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Jentile, Bentley and Katona Take Mountain Madness Enduro Honors
By: Gene Ostrowski
August 24, 2008
Without a
cloud in the sky and in short track racing style, round number five of
the ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series took place Sunday
afternoon at Mountain Speedway. Joe “Millionaire” Jentile dominated the
6/8 cylinder 100 lap enduro en route to his first win of the season and
Dave Bentley, Jr. extended his points lead after scoring his second
straight four cylinder victory in the red flag free event. Frank Katona
held off Jeff Gregor and notched his second “trophy truck” win of the
season.
Rob Pyle
started first and led the twenty-eight strong field of four cylinders to
the drop of the green flag in the 100-lap event. Bobby Coco started
fourth and quickly took the top spot before a single lap was scored.
Robert Fink moved into second, and then challenged Coco for the lead on
lap seven. Fink took the top spot and Coco responded with a little
bumper tag, which forced Fink to lose a few positions.
With Coco
in the lead and with ten laps into the race, Mark Foreman was second,
followed by Jack McElrath, Dave Bentley, Jr. and Mike Ventura.
Bentley
patiently moved closer to the front and challenged Coco for the lead,
which he obtained on lap forty-five. Coco slipped back to second, with
Foreman, Steve Petry and McElrath in tow.
Petry
worked into the second spot with approximately twenty laps remaining and
Anthony Arcaro got by McElrath for fifth. Meanwhile, Fink began to work
back toward the front.
Bentley,
who is also the current points leader, held on to score his second
straight win of the season in the red flag free event over Foreman,
Arcaro, Fink and McElrath. Petry crossed the stripe in the second spot
and did not make it through post race inspection.
Only a
handful of “trophy trucks” took the green flag in the 15-lap truck
event. Frank Katona took the lead from Jeff Gregor on the start, but
Gregor worked the high line around the speedway. The duo battled side
by side for nearly ten laps and swapped the lead on numerous occasions.
With a few laps remaining, Gregor got out of shape in turns one and two,
which allowed Katona to pull off the victory by two truck lengths. The
win is Katona’s second straight trophy truck victory.
Thirty-two 6/8-cylinder enduro vehicles took the green flag in the
100-lap big car event. Bobby Coco started on the pole and leapt out to
the early lead. Joe “Millionaire” Jentile started thirteenth reeled in
Coco and then took the race lead on lap seven.
With a quarter of the race complete, Jentile continued to lead, over
Phil Lamonaco, Dominic Ranieri, Mark Spencer and “the Maddawg”, Bob
Wink.
T.J. Kapish was on a mission and after starting in the eighteenth spot
he stormed into the fifth spot by the halfway mark.
As the laps wound down, Lamonaco began to fall back, but still retained
his top five position. Meanwhile, Jentile set a blistering pace, as
there were only three cars remaining on the led lap, with thirty-three
laps remaining. With fourteen to go, Jentile put a lap on Spencer, who
was running third.
With only a few laps remaining, Spencer got spun from the third spot.
In a dominating effort, Jentile notched his first victory of the season,
over Ranieri, Kapish and Lamonaco. Spencer rebounded from the earlier
spin to finish fifth.
Update-
Phil Lamonaco was disqualified following post race inspection, which
means that Spencer finish fourth and Wink was officially fifth.
ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series results
6/8 Cylinder (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 Joe Jentile 2 Dominic Ranieri 3 TJ Kapish 4 Mark Spencer 5 Bob Wink 6 Jeff Walls 7 Ed Brown Jr 8 Robin Schweire 9 Joe Helberg 10 Tom Szoke 11 Mike Parisi 12 Richard Paciotti 13 Donny Oliver 14 Vince James 15 James Distano 16 Tracy Berger Carmen 17 Cory Student 18 Dan Birdsall 19 Michael Wahl 20 Ricky Bender 21 Aaron Miller 22 Keith Frankenfield 23 Shawn Gallucci 24 Bobby Coco 25 Frank Gallucci 26 Bill Price 27 Mark Frankenfield 28 John Bittoni Jr 29 John Bittoni Sr 30 Mike Smith 31 Angelo Spezialetti DQ: Phil Lamonaco 4 Cylinder (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 Dave Bentley Jr 2 Mark Foreman 3 Anthony Arcaro 4 Robert Fink 5 Jack McElrath 6 Bill Rice 7 Robin Schewire 8 CJ Medeiros 9 Bobby Coco 10 Mike Ventura 11 Mark Neberdoski 12 John Saccomandi 13 Ed Brown Jr 14 Art Kulik 15 Rob Pyle 16 Ed Michael 17 Charles Barbeisch Jr 18 Jaxson Detweiller 19 Jake Oswald 20 Tony Rispin 21 Allen Meyers 22 Brandon Brown 23 Eric Conklin 24 Larry Spencer III 25 Matthew Smith 26 Duane Garrison 27 Eric Mitchell DQ Steve Petry Trophy Trucks (15-laps) Pos No. Name 1 Frank Katona 2 Jeff Gregor
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