CHRIS COYLE TOPS URC SPRINT FIELD AT PENN CAN, COLSTEN WINS FOURTH
CONSECUTIVE MODIFIED FEATURE
(Susquehanna, Pa.) The much-anticipated first ever appearance of the Advance Auto Parts URC Sprint Car Tour at the Penn Can Speedway lived up to its advance billing as the URC sprints turned out 40 strong despite threatening weather conditions. Chris Coyle etched his name in the record books as he came home the winner of the first ever URC feature atPenn Can. Mike Colsten continued his dominance of Modified action as he won his fourth consecutive Modified feature. Defending tack champion Jamie Shea won his first of the season in the Super Stock ranks while Toby Sparks rounded out the evening with a win in the Pure Stock feature. The night's racing activity was co-sponsored by BPG Racing and Chad Sinon Motorsports.
For Coyle, it would be a dominating run to victory in the 25 lap Bars Leak URC Sprint car feature. Wheeling the Fred Kennedy,Bill Turpin owned #56, Coyle earned the pole starting position by virtue of his victory in the first heat race and immediately jumped to the lead at the drop of the green flag. Utilizing the outside grove of the speedway, The talented young driver from Wilmington, Del. turned in a dominating performance to pick up the victory, his second career URC win and first
of the season. Coyle would lead every lap of the feature to drive his #56 into the Penn Can Speedway victory lane. Though he led every lap, it was far from an easy run for Coyle. Heavy lapped traffic in the middle and late stages of the event proved to be a challenge for Coyle and allowed second place Kevin Welsh to make a run at Chris, but Kevin was not quite strong enough and had to settle for second behind Coyle. The two were comfortably ahead of third place finisher Jeff Busby at the checkered flag. Midge Miller and Danny Massey completed the top five. Kramer Williamson was replacing the injured Curt Michael in the Pallandino #99 and brought the car home sixth ahead of Deric Parker while former small block modified driver Ed Akin finished eighth. Bill Brian Jr. and Pete Green completed the top ten. The 40 URC Sprint Cars on hand took part in four heat races with Chris Coyle, Danny Massey, Tim Hogue, and Derek Parker picking up the wins. Trevor Lewis came home the winner of the C-Main while former Penn Can Modified star George Suprick came home the winner of the B-Main on his home track.
The debut of the URC Sprints was so successful that Penn Can co-promoters Al Wilcox and Reed Miller have already signed a contact to have the URC Sprints return for the Friday of Memorial Day Weekend in 2003.
The Modified feature saw Mike Colsten continue his domination of the class so far in 2002 as Mike drove his familiar Don's Automotive Mall sponsored Teo Pro Car "Recycler" to his fourth consecutive victory. Colsten started the feature back in twelfth starting spot as the early stages of the Modified feature saw Jim Crawn and Rich Keele battle for the top spot as Colsten worked his way into contention, driving steadily toward the front of the field. The turning point would come on a lap 8
restart as Colsten was able to make a bold move entering the first turn and driving past both Crawn and Keehle to take the lead. Mike would lead the rest of the 30 laps to pick up his fourth victory in a row. George Kostelansky advanced as high as second but could not find a way past Colsten. Mike took the win followed by George. Chris Shupp continued his string of good runs with a third place finish. Mike Deckr and three time track champion Butch Tittle rounded out the top five. Doug
Worthing finished sixth in his first Penn Can start of the season. Rich Keehle came home seventh with consolation race winner Bill Huff eighth, Rich Whitney finished ninth while Jeff Bronson wound up tenth driving Brian Decker's sportsman car as his own car is sidelined with motor woes.
A season high 30 Modifieds were on hand with Butch Tittle, Mike Colsten, and Briam Weaver winning Modified heat races. Bull Huff won the consolation race.
The Super Stock feature saw defending track champion Jamie Shea drive his PS Transportation/Lenox Dairy Bar sponsored #J1 to victory, his first of the 2002 campaign. Shea wasted little time in taking control of this event as he advanced quickly from his fourth starting position to take the lead from Craig Trella on the second lap of he feature. Once he got out front, Shea had things petty much his way, coming home the feature winner by a comfortable margin over Tracy Gregory, who finished
second. Randy Metcalf, Brett Spoor, and newcomer Gary Roberts completed the top five. Current point leader Chris Piasecki finished sixth while newcomer Wade Decker finished seventh. Chris Hubsinger, Dick Vauter, and Rick Brown completed the top ten.
