Bitner, Radd, Hoffman Split Triple 20s At New Egypt
New Egypt, NJ (July 20) - Three Modified drivers had a turn in New Egypt
Speedway's victory lane Saturday night, as Mark Bitner of Allentown, NJ,
Donny Radd of Ringoes, NJ, and Whitehall, PA's Keith Hoffman split a Triple
Play of three 20-lap features, sponsored by Reclamation Inc. of Kingston,
NY. Although no one laid claim to the $1,500 Trifecta bonus Reclamation
offered to any driver to post a trio of top-three finishes, Hoffman - with a
win, a third, and a fifth - was the night's top overall finisher; collecting
an extra $500 for his efforts.
"We couldn't quite get the $1,500 but we got $500 and that's pretty cool,"
Hoffman said after winning the final race of the night. "We made a lot of
changes to the car for this last one -- had a hard time getting it to stay
on the cushion. It was good, but not good enough to win until then."
A hot Mark Bitner quickly charged to the fore in the first Modified 20,
grabbing the lead on lap 6 and never looking back for the duration. Fred
Dmuchowski, in his best run all season, was second, with Keith Hoffman, Todd
Burley and Billy Pauch completing the top five.
In the second Modified race, Donny Radd survived a tooth-and-nail battle
with Tim Tanner Jr. and Bobby Drayton to record his first career win at the
speedway. Tanner, Frank Cozze, Drayton and Hoffman followed Radd to the
stripe.
In the final Mod 20, Hoffman outpowered a determined Darren McCaughey for
final bragging rights on the night. Cozze, Tanner and Pauch trailed Hoffman
and McCaughey at the finish.
Mt. Laurel, NJ's Jack Swain rebounded from weeks of bad luck to clinch his
second of the season in the Sportsman main event. Matt Papiez, Mike Lyons,
Scott Reid and Chuck Flesch were second through fifth.
A jubilant Carol Whitehouse of Hamilton Square, NJ, scored her first win in
four years in the Super Stock race. Whitehouse outdrove Bill Miscoski, Gary
Butler, division points leader Ralph Gargiulo and Rich Page for the victory.
The Herman's Trucking Lightning Lap Awards for fastest lap in a feature
event were won by Mark Bitner (Mods, 18.015), Mike Lyons (Sportsman, 19.494)
and Mario Page (Super Stock, 20.550).
As the night's sponsor, in addition to the Trifecta bonus for the Modified
racers, Reclamation Inc. had a ton of specially-designed T-shirts to toss
into the grandstands, and a trio of bicycles for three lucky kids.
Next week, July 27, Century 21 presents Banner Night at New Egypt Speedway,
with some great prizes for adults and kids who design the best banners in
support of their favorite drivers. Modifieds, Sportsman and Super Stocks are
on the action-packed racing card. Gates open at 4 pm, with first race at 6.
Adult admission is $14, children 7-12 are $4, and kids 6 and under are free.
For more information, call the speedway office at (609) 758-1900.
7/20/02
MODIFIED RESULTS
1st Heat: 1.Godown 2.Miloszar 3.Radd 4.Bitner 5.Grosso 6.Dmuchowski
2nd Heat: 1.Pauch 2.Drayton 3.McCaughey 4.Bohn 5.Laureno 6.Keimig
3rd Heat: 1.Hoffman 2.Cozze 3.Brightbill 4.Burley 5.Kell 6.Martz
B Main: 1.Tanner Sr. 2.Tanner Jr. 3.Worthington 4.Hager 5.Pakenham
6.Lentini
1st Feature (20 laps):
1.Mark Bitner 2.Fred Dmuchowski 3.Keith Hoffman 4.Todd Burley 5.Billy Pauch
6.Sam Martz 7.Darren McCaughey 8.Ryan Godown 9.Frank Cozze 10.Bob Drayton
11.Donny Radd 12.Tim Tanner Jr. 13.Kenny Brightbill 14.Bucky Kell 15.Bob
Worthington 16.Rick Grosso 17.Roger Laureno 18.Tom Hager 19.John Miloszar
20.John Pakenham 21.Korey Keimig 22.Art Lentini 23.Eddie Bohn 24.Tim Tanner
Sr.
