Worthing Takes Checkers At Thunder Mountain
Shea Makes It Two For Two
Center lisle, New York..Doug Worthing made it two winners in two weeks in the Modifieds as he took the win last Saturday night at the Thunder Mountain Speedway thirty-lap headliner. Jamie Shea made it an incredible six win in six starts for the 2000 season as he won his second feature in a row in the Street Stocks. Other winners on the evening included Steve Hill in the Four Cylinder Modifieds, Chad Cook In the Sportsmen, Don Harvey in the Mini Sprints, Mike Foote Sr. in the Pure Stocks and Rich Powell in the Four Cylinder Stocks.
The Modified feature got off tough start as Butch Cerullo stopped on the back stretch just after the field took the initial green with George Kostelansky on the pole. And on the next green two more cars got together on the front stretch bringing out yellow number two. Kostelansky led the first two circuits before being overtaken by last week s second place finisher who inturn lost the top spot to winner of week one Mike Colsten. Colsten started to open up a gap between himself and Clapperton who had his hands full with the potent Doug Worthing. At the halfway point Worthing edged by Clapperton for second and set his sights on Colsten. He caught and passed the Ford powered mount of Colsten on lap 23 on the backstretch. Once in front Worthing opened up a little gap and brought The E. E. Root sponsored mount home first followed by Colsten in second, Marty Bunker in third, Kostelansky in fourth and Carl Nagel completing the top five.
A new face appeared in victory lane in the 15 lap Sportsman go as it was Chad Cook leading wire to wire from his outside pole starting spot for his first every Thunder Mountain Speedway win by a dozen car lengths over Bob Hamm who had his hands full with last week s winner Don Hart Jr. for the second spot. Following that trio home was open wheel rookie Billy Spoonhower in fourth and Ken Titus claiming his second top five in a row with a solid fifth.
Jamie Shea made it two wins in a row at Thunder Mountain and six for six overall as he lead every lap enroute to the twenty lap Street Stock win. Charlie Fulton was on the pole but Shea won the battle back to the flag to lead the first lap. A rash of yellow flags brought the field close a number of times but Shea s machine was equal to the task. Harold Humphrey scored his best finish of the year with a good second place run. Ed McKiernan followed him in third, Larry Hillis in fourth and P. J. Goodwin in the top five finishing spots. Of note here was the sixth place run of fourteen-year-old rookie driver J. T. McKiernan in his dad s 2000 machine.
Don Harvey got his second win in as many weeks as h copped the fifteen lap Mini Sprint go. Harvey used his outside pole starting spot to his advantage as he beat pole sitter Mike Emhoff to the first turn and never looked back in a race that was slowed by only one early yellow flag. Steve Boyd claimed his second runner-up finish in a row and Lance O dell in the show position followed him. Fourth went to New Jersey invader Doug Smith and Mini Sprint rookie Brian Howland rounded out the top five.
Hill made it two in a row as he got by early leader George Howe on lap five and never looked back. Hill survived many yellow flag periods including one on the very last lap to capture the win. For the second week in a row, Cliff Pierce took second followed by brother Curt in third. The rest of the top five included Scott Allen and Howe.
Buck Mills led the first of fifteen laps in the Pure Stock feature before Max Moshier Jr. took command on lap two. Moshier had his hands full with Bill Rampe for a new of laps. Also in the mix was sophomore pilot William Soloeiwj, who had came from deep in the pack to run third at the halfway mark. Moshier started to pull away until lap thirteen when Moshier went pit side giving the lead to Rampe. Rampe led thirteen and fourteen but pushed high in turn two allowing Mike Foote to get by. Solleiwj also got by as they exited turn four dropping Rampe to third in the final rundown. Rounding out the top five were Don Moshier and Bill Leonard.
Rick Angle led the early going in the Four Cylinder Stock feature. He held off early challenges from Larry Colton. Colsten then had his hands full with last week s winner Rich Powell and Powell finally got by on lap three and a lap later went by Angle for the lead he would never relinquish. Angle stayed put to grab off second. Stanley Mathews followed him in third, Jeff Witt in fourth and Jay Hayward in fifth.
Next week a regular seven class show consisting of the Modifieds, Sportsmen, Street Stocks, Pure Stocks, Four Cylinder Stocks, Four Cylinder Modifieds and Mini Sprints. Gates will open at 4:00 with racing set to begin at 6:30.
MODIFIED FEATURE (30Laps): Doug Worthing, Mike Colsten, Marty Bunker, George Kostelansky, Carl Nagel, Dave Jenkins, J. R. Hurlburt, Steve Babicek, Rick Wilk, Dick Sundgren, Dave Zona, Tom McGurrin, Sean Collins, Bob Hamm, Mike Clapperton, Mike Frost, Chris Weaver, Scott Frack, Mike Nagel, Paul Jensen, Jimmy Wrench, Dan Morden, Mike Payne, Pat Lynch, Ken Wierick, Butch Cerullo, Ed Hawley.
SPORTSMAN FEATURE (15 Laps): Chad Cook, Bob Hamm, Don Hart Jr., Billy Spoonhower, Ken Titus, Rick Wilk, Brian Payne, Brian Decker, Chad O hara, Dennis Latwinski, Bob Conklin, Tony Pease, Kevin Jordan, Tom Sienko.
STREET STOCK FEATURE: (20 Laps) Jamie Shea, Harold Humphrey, Ed McKiernan, Larry Hillis, P. J. Goodwin, J. T. McKiernan, John Morse, Ken Hammond, Chris Jordan, Dan Howe, Dwayne Robbins, Jeremy Clark, Rick Davis, Matt Roberts, Doug Nelson, Ron Latwinski, Brian MacRabie, Dave Button, Charlie Fulton.
MINI SPRINT FEATURE (15 Laps): Don Harvey, Steve Boyd, Lance O dell, Doug Smith, Brian Howland, Ed Warren, Jeremy Vunk, Steve Klock, Aric Copeland, Ryan Lund, Darl Ellis, Mike Emhoff, Dale Roloson, Bruce Brown, Rick Wust. DNS-Curt Shuttlesworth, Bruce Gould.
FOUR CYLINDER MODIFIED FINISH (15 Laps): Steve Hill, Cliff Pierce, Curt Pierce, Scott Allen, George Howe, Calvin Pierce, Kala Bush, Anna Howe, Ray Hurlburt, Pete Christiansen, Billy Bushaw, Roger Dewitt, Chris Berg, Chet Carr, Steve Bump. DNS-Alan Bush, Ick Pierce, Mark Reynolds, Andy Carr, Jim Waite.
PURE STOCK FEATURE: (15 Laps) Mike Foote Sr., William Soloeiwj, Bill Rampe, Don Moshier, Bill Leonard, Buck Mills, Rich Green, Shawn Olenski, Michael Lartz, Scott George, Dave Majercik, Dan Babcock, Max Moshier Jr., Norm Whittemore, Bret Welch, Mike Austin, Bill Davey, Sean O Connor, Doug Stack, Tom Witko, Steve McWain, Gene Welch, Bill Goodrich. DNS-Mike Wilbur.
FOUR CYLINDER STOCK FEATURE (15 Laps): Rich Powell, Rick Angle, Stanley Mathews, Jeff Witt, Jay Hayward, Fred Newton, Dan Talada, Jeff Wilcox Jr., Jeff Wilcox, John Wilcox, Jerry Wilcox, Lloyd Twarz, John Coish, Randy Gardner, Larry Colton, John Carter, Ken Barber