Stateline
Speedway
Stateline Saturdays April thru Sept. Gates Open
5:30 pm. Racing at 7:00 pm.
Kortwright Road, Busti NY Track Phone : (716)664-2326
Pat
McGuire Wins
North West Penn Auction Limited Late Model Championship Race at Stateline
Speedway
By Glenn Slocum
Pat McGuire & David Scott
Jim and Jean Scott’s North West Penn Auction Limited Late Mode Championship
race was won by Pat McGuire after passing early leader Bobby Rohrer on the
thirty-ninth lap in a caution less event. Twenty-nine Super Lates were on hand
as Dan Armbruster beat a charging Doug Eck for the Super Late win. Dana
Wellington and Dave Surrena won the Spectator feature while Jeff VanArsdale took
the Outlaw Cadet checkers. Scott Bayle made it two in row winning the Budweiser
Sportsman feature and Al Cressley continued dominating the E-Mod class by
winning their main event.
Early
leader Dan Shellhouse rolled his car on the second lap of the first Spectator
Feature bringing out the red flag and forcing his retirement from the event.
Thirteen of the original seventeen cars were able to continue the event. Dana
Wellington lead the remainder of the laps with Merle Burlingham, surviving a
brush with the turn four wall on the last lap, second and Brian Larson in third.
David
Scott won super Late Model American Racer dash when early leader Doug Eck made
contact with the turn two wall allowing Scott and Rich Gardner by.
Dave
Surrena lead from green to checkers to win the Spectator feature event number
two. Bill Baker Jr was a close second with Steve Hulings third.
An
eight-lap consolation event was held for the Super Late Models. Kelly Frederes
spun on the first lap, which was lead by Ted Kosinski. Mark Gilbert spun on lap
two. Kosinski got wide on the restart allowing 90 into the lead and Al Crocker
moved to second. Kosinski passed Crocker tow laps later and the race was stopped
by a spin by Jason Morrell. Kosinski grabbed the lead with two to go and held on
for the win. Ron Olson finished second while Al Crocker grabbed the last
qualifying spot.
Mark
Hall was the early leader of the Outlaw Cadet feature when a caution was thrown
on lap three. Louie DeDionisio passed Hall for the lead on the restart. Jeff
VanArsdale also passed Hall who fell to third. Brian Graham stopped in the pit
entrance causing a lap seven caution. VanArsdale immediately challenged and
passed leader DeDionisio on the restart. John Pencille had moved into third
relegating early leader Hall to fourth. VanArsdale handily won the race with
DeDionisio remaining second and John Pencille third.
The
Budweiser Super Sportsman feature was lead by Joe Buccola for the first five
laps. Last weeks feature winner Scott Bayle passed Buccola going into turn three
on the fifth lap and started to build a lead over the remainder of the field.
Tom Kosinski spun on lap eight for the first caution of the event. Pete Volpe
caused yellow number two one lap later. Volpe spun again with two laps to go for
the third and final caution of the race. Bayle won going away with Buccola
second and Mike Kosinski third.
Bill
Thomas and Shawn Uhler were on the front row of the E-Mod Feature. Al Cressley
lead lap one and the caution flew for debris on the speedway on lap two. Shane
Applebee moved into second on the restart and Dave Hess Jr to third. A lap four
incident in turn three involving Mike Samuelson, Joe Watson, Russ Dempsey and
Justin Carlson brought out the second caution. A slowing Shawn Uhler caused the
third caution and was pushed into the pits. Justin Carlson tagged Tink Mealy on
the thirteenth lap spinning Mealy into the infield and slowing the race with two
to go. Cressley maintained his dominance of the E-Mods at Stateline winning his
second feature of year. Shane Applebee was second and Mike Hess was third.
Bobby Rohrer, and Pat McGuire brought the North West Penn
Auction Limited Late Model Championship race to Spanky Hall’s green flag.
