Oakland Valley Speedway

                   Race Report by John  Sainz

 

July 16, 2011: .Another great night of racing at Oakland Valley Speedway with our regular show and the Animal Money race being run. The features started of with the biggest class of the night, the Heavys, with 18 entered and fifteen starting the feature. A little trouble getting this one started, but it was Clinton Mills putting on a good show and cruised to the win. Adam Fredericks came in second with Dale Madsen taking third. The Animals Money Race ,with eleven entered, went to a very fast Adam Fredericks, driving his new Millenium Impulse from JK Performance Kart Shop. He had the field covered as he pulled away for the win. Alex Arndt was second with Derek Potter placing third. Hopefully we can do this race again this year. In the Lights class, Danny Hoeffner picked up his second win in a row in a close race with Dennis Mathews. Alex Arndt came in third.

    In the Senior Slingshot class, with our biggest field of the season so far,  eleven Slingshots took to the track, Fast Eddie Reiley took the win in impressive fashion for his sixth win this year, and Matt Reiley took second. Will Eastman in his first time here this year placed third. The Junior Slingshot class saw Leo Fotopoulos pick up his first win in a great run over Cole Hentschel ,second, and Isaiah Masker was third. In Rookie Champ, Devin Greer takes the win over Jake Mason. The Junior Sportsman Champ class had a great race for the win with the top four finishers within a second of each other. It came down to the wire and Tighe Sherlock held off a hard charging Sean Glennon to pick up his second win of the season. Ryan Quackenbush came in third. Great race. Max Handley, visiting our track for the first time, hit hard into the turn four wall, without contact from any driver. He was a little banged up but was OK. In Senior Champ, Joe Kata took the win over John Sainz. In Junior 1/ Jr.Clone, Trevor Ross took the win over Charlie Tibbitts and Anthony Roselli. Garrett Lawlor was our only Junior Rookie driver tonight.

    Senior Stock class had an eventful night as Kevin Morgan had hard contact with the turn 2 wall in an early heat race. But he came out and won the second heat. Kevin did not make the features, I m sure he will be very sore for a few days.. Us Senior guys don’t heal as fast as we used to. Anyway the race went to Chris Melchor getting his second win this year, with last week’s winner Roger Belanger a close second. Bob Reynolds came in third. In Junior Stock, Brendan Finley, making his first appearance this year, took the win by a good margin over McKenzie Hasenflue, with Patrick Dempsey third. Junior 3 saw a dominant Dominick Roselli pull away from the field for his fourth win and three in a row. Jared Silvernail came in second and Ben Wilbur third. The Mediums class had Alex Wanerus take the win over Ed Owens and in Junior 2, Flyin Ryan Quackenbush took the win over Sean Glennon by just 9 hundredths of a second. Close race!  The Senior Rookie class had Misty Granski take the win over Kyle Verity. Great job by all of our drivers tonight. We have a Heavys Money race scheduled in two weeks. Should be a great race!! The Heavys always put on a great show.

 

    Please join us next week for another exciting weekend of racing at Oakland Valley Speedway.Check out JK Performance Kart shop located at the track for all of your kart racing needs. John also has karts available to rent. Also be sure to see Becky of BK Photos, bkphotos.net and Ralph Corwin, ralphcorwinphotos.com, for all your racing photos from the day’s events.

     Thanks to all who came out tonight. Please check our website for more information on future events and updates.

                                  oaklandvalleyspeedway.com

 

Race results:

 

Heavys:

1. (1) Clinton Mills (14.269) fastest lap speed  50.459

2. (57) Adam Fredericks (14.341)

3. (12m) Dale Madsen (14.401)

4. (28t) Scott Thomas (14.466)

5. (24) Jason Wolfe (14.453)

6. (27) Roger Belanger (14.475)

7. (30) Chris Darrow (14.563)

8. (6) Dennis Mathews (14.356)

9. (611) Corey Wood (14.465)

10. (10) Dan Hoeffner (14.660)

11. (60) Bob Clarke (14.771)

12. (26) Ian Petry (14.805)

13. (9) Michael Lybolt (15.427)

14. (54a) Alex Wanerus (15.364)

15. (612) Brianna Hasenflue

DNS (12b) Kevin Boyko

DNS (72) Kevin Morgan

DNS (12T) Jeremy Todd

 

Rookie Champ:

1. (17) Devin Greer (17.672) fastest lap speed 40.742

2. (B4jr) Jake Mason (19.844)

 

Lights:

1. (10) Danny Hoeffner (14.121) fastest lap speed 50.988

2. (6) Dennis Mathews (14.156)

