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Walls, Ryan and Nowak Soak up Season First Mountain Madness Enduro Wins
By: Gene Ostrowski
May
18, 2008
Sixty-eight
well prepared race cars and trucks turned out for enduro competition on
a heavily rain soaked track Sunday at Mountain Speedway, with the third
round of the Mountain Madness Enduro Series, presented by ABC Car
Crushing and Auto Parts of Hunlock Creek, PA. Persistent rain showers
kept the track surface damp throughout the day and Jeff Walls, Sam Ryan
and Kevin Nowak found the fast way to victory at the 1/3-mile oval.
Angelo
Spezialetti brought the 6/8-cylinder field to the drop of the green for
the 100-lap event. Upon taking the green, Joe Jentile slapped the front
stretch wall on the rain soaked track, yet managed to take the lead.
Only five laps later, Jeff Walls overtook Jentile in his front wheel
drive vehicle and began to lap his competition.
The first of three red flags was thrown on lap twenty-one when John
Bittoni, Jr. lost a wheel on the backstretch. At that point in the
event, Harry Sager held second, followed by Mark Spencer, Jentile and
Bobby Coco.
The top four remained the same at the halfway point in the race and
Kevin Nowak moved into fifth, while driving the lone Chevy Blazer in the
field.
When lap seventy-two came around, Walls found himself on a lap of his
own, as he passed Sager. Trouble found Sager two laps later, when he
and Joe Helberg collected in turns one and two. Sager was done for the
afternoon.
Despite being spun out with a handful of laps remaining, Walls held on
for his first victory of the season over Jentile, Nowak, Spencer and
Phil Lamonaco.
Pete Verwys, Jr. led the four-cylinder field out of turn four and to the
drop of the green in the 100-lap enduro. Mark Foreman started in the
middle of the front row and immediately too command of the event. Sam
Ryan tucked into the second spot, followed by Sig Albarran, Brandon
Brown and Vince James.
The best battle for the lead took place between laps ten and forty.
First, Ryan took the lead on lap ten, but lost it to Foreman on the
following lap. Over the next thirty laps, the two diced it up while
running side by side almost the entire time. That’s when Foreman began
to slide back.
Ryan still had command halfway through the race and series points
leader, Dave Bentley, Jr. moved into second. Foreman held third with
Anthony Pizzo and Larry Spencer completing the top five.
With only twenty-five laps remaining, Foreman headed pit side with a
flat tire. That moved Bob Haeger into the top five.
Ryan remained out front over the remainder of the event and held off a
late race charge by Pizzo to notch his first enduro victory of the
season. Pizzo could have won if the race distance was one more lap.
Instead he settled for second. Bentley finished in the third spot,
followed by Robin Schewire and Tony Arcarro.
Spencer and Haeger crossed the finish line fourth and fifth
respectively, but were disqualified in post race tech.
Kevin Nowak started from the pole and never looked back, as he cruised
to the 25-lap trophy trucks win over Harry Sager, Frank Katona and
Richard Petey.
Susan Ryan lapped the entire field to take the 15-lap 6/8-cylinder
“ladies only” enduro and Anne Chase held off “The Racing Mom”, Deb Arner
to notch the 25-lap “ladies only” four cylinder win.
ABC Car Crushing and Auto Parts
Mountain Madness Enduro Series Round #3 Results 6/8 Cylinder (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 31x Jeff Walls 2 41 Joe Jentile 3 53 Kevin Nowak 4 124 Mark Spencer 5 14 Phil Lamonaco 6 74 James Presley 7 33 TJ Kapish 8 30 Ed Brown Jr 9 153 Kevin Orlando 10 24 Bobby Coco 11 14X Brian Brown 12 79 Jason Sherman 13 417 Bob Wink 14 410 Steve Tito 15 34 Angelo Spezialetti 16 50X Kevin Schultz 17 302 Joe Helberg 18 29R Richard Paciotti 19 44 Mike Parisi 20 50 Edward Primavera 21 1 Wayne Geiss 22 266 Bob Kulik 23 78 Aaron Miller 24 11 Rich Graboske 25 44 Mark Frankenfield 26 26C John Bittoni Jr 27 98 Dominic Ranieri Jr 28 99 Robin Schewire 29 61 Harry Sager 30 10 Keith Frankenfield 31 26 John Bittoni Sr 32 55 Larry Carmen 33 32 Dan Birdsall 34 310 Bill Stockert 35 1X Cory Student 4 Cylinder (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 7 Sam Ryan 2 81 Anthony Pizzo 3 5X Dave Bentley Jr 4 99 Robin Schewire 5 2 Tony Arcarro 6 13 Robert Fink 7 29X James White 8 5 Steve Wilson 9 F19 Bill Rice 10 ? Charles Barbeisch Jr 11 27V Mike Ventura 12 77M Jack McElrath 13 70D Denise Siegel 14 17 Art Kulik 15 9 Brandon Brown 16 30 Ed Brown Jr 17 200 Sig Albarran 18 63 Nikki Sager 19 56K Kayla Kovach 20 14 Kevin Kruczek 21 116 Mark Foreman 22 28 Allen Myers 23 67 Larry Spencer III 24 78M Vince James 25 6 John Saccomandi 26 5 Peter Verwys Jr DQ 24 Larry Spencer Jr DQ 38 Bob Haeger Trophy Trucks (25-laps) Pos No. Name 1 53 Kevin Nowak 2 61 Harry Sager 3 27 Frank Katona 4 43 Richard Petey DNS 153 Kevin Orlando 6/8 Cylinder Ladies Enduro (15-laps) Pos No. Name 1 43 Susan Ryan 2 417 Jody Wink 3 55 Tracy Carmen 4 Cylinder Ladies Enduro (25-laps) Pos No. Name 1 24 Anne Chase 2 70D Deborah Arner 3 56K Maria Kovach 4 7 Susan Ryan 5 9 Christina Slusser 6 1X Linda Student
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