PAINE WINS AS VIATLE GOES FOR FOUR IN A ROW
CANANDAIGUA, NY.8/8/98....Waterloo, New York's Steve Paine cruise to a narrow victory last Saturday at the Canandaigua Speedway on a much improved racing surface. Vince Vitale earned his fourth straight 20-lap sportsman feature victory of the year. Tommy Barron won feature number eight on the year at Canandaigua, impressing numerous racing fans with his dexterity on both pavement and dirt surfaces. Mike Archer won the 10-lap Entry Stock feature.
Paine grabbed the lead from Ray Bliss Jr. on a second lap restart after the yellow had flown for Scott Schrader who slowed in the middle of the front of the pack on the main straight away. Great driving saved all of the field from contact, however a number of cars dropped from the race at this time. Most notable amount these drop outs was Jimmy Phelps, running fourth at the time, with a broken drive shaft. Also pitting during this caution was Gary Tomkins, who lost four laps in the pits.
The yellow flew a second time on lap 10 when Tim Fuller came to a stop in turn three. Paine continued to lead over Billy Decker, Pat Ward, Charlie Donk and Bliss Jr..
Paine and Decker proceeded to pull away from the rest of the field. Ward then regained his lost ground as these three fly high and wide nearly a half straight away ahead of the field. Paine maintained a high line around the speedway, with Decker and ward choosing the lower grove.
A caution on lap 17 bunched the field together. On this yellow Bob McCreadie dropped from the race, as did Bobby Varin, then running in seventh. A final yellow on lap 25 was thrown after Tim Fuller rode the jersey Barriers along the back stretch and came to a stop in the third turn.
Paine cruised to victory followed by Decker. Ward came home third, five car lengths off the leaders. Charlie Donk and Vic Coffey, driving a former Joe Plazek Troyer car, rounded out the top five.
In sportsman action Chris Ridsdale must have felt the race was all his after leading from the drop of the green until lap 13, when Vince Vitale passed for the lead. Ridsdale suffered through three yellow flag created restarts while leading the race. The most serious of the yellows came on lap six when Steve Oplinger impacted the front stretch wall heavily. He was uninjured but his car was done for the night.
Lap 14 saw an incident develop as Lance Dusett had to slam on his brakes to avoid collecting the rear end of the Steve Gray machine. In doing so he slide, first low, then high causing Howie Albrecht to hit the first turn wall. Albrecht was hot concerning this incident, but later understood that Dusett's actions were not intentional.
Ridsdale finished second behind Vitale. Gray came home in third with Mike Button securing fourth and Dusett in fifth.
Tommy Barron has been the master of the street stocks this year winning a total of 13 feature races. Barron passed leader John Unaman on lap 11 of 15. Unaman was then involved in a wheel banging incident which ended with Unaman in the first turn wall, Bobby Lutz in the pits.
Scott Fremouw moved into second followed by Les Whyte and Steve Pesarek. They would complete the race in that order with Jim McGuigan finishing in fifth.
Mike Archer took the lead on lap six to win the 10-lap Entry stock feature. Todd Stanton finished a strong second with Dan Wisner rounding out the top three.
This Saturday will be Honeoye Auto Parts and Kodak Employee night at the speedway. A full four star program awaits them. Race time will be at 7 p.m., with gates opening at 5 p.m. sharp.
PARTS AMERICA-PHELPS CEMENT NIGHT SUMMARY
ENTRY STOCKS
FEATURE (10-laps): MIKE ARCHER, Todd Stanton, Dan Wisner, Leroy Lewis, Brad Steinruck, Beatle Peters, Tim Burnell, Mike Minutolo, Greg Walters.
STREET STOCK
HEAT 1: L. Whyte, B. Lutz, Ra. Miller, C. Homan.
HEAT 2: J. Unaman, B. Brown, S. Fremouw, Ri. Miller.
HEAT 3: S. Pesarek, T. Barron, J. McGuigan, L. Burnett.
FEATURE (15-laps): TOMMY BARRON, Scott Fremouw, Les Whyte, Steve Pesarek, Jim McGuigan, Rick Miller, Chad Homan, Betty Fremouw, Jerry Sullivan, Carl Reynolds II, Jim Burba, Bobby Lutz, John Unaman, Dave Conant Jr., Billy Brown, Randy Miller, Ed Oldfield, Tiger Chapman, Lee Burnett.
SPORTSMAN
HEAT 1: L. Dusett, C. Ridsdale, S. Oplinger, V. Vitale, P. Guererri, K. Stell.
HEAT 2: J. Haers Jr., T. Henderson, H. Albrecht, M. Button, R. Holden, S. Gray.
FEATURE (20-laps): VINCE VITALE, Chris Ridsdale, Steve Gray, Mike Button, Lance Dusett, Paul Guererri, Todd Henderson, Loren Lincoln, Keith Stell, Ricky VanNeil, Russ Lyons, Randy Holden, John Pfeffer, Howie Albrecht, Jerry Haers Jr., Wade Czymmek, Steve Oplinger.
MODIFIED
HEAT 1: P. Ward, R. Bliss Jr., M. Ward, K. Peckham, M. Phillips Jr.
HEAT 2: S. Paine, J. Phelps, B. Varin, B. McCreadie, G. Tomkins.
HEAT 3: B. Decker, C. Donk, T. Fuller, S. Schrader, C. Hebing.
FEATURE (35-laps): STEVE PAINE, Billy Decker, Pat Ward, Vic Coffey, Charlie Donk, Chuck Hebing, Pierre Dagenais, Ray Bliss Jr., Kent Peckham, Mike Ward, Scott Schrader, Tim Fuller, Darryl Ruggles, Bobby Varin, Bob McCreadie, Scott Boudinot, Max Phillips Jr., Jim Burke, Gary Tomkins, Jimmy Phelps, Steve Schultz, Gil Tegg Jr.