ALAN JOHNSON DOES IT AGAIN AT THE BREWERTON SPEEDWAY.
BREWERTON, N.Y.-Once again it was action on the D-Shaped DIRT Demon at the high banks of the Brewerton Speedway last Friday on Kinney Drug/ What's Your Sign Night as a huge, enthusiastic, excited crowd cheered as Alan Johnson, Rob Keller, Lloyd Hinton, Dan!
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Boyce and Dan Gruell chalked up feature wins.
New faces appeared headed for victory lane in the modified division, but in the end it was Alan Johnson capturing his fourth feature of the win to maintain a six point lead over Billy Decker in the race for the track championship. Dale Plank, Chuck Bower,!
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Jimmy Phelps, Tom Kinsella and Steve Hulsizer ran at the head of the class throughout the 35 lap main event. However, in the end it was Johnson taking the lead on the 27th lap with a spectacular high-low move as he passed both Jim Phelps and Bower in less !
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than a lap. He pulled away and won handily over runner up Tim Fuller whose late race charge brought him into second. Pat Ward rallied for third while Jim Phelps and Steve Hulsizer were fourth and fifth.
At the start Dale Plank and Billy Gill set the pace, but the yellow came out quickly as Gill lost the driveline in the backstretch. Dale Plank was the early leader, but on the restart Jimmy Phelps made a stab and took over at the point. The battle was sett!
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ing up between Phelps, Kinsella, Plank, Hulsizer and Bower. The top five pulled away, but on the 15th lap the field bunched up as Bob Malone spun. As the field reached the halfway point it was Jim Phelps and Chuck Bower racing side-by-side followed by the !
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surprising Hulsizer, Kinsella and Plank. Fuller, Alan Johnson, Bill Abold, Pat Ward and Bill Decker completed the top ten. Suddenly Alan Johnson roared to life. With 15 laps remaining he had powered the 14j to fourth place. On the twenty-fourth lap Johnso!
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n raced past Hulsizer and a short time later threaded the needle to take the lead for good. Fuller rallied and took over the runner up spot on the 28th circuit. With three laps to go it was Ward coming away with third.
At the checker it was Johnson, Fuller, Ward, Jim Phelps, Hulsizer, Bower, Decker, Plank, Bob Varin and Kinsella completing the top five. In victory lane Johnson said, "This was a good car high and low. The car ran excellent tonight, but we had to add more !
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gear than we'd ever run here before and it worked."
Rob Keller captured his second straight IMCA modified event as his car ran flawlessly. Brent Matzel was the early leader, but on the third lap Dick Weiland grabbed the advantage. Weiland lost the handle, but Matzel went back on top on the fifth circuit. W!
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eiland rallied and regained the point on the seventh lap. With seven laps to go after battling side-by-side it was Rob Keller grabbing the advantage and coming home for the victory. Frank Caprara Jr. rallied for third as he started deep in the field after!
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suffering qualifying problems. Les Hubbard was fourth followed by Ron O'Neil, Cory Fachini, John Bell, Carmen Vona, Bill Anderson and Bob Bradt.
Boyce lost an oil line in his qualifying heat, made repairs, grabbed the lead in the main event and with a half lap to go shut the power off and coasted across the line for his third win of the season. Jim Coher and Ed Bell were one-two out of the chute. !
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Meanwhile, eight time feature winner Troy Van Allen started deep in the field and moved toward the front. However, on the fifth lap Van Allen broke and the high point man was out of contention. Boyce took advantage of an eighth lap restart to grab the lead!
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for good. Meanwhile, Bell and Coher were having a good battle until they tangled later in the event. At the checker it was Dan Boyce followed by Ed Bell, Darren Forbes, Jim Coher and Pat Pontello.
Lloyd Hinton bounced off the wall early in the race, but came back to capture his seventh of the year in the super stock four cylinder. It was John Clark with the early lead, but Harvey Calkins Jr. went on top on lap two. The red flag came out on the fou!
