RUDOLPH VICTORIOUS AT ONTARIO COUNTY FAIR
Charlie Rudolph won the 1987 Ontario County Fair title home with him last Saturday. It was Rudolph's second victory
of the 1987 season on the DIRT circuit. His other win also
came at Canandaigua on May 30th. At the start of the feature it was the brothers Steve and
Bobby Paine leading the pace lap. As the green flag fell, Steve jumped to an early advantage with Bob McCreadie, driving the Kandy Kisacky-Chuck Akulis back-up car, in second, McCreadies, own mount was suffering from motor problems. The track surface was extremely hard and slick from week long activities at the Fairgrounds. This slick sur- face caused Bobby Paine to loose traction an hit the outside wall in turn two, on lap 4.
By lap 7, the top five had somewhat established themselves with S. Paine first followed by McCreadie, Rudolph, Danny Johnson and Alan Johnson. Then on lap 8, Rudolph got by McCreadie for second and Alan took his brother for fourth. Four laps later Rudolph took the lead heading into turn one.
Jack Johnson, in his first appearance at the "land of legen- ds" in 1987, drove an excellent race on the slick track. Star- ting twelfth, he had moved up to sixth, when he dropped out of the event. By then Alan Johnson had passed both Mc- Creadie and Steve Paine for a chance at the leader, Rudolph. This chance came on lap 25 when the race had to be yellow flagged for water in turn two. On the restart Alan stuck to the rear bumper of Rudolph. Alan made his move to duck under- neath Rudolph on the last lap, but Rudolph held on for the 35 lap victory. Alan Johnson, Bob McCreadie, Danny Johnson and Steve Paine filled out the top 5.
Stu Sheppard won his fifth DIRT Sportsman Feature at Canandaigua Speedway to add to his track point lead. Shep- pard took the lead on the second of fifteen laps for the vic- tory.
In other action the rookie, Novice and Expert Street Stock divisions ran non-point top twenty invitational events. Dave Dinehart won the Rookie Amateur Event, with John Unaman topping the Novice and Jim Flint winning the Expert Main. Don VanCott joined the Canandaigua upside down club, when he flipped his racer on the first lap of the Expert Feature. Don was uninjured.
The next event at the Canandaigua Speedway is Wed- nesday, July 15th, when the modifieds run their Aplus/Skoal Bandit Racing (SM) Super DIRT Series-CLM Lubricants Win- ner's Classic Qualifier. On Saturday all of the regular classes of racing will be on hand for J.G. Turner Construction night. Plus there will also be one-on-one spectator truck racing.
SPORTSMAN FEATURE SUMMARY
S. Sheppard, M. Morabito, S. Schrader, J. Button, S. Schultz, J. LaFluer, S. Trout, M. Ward, T.J. Karlsen, R. Hawkins.
MODIFIED SUMMARY
1ST HEAT-C. Wilson, C. Akulis, L. Hough, B. Paine. 2ND HEAT-J. Johnson, C. Rudolph, S. Paine, R. Hoctor. 3RD HEAT-B. McCreadie, D. Johnson, D. Mattison, J.Plazek. CONSI-A. Johnson, S. Glover, D. Marsceil, C. Donk.
FEATURE-C. Rudolph, A. Johnson, B. McCreadie, D. Johnson, S. Paine, L. Hough, C. Akulis, D. Mattison, C. Wilson, D. Marsceil, T. Goebel, S. Glover, N. Onderdonk, M. Osterhoudt, J. Johnson, C. Donk, D. Lewis, J. Plazek, R. Hoctor, B. Paine, E. Jensen, C. LaBaron, D. Paine.