TODD BURLEY, TIM IULG, JIPP ORTIZ, KENNY WASHBURN, AND KENNY BRANT COLLLECT WINS AT RANSOMVILLE
Todd Burley of Spencerport, NY captured his third win aboard the Mighty Taco Modified feature win last Friday night on JP Decal Shop. Burley took over the top spot early on and quickly distanced himself from the remainder of the field. Burley held off a quickly closing Chad Brachmann for the win.
Mark Sylvies took the lead at the drop of the green followed by Russ Zimmerman, Todd Gordon, Ray Bliss, and Robbie Krull. Contact mid field left points leader Pete Bicknell up against the turn three guardrail. Sylvies chose the outside lane for the restart maintaining the top spot over Gordon Bliss, Krull, and Rich Vinson. Mark Golding spun in turn two bringing out the caution. Just as the yellow was displayed, Danny Johnson lost the handle spinning in turn three. On the restart, contact between Burley and Rich Vinson left Bliss going for the ride of his life as he was sent spinning and slipping into the front stretch moat. Ray was okay but his racecar suffered a lot of damage. Sylvies maintained the top spot on the restart as Burley made his way to second. Burley was not only looking for his third win of the season but also the points lead as current leader Bicknell was side-lined pitside. Burley took over the lead position on lap ten followed by Sylvies, Krull, Brachmann, and Gordon.
As the field received the half-way signal, Burley had pulled away to a full straight-away lead. Brachmann advanced to second as Johnson emerged into fifth. Brachmann was able to close the distance between himself and Burley as the field reached the lap twenty-three mark. With five to go, the distance was just five car lengths. Krull, Johnson, and Brian Stevens rounded out the top five. The top two were in heavy lapped traffic with three laps remaining. At the checkered it was Burley in for his third win followed by Brachmann, Krull, Johnson, and Stevens.
Tim Iulg, son of past DIRT Modified legend Gary Iulg, dominated the Micro-Sprint main event last Friday night picking up his first career win at the big R. Iulg came from deep in the pack to take over the top spot on lap nine. Iulg was able to build up a full straight away lead setting a blistering pace.
Jim Radney took the early lead aboard the Micro-Sprint twenty-lap feature main event. Jason Blum, Scott Krull, Iulg, and John Dates rounded out the top five. Iulg was a man on a mission as he charged from the fifteen starting position to take over second on lap seven. Blum was the leader at this point but it was Iulg closing the gap in a quick way. Iulg maneuvered to the inside of Blum on lap nine taking over the top spot. Iulg pulled away to a large lead of Radney and Ryan Gamble. At the checkered it was Iulg in for the win over
Jipp Ortiz of Ransomville, NY-chief Ransomville flagman turned driver last Friday-took top honors aboard the Empire Sports Network Mr DIRT ProStock Series event. Ortiz brought the Bobcat of Buffalo ProStock field to the checkered taking the win by the slightest margin over defending Ransomville ProStock champ Dave Schulz. Ortiz piloted his JoshComp sponsored machine to the front just prior to half way and led the remaining distance to his first win on the Series in 2004.
Roger Chrysler and Mike Williams brought the twenty-seven car strong field down for the start of the thirty lap main with Ortiz, Frank Guererri, and John Panattoni in tow. Bill Hallett brought out the first yellow as he lost a wheel on lap one in turn four. During this caution, Guererri developed a right rear flat tire heading pitside. Chrysler maintained the top spot followed by Ortiz, Williams, Schulz, and Panattoni. Schulz took a look to the inside of Williams on lap five taking over the third position. On lap eight, a total of five out of the top six cars were Stinger Chassis. Ortiz used the inside lane to take over the top spot from Chrysler on a lap eleven restart. Invader James Henry slowed on the back stretch on lap fifteen with smoke billowing from his machine. The top ten at half-way were Ortiz, Chrysler, Schulz, Williams, Panattoni, Tim Burnett, Dan Shoop, Darrell Hilker, Pete Stefanski, and Joe Stefanski. Ortiz led the field back to green flag racing but it was short lived as contact mid-field sent Burnett around in the ring in turn three. Guererri, Tom Green, Joe Stefanski, and Steve Lewis were all collected in the may-lay.
With sixteen laps own, fourteen to go, Ortiz led the field back to green once again. Chrysler ran a tight second as Schulz took a look to the inside for the second position. Williams and Panattoni battled nose to tail for the fourth position. Schulz was able to make the pass for second as the race suffered its seventh caution flag. Ortiz led Schulz back to the green running the extreme high groove. Schulz was trying to make the bottom work as he ducked under Ortiz on lap twenty-three. Ortiz maintained the top spot as Stefanski broke into the top five. Schulz continued to challenge Ortiz on the inside as the laps clicked down. On the final lap, two lapped cars spun in turn three forcing the leaders to take evasive action. The end result was Ortiz and Schulz coming down to the line side by side with Ortiz taking the win by half a car length over Schulz, Chrysler, Stefanski, and Shoop rounded out the top five. Chrysler was dis-qualified in post race inspections.