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rth lap as Ed Haber was t-boned by Bob Whipple and tagged by Roger West in a high-speed front stretch crash. All of the drivers were okay, but the cars were towed from the track with extensive damage. On the restart it was Jim Olin with the lead, but he sp!
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un out moments later and Ken Klinkowsky went to the point. It was then Hinton taking the lead on a restart and he held on to win over Klinkowsky, Calkins, Chuck Powelcyzk and Chris Carroll.
PIT STOPS-Heats were captured in the IMCA division with Rob Keller, Craig Simmons and Brent Matzel while in the dwarf class it was Jim Koher, Troy Van Allen and Frank Doll. Van Allen was in a near photo finish with Ed Bell. Frank Doll just eked out the wi!
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n over Jim Gray. In the Mods it was Chuck Hebing, Jim Phelps and Pat Ward winning. The four cylinder division was won by Harvey Calkins Jr., Ed Granoski and Lloyd Hinton....Chris Bagabos was second in the four cylinder heat with just a lap to go in one of h!
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er best runs of the year...Dave Gruell was the winner in the dwarf youth division qualifier...Dan Boyce, one of the top runners in the dwarf division, had major problems in his qualifying heat...Correction: Two weeks ago Ken Klinkowsky's car was ruled legal!
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in the four cylinder feature event and he was awarded third. It had previously been stated the car had been illegal, but the car did pass inspection...July 31 is Magee Trailer Sales with a regular show along with celebr!
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ity dunk for charity. On Friday,
August 7 it will be Team Services & Adams Automotive regular show, one-on-one spectator races along with a junior fan club pitside party.
Modified Feature-Alan Johnson, Tim Fuller, Pat Ward, Jim Phelps, Steve Hulsizer (smallblock), Chuck Bower, Billy Decker, Dale Plank, Bob Varin, Tom Kinsella, Bill Abold (sb), Todd Milton, Tom Sears, Lansing Petzoldt (sb), Tim McCreadie, Jeremy Baye (sb), B!
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ob Melone, Dan Connelly (sb), Scott Prentice, Roger Phelps, Bob McCreadie, Ray Bliss, Bill Gill, Dan Johnson (DNS).
IMCA Modifieds-Rob Keller, Dick Weiland, Frank Caprara, Les Hubbard, Ron O'Neil, Cory Fachini, John Bell, Carmen Vona, Bill Anderson, Bob Bradt, Doug McKane, Dane Keller, Craig Simmons, Brent Matzel, Coleen Finch, Tony Finch, Sean Lias, Don Alvord, George !
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Cantanzano, Jim Evans, Joe LaValley (DNS).
Dwarfs-Dan Boyce, Ed Bell, Darren Forbes, Jim Coher, Pat Pontello, Ken Gamlen, David Orr, Bob Bird, Barry Virts, Eric Crawford, Scott Nash, Dave Lamphear, Kevin Doll, Buddy Lewis, Shawn Hort, Jay Reid, Jim Graqy, Mark Weigelt, Butch Wadsworth, Troy Van All!
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en, Kelly Skinner, Kevin DonHausen, Dan Thompson, Kevin Battelle, Barb Foley, Frank Doll.
Four Cylinder Super Stock-Lloyd Hinton, Ken Klinkowsky, Harvey Calkins Jr., Chuck Powelcyzk, Chris Carroll, John Clark, Brett Hubbard, Chad Granoski, Jim Olin, Jon Amidon, Tim Koch, Derik Van Epps, Ray Chittenden, Dave Bargabos, Kevin Cook, Joe Lalone, Cha!
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rlie Joyner, Chris Bargabos, Ed Granoski, Jeff Amidon, Ed Haber, Roger West, Bob Whipple, Roger Olschewske, Brian Yox, Eric Calrk, Mark Warner.
Youth Dwarf-Dave Gruell, Ryan Phelps, Nate Phelps.