may19

One of the hottest drivers in the Northeast doesn't seem to be cooling off any. Mike Ricci who Friday night came off a win at Accord found victory lane as well on Sat. at Moc A Tek. Brian Cobb grabbed the early lead starting on the outside pole with Barry White and Gary Griffin on his tail. Brian who just moved up to the Modified ranks this year had a good car leading a couple laps until veteran Barry White was able to get around him. As for Mike Ricci he started way back in 17th starting spot and made his charge through the pack as he picked off cars all over the track to get to the front. Barry White held the nice lead over Cobb who had his hands for with Gary Griffin and Bobby Puckett. On a restart after a caution, Mike got a good run underneath Puckett and soon after that passed Cobb as well. He set his sights on the leader and going into turn three Mike got a good run and White's car went high and Mike dove to the bottom and got by them. Mike was able to put it on cruise control as cautions plagued the rest of the event and the checkers were thrown as they hit the curfew. A Developing situation occured on the finla caution as under the caution second place driver Barry White lost a tire and third place Cobb got a flat. But since the checkered flag was thrown under yellow the scored the results from the last completed green flag lap. RESULTS: 1 Mike Ricci 2 Barry White 3 Brian Cobb 4 Bobby Puckett 5 Gary Griffin 6 Nick Barassi 7 Tom Rudalavage 8 Dom Roselli 9 Russ Strausser 10. Billy Thorton 11 Bill Grammes 12 Joey Grammes 13 Brian Malcom 14 Tom Oleski 15 Don Keefer 16 Alan Kellogg 17 34x 18 Ed Strada Jr. 19 Jim Allen 20 Troy Weisenfluh 21 Jason Rudalavage 22 John Furgeson 23 DNS Bill Reese DNQ Kip Timmer, Pat Balmer, M17 HEAT WINNERS Brian Cobb, Gary Griffin Don Keefer CONSI Tom Oleski

2000 Track Champ. Ralph Mele picks up first win of the year. Ralph who started 10th was able to avoid all the mishaps on the track and power that car to the lead. With the event being caution filled Alex Knopka who started way back and had to get in through the consi. moved up to second but it was too late as Mele was able to bring the CO-FAB Homes, Sonny's Contracting #711 to victory lane. But the story of the night was Darren Stout who used a provisional to start the feature had that car hooked up and wound up finishing 3rd for the former Stret Stock driver and now Sportsman Rookie. Also want to thank Ralph for picking out a good 50/50 ticket. RESULTS: 1.Ralph Mele 2 Alex Knopka 3 Darren Stout 4 Tommy Laner Jr. 5 Bobby Yeager 6 Bob Grammes 7 Kevin Kresge 8 LeRoy Long 9 Anthony Reggie 10 Ronnie Shauger Jr. 11.Tom Gervasi 12 Pete Gardner 13 Bob Reese 14 Art Bray 15 Steve Kyzer 16 Brad Grammes 17 Mike Marold Jr. 18 Jim Kleedorfer 19 Ted Stout 20 Chris Hamer DNQ Larry Hendershot HEAT WINNERS: Jim Kleedorfer, Ted Stout Ralph Mele CONSI Bob Yeager

Birthday Boy Nick Petrilak looked like a veteran winning the Street Stock main. Bill Saxe started on the pole and got out to the early lead. Nick who started fourth was chasing down Saxe for the lead and manged to get a good run out of the corner and take the lead. Lurking through the field and steadily coming to the front was Mike Loney Loney started 12th and made his way to the front. He was able to get around Saxe for second and set his sights on Petrilak. Mike was on his bumper working the inside, outside and basically anywhere on the track to get around Nick. They both raced ver clean and Nick held his composure and heldover everything the Mike threw at him. A good run for Bill Price Jr. as he got in through the consi and finished a respective fourth. Nice Job Nick. RESULTS: 1 Nick Petrilak 2 Mike Loney 3 Bill Saxe 4 Bill Price Jr. 5 Bob Beatty 6 Jim Hughes Jr. 7 Kevin Simko 8 Jerry VanTassel 9 Jim Sykes 10 Chuck Davis 11 Neil DiBlasi 12 Adam Jones 13 Ray LaMonica 14 Bill Metschulat 15 Tom Herman 16 Brian Duffin 17 Joe Krisovich 18 Eddie Kudrako 19 Dave Luff 20 Rick Lazar DNQ Mike VanTassel, Jerry Liford, #9 HEAT WINNERS Rick Lazar, Bill Saxe Nick Petrilak. CONSI Bill Price Jr.

Tom Cilurso dusts the Pure Stock field. Tom got a good start and leaped into the lead. He pulled away from the field. Nate Evan and Eric Schmidt steadily moved through the pack but Cilurso was just to strong. RESULTS 1 Tom Cilurso 2 Eric Schmidt 3 Nate Evans 4 Jeff Simko 5 Todd Houghtaling 6 Keith Villano 7 #47 8 Ray LaMonica 9 #42 10 Ira Landrum 11 Jim Balutis 12 Will Landrum 13 Ron Blake 14 Floyd Schmidt