White, Grammes, Petrilak, Villano, Hartman At Lake Moc-A-Tek

Despite threatening skies and a heavy late afternoon shower, Mother

Nature did not put a stop to racing activities at the Lake Moc-A-Tek

Speedway. Promoter Charlie Bray and General Manager Carl "Fuzzy" Van

Horn elected to wait out a late afternoon shower and were rewuarded with

an almost perfect night for racing. The rain did delay the start of the

races by about a half hour as crews worked the track back into shape, but

the entire program was run off without a hitch and ended well before

curfew.

One driver who was glad the races went on as scheduled was veteran

driver Barry White. After suffering misfortunes while leading the

previous week, White got a second chance on Saturday night and he made

good on it as he led the entire distance to pick up the win in the 25 lap

358 Modified feature. The pilot of the Deka Batteries sponsored #131

took the lead at the drop of the green and proceeded to lead every lap of

the feature. The win was White's first ever Lake Moc-A-Tek triumph.

Nick Barassi had his best run of the season as he finished a strong

second behind White. Ed Strada Jr., Alan Kellogg, and Dom Roselli

completed the top five finishing order. Brian Malcolm, Russ Strausser,

Jason Rudalavage, Bill Thornton, and Troy Weisenfluh completed the top

ten.

Kunkletown, Pa.'s Brad Grammes drove his Slug 'n Slam Construction

sponsored #5 to his second victory of the season at Lake Moc-A-Tek. The

rookie driver turned in a dominating performance to pick up the feature

win, the second triumph for Grammes in this his rookie season. Brad

fought hard for the victory as he spent most of the race dueling with Tom

Laner Jr. for the top spot. Laner pressured Grammes all the way, but was

never able to find a way past and settled for a strong runner-up finish.

Rocky Rosetti finished third with Alex Knopka and Chris Kresge completing

the top five finishing order. Newcomer Jimmy Wincell finished a solid

sixth in his first ever Lake Moc-A-Tek start with Ralph Mele, Bob

Grammes, Mike Schane, and Mike Marold rounding out the top ten.

Teenage racing sensation Nick Petrilak picked up the win in the

Street Stock feature on Saturday night. The Greenfield Twp.high school

student drove around the outside of current point leader and defending

track champion Mike Loney to take over the top spot on lap 18 of the 20

lap feature. Loney tride to work his way pback past Petrilak in the

closing laps, but could not find a way past Nick. Petrilak's win came

aboard the D & D Outlaw chassied car that Nick normally campaigns at the

Penn Can Speedway on Friday nights. Behind Petrilak and Loney, Rick

Lazar had his best run of the season to date, finishing a solid third.

Ed kudrako also had a season's best fourth place finish while Neil

DiBlasi charged from starting dead last to finish fifth. Chuck Davis,

Adam Jones, Jim Hughes Jr., Chuck Lowe and Mike Van Tassell completed the

top ten.

Keith Villano became only the second driver this season to win a

Pure Stock feature driving a four cylinder powered car. A last lap

restart made for a dramatic finish as Villano had current point leaer and

multi-time feature winner Nate Evans on his tail for the final restart.

Evens made a run at Keith over the final lap, but could not find a way

past Villano's Mustang over the final laps, and Keith recored a

hard-earned feature win, his first ever Lake Moc-A-Tek triumph. Evans

crossed the line second ahead of Franklin Bush, Floyd Schmidt, and Don

Leiper. Todd Hotaling, Jim Bargabus, Ronnie Blake, Jason Martin, and

Gregg Brunges made up the remainder of the top ten.

Richie Hartmen picked up the win in the 250cc Micro Sprint feature,

the fourth win of the season for Hartman, the current divisional point

leader. Hartman got out front early then survived a furious late race

charge by Terry Schaffer to pick up the win. Hartman saw a compfortable

lead disappear when a lap 13 caution flag bunched the field up. From

there, Hartman was able to hold off Schaffer's challenges the rest of the

way. Hartman crossed the line first ahead of Schaffer for the win.

Schaffer finished second with Davie Franek third. Fred Valenza crossed

the line fourth newcomer Steve Buckwalter fifth in his first Lake

Moc-A-Tek start. Ralph Utter Jr., Kevin Nolf, Chris Oraschin, Mike

Tidabeck, and Rick McKay finished sixth throough tenth respectively.

