It's Hoffman Holly-Day Redux At New Egypt

New Egypt, NJ (July 13) - Defending Modified champion Keith Hoffman wishes

Christmas would come every week. The Whitehall, PA, driver iced down the

heated efforts of both Billy Pauch and Kenny Brightbill Saturday night at

New Egypt Speedway to win his second consecutive Christmas in July event,

sponsored by Advantage Financial Mortgage Bankers of Robbinsville, NJ.

"We had a good car tonight. What a good deal it was to beat those guys!"

said Hoffman, after scoring his third feature win of the 2002 season. "I

knew Billy was fast on top, but my car felt good on the bottom. I know I

didn't run too many good laps at the end - but it was enough to win."

Kenny Brightbill seemed like the man to beat early in the 30-lap Modified

main event, powering into the lead on lap 7 and running away from the pack.

Billy Pauch made his presence known in a big way after a lap 14 restart,

winging his #1 around the top of the track, right up against the wall, while

Brightbill kept his cool down low. What looked to be a two-way tussle

between two titans turned into a four-wide battle on a lap 19 restart. The

next tour Hoffman surprised Pauch on the low side to steal second. Hoffman

slid past Brightbill and into the lead on lap 25. But the race was far from

over: with three to go, Pauch hustled into second and zeroed in on the

leader. While the fans jumped to their feet, Pauch barely nudged past

Hoffman on the final tour. Hoffman, however, would have none of it and shut

the door to fly first under the flag for his third of the year, the eighth

of his career. Pauch settled for second with Frank Cozze a hard-charging

third, Brightbill in fourth and Darren McCaughey in fifth.

Morganville, NJ's Dominick Buffalino shook the monkey off his back to record

a fine first win of the year in the Sportsman 20-lapper, becoming the

track's 11th different Sportsman winner in 12 races run this season. Matt

Papiez, Jeff Carpenter, Mike Toth and Keith Fleming followed Buffalino to

the line.

Rich Page of Manville, NJ, also scored a first of the year after weeks of

bad luck in the Super Stock ranks. Page pulled off a dramatic last-lap,

last-turn pass to score the victory. Jon Hewitt, robbed of a first-ever trip

to victory lane for the second time this season, was once again a

bridesmaid. Current point leader Ralph Gargiulo was third, with Kory Fleming

fourth and Al Cheney III fifth.

The Herman's Trucking Lightning Lap Awards for fastest lap in a feature

event were won by Kenny Brightbill (Mods, 18.638), Dominick Buffalino

(Sportsman, 19.984) and Jon Hewitt (Super Stock, 21.450). A special

"Three-Quick" award, offered by Cream Ridge Golf Club to the third-fastest

in each division, awarded extra bucks to Keith Hoffman (Modified), Larry

Kline (Sportsman) and Rich Page (Super Stock).

Primed by the generosity of Advantage Financial President Gene Stravinsky,

fans donated $3,134 and more than 5,100 toys to the U.S Marine Corps Toys

for Tots drive in a wildly successful Christmas in July fundraiser that

broke all records. In return, Stravinsky gave away more than $9,000 worth of

big-ticket prizes - including TVs, VCRs, DVD and CD players, stereo systems

and bicycles - to fans who supported the toy drive. Santa and his elves were

on site to distribute the Christmas bounty.

Next week, July 20, it's Reclamation's Triple Play at New Egypt, with triple

20s for the Mod squad. Sportsman and Super Stocks are also on the racing

card. Gates open at 4 pm, with first race at 6. Adult admission is $18,

children 7-12 are $6, and kids 6 and under are free. For more information,

call the speedway office at (609) 758-1900.