2nd Feature (20 laps):
1.Donny Radd 2.Tim Tanner Jr. 3.Frank Cozze 4.Bob Drayton 5.Keith Hoffman
6.Todd Burley 7.Kenny Brightbill 8.Darren McCaughey 9.Sam Martz 10.Roger
Laureno 11.Bucky Kell 12.Bob Worthington 13.Billy Pauch 14.Fred Dmuchowski
15.Rick Grosso 16.Mark Bitner 17.John Miloszar 18.Tom Hager 19.John Pakenham
20.Korey Keimig 21.Art Lentini 22.Ryan Godown 23.Tim Tanner Sr. 24.Eddie
Bohn
3rd Feature (20 laps):1.Keith Hoffman 2.Darren McCaughey 3.Frank Cozze 4.Tim
Tanner Jr.5.Billy Pauch 6.Roger Laureno 7.Todd Burley 8.Sam Martz 9.Kenny
Brightbill 10.Bucky Kell 11.Mark Bitner 12.Bob Drayton 13.Tom Hager 14.Ryan
Godown 15.Donny Radd 16.Fred Dmuchowski 17.Bob Worthington 18.Rick Grosso
19.John Miloszar 20.Tim Tanner Sr. 21.Art Lentini 22.Korey Keimig 23.John
Pakenham 24.Eddie Bohn
DNQ: Richie Rutski, Mark Blackwell, Dan McMahon, Mike Hendershot, Scott
VanGorder, Jack Amundsen, Doug Liedl, Jimmy Reppert, Gary Velenger.
SPORTSMAN RESULTS
1st Heat: 1.B.Godown 2.McCloughan 3.Kline 4.Tanner III 5.Mongiello III
2nd Heat: 1.Ploski III 2.M.Papiez 3.Tramontana 4.Buffalino 5.Meisner
3rd Heat: 1.Scherer 2.Toth 3.Telesco 4.Plumstead 5.Flesch
4th Heat: 1.Wasson 2.Swain 3.Reid 4.Beamer 5.Tomasko
1st consi: 1.Scagliotta 2.Raisner 3.Pearson 4.Fleming
2nd consi: 1.Reutter 2.Smith 3.Stravinsky 4.Lyons (Pt. Prov: J.Papiez )
Feature (20 Laps):
1.Jack Swain 2.Matt Papiez 3.Mike Lyons 4.Scott Reid 5.Chuck Flesch 6.Mike
Toth 7.G.R.Smith 8.Tommy Beamer 9.Bill Tanner 10.Phil McCloughan 11.Ken
Meisner 12.Brian Godown 13.Chris Wasson 14.Jim Scherer 15.Anthony Tramontana
16.Brian Pearson 17.Rick Raisner 18.Dominick Buffalino 19.Gene Stravinsky
20.Mike Mongiello III 21.Rich Scagliotta 22.Tom Tomasko 23.Larry Kline
24.Mike Reutter Jr. 25.Joe Papiez 26.Pete Telesco 27.Stan Ploski III
28.Keith Fleming 29.Keith Plumstead
DNQ: Bruce Leote, Doug Liedl, Jeff Geiges, Fred Monk, Lenny Przemeleweski,
Larry Lippincott, Tim Apgar, Todd Kuhl, Lou Farina III, Billy Tanner IV,
Bill Raisner, Dave Woolston Jr., Glenn Hisko, Rich McTighe, Dave Gorbatuk,
Rob Morris, Joe Szwed, Dave Woolston Sr., Steve Schultz, Stan Frankenfield
Jr., Lee Taylor Jr., Jimmy Hoelterling, Gene DeVos.
SUPER STOCK RESULTS
1st Heat: 1.Fleming 2.Gerber 3.R.Page 4.Gargiulo 5.Cheney III 6.Pfeil
2nd Heat: 1.M.Page 2.Nixon 3.Conaway 4.Roveda 5.Miscoski 6.Hewitt
3rd Heat: 1.Bifulco 2.Reed 3.Whitehouse 4.Bauer 5.Quinlan 6.Miller
Feature (15 laps):1.Carol Whitehouse 2.Bill Miscoski 3.Gary Butler 4.Ralph
Gargiulo 5.Rich Page 6.Pat Conaway 7.Bryan Reed 8.Al Cheney III 9.Brian
Nixon 10.Jake Roveda 11.Bill Gerber 12.Wayne Pfeil 13.Paul Marra Jr.
14.Mario Page 15.George Quinlan 16.Ron Coverly 17.Jim Hewitt 18.Kory Fleming
19.Billy Bauer 20.Evan Berardi 21.Kevin Bifulco 22.Jon Hewitt 23.Brian
Wagner 24.Steve Barnes
DNQ: Joe Garey, Allan Hurley, Mike Dzingleski, John Scarpati Jr.