Race fans are reminded that the annual Fireworks Show at Lake

Moc-A-Tek is scheduled for this Saturday, August 11th. The fireworks

will be presented in conjunction with a full five division racing card.

The specials just keep coming as August is crammed full of special

events, as on August 18th the Sportsman and Street Stock divisions will

run qualifiers for the Victoria 200 weekend at the Fulton Speedway . The

feature winners in both classes earn guaranteed starting spots in their

respective races during Victoria 200 Weekend. One week later on August

25th, the 358 Modifieds and Sportsman divisions will have guaranteed

starting spots for the Eastern States Weekend at the Orange County Fair

Speedway. The Street Stocks take center stage again on August 28th for

the Mike Petrilak Memorial which will carry not only double points, but

the payoff for the night will be doubled as well.

Racing continues this Saturday night at the Lake Moc-A-Tek Speedway

with a regular five division racing card. Racing gets underway at 6PM

sharp with a regular five division racing card on tap. Lake Moc-A-Tek

Speedway is located on Pennsylvania Rte 590 approximately seven miles

East of Hamlin, Pa. To get to Lake Moc-A-Tek, take Exit 17 (formerly

Exit 5) off I-84 and head toward Hamlin to the stop light. Turn right

onto Pa. Rte 590 and travel about seven miles where signs are posted

leading right into the speedway parking lot. Promoter Charlie Bray can

be contacted at 610-759-0809. The race day weather hotline is

(570)-226-5602.

RACE SUMMARY:

358 MODIFIEDS : 1. BARRY WHITE 2. Nick Barassi 3. Ed Strada Jr. 4. Alan

Kellogg 5. Dom Roselli 6. Brian Malcolm 7. Russ Strausser 8. Jason

Rudalavage 9. Bill Thornton 10.. Troy Weisenfluh 11. Bob Grammes 12. Mike

Ricci 13. Jim Allen 14. John Sanders 15. John Leiby 16. Brian Cobb 17.

Kip Lowitz 18. Joey Grammes 19. Bobby Puckett 20. Everett Haubrich 21.

Tom Oleski 22. Bill Reese 23. Tom Rudalavage

SPORTSMAN: 1. BRAD GRAMMES 2. Tom Laner Jr. 3. Rocky Rosetti 4. Alex

Knopka 5. Chris Kresge 6. Craig Winchell 7. Ralph Mele 8. Bob Grammes 9.

Mike Schane 10. Mike Marold 11. Larry Hendershot 12. Ted Stout 13. Buddy

Altemose 14. Rod Frable 15. Pete Gardner 16. Ron Shauger 17. Billl Moyer

Jr. 18.Chris Hamer 19. George Deckelman 20. Cory Jennings 21. Darren

Stout 22. Brian Ace 23. Mike Mondak

STREET STOCK: 1. NICK PETRILAK 2. Mike Loney 3. Rick Lazar 4. Ed Kudrako

5. Heil DiBlasi 6. Chuck Davis 7. Adam Jones 8. Jim Hughes Jr. 9. Chuck

Lowe 10. Mike VanTassel 11. Jerry Liford 12. Rick Smith 13. Brian

Petrilak 14. Jerry Van Tassel 15. Bill Saxe 16. Carl Heater 17. Tom

Herman 18. Joe Krisovich 19. Bill Metschulat 20. Kevin Simko

PURE STOCK: 1. KEITH VILLANO 2. Nate Evans 3. Franklin Bush 4. Floyd

Schmidt 5. Don Leiper 6. Todd Hotaling 7. Jim Bargabus 8. Ron Blake 9.

Jason Martin 10. Gregg Brunges 11. Gary Schoch 12. John Villano

250CC MICRO SPRINT: 1. RICHIE HARTMAN 2. Terry Schaffer 3. Davie Franek

4. Fred Valenza 5. Steve Buckwalter 6. Ralph Utter Jr. 7. Kevin Nolf 8.

Chris Oraschin 9. Mike Tidabeck 10. Rich McKay 11. Rob Trafford 12. Bob

Dance 13. Jason Frantz 14. Don Colaluce 16. Greg Stevens 17. Kyle

Pickering 18. Darrell Cobb 19. Rod Surch 20. Alan Shiffler