Quincy Turner Wins Midtown Motors Ironman/woman 200-Lap Enduro
at Stateline Speedway

By Jay Pees

Busti, NY, October 5, 2003: Jamestown, NY’s Quincy Turner won the Midtown Motors sponsored Ironman/woman 200 lap Enduro race Sunday afternoon at Stateline Speedway.

One hundred seventy cars took the green flag three abreast from a standing start with Craig Upton, Jason Lynn, and Don Forster in the front row. Two red flags marred the first ten laps of the event, the first for leaking fuel on lap 2 and the second for a spectacular fire in the first turn in the car driven by Ted Kosinski. Ironically, Kosinski’s brother, Mike also had a fire eliminate him from the competition just past the halfway mark.

Don Fowler led the first twenty laps, but then relinquished the lead to Rod Birt who was replaced at the front by Jim Frank before forty laps had been completed. Birt rolled his mount hard in turn one on lap 43 with Paul Briggs ending up on two wheels, supported by Birt’s car. Rusty Briggs, father of Paul Briggs, got the lead then and held it to just prior to halfway, when Jim Frank replaced him at the front of the pack, by this time dwindled to less than fifty cars. Meanwhile, eventual winner Turner had been steadily advancing toward the front from his 151^st starting berth. Turner took over the lead just past halfway. Frank eventually fell to third behind Chris Sutton. Rusty Briggs barrel-rolled his car in turns three and four at lap 155, dropping him from the event.