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Jentile, Ryan and Gregor Score “Frostbite” Victories at Mountain
Speedway
By: Gene Ostrowski
January 3, 2009
Winter temperatures didn’t discourage drivers from taking the green flag
in the ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series “Frostbite”
enduros Saturday at Mountain Speedway. Despite a late race spin, Joe
Jentile took top honors in the 6/8-cylinder division. In dominating
fashion, Sam Ryan took the 4-cylinder checkers and Jeff Gregor made a
late race charge to challenge for the win in trophy truck action.
Before being overtaken by Rich Paciotti, Elliot Wohl started from the
pole and led the first circuit in the 100-lap 6/8-cylinder enduro. Bob
Wink slipped into the third spot with Steve Tito and James Presley in
tow.
Wink quickly worked toward the front of the pack and drove into the top
spot with five laps complete. However, Presley followed Wink through
traffic and worked him over for the race lead five laps later.
With
twenty-one laps in the books, Presley led over Wink, Joe Jentile, Woot
Lawrence and Tom Szoke. Known as a threat to win in any enduro, Jentile
took the race lead six laps later.
It appeared that Jentile had the win in the bag, but he was spun in
turns three and four with a few laps remaining. Jentile was able to get
his car pointed in the right direction but the gap between himself and
Wink dwindled.
Wink overtook Jentile for a moment on lap ninety-seven but his lead was
short-lived, as Jentile regain it in lapped traffic. The two ran
side-by-side and when the checkered flag flew, it was Jentile
(Bedminster, PA) taking the win. Wink settled for second, followed by
Lawrence, Bob Haeger and Robin Schewire.
Brian Brown led the four cylinders to the drop of the green flag in the
100-lap enduro. Before a single lap was scored, Mike Mujsce took the
race lead. With four laps complete, Mujsce led over Bobby Coco, Sam
Ryan and Jake Oswald.
Ryan caught Mujsce and took the race lead on lap seventeen, and then the
two swapped the top spot four times over the next twenty-five laps.
Ryan held the race lead at halfway followed by Mujsce, Brown, Bill
Price, Jr. and John Saccomandi.
Ryan (White Haven, PA) set a blistering pace and lapped all but one car
en route to victory. Mujsce finished second and Saccomandi, Price and
Mark Foreman completed the top five.
Wayne Meyer started from the pole position in the 40-lap trophy truck
enduro. Before a lap was complete, Kevin Orlando took control of the
event from his second starting spot.
Only one lap later, Frank Katona took his turn out front and then Jeff
Gregor took command six laps later.
Kevin Nowak began to reel in Gregor. After the two exchanged the top
spot, the two made contact while racing out of turn two on lap twelve.
Gregor spun and Nowak took the race lead.
Just before halfway Nowak continued to lead over Katona, Donny Oliver,
Gregor and Meyer.
Knowing he had a truck that could win, Gregor (Bridgehampton, NY) put on
a late race run and overtook Nowak for the race lead on lap
thirty-four. He went on to take the checkered flag over Nowak, Katona,
Meyer and Oliver.
One dollar from each general admission was donated to
the Fraternal Order of Police-Christina lodge
#84.
ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series Rund #1 Results
6/8 Cyl. (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 41 Joe Jentile 2 417 Bob Wink 3 1 Woot Lawrence 4 38 Bob Haeger 5 99 Robin Schweire 6 50 Tom Szoke 7 12 Nate Correll 8 14 Phil Lamonaco 9 98 Dominic Ranieri Jr 10 53 Kevin Nowak 11 10 Keith Frankenfield 12 74 James Presley 13 2 Bob Baker 14 410 Steve Tito 15 302 Joe Helberg 16 34 Angelo Spezialetti 17 88 Jason Martin 18 143 Paul Harding 19 24 Bobby Coco 20 22 David Allen 21 28 Frank Scimera 22 61 Kevin Orlando 23 1X Cory Student 24 57 Tracy Berger Carmen 25 14 Elliott Wohl 26 32 Brian Brown 27 65 Greg Harris 28 461 Rich DiMarco 29 23G Shawn Gallucci 30 29R Richard Paciotti 31 30 Ed Brown Jr 32 78 Aaron Miller 33 12 Ryan Lewis 4 Cyl. (100-laps) Pos No. Name 1 7 Sam Ryan 2 7 Mike Mujsce 3 6 John Saccomandi 4 48 Billy Price Jr 5 116 Mark Foreman 6 99 Robin Schewire 7 F19 Bill Rice 8 29X James White 9 27V Mike Ventura 10 83 Devin Gibson 11 34 Tony Rispin 12 30 Ed Brown Jr 13 19A Brian Brown 14 81 Kerry Boehm 15 17 Art Kulik 16 F1 Frank Katona 17 22 Melissa Simms 18 69 Justin Dunn 19 31 Curtis McCormick 20 18 Pat Verwys 21 27 Charles Barbeisch Jr 22 13 Robert Fink 23 90 Travis Schwenk 24 71 Jake Oswald 25 71X Edward Michael 26 12L Lou Honeywell 27 51 Larry Spencer III 28 9 Brandon Brown 29 24 Larry Spencer Jr 30 70D Denise Siegel 31 19C Bobby Coco 32 2 Tony Arcaro 33 6D Devin Shafer Trophy Trucks (40-laps) Pos No. Name 1 43 Jeff Gregor 2 53 Kevin Nowak 3 27 Frank Katona 4 53 Wayne Meyer 5 34 Donny Oliver 6 28 Rob Bader 7 65 Greg Harris 8 1 Kerry Iacangelo 9 12 Don Lakey 10 11 Brian Kelly 11 44 Kyle Curtis 12 2 Shawn Wanat 13 61 Kevin Orlando |
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