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Jentile, Price
and Gregor Tame “Mountain Madness” Field
By Gene Ostrowski
June 28, 2009
Round No. 4 of the ABC Car Crushing Mountain Madness Enduro Series
kicked off Sunday at Sundance Vacations Speedway. When it was all
said and done, Joe Jentile found victory lane for the sixth straight
time in the 6/8-cylinder division. Jeff Gregor completed a last lap
pass to claim his fifth straight Trophy Truck win and Bill Price,
Jr. went on to take the checkered in the 4-cylinder enduro.
With a surprise to the racers, track officials wet the speedway in
turn three for the start of the event and Greg Harris led the field
to the drop of the green flag in the 100-lap 6/8-cylinder enduro. TJ
Kapish quickly overtook him. Kevin Nowak climbed to third with Ed
Brown, Jr. and Shawn Gallucci in tow.
Nowak wasted no time and disposed Gregor and then overtook Kapish
for the race lead. He continued out front a quarter of the way
through the event with Dominic Ranieri in second, followed by Joe
Jentile, Kapish and Tom Szoke.
Ranieri ran down Nowak for the lead, which he took on lap forty-one.
However, his lead was short-lived, as Jentile took command. The duo
swapped the top spot a number of times before Jentile grabbed the
race lead for good on lap fifty-four.
Jentile has been in victory lane during his last five visits to the
speedway and this time was no different. He cruised to his
sixth-straight win over Ranieri, Nowak, Szoke and Brown.
After starting from the pole, Pete Verwys took the early race lead
in the 100-lap four-cylinder event. With one lap complete, Denise
Siegel held second with Bill Rice, Brandon Brown and Jim White close
behind.
Mark Foreman caught and passed Verwys for the lead on lap fourteen
and appeared to have the field covered for his first career win, but
his day went sour when he suffered a flat tire duo to contact from
Larry Spencer III. The sequence of events gave the lead to Bill
Price, Jr.
The worst of four red flags flew when Eric Santee spun off of turn
two. With nowhere to go, Jim White slammed into Santee’s mount and
both cars suffered significant damage. Both drivers appeared
uninjured as they climbed from their race cars.
Despite pressure in the late going, Price went on to take his first
win of the season over Verwys. Point leader, John Saccomandi
finished in the third spot, followed by CJ Medeiros and Bob
Wohlgemuth.
Frank Katona started from the pole position in the 25-lap Trophy
Truck enduro and gave up the race lead to Kevin Nowak on the initial
start. Nowak appeared to have the field covered, but Jeff Gregor,
who won the last four-straight truck events began to close the gap.
In dramatic fashion while coming out of turn four toward the
checkered flag, Gregor made an inside pass stick to take his fifth
straight win in the division.
6/8 Cylinder (100-laps) 1. JOE JENTILE 2. Dominic Ranieri 3. Kevin
Nowak 4. Tom Szoke 5. Ed Brown Jr 6. Bob Wink 7. Keith Frankenfield
8. Bill Schwenck 9. Joe Helberg 10. James Presley 11. Mike Parisi
12. TJ Kapish 13. Richard Paciotti 14. Shawn Gallucci 15. Gregory
Harris 16. Mark Frankenfield 17.Robin Schewire 18. Jason Martin 19.
Frank Petroski 20. Jimmy White Jr 21. Angelo Spezialetti
4 Cylinder
(100-laps)
1. BILL PRICE, JR 2. Peter Verwys 3. John Saccomandi 4. CJ
Medeiros 5. Bob Wohlgemuth 6. Tony Rispin 7. Mark Foreman 8. Denise
Siegel 9. Bill Rice 10. Ryan Hawkins Jr 11. Edward Michael 12. David
Bartuski 13. Cody Dymond 14. Jim White 15. Ryan Hawkins Sr 16. Larry
Spencer III 17.Eric Santee 18. Larry Spencer Jr 19. Jimmy White Jr
20. Brandon Brown
Trophy Trucks
(25-laps) 1. JEFF GREGOR 2. Kevin Nowak 3. Frank Katona 4. Pat Gregor
5. Ryan Gregor DNS: Greg Harris
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Speedway
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Sundance Vacations Speedway is a 1/3 mile asphalt oval located in the beautiful
mountains of northeast Pennsylvania. The speedway hosts exciting stock
car racing every weekend from April to October, making it one of NEPA's
premier entertainment attractions.
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Sundance Vacations Speedway
Mill Mountain Road
St Johns, PA 18247
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(570) 788-7544
Sundance Vacations
Speedway
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to any team interested in testing their cars. To
schedule a date and time please call
the track office at (570)
788-7544.
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