Race Report by John Sainz
April 23,2011: Welcome back
to Oakland Valley Speedway! After a very long, snowy, cold winter, and a rainy
wet spring, our 2011 racing season has finally begun. With the first two weeks
of the season rained out, we were able
to complete the first points race of the
year. Although it looked doubtful by the weather forecasts, John Diotte and his
crew were able to get the track into great racing condition. Lots of grip and
very smooth. Thanks John.
The nights features started out with the
Heavys class and it was a very fast Jason Wolfe in a new kart for this year
taking the first checkered flag of the season. Brianna Hasenflue , making her
debut in the Heavys class, battled with always fast Randy McCullough, and held
him off to take second with Randy third. The Kid Kart class had Johnny
Diotte,III taking his first win over John Kendall. Devin Greer was our only
Rookie Champ and looked good out there. We had a Rookie Slingshot , Carly
Dippel, getting valuable track time.
The Lights class had Dennis Mathews taking
the win over a close Glen Varner. Good race. The Junior Slingshots were next
and it was Tyler Johnston running away with the race. There was an incident involving
Erin Paulison , whose Slingshot made some contact coming out of turn two and
bounced off the wall and proceded to roll several times before coming to rest
on it’s side.
In Junior Rookie Raelleigh Silvernail takes
the win, Anthony Roselli in Junior 1, wins and in Junior Clone, Trevor Ross
wins. There will be a few more Junior class drivers added as the season goes
on. Junior Stock saw McKenzie Hasenflue taking the win over a close Patrick
Dempsey and in Senior Stock, John Wolfe took the win over Dan Ryder and Gary
Vandermeulen. In our Junior 3 class, it was Jared Silvernail pulling away for
the win over Hali Vandermeulen and Carissa June.
We had a Mediums class, and it looks like it
will be a great class this year. Dennis Mathews took the win over last years
Junior Stock Champ Dan (formerly
Danny) Hoeffner. In Junior 2, it was
defending Champion Colin Belanger picking up where he left off, taking the win
over his brother Tyler and Sean Glennon. The Senior Slingshots had Charlie
Lawrence taking the win over Rob Hocker and Tyler Pirone. The Senior Champ
class made it’s return to the track, with John Sainz taking the checkered flag
over Joseph Kata and Bob Mattera.
Thanks to all who believed in the track
forecast and not the weather channel, that came out to race with us. It should
be great weather for next weekend, so we look forward to seeing everyone at the
track.
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.(24) Jason Wolfe (14.550)
2. (9m) Brianna Hasenflue
(14.568)
3. (82) Randy McCullough
(14.464) fastest lap speed 49.779
4. (611) Corey Wood (14.776)
5. (72) Kevin Morgan
(14.883)
6. (27) Roger Belanger
(14.911)
7. (10) Dan Hoeffner
(14.937)
8. (9) Michael Lybolt
(15.489)
Kid Kart:
1. (6) Johnny Diotte,III
2. (55) John Kendall
(18.940) fastest lap speed 38.015
Rookie
Champ:
1.(17) Devin Greer (19.318) fastest lap speed
37.271
Rookie
Slingshot:
1. (32) Carly Dippel (20.833) fastest lap speed 34.561
Lights:
1. (6) Dennis Mathews
(14.703)
2. (53x) Glen Varner
(14.596) fastest lap speed 49.329
3. (32) Chris Predmore
(14.979)
4. (12) Aaron Doolittle
(14.998)
5. (712) Dylan Wood (15.115)
6. (44j) Josh DeGroodtgt
(16.249)
Junior
Slingshot:
1.(5) Tyler Johnston
(15.022) fastest lap speed 47.930
2. (62) Brandon McGill
(15.764)
3. (91) Bobby Flood (15.864)
4. (2) McKenzie Tresch
(15.804)
5. (3) Cole Hentschel (16.040)
6. (69c) Collin Dubois
(16.043)
7. (555) Leo Fotopoulos
(16.673)
8. (37e) Erin Paulison
Junior Sportsman Champ:
1. (77) Sean Glennon
(15.615) fastest lap speed 46.110
2. (10) Tighe Sherlock
(16.041)
3. (20) Anthony Wood
(15.816)
4. (5) Ryan Quackenbush
(16.194)
5. (4) Samantha Mattera
(16.465)
6. (2) Robert Mattera
(16.660)
7. (3) Jessica
Mattera(17.513)
Jr1:
1.( 10) Anthony Roselli
(18.048)
Jr Rookie:
1. (36) Raelleigh Silvernail
(18.244)
Jr Clone:
1. (00) Trevor Ross (15.733)
Junior
Stock:
1. (9m) McKenzie Hasenflue
(14.591)
2. (414) Patrick Dempsey
(14.475) fastest lap speed 49.741
3. (16) Dominick Roselli
(14.817)
4. (10) Brett Romer (14.953)
5. (11) Kelby Quackenbush
Senior
Stock:
1. (2) John Wolfe (14.813)
fastest lap speed 48.606
2. (20) Dan Ryder (15.213)
3. (2) Gary Vandermeulen
(15.366)
Junior 3:
1. (27j) Jared Silvernail
(15.592)
2. (27) Hali Vandermeulen
(16.316)
3. (19j) Carissa June
(15.568) fastest lap speed 46.249
Mediums:
1. (6) Dennis Mathews
(14.834) fastest lap speed 48.537
2. (10) Dan Hoeffner
(14.842)
3. (54a) Alex Wanerus
(15.016)
4. (27) Roger Belanger
(14.964)
5. (D) Aaron Doolittle
(15.122)
6. (9) Michael Lybolt (15.678)
Junior 2:
1. (4) Colin Belanger
(15.095)
2. (9) Tyler Belanger
(15.173)
3. (37) Sean Glennon
(15.194)
4. (99) Lane Saville
(15.076) fastest lap speed 47.758
Senior
Slingshot:
1. (4)
Charlie Lawrence (14.790) fastest lap speed 48.682)
2. (54) Rob Hocker (14.850)
3. (18) Tyler Pirone
(14.884)
4. (96) Tyler Treacy
(15.333)
5. (06) Shaina Barker
(15.394)
6. (69c) Tyler Boniface
(15.222)
DNS (1) Tyler Dippel
Senior
Champ:
1. (20) John Sainz (15.406)
fastest lap speed 46.735
2. (56) Joseph Kata (15.446)
3. (55) Bob Mattera (15.872)
4. (21) Aaron Turner
(16.093)
Fastest Laps of the night:
Jr Kart:(414) Patrick Dempsey (14.475)
Sr Kart:(82) Randy McCullough (14.464)
Jr Slingshot:(5) Tyler Johnston (15.022)
Sr Slingshot: (4) Charlie Lawrence (14.790)
Number of entries: 52 Karts ,16 Slingshots