Oakland Valley Speedway

                   Race Report by John  Sainz

 

April 30,2011: What a great night of racing at Oakland Valley Speedway. Entries were up as the day’s weather turned out great. Track was fast and in good condition for the days events. The features started out with the ever popular Heavys class. Bill Wood took the pole for the race and led the first couple of laps before being overtaken by Randy McCullough and Dan Hoeffner. Randy led up until the white flag lap, when Dan (THE MAN) Hoeffner grabbed the lead  and held him off for the win. What a great race! Jason Wolfe, last weeks winner, placed third. Great job by Hoeffner Motorsports on their first win in Heavys. Lights were up next and it was Alex Arndt taking the win over last weeks winner, Dennis Mathews and Steven Gully in a close battle. Glen Varner got tangled with the turn 2 wall and got banged up some. Heavy damage to his kart and some to himself. Got in touch with him today and of course he is very sore. Heal up soon Glen. Blake Hulseapple wins in Kid Kart and Devin Greer wins in Rookie Champs. Carly Dippel wins in Rookie Slingshot and Trevor Ross wins again in Junior Clone/Jr1. Great job by these young drivers.

            In our Junior Slingshot class, I have to commend Erin Paulison, who last week was involved in a pretty nasty roll over accident. She went out and won this race by almost a second over Tyler Johnston, last weeks winner. She was unstoppable! Great job by Erin. Our Junior Sportsman Champ class had Flyin Ryan Quackenbush take the win over Sean Glennon and Anthony Wood and it was a great battle the whole race. Matt Addona won in the Animal engine Jr Sportsman Champ class. Raelleigh Silvernail wins in Junior Rookie over John Quinn and in Senior Rookie, James Brundage takes the win.

          Junior Stock was another great race with Logan Cole Taking the win over Patrick Dempsey and in Junior 3, a close finish for the win by Charlie Lowther over Carissa June and Patrick Hayes. This class in growing and has very good young drivers. Junior 2 was a battle between the Belanger brothers until they got together and Lane Saville ended up winning. Lane drove a good race to earn the win. Ryan Tani was  involved in a wreck in the heat race and did not make the feature. Did not get to see him afterwards but I believe he was ok.

        The Senior Stock had a good size class tonight and Randy Brundage returned to the track to take the win over last weeks winner, John Wolfe and Bob Reynolds. These older guys are fast. I can say that because I raced with them last year. The Mediums race was another exciting one with last week’s winner, Dennis Mathews, taking the win over Dan (THE MAN) Hoeffner and the usually unbeatable Billy Wood. Dennis and Dan are two of our best up and coming drivers into the Senior classes. The Young Guns. Look out for them. We wish them luck in the upcoming New York State Dirt Track Series races. The Senior Slingshot class had last years Champ, Tyler Pirone picking up his first win of the season with the only time of the night in the 13 second bracket. Looks like he is ready to defend his title. In the Senior Champ class, it was Flyin Ryans dad, Ray Quackenbush taking the win in impressive fashion over John Sainz and Aaron Turner for a father- son Champ Class sweep. Great job by the Quackenbush team.

       We will be racing again next week, so we will see you at the track. Again,

 please stop by and get your track photos from BK Photos at the sigh in booth. Becky will be set up at the table with your pictures. Ralph Corwin will have some of your photos too. He can be found around the track grounds.

 

Race results:

 

Heavys:

1. (10) Dan Hoeffner (14.172)

2. (82 Randy McCullough (14.225)

3.(24) Jason Wolfe (14.087) Fastest lap speed 51.111

4. (5) Billy Wood (14.137)

5. (26) Ian Petry (14.406)

6. (611) Corey Wood (14.467)

7. (33) T. Rouble (14.311)

8. (612) Brianna Hasenflue (14.324)

9. (3) Mark Stanley (14.465)

10. (72) Kevin Morgan (14.456)

11. (9) Michael Lybolt (14.765)

12. (60) Bob Clark (14.822)

DNS (28b) Tom Brundage

DNS (28t) Scott Thomas

DQ (27) Roger Belanger (14.258)

 

Kid Kart:

1. (3) Blake Hulseapple (17.705) fastest lap speed 40.666

2. (55) John Kendall (19.081)

3. (6) Johnny Diotte,III

 

Rookie Champ:

1.(17) Devin Greer (18.264) fastest lap speed 39.422

2. (B4jr) Jake Mason (23.500)

 

Rookie Slingshot:

1. (32) Carly  Dippel (18.829) fastest lap speed 38.239

2. (17) Jared Labagh

 

Lights:

1. (39) Alex Arndt (14.144)

2. (6) Dennis Mathews (14.176)

3. (5x) Steven Gully (14.220)

4. (86) Geoff Feola (14.339)

5. (32) Chris Predmore (14.295)

6. (14) Dylan Wood (14.197)

7. (23) Jason Wilbur (14.523)

8. (83) Samantha Bentley (14.646)

9. (5) Stephanie Gully (14.829)

10. (34j) Brian Zwart (14.606)