3. (39) Alex Arndt (14.300)

4. (5) Steven Gully (14.311)

5. (53x) Glen Varner (14.345)

6. (54a) Alex Wanerus (14.696)

7. (31) Greg Caldara (14.532)

8. (71) Ed Owens (14.484)

9. (23) Jason Wilbur (14.395)

10. (14) Dylan Wood (14.450)

11. (32) Chris Predmore (14.885)

DNS (51) Pat Koller

 

Junior Slingshot:

1. (555) Leo Fotopoulos (14.923)

2. (3) Cole Hentschel (14.824)

3. (214) Isaiah Masker (15.484)

4. (37e) Erin Paulison (14.814) fastest lap speed 48.603

5. (38) Jared Labagh (15.371)

6. (62) Brandon McGill (15.225)

 

Junior Sportsman Champ:

1. (10) Tighe Sherlock (15.678)

2. (77) Sean Glennon (15.480) fastest lap speed 46.512

3. (5) Ryan Quackenbush (15.489)

4. (20) Anthony Wood (15.798)

5. (2) Jessica Mattera (16.141)

6. (4) Samantha Mattera (16.158)

7. (3) Robert Mattera (16.267)

DNS (49) Max Handley

 

Jr. 1/ Jr. Clone:

1. (00) Trevor Ross (15.258) fastest lap speed 47.188

2. (T1) Charlie Tibbitts (15.416)

3. (16) Anthony Roselli (15.985)

 

Junior Rookie:

1. (0) Garrett Lawlor 

 

Junior Stock:

1. (53x) Brendan Finley (14.110) fastest lap speed 51.028

2. (9m) McKenzie Hasenflue (14.340)

3. (414) Patrick Dempsey (14.360)

4. (16) Dominick Roselli (14.311)

 

Senior Stock:

1. (31) Chris Melchor (14.497)

2. (27) Roger Belanger (14.496) fastest lap speed 49.669

3. (1r) Bob Reynolds (14.579)

4. (21) Aaron Turner (14.757)

5. (58) Don Potter (14.936)

6. (2v) Gary Vandermeulen (14.964)

7. (83) Greg Canale (15.134)

8. (20) Dan Ryder (15.133)

9. (2w) John Wolfe

DNS (72) Kevin Morgan

 

Junior 3:

1. (1) Dominick Roselli (14.895) fastest lap speed 48.338

2. (27j) Jared Silvernail (15.272)

3. (00) Ben Wilbur (15.505)

4. (19j) Carissa June (15.410)

5. (7) Hali Vandermeulen (15.499)

6. (4) Patrick Hayes (15.451)

 

Mediums:

1. (54a) Alex Wanerus (14.652)

2. (71) Ed Owens (14.604) fastest lap speed 49.302

 

Junior 2:

1. (4b) Ryan Quackenbush (15.045)

2. (37) Sean Glennon (14.958) fastest lap speed

 

Senior Slingshot:

1. (10Jr) Eddie Reiley (14.300) fastest lap speed 50.350

2. (17) Matt Reiley (14.416)

3. (120) Will Eastman (14.335)

4. (2x) Joey Massimilla (14.563)

5. (1) Tyler Dippel (14.490)

6. (71c) Cody Clark (14.422)

7. (18) Tyler Pirone (14.389)

8. (54) Rob Hocker (14.654)

9. (316) Zack Masker (14.750)

10. (0) CR Hill (14.521)

11. (112) Alex VanPelt (15.081)

 

Senior Champ:

1. (55) Joe Kata (14.962)

2. (20) John Sainz (14.890) fastest lap speed 48.355

 

Senior Rookie:

1. (42) Misty Granski (15.326)

2. (76) Kyle Verity (15.426)

 

Animal Money Race:

1. (57) Adam Fredericks (14.020)

2. (39) Alex Arndt (13.998)

3. (58) Derek Potter (14.156)

4. (5) Dale Madsen (14.052)

5. (42) William Larue (14.054)

6. (32) Dan Miller (14.132)

7. (86) Geoff Feola (13.990) fastest lap speed 51.465

8. (10) Eric Freeman (14.082)

9. (17) EJ Harrington (14.427)

10. (03) John Larue (14.538)

DNS (74) Barry Greenzweig

 

Fastest Laps of the night:

   Jr Kart: (53x) Brendan Finley (14.110)

   Sr Kart: (86) Geoff Feola (13.990)

   Jr Slingshot: (37e) Erin Paulison (14.814)

   Sr Slingshot: (10jr) Eddie Reiley (14.300)

Number of entries:  100 : 83 Karts ,17 Slingshots