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Mark Spencer, Dave Bentley and Frank Katona Endure
Humidity to Notch Mountain Madness Wins
By: Gene Ostrowski
June
29, 2008
Rain threatened round #4 of the ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro
Series Sunday at Mountain Speedway. However, after a few brief showers
before hand, the enduro racing got underway in true enduro style. In
the end, Mark Spencer notched his first win in the 6/8-cylinder division
and Dave Bentley, Jr. visited victory lane in the four-cylinder class.
Frank Katona was victorious in the trophy truck enduro.
Phil Lamonaco, Ed Brown, Jr. and Jeff Walls shared the front row for the
start of the 100-lap 6/8-cylinder enduro event. After leading the first
two circuits, Lamonaco was overtaken by Dominic Ranieri. Ranieri held
the point until lap eight, when Joe Jentile overtook him in lapped
traffic.
Mark Spencer of Nanticoke, PA began to move through the field. He
caught Jentile and completed a pass for the top spot on lap nineteen.
Although he dropped to second, Jentile stayed glued to Spencer’s back
bumper, just waiting for the driver to make a mistake.
With twenty laps complete, Spencer remain in front of Jentile and
Ranieri held third. Lamonaco was fourth and Bob Wink worked his way
into the top five.
The third of five red flags flew on lap twenty-seven when Jamie Pressley
slammed into an unoccupied car in turn three. Pressley was not injured,
but was done for the day. Ironically, the next red was displayed on the
flowing lap when TJ Kapish, who was running in the top ten, rear ended a
car driven by Bob Kulik, who was unable to get up to speed on the front
stretch. Both drivers climbed from their cars and returned to the pit
area before green flag racing resumed.
Jentile regained the advantage over Spencer on lap forty-six, but
Spencer fought back and into the lead twelve circuits later. The duo
exchanged the top spot two more times before Spencer drove off to
victory for his first Mountain 6/8-cylinder enduro victory. Jentile
settled for second, with Ranieri, Lamonaco and Wink rounding out the top
five.
Matt Mattern, Bobby Coco and Mark Foreman led the four-cylinder field
down to the drop of the green flag in the 100-lap event. Steve Petry
worked around the outside of the leaders and took the top spot before a
single lap was scored.
Pat Verwys started fifteenth on the grid, but quickly moved through
traffic to take second only two laps into the event.
Verwys caught and passed Petry for the lead on lap fourteen, but his
lead was short-lived. Verwys had engine woes and retired from the race
on lap thirty-four. The exchange gave the top spot back to Petry. Dave
Bentley held second, with Harry Sager, Robert Fink and Mark Foreman
rounding out the top five.
The only red flag of the race flew when Tom Stevens experienced problems
and rolled his car onto its roof on the backstretch. Sevens was able to
walk away from the incident.
Green flag racing resumed and Petry appeared to have the car to beat, as
he had an entire lap on the field.
That changed on lap seventy-nine when his car slowed on the speedway.
Petry hit the pits and never made a return to the track. The change of
events gave Bentley the top spot. Foreman moved into the second spot,
with Larry Spencer, Jr., Jack McElrath and Jimmy White, Jr. in the top
five.
Bentley made no mistakes over the closing laps and drove off to his
first win of the season over Foreman, McElrath, Spencer and White.
Frank Katona and Jeff Gregor battled side by side for a number of laps
in the 15-lap trophy truck event. Gregor grabbed the lead from the
get-go, but Katona fought back and took the top spot on lap two. Katona
held on to notch the win with Gregor finishing as the runner-up.
The next Mountain Madness Enduro Series event is slated for Sunday,
August 24th. The 6/8-cylinders, 4-cylinders and trophy
trucks will be in action.
For all the up to date news, results and happenings at Mountain
Speedway, please logon to www.mountainspeedway.com.
Results
Round #4 ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series
6/8 Cyl. (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 124 Mark Spencer 2 41 Joe Jentile 3 98 Dominic Ranieri 4 14 Phil Lamonaco 5 417 Bob Wink 6 31x Jeff Walls 7 24 Bobby Coco 8 1 Jimmy White Jr 9 30 Ed Brown Jr 10 302 Joe Helberg 11 310 Bill Stockert 12 78 Aaron Miller 13 5R11 TJ Stevens 14 666 Chuck Detweiler 15 461 Rich DiMarco 16 99 Robin Schewire 17 50 Jim Martini 18 34 Angelo Spezialetti 19 44 Michael Parisi 20 410 Steve Tito 21 10 Keith Frankenfield 22 11 Rich Graboske 23 44M Mark Frankenfield 24 29R Richard Paciotti 25 23G Shawn Gallucci 26 33 TJ Kapish 27 74 Jamie Pressley 28 266 Bob Kulik 29 8J Vince James 30 42 Drew Atchison 31 61 Harry Sager 32 8 Terrance Fallon 33 11X Joe Marko Jr 34 37 James DiStano 35 57 Tracy Berger Carmen 4 Cyl. (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 5X Dave Bentley Jr 2 116 Mark Foreman 3 77M Jack McElrath 4 24 Larry Spencer Jr 5 19DD Jimmy White Jr 6 M0 Maurice Ott 7 27V Mike Ventura 8 ? Charles Barbeisch Jr 9 99 Robin Schewire 10 70D Denise Siegel 11 13 Robert Fink 12 56 Robert Schuttert 13 34 Tony Rispin 14 63 Harry Sager 15 81 Anthony Pizzo 16 30 Ed Brown Jr 17 8X Matthew Mattern 18 19C Bobby Coco 19 17 Art Kulik 20 1X Cory Student 21 8 Steve Petry 22 67 Larry Spencer III 23 9 Brandon Brown 24 520 Tom Stevens 25 18 Pat Verwys 26 30 Jaxson Detweiler 27 18E Ed Skokowski 28 13X Ryan Hill Trophy Trucks (15-laps) Pos No. Name 1 27 Frank Katona 2 4X Jeff Gregor
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