11. (71) Ed Owens (14.554)

12. (53x) Glen Varner (14.114) fastest lap speed 51.013

 

Junior Slingshot:

1. (37e) Erin Paulison (14.331) fastest lap speed 50.241

2.(5) Tyler Johnston (14.533)

3. (58jr) Kevin Predmore,Jr. (14.548)

4. (62) Brandon McGill (14.601)

5. (z28) Tommy Zwart (14.433)

6. (3) Cole Hentschel (15.160)

7. (2) McKenzie Tresch (14.965)

8. (555) Leo Fotopoulos (15.059)

9. (214) Isaiah Masker (15.309)

 

Junior Sportsman Champ:

1. ( 5) Ryan Quackenbush (15.441)

2. (77) Sean Glennon (15.431)

3. (20) Anthony Wood (15.126) fastest lap speed 47.600

4. (10) Tighe Sherlock (15.699)

5. (4) Samantha Mattera (15.775)

6. (2) Robert Mattera (15.821)

7. (3) Jessica Mattera(17.030)

 

Junior Sportsman Champ/ Animal:

1. (26) Matt Addona (15.127)

 

Jr1/ Clone:

1. (00) Trevor Ross (14.882) fastest lap speed 48.381

2. (17) Andrew Enderes ,Jr. (15.530)

3.( 10) Anthony Roselli (17.792)

 

Jr Rookie:

1. (36) Raelleigh Silvernail (19.020) fastest lap speed 37.855

2. (23k) John Quinn

 

Junior Stock:

1. (24) Logan Cole (14.269)

2. (414) Patrick Dempsey (14.192)

3. (9m) McKenzie Hasenflue (14.249)

4. (98) Scott Bentley (14.175)

5. (10) Brett Romer (14,126) fastest lap speed 50.970

6. (17) Kyle Fuertges (14.238)

7. (16) Dominick Roselli (14.129)

8. (11) Kelby Quackenbush (14.516)

9. (89) Geoffrey Fox (14.216)

 

Senior Stock:

1. (24) Randy Brundage (14.379)

2. (2w) John Wolfe (14.378) fastest lap speed 50.077

3. (1) Bob Reynolds (14.554)

4. (31) Chris Melchor (14.721)

5. (6t) David Thatcher,Sr. (14.893)

6. (72) Kevin Morgan (14.754)

7. (2) Gary Vandermeulen (14.822)

DNS (22) Wayne Utter

 

Junior 3:

1. (8L) Charlie Lowther (14.812)

2. (19j) Carissa June (14.862)

3. (4) Patrick Hayes (14.773) fastest lap speed 48.738

4. (2) Connor Fuertges (15.025)

5. (27) Hali Vandermeulen (14.950)

6. (00) Ben Wilbur (14.916)

7. (77) Patrick Kelly (16.377)

8. (27j) Jared Silvernail

 

Mediums:

1. (6) Dennis Mathews (14.364)

2. (10) Dan Hoeffner (14.322) fastest lap speed 50.272

3. (5) Billy Wood (14.325)

4. (54a) Alex Wanerus (15.034)

5. (6T) David Thatcher,Jr. (15.065)

6. (27) Roger Belanger (14.721)

7. (57) Sidney Ball (14.998)

8. (71) Ed Owens

 

Junior 2:

1. (99) Lane Saville (14.638) fastest lap speed 49.187

2. (4) Colin Belanger (14.909)

3. (9) Tyler Belanger (14.909)

4. (144) Jake Lowther (15.544)

DNS (37) Sean Glennon

Dns (43) Ryan Tani

 

Senior Rookie:

1. (24) James Brundage (14.708)

2. (09) Robert Blaskey (14.852)

3. (9) Kristen Arndt (15.088)

4. (38) Robert Orzeck

 

Senior Slingshot:

1. (18) Tyler Pirone (13.937) fastest lap speed 51.661

2. (17) Matt Reiley (14.106)

3. (2x) Joey Massimilla (14.147)

4. (10jr) Eddie Reiley (14.166)

5. (96) Tyler Treacy (14.154)

6. (121) John Mann (14.464)

7. (1) Tyler Dippel (14.428)

8. (21) Fred Cannock (14.178)

9. (316) Zach Masker (14.458)

10. (6) Mike Wolfe (14.506)

11. (06) Shaina Barker (14.332)

 

Senior Champ:

1. (55) Ray Quackenbush (14.708) fastest lap speed 48.953

2. (20) John Sainz (14.849)

3. (21t) Aaron Turner (14.979)

4. (11) Rick Gombos (14.951)

5. (21g) Christopher Gombos (15.096)

6. (56) Dan Sherlock (15.548)

 

Fastest Laps of the night:

   Jr Kart:(10) Brett Romer (14.126)

   Sr Kart:(24) Jason Wolfe (14.087)

   Jr Slingshot:(37e) Erin Paulison (14.331)

   Sr Slingshot: (18) Tyler Pirone (13.937)

 

Number of entries:  116: 94 Karts ,22 Slingshots