Kenny Washburn collected the win aboard the first Previtys Motor Cars Streetstock main event. Washburn took over the lead early on and held off persistent challenges from Ricky Washburn enroute to the big win.
John Dietz led the early stages followed by a three wide battle between Kenny Washburn, Ricky Washburn, and Eric Ben. Contact was made resulting in a right rear flat tire on Ben's machine. Dietz's lead was short lived as he lost the handle in turn two doing a complete 360 and losing only six spots in the process. Kenny took over the top spot over Ricky, Roger Israel, Derek Boyle, and Mike Short. The top three pulled away from the remainder of the field by the half-way point. Dietz's night continued to go South as he headed pitside with apparent engine problems. Roger took a look to the inside of Ricky resulting in contact between the two-Roger suffered a flat tire in the process. A caution for debris slowed the event with five laps remaining. A family affair between Kenny and Ricky Washburn with Mike Short in tow ensued for the final three laps with Kenny taking his first win of the season. Ricky, Short, Boyle, and Webb Nashwinter rounded out the top five.
Kenny Brant of Ransomville, NY became the fourteenth different winner in the Previtys Motor Cars Streetstock main event aboard his Previtys Motor Cars sponsored machine. It was a career first for Brant as he held off veteran Jerry Condren for the win.
A pair of rookies brought the field down for the start of the second main event as Charles Harvey and Kevin Austin shared the front row. Austin made contact with the right rear corner of Harvey's machine sending him around and flipping into the front stretch moat. Harvey was a-okay but the same couldn't be said for his racer. Dave Nichols took over the top spot on lap two with Brant, Steve Shoop, Lucas Jonathon, and Dan Baughman in tow. Nichols saw his first feature win of the season go up in smoke as something in the engine let go on lap eight. Brant inherited the lead position followed by Shoop, Jonathon, Condren, and Rick Gorhan. Condren took over the third position on lap nine. Condren appeared to be using the Danny Johnson lane as he ducked into the front stretch moat looking for a way around Shoop. Condren pulled to the outside of Shoop on lap twelve taking the position. Condren pulled in to challenge Brant for the top spot but it was not to be as Brant went on for his first career win. Condren, Shoop, Gorhan, and Baughman rounded out the top five.
JP DECAL SHOP SUMMARY:
MIGHTY TACO MODIFIED FEATURE FINISH-TODD BURLEY, Chad Brachmann, Robbie Krull, Danny Johnson, Brian Stevens, Ricky Richner, Rich Vinson, Mark Sylvies, Don Spatarico, Todd Gordon, Gil Tegg, Sam Crogan, Mark Golding, Sam White, Tony Purgarich, Joe Kubiniec, Mike Bliss, Ray Bliss, Russ Zimmerman, Pete Bicknell, and Rick Hoctor -Heat winners-Ricky Richner and Mark Golding.
MICRO-SPRINT FEATURE FINISH-TIM IULG, Ryan Gamble, Wade Dates, Jim Radney, Scott Krull, John Dates, Jim Lafler, Tom Mahar, Ed Dates, Darren Flowers, John Peevey, Don Burghdorf, Matt Keenan, Tim Smalledge, Brian Mace, Jason Blum, Bill Fekete, and Jerry Gurney. Heat Winners-Bill Fekete and Tim Iulg.
BOBCAT OF BUFFALO/DIRT PROSTOCK SERIES FEATURE FINISH-JIPP ORTIZ, Dave Schulz, Pete Stefanski, Dan Shoop, Mike Williams, Darrell Hilker, John Panattoni, Beamer Guizzardi, Scott Gribben, Tom Greene, Eric Greenlief, Steve Lewis, Dave Williams, Mike Martin, Frank Guererri, Pat Hobbs, Kevin House, Ernie Smith, Don Barnes, Steve Miller, Lee Burnett, Joe Stefanski, James Henry, Dan Mayer, Butch Zimmerman, and Bill Hallett. Heat Winners-Roger Chrysler, Mike Williams, Frank Guererri, and Roger Chrysler.
PREVITYS MOTOR CARS STREETSTOCK FEATURE FINISH #1-KENNY WASHBURN, Ricky Washburn, Mike Short, Derek Boyle, Webb Nashwinter, Dave Jowdy, Roger Israel, John Schultz, Dave Stolzenberg, Martin Peunic, Nicholas Mielke, Jason Meyers, Brian Sparks, John Dietz, Eric Ben, and John Holtz. Heat Winners-Jerry Condren, John Dietz, and Ricky Washburn.
PREVITYS MOTOR CARS STREETSTOCK FEATURE FINISH #2-KENNY BRANT, Jerry Condren, Steve Shoop, Rick Gorhan, Dan Baughman, Nate Vetter, Digger Lester, Jaren Israel, Jeff Schulze, Lucas Jonathon, Casey Jonathon, Lorne Close, Dave Nichols, Bob Urtel, Charles Harvey, and Kevin Austin.