7/13/02

MODIFIED RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.Dmuchowski 2.Brightbill 3.Miloszar 4.Tanner Jr. 5.Hager

6.Velenger

2nd Heat: 1.McCaughey 2.Godown 3.Pauch 4.Martz 5.Cox 6.Reppert

3rd Heat: 1.Hoffman 2.Worthington 3.Laureno 4.Cozze 5.Hendershot 6.Radd

B Main: 1.Drayton 2.Grosso 3.Bohn 4.Burley 5.Carberry 6.Keimig (Pt. Prov:

Bitner)

Feature (30 laps):

1.Keith Hoffman 2.Billy Pauch 3.Frank Cozze 4.Kenny Brightbill 5.Darren

McCaughey 6.Ryan Godown 7.Tom Hager 8.Tim Tanner Jr. 9.Sam Martz 10.Fred

Dmuchowski 11.Bob Drayton 12.Bob Worthington 13.Eddie Bohn 14.Roger Laureno

15.Jimmy Reppert 16.Todd Burley 17.Gary Velenger 18.Korey Keimig 19.Mike

Hendershot 20.John Miloszar 21.Mark Bitner 22.Rick Grosso 23.Tom Carberry

24.Donnie Radd 25.Tad Cox

DNQ: Dan McMahon, Mark Tranquilli, Larry McVay, Mickey Kessler, Ed

Altemose, Scott VanGorder.

SPORTSMAN RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.Taylor Jr. 2.Tinnes 3.M.Papiez 4.Liedl 5.Buffalino

2nd Heat: 1.Geiges 2.Flesch 3.Tomasko 4.Ploski III 5.Woolston Sr.

3rd Heat: 1.Yard 2.Ely 3.Toth 4.J.Papiez 5.Smith

4th Heat: 1.Lyons 2.Carpenter 3.B.Godown 4.Fleming 5.Tanner III

C Main: 1.Kline

B Main: 1.Swain 2.Scagliotta 3.Hisko 4.Monk 5.Beamer 6.Wasson 7.Telesco

8.Stravinsky

(Pt. Prov: Kline)

Feature (20 Laps):

1.Dominick Buffalino 2.Matt Papiez 3.Jeff Carpenter 4.Mike Toth 5.Keith

Fleming 6.G.R. Smith 7.Lee Taylor Jr. 8.Larry Kline 9.Jeff Geiges 10.Jack

Swain 11.Tom Tomasko 12.Rich Scagliotta 13.Stan Ploski III 14.Bill Tanner

III 15.Pete Telesco 16.Tommy Beamer 17.Joe Papiez 18.Joey Tinnes Jr. 19.Rick

Yard 20.Brian Godown 21.Doug Liedl 22.Chuck Flesch 23.Mike Lyons 24.Chris

Wasson 25.Fred Monk 26.Glenn Hisko 27.Dave Woolston Sr. 28.Gene Stravinsky

29.Brien Ely

DNQ: (B Main): Jim Scherer, Dave Woolston Jr., Billy Tanner IV, Anthony

Tramontana, Larry Kline, Rick Raisner, Tim Apgar, Todd Kuhl, Mike Mongiello

III, Keith Plumstead, Ken Meisner, Lou Farina III. (C Main): Stan

Frankenfield Jr., Keith Foster, Larry Lippincott, Bruce Leote, Brad

Brightbill, Lenny Przemelewski, Bill Raisner, Steve Schultz, Brian Pearson,

Andy Weeks, Robert Morris, Joe Szwed, Gene DeVos, Phil McCloughan, Scott

Reid.

SUPER STOCK RESULTS

1st Heat: 1.Quinlan 2.Nixon 3.Jn.Hewitt 4.Conaway 5.R.Page 6.Wagner

2nd Heat: 1.Fleming 2.R.Gargiulo 3.Coverly 4.Pfeil 5.Whitehouse 6.Cheney

3rd Heat: 1.Butler 2.Bifulco 3.Berardi 4.M.Page 5.Reed 6.Miscoski

B Main: 1.Gerber 2.Melton 3.Scarpati 4.Roveda 5.Jm. Hewitt 6.Barnes

Feature (15 laps):1.Rich Page 2.Jon Hewitt 3.Ralph Gargiulo 4.Kory Fleming

5.Al Cheney III 6.Pat Conaway 7.Mario Page 8.Bill Gerber 9.Wayne Pfeil

10.Ron Coverly 11.George Quinlan 12.Evan Berardi 13.Bryan Reed 14.Brian

Nixon 15.Jim Hewitt 16.Jake Roveda 17.Bill Miscoski 18.Robert Melton

19.Steve Barnes 20.Carol Whitehouse 21.Gary Butler 22.John Scarpati Jr.

23.Brian Wagner 24.Kevin Bifulco

DNQ: Dan Dewey, Allan Hurley, Jason Saredy, Bob Vaccaro.