Rohrer had a ten-car advantage at the end of lap one while McGuire quickly faded
to the sixth spot. Andy Sweetland was second and Bob Vogt third. Three laps
later McGuire had moved to third while Rohrer had a half straight away lead over
Sweetland. McGuire moved by Sweetland on lap eleven as Rohrer moved into lap
traffic. McGuire had cut Rohrer’s lead to one car length by the fifteenth lap
and was looking for away around. McGuire remained glued to Rohrer bumper until
the twenty-second lap when be began challenging on the outside of Rohrer. On lap
twenty-five Rohrer remained in the lead while McGuire seemed content with
following Rohrer thru lap traffic. Rohrer maintained a five car length advantage
through lap thirty seven when McGuire closed again. McGuire passed Rohrer on lap
thirty nine. Sweetland moved up to challenge Rohrer for second but Rohrer
regained control of the second spot. McGuire won by a fifteen car length
advantage over a fading Rohrer with Sweetland fourth and Al Cressley fifth.
Twenty-nine
Super Late Models were on hand to vie for the twenty-six feature starting spots.
Chris Hackett and Rod Maloy were on row one with Randy Lobb and Matt Urban in
row two. Lobb, Hackett and Armbruster beat Maloy on the start as Maloy fought to
get to the inside of the speedway. Lobb jumped out to large lead with Armbruster
second and Chris Hackett a distant third. Maloy moved by Hackett on lap seven as
Lobb began to close on the rear of the field. Lobb was into lap traffic on lap
ten and Armbruster quickly took advantage too pass for the lead. Armbruster,
Lobb and Maloy continued to weave through lap traffic as an alert Spanky Hall
eased their way through traffic with the lap flag. Maloy tangled with lap
traffic on lap twenty but was able to recover and maintain his third position.
Scott Gurdak and Ted Kosinski tangled on lap twenty-two and the field closed up
behind Armbruster and Lobb for the restart and a three lap dash for the win.
Doug Eck moved into the third spot on restart and then passed Lobb for second
with one to go. Eck ran out of laps as Armbruster won the race with Eck second,
Lobb third and Rod Maloy fourth.
Results:
Spectators:
Heat 1: Dana Wellington, Merle Burlingham, Dan Shellhouse
Heat 2: Brian Larson, Jason Heslop, Joe Houser
Heat 3: Scott Ottaway, David Auge, Steve Huling
Feature 1: Dana Wellington, Merle Burlingham, Brian Larson, Randy Rockwell,
Scott Kemmery
Feature 2: Dave Surrena, Bill Baker jr., Steve Huling, Brian Crandall, Scott
Ottaway
E-Mods
Heat 1: Justin Carlson, Mike Samuelson, Russ Dempsey
Heat 2: Al Cressley, Ken Drake, Tink Mealy
Feature: Al Cressley, Shane Applebee, Mike Hess, Dave Hess Jr., Ken Drake,
Dale Applebee, Justin Carlson, Brian Snow, Bill Thomas, Mike Samuelson
Cadets
Heat 1: Dustin Eckman, Terry Daniels, Bill Dunn
Heat 2: Todd Church, Brian Fardink, Chris Blose
Heat 3 : Andy Knight, Jeff VanArsdale, John Pencille
Feature : Jeff VanArsdale, Louie DeDionisio, John Pencille, Jim Hilyer, Mark
Hall, Todd Church, Pete Alspaugh, Bill Dunn, Jeff Campbell, Chris Blose
Limited Late Models:
Heat 1: Bobby Rohrer, Andy Sweetland, Al Cressley, Tom Hagberg
Heat 2: Chad Ramsey, Pat McGuire, Bob Vogt, Mike Moore
Feature: Pat McGuire, Bobby Rohrer, Andy Sweetland, Al Cressley, Bob Vogt,
Ron Seeley, Chris Sutton, Mike Moore, Paul Briggs, John Cline
Budweiser Super Sportsmen:
Heat 1: Robert Nocero, Bob VanArsdale, Dave Cummings
Heat 2: Don McGuire, Mike Kosinski, Randy Parmenter
Feature: Scott Bayle, Joe Buccola, Mike Kosinski
Late Models:
Heat 1: Chris Hackett, Matt Urban, David Scott, Andy Boozel
Heat 2: Randy Lobb, John Lobb, Doug Eck, Dave Shagla
Heat 3: Rod Maloy, Dan Armbruster, Rich Gardner, Chad Valone
Consi : Ted Kosinski, Ron Olson, Al Crocker, Miles Stitzinger
Feature: Dan Armbruster, Doug Eck, Randy Lobb, Rod Maloy, Chris Hackett, John
Lobb, Rich Gardner, Matt Urban, Scott Johnson, Wally Fox