Jamie Shea, Randy Metcalf, and Tracy Gregort were Super Stock heat
winners.
Local hero Toby Sparks picked up his second Pure Stock feature win of the season on Saturday night. Fresh off his feature win the previous week, teenage racing sensation Michael Lartz finished a strong second behind Sparks. Nate Evans finished third with Daryl Ellis and Everett Cass rounding out the top five. Shane Wolff finished sixth in his first start of the season trailed by Craig Decker, Billy House, Buck Mills and Wade Decker.
Pure Stock heats were won by Craig Decker, Nate Evans, and Everett Cass.
Racing continues this Friday night at the Penn Can Speedway with a five division show headlined by the Mighty Modifieds. The Sportsman and Late Models return to action after a week off, while the Super Stocks will run a pair of feature races, the first being the one rained out back on May 17th. The qualifying is complete for that held-over feature and no additional cars will be added. The Pure Stocks round out the racing card which gets underway at 7:15 PM.
CHAD SINON MOTORSPORTS/BPG RACING NIGHT RACE SUMMARY:
URC SPRINT CARS: 1. CHRIS COYLE 2. Kevin Welsh 3. Jeff Busby 4. Midge Miller 5. Danny Massey 6. Kramer Williamson 7. Deric Parker 8.Ed Aikin 9. Bill Brian Jr. 10. Pete Green 11. George Suprick 12. Dave Ely 13. Scott
Pursell 14.Gary Gollub 15. Dave Gable 16. Mike Haggenbottom 17. Tim Hogue 18. Trevor Lewis 19. Jim Meyers 20. Brett Romano 21. Jason Hegenbaugh 22. Matt Gerber 23. Ashleigh Bates 24. Jimmy Stitzel 25. Doug Emery DNQ:
Ashley Parlett, Greg Coverdale, Ray Staats, Mike Kostic, Fran Hogue, Justin Collette, Junior Martin, Jeff Foote, Dave cGough, Glen Clarke, eath Hehnley, Randy Schmoyer, Jason Clauss, Jason Hagenbuck, Judi Bates
MODIFIED: 1. MIKE COLSTEN 2. George Kostelansky 3. Chris Shupp 4. Mike ecker 5. Butch Tittle 6. Doug Worthing 7. Rich Keehle 8. Bill Huff 9. ick Whitney 10. Jeff Bronson 11. Bob Hamm 12. Carl Nagel 13. Rick irkitis 14. Tom McGurrin 15. Alan Shiffler 16. Brian Franko 17. Brian eaver 18. Jim Crawn 19. John Gurnsey 20. Mike Nagel 21. Brain Payne 22.
Tom Hager 23. Sean Collins 24. Chris Weaver DNQ: Ed Hawley, Bob Thomas, Dan Vauter, Matt Smith
SUPER STOCK: 1. JAMIE SHEA 2. Tracy Gregory 3. Randy Metcalf 4. Brett poor 5. Gary Roberts 6. Chris Piasecki 7. Wade Decker 8. Chris Hunsinger 9. Dick Vauter 10. Rick Brown 11. Craig Trella 12. Jason Schlafer 13. Dwayne Robbins 14. Mike Wilmont 15. Mike Mills 16. Jack Cassidy 17. Joe Cabets 18. Paul Rooney 19. Randy Rollison 20. Scott Chapman 21. Brian
McRabie 22. Dennis Latwinski 23. Mike Decker
PURE STOCK: 1. TOBY SPARKS 2. Michael Lartz 3. Nate Evans 4. Daryl Ellis 5. Everett Cass 6. Shane Wolff 7. Craig Decker 8. Billy House 9. Buck Mills 10. Kurt Decker 11. Brett Welch 12. Tom Garren 13. Jason Harrington
14. Butch Green 15. Gary Druhl 16. Gregg Brunges 17. Matt Payne 18. Dennis Gow 19. Chuck Alexander 20. Keith Wilkins 21. Kevin Davies 22. Bob Albrecht 23. Mark Hoyte 24. Jeremy Shaw DNS: Rick Seeley