Stanzione, Rick Koph and Bill Vanderveen
completed the top five.
Ron Frees and Gregg Miranda were heat race winners.
The top six legend qualifiers redrew for starting spots with Ryan
Truex starting on the pole. Truex immediately jumped out front in the
15-lap feature, which was cut short from 20-laps because of time.
By halfway, Truex led over Roger Coss, Derek Hopkinson, Mike Alcaro and
Scott Hubler.
Many caution periods plagued the event with the last coming on lap
thirteen, when Malcolm Campbell spun in turn two. Casey Robicheau and
Bobby Baltera were also collected.
Truex
had no trouble en route to the win over Coss, Hopkinson, Alcaro and Karl
Heisler, but the worst wreck happened after the checkered flag.
Several cars were out of shape at the finish and with nowhere to go,
Katrine Lotti’s car launched into the air down towards turn one. The
car barrel rolled once in mid air before slamming the turn one fence.
The red flag was displayed and miraculously, Lotti climbed from the
car under her own power.
Heat race wins went to Roger Coss, Michael Stull and Ryan Truex.
Ten micro stocks took the green flag for a 15-lap feature race.
Brian Braddock led all of the laps, but it didn’t come easy, as he held
off a hard charging Denny Hiddemen and former Mountain feature winner,
Tom Ervin, to victory. Nick Cottone and Jim Van Dine completed the top
five.
Tyler Truex held off Robert Vassilatos to take his very first
bandolarro win on asphalt in the 15-lap feature.
For all up-to-date information on Mountain Speedway, please visit the
track website at www.mountainspeedway.com.
Sport Modifieds
(40-laps) 1. EARL PAULES 2. Shaun Carrig 3. Rick Zacharias 4. Jason Hearne 5. Kevin
Davison 6. Scott Riggleman 7. Mike Skarbowski 8. Mike Speeney 9. Jason
Willet 10. Rich Hallgrind 11. Randy MacConnell 12. Beryle Herman 13. Tom
Kearns 14. Tom Wanick III 15. Gary Pien 16. Bobby Richards 17.John
Wilbur 18. Stephen Voorhees DNS: Joe King
Super Stock
(25-laps) 1. RON FREES
2. Frank Reakes 3. Jerry Stanzione 4. Rick Kopf 5. William
Vanderveen 6. John Kopf 7. Elliott Wohl 8. Paul Thomas 9. Billy Cole 10.
Gregg Miranda 11. Nick Gargiulo 12. Shelle Moormann
Legends (15-laps) 1. RYAN TRUEX 2. Roger Coss 3. Derek Hopkinson 4.
Mike Alcaro 5. Karl Heisler 6. Michael Stull 7. Casey Robicheau 8. Bobby Baltera 9. Malcolm Campbell 10. Katrine Lotti 11. Steve Gaul 12. Scott
Hubler 13. Jordan Adams 14. AJ Wright 15. JJ Artfitch 16. Pat Johnson
17.Vinny Troia 18. Joe DeGracia 19. Kevin Nowak DNS: Robby Walton
Micro Stocks (15-laps) 1. BRIAN BRADDOCK 2. Denny Hiddemen 3. Tom
Ervin 4. Nick Cottone 5. Jim Van Dine 6. Andy Hiddemen 7. Bill Kreigner
Sr 8. Bill Kreigner Jr 9. Jean Hiddemen 10. John Brennfleck
Bandolarros (15-laps) 1. TYLER TRUEX 2. Robert Vassilatos
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