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08/30/2003

WALKOWIAK AND RAIN VISIT RIVERHEAD RACEWAY VICTORY LANE

    Only Tommy Walkowiak of Middle Village could beat mother nature this past Saturday night in NASCAR Dodge Weekly Series action at Riverhead Raceway when he won his second Blunderbust feature of 2003. The Charger, Late Model, NASCAR Modified and Figure Eight features were all lost to a persistent light rain.
    Just as the Chargers lined up for their 20-lap main event a light rain stopped by the Route 58 oval causing a nearly two hour delay. Just as the track was dried and the Chargers came back out the rain returned forcing track officials to start modifying the night's schedule. The Monster Truck, Train race and Demolition Derby portion of the show was presented while the stock cars will be making up their features over the next two week.
    The Fleet Bank 35 for the NASCAR Modifieds will run at 4:00 pm this Saturday September 6th. Once that is complete the regular show including a 75-lap time trial event for the Modifieds, their final double point race of '03 will be presented. The Late Model and Charger features from this past Saturday will run September 13th at 4:00 pm. The Chargers were slated to have that night off, while the Late Models will then run a second feature later that night which is the September 11th Memorial night. The Figure Eight feature will have already been run Sunday August 31st as part of the second half of the Labor day Weekend doubleheader.
    In the 20-lap Blunderbust contest that was completed before the rain hit "Jumping" Jack Handley raced his way into the lead on lap 5 passing early leader "Racing" Jason Carpenter for the top spot. In tow behind Jack were Sean Byrne and Tommy "Wildchild" Walkowiak and with just two laps to go things got hot at the front of the pack. The end result saw Handley spin from the lead and that set up a wild last lap finish among Byrne and Walkowiak. At the finish it was the C&A Auto Parts entry of Tommy Walkowiak the winner in what was indeed a wild affair. Bobby Gardner of Westbury who ran fourth for a portion of the race threw his hat into the ring and came away with runner-up money in the N.Y. Metro Peterbilt Cadillac, while Sean Byrne of Brentwood was third in the Countywide Collision Ford.
    Train race newcomers Miquel Roura and Chris McKee of Shirley won their first ever Train Race feature in a 12-lap affair. The duo took the lead on lap 5 when Peter Bertuccio and Scott Schelin's train got together with Stan Wangenstein and Kevin Clarke's train while dicing for the lead. Roura and McKee race for Shirley based Cub and Boy Scout Pack 559 and indeed carry that numeral on their winning train.
    In one of the most hard fought and intense Demolition Derby events over the last decade Bob "Whiplash" Genovese of South Farmingdale took a well deserved victory over Steve Rossicks of Brick, NJ Genovese in the Quality Collision entry and Rossicks staged an all-out war for the win, with the latter's car twisted like a pretzel. Genovese would be the winner, while Rossicks won Judge's Choice and Alex Illchert of West Islip was voted Fan's Choice. Illchert races for Cub Pack 330 of West Islip.

Sources:  Bob Finan/Riverhead Raceway PR
Posted:  September 6, 2003

 





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