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
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)
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)
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