Moore Cruises to Second Victory of 1998 Season.

West Lebanon, NY---On Saturday night, Chris Moore of Pound Ridge piloted

his Moore Brothers racing #10 Troyer modified into victory lane for the

second time of the 1998 season. In the Sportsman division, 19 year old

Massachusetts driver, Bobby Chalmers won his first career feature, and

the IMCA feature saw Donnie Denue grab his first victory of the season.

Another Massachusetts driver, Rookie Street Stocker Ricky Duzlak of

Pittsfield, MA won his first ever street stock feature.

In the modified clash, Steve Devine started on the pole and held

the early lead. Two laps of racing saw two caution flags fly, and by the

third lap restart Moore had moved from his sixth starting spot into second

and was challenging for the lead. On the next lap Moore took the lead,

and he never looked back. But behind him, the action was heating up. Guy

Sheldon held his Saxton Sign "S" car in second, while Kenny Tremont who

had started back in 14th spot had piloted his new experimental Troyer bus

into third place by lap number five. On the very next lap Donnie Corellis

and Maynard Forette came into contact between turns three and four, and

gathered up a few more cars in the melee. On the restart in was Moore,

Sheldon, Tremont, Dave Lekonby, and Steve Devine.

Moore then began to open up his lead with some green flag racing,

while the battle for second between Sheldon and Tremont waged on. By lap

number eight, defending champion Brett Hearn had moved up into the top

five by passing Donnie Ackner,then and set his sights on the front-runners.

With ten laps down Moore had opened up a 15 car length lead and Sheldon

and Tremont continued their battle for the runner-up spot. Lap number 13

saw Hearn move up into fourth and the top four then moved away from the

rest of the pack. Moore remained unchallenged, but laps 19 and 20 saw a

fierce battle between Sheldon, Tremont and Hearn for second, third and

fourth spots.

Hearn took third place on the 20th lap and then powered past

Sheldon on lap 22. But there was still a half straightaway and heavy lap

traffic between him and Moore. Moore held on for the victory while Hearn

finished second, Sheldon third, Tremont fourth and J.R. Heffner rounded

out the top five. Moore also won the opening night feature in the 1998

season and has now grabbed sole possession of second place in points

behind Hearn.

Tony Laporta started on the pole, and jumped immediately into the

lead of the 20 lap Sportsman feature. Bobby Chalmers however was on the

move, and by the end of the third lap he had moved from sixth starting

spot into second. The yellow flag flew in the fifth lap, with LaPorta

in the lead, Chalmers second, and David Sanchez in third. On the restart,

defending champion George Marcus moved up into fourth. One lap later,

another yellow flag flew as several cars got together between turns three

and four. Chris Kokosa went into the pits as a result and last week's

winner, Ron Blake went back to the rear.

On the restart, Marcus moved into third, and began to challenge

Chalmers for second, but he was unable to get by. On an eighth lap restart,

Joe Bennett struck the wall on the front stretch and then Mike Boomhower

plowed into him. This brought out the caution again, and when the track

was cleared and the green once again flew, Chalmer was finally able to

take the lead from LaPorta.

By the half-way point, Bobby Hackel had moved up into third and

Jeff Cassidy had moved into the top five behind Marcus. On the 11th lap,

Dave Baranowski, who was about to be put a lap down, spun out coming out

of turn four, and took out Marcus and Cassidy. The single file restart

now showed the top five as Chalmers, LaPorta, Hackel, Sanchez and Art

Collins. A few green flag laps followed, and the top three cars opened

up a sizeable lead, but remained in single file. Collins continued to

challenge Sanchez for fourth, but was unable to overtake him. This was

Chalmers' first career win, and it came only two days after the young

driver celebrated his 19th birthday.

In the IMCA feature, Henry Tanner started on the pole and took a

strong early lead. By the seventh lap he had opened up a ten car length

lead, with Rich Colesanti running is second. On the tenth lap Denue

muscled past Colesanti into second. In the 14th lap, Denue and Tanner

ran side by side with Denue finally taking the lead. On the very next

lap, Craig Simmons lost power and put some liquid down all over the front

stretch. This brought out the first caution of the race. On the restart,

last year's high point man, Jeff Carr moved up into third behind Denue and

Tanner.

With one lap to go, the white and yellow flags flew together as

Steve Hough spun out all by himself coming out of turn two. As the field

raced for home in the final lap shoot-out, Henry Tanner lost the handles

coming out of turn four, spinning out, and giving Jeff Carr second and

Paul LaRochelle third. Colesanti finished fourth and Brian Wilbur fifth.

