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CHRISTOPHER WINS
JENNERSTOWN NASCAR WHELEN MODIFIED EVENT
JENNERSTOWN, PA (June 17) … Ted Christopher didn’t have a ride two days
before the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour event at Jennerstown Speedway,
but when the checkered flag flew in the Wheeler Bros. 100 the
Plainfield, Conn. driver pulled his Eddie Whelan owned back-up car into
victory lane.
“Its
really been a ‘dull’ week for me,” laughed Christopher. FBI agents had
earlier confiscated his entire race team that was owned by Jim Galante,
and Christopher wasn’t even planning on racing at Jennerstown.
“Eddie
called me on Thursday evening and offered his back-up car to me, and
talked me into coming,” said Christopher. “I decided to give it a shot,
because I was second in points coming into this event.”
Actually
Christopher only led two-laps of the century grind, as Eddie Flemke Jr.
dominated the first 97 circuits, and looked like a sure winner until a
late race caution closed the field. That placed a fast closing Tony
Hirschnan, and Christopher on his tail on the restart. Coming into Turn
4 on the 97th go round Christopher dove to the inside of
Hirschman, and then made contact with Flemke, sending him up the race
track.
“I had a
little bump and run with Eddie, but, hey, I was faster,” Christopher
said. Flemke saw it another way. “Up until the last two laps we were
racing with gentlemen,” Flemke said. “The last two laps I wasn’t racing
with a gentleman. If you live by the sword, you will eventually die by
the sword.” Second place finisher Hirschman was also not complimentary
of Christopher’s driving tactics. “I certainly had the fastest car
tonight, but I’m not going to do slide jobs and knock another guy up in
the marbles. I don’t race like that.”
Eric
Beers was fourth, with Donny Lia fifth.. Jerry Marquis, Chuck Hossfield,
Todd Szsegedy, Doug Coby, and Jon McKennedy rounded out the top-10
finishers.
In NASCAR
Dodge Weekly Series competition Mark Poole collected his second Courtesy
Suzuki 40-lap super late model win of the year, easily outdistancing
Barry Awtey, Garry Wiltrout, Kyle Martel and Rick Boyer in the process.
Poole
took the front spot from Awtey on Lap 20, and never looked back, opening
up a full straightaway margin of victory.
Dusty
Rhoads dominated another crash-marred WJAC-TV late model contest leading
all but three ofv the 25-lap feature event. Andrew Wylie was second,
trailed by Mel Wilt, Snooky Williams, and Dink Colarusso.
Adam
Kostelnik pulled off the hat trick in the Advance Auto Parts street
stock, winning his third consecutive 20-lap feature ahead of Bill
Ashton, Phil Grubbs, Roger Onstead, and Bobby Young.
Eugene
Zerfoss found the winners circle for the first time, powering to a win
in the hobby stock class over Steve Long, Deidre Petrie, Doug Long, and
Teodore Gibala Jr..
Complete Race Results
SUMMARY …. JUNE 17
NASCAR
WHELEN MODIFIED TOUR
WHEELER
BROS. 100 – Ted Christopher, Tony Hirschman, Eddie Flemke Jr., Eric
Beers, Donny Lia, Jerry Marquis, Chuck Hossfield, Todd Szegedy, Doug
Coby, Jon McKennedy, Mike Stefanik, James Civali, Dick Houlihan, Matt
Hirschman, Steve Whitt, Zach Sylvester, Jimmy Blewett, Ken Barry, Tommy
Cloce, Anthony Sesley, Rob Summers, Kevin Goodale, Jamie Tomaino, Reggie
Ruggiero, Jimmy Storace, Jake Marosz, Glen Tyler, Wade Cole Failed to
Qualify: Danny Sammons, Joe Hartman, Ron Yuhas, Ronnie Silk, Ken Heagy,
Joe Mongeau, Mike Andrews Jr.
COURTESY SUZUKI SUPER LATE MODELS
FEATURE – Mark Poole, Barry Awtey, Garry Wiltrout, Kyle Martel, Rick
Boyer, Mark Smith, Mark Cottone, Todd Goble, Todd Price, Marion Reno
Jr., Tom Cloce, Ken Grimm, Jason Lasky, Chantal Germek, Robby Marhefka
WJAC-TV
LATE MODELS
FEATURE – Dusty Rhoads, Andrew Wylie, Mel Wilt, Snooky Williams,
Dink Colarusso, Mark Rend, Dan Brink, Todd Corson, Chris Brink, Wade
Champeno
ADVANCE AUTO PARTS STREET STOCKS
FEATURE – Adam Kostelnik, Bill Ashton, Phil Grubbs, Roger Onstead,
Bobby Young, Todd Knight, Jason Holder, Dave Manns, Jim Bodziak, Scott
Bowman, Tom Knight Sr., Will Ashton, Steve Singo
HOBBY
STOCKS
FEATURE – Eugene Zerfoss, Steve Long., Deidre Petrie, Doug Long,
Theodore Gibala Jr., Scott McCall, Jeff Zillweger, T.J. Lepley, Andres
Suarez, Woodrow McCulloch, Branden Bittner, Amanda Zerfoss, Angelo
Codispoti, John Steeley, Clifford Zerfoss, Larry Dunmyer,, Matt Sever |
