BRACE WINS PRO-TRUCK 50, PAINE CONTINUES MOD DOMINATION
DUNDEE,N.Y......Steve Paine continues his domination of the Modified divisionat the Black Rock Speedway last Friday as he picked up another win. Steve Brace was the big winner in the Regional International Pro-Truck 50 lap feature event. Dale Welty put his ageless 1-2-3 in victory lane again in thePPG Super-Stocks. IN 4 Cyl. Stock racing, Jack Ayres and Phil Yaw were the winners, while Joey Kurtz picked up the win in the Black Rock Bandits on Martin Chevrolet night.
It's "Hurricane" season in Dundee, as Steve Paine continues to storm the Modified field at the Black Rock Speedway. Paine took the lead on lap 9 in turn three, and everybody was fighting for left overs after that. Doug Mattison jumped out to the early lead in the Twin Tier Lumber #15. Bryon Turner was up to second quickly and he began to challenge Mattison for the early lead. On lap 5 there was jingle in turn 2 that saw Brian Polmanteer's 33 pop up in the air, Paine barley avoided contact in this incident. Three laps later there was a major pile up in turn 4 involving Doug Mattison, Ron White, Charlie Donk, Stacy Jackson, and Chuck Graham. On the restart, Paine took the lead that he held to the checkers. Bryon Turner held on for second, third was Tim Sebring, fourth went to Aaron Jacobus, and Matt Sheppard filled out the top five. Heats were won by Charlie Donk, Bryon Turner, and Tim Sebring.
Steve Brace was the winner in the first long distance event for the all new Pro-Truck division. He picked up the win in the Regional Pro Truck 50. At the drop of the green, pole sitter Ron Divens jumped out to the early lead, and Bry Weiskoff was right on his tailgate. These two battled for several laps, and then began to pull away from the rest of the field. Lap 10 saw Weiskoff took the lead, with Divens second, third was Eddie Machuga, and Steve Brace was fourth. He continued to move his Sunrise Express up to the second position, and began to put pressure on Divens. Brace and Divens continued to battle for the lead until the 1/2 way point when Brace took over the top spot. Once out in front Brace pulled away from the field and took the big win. Ron Divens held on for second, third was Bry Weiskoff, fourth was Billy Wilson, and Les Smith. Heats were won by Ron Divens, and Fred Buckley.
Dale Welty is still on a roll in 2000, as he continues his winning ways in the PPG Super-Stocks. He had to work for the win as Sparky Hills put on his best drive of the season and was at the top of the field until he got a little out of shape in turn three on lap 16, and Welty took the lead he would hold to the checkered flag. Hills held on for second, third was Mike Carapella, Cam Sutherland was fourth, and Dave Fultz filled out the top five. Heats were won by Chris Daugherty, Sparky Hills, and Dale Welty.
In 4 Cyl. Stock racing, Jack Ayres was the winner of the first feature. He was followed by Don Potter in second, third was Bruce Akins, fourth was Joe Carlineo, and Donnie Lawson filled out the top five. In the second feature, Phil Yaw took another win, Eddie Mills was second, third was Karl Weichenthal, Jake Clancey got fourth, and Mike Buchanan was fifth. Heats were won by Jack Ayres, Travis Grover, and Jake Clancey.
Joe Kurtz picked up his second win of the season with a great drive in the Black Rock Bandits, Serenity Sutherland also had a good race and finished second, third was Ray Spiecher, fourth went to, Adam Austin, and Steven Ovens continues his good runs with a fifth place finish.
MARTIN CHEVROLET RACE SUMMARY:MODIFIEDS(25 LAPS)STEVE PAINE, Bryon Turner, TimSebring, Aaron Jacobus, Matt Sheppard, Bill Deming, Todd Henderson, Rich Swarthout, Tom Stewart, Brian Swarthout, Tim Burnett, Eric VanSkiver, Alex Hoag, Ray Dann, Derrick Podsiadlo, Fran Hilton, Brian Polmanteer, Chuck Kennison, Jason Clugstone, John Morevec, Chuck Graham, Charlie Donk, Stacy Jackson, Ron White, Doug Mattison.
PPG SUPER-STOCKS(20 LAPS)DALE WELTY, Sparky Hills, Mike Carapella, Cam Sutherland, Dave Fultz, Quinn Sutherland, Chris Daugherty, Chris Dobson, Carl Cleveland, Jim Schuyler, Del Cummings, Joe Buck, Bill Morich, Doug Buckley, Kevin Chilson, Dave DuBoise, Rob Conklin, Dave Machuga, Scott Trotter, DaveYehl.
REGIONAL INTERNATIONAL PRO-TRUCKS(50 LAPS)STEVE BRACE, Ron Divens, Bry Weiskoff, Billy Wilson, Les Smith, Tom Austin, Jeff Barner, Eddie Machuga, Derek Excell, Don Putman, Jeff Smith, Ralph Warren, Fred Buckley, Shawn Brace, Don Divens, Dan Mathews.
4 CYL. STOCKS RACE #1(15 LAPS)JACK AYRES, Don Potter, Bruce Akins, JoeCarlineo, Donnie Lawson, Chad Dickerson, Les Irwin, Dan Dykes, Brett VanZile, Frog Fenton Jr., Fred Mathews, Scott Bradley, Matt Balmer, Skip Dean, Alfred Clark, Rich Sharpsteen.
4 CYL. STOCKS RACE #2(15 LAPS)PHIL YAW, Eddie Mills, Karl Weichenthal, Jake Clancey, Mike Buchanan, Kenny Hunt, Jason White, Ray Hyer, Willie Grant, Travis Grover, Pete Warner, Mike White, Eddie Crawford.
BLACK ROCK BANDITS(10 LAPS) JOE KURTZ, Serenity Sutherland, Raymond Speicher, Adam Austin, Steven Ovens, Tyler Avery, Nathan Daggett, Dustin Towner, Brittany Jack, Dan Flynn, Trevor Sutherland, Willie Grant Jr., Trevor Bentley,Dave Clancey, Josh Mills.