The Street Stock feature had Steve Brownell and Rich Fosby on the

front row, and they ran side by side leading the first lap. On the second

lap, Todd Parent lost a wheel on the back stretch causing an incident that

sent Victor Hopkins around where he was then struck head-on by rookie

Shane Peele. On the restart, Brownell took the lead, but he was overtaken

a lap later by Todd Goldstein. With three laps down, Dave Striebel,

driving the number 86, regularly piloted by Jerry Helms, moved into

second. Larry Turner was in third and Danny Sanchez fourth. Turner moved

steadily forward and took the lead on the 12th lap. With only one lap to

go, Sanchez got high between one and two, spun coming out of two, was then

struck by Robbie Speed and rolled over. On the restart, rookie Rickie

Duzlak passed Turner for the lead and sailed on to the victory. Duzlak

began the season in the rookie street stock division and quickly took two

victories, forcing him to move up to the Street Stocks. This was his first

week in the street stock points race.

MODIFIED SUMMARY

Chris Moore, Brett Hearn, Guy Sheldon, Kenny Tremont Jr, J.R. Heffner,

John Hewitt, Dave Leckonby, Donnie Ackner, Steve Devine, Donnie Corellis,

Jeremy Matthies, Maynard Forrette, Todd Wilkinson, Jody Tornabene, Dickie

Larkin, John Gibson, Hollis Morrisey, Russ Reckner, Chip Mitchell, Al Mc Coy,

Dave Mosher, Jeff Lutes, Eddie Marshall, John Hancamp, Mike Benson, Skippy

Fox, Glen Grossjung

SPORTSMAN SUMMARY

Bobby Chalmers, Tony La Porta, Bobby Hackel, Dave Sanchez, Art Collins,

Mike Mason, Roy Bridge, Ron Blake, J.R. Delvechio, Jeff Cassidy, Tony

Ferrieao, K.C. Goewey, Don Miller, Chris Sprague, Frank Harper, Carmon

Carnibucci, Wes Powell, Dave Baronowski, Chris Kokosa, George Marcus,

Scott Puckett, John Alberti, Joe Bennett, Mike Boomhower, Dave McFetters,

Jason Tompkins, Lee Gagliardi

IMCA MODIFIED SUMMARY

Don Denue, Jeff Carr, Paul LaRochelle, Rich Colesanti, Brian Wilbur, Jay

Casey, Bill Lander, George Catanzano, Karl Hacker, Chris Crews, Cory

Fachini, Steve Hough, Kevin Buff, Henry Tanner, Kevin Priest, Craig

Simmons, Dan Galullo, Jim Rajczi, Glen Schwenger, Phil Bulmer

STREET STOCK SUMMARY

Ricky Duzlak, Larry Turner, Dave Streibel, Scott Govertsen, Lorne Browe,

John Routhier, Bobby Blackburn, Bob Duzlak, Paul Laliberti, Steve Brownell,

Bill Deak, Rob Yetman, Ed Bachand, Danny Sanchez, Robbie Speed, Don Ely,

Todd Goldstein, Tom Bortle, Rick Fosby, Victor Hopkins, Todd Parent, Ray

Hall, Shane Peele, Rick Spencer, Dave Kokindo

ROOKIE STREET STOCK SUMMARY

Mike Bungay, Brian Keough, Walt Clark, Don Collins, Geo Stalker Jr,

Richard Sigler, Mark Lathrop, Joe Platt, Tim Emmons, Wayne Keyes, Chris

Lawlor, Jim Schmidheini, Bill Moon, John Denue, Chris Claus

PURE STOCK A SUMMARY

Tom Sanchez Jr, Henry Warner, Scott Kilmer, Carl Baillargeron, Ron

Fredericks, Philip Moffit, Ryan Crellin, Steve Laskow, Mark Huston, Bruce

Moffit, Ron Tritchler, Anthony Lopresti,

PURE STOCK B SUMMARY

Josh Webb, George Miles, Eric Sbrega, Bill Hughes, Tim Drumm, Bob Palmer,

Rich Kratt, Rich Schumann, John Reed, Ed Ashley, Dwayne Lockrow, Jim Dellea

PURE STOCK C SUMMARY

Guy Hughes, Kirk Stanaway, Ralph Hotchkiss, Dave Colwell, Jake Coons,

Tom Meltz, Mark Callahan, Danny Ensign, Peter De Figlio, Gill Twing,

Pete Leffler, William Hammell, Jeff Hassan