JENTILE
AND PAT VERWYS EXPLODE WITH NEETS WINS
The ABC Car
Crushing, NEETS Holiday Stock Car Series was at it again Sunday, July 3rd
at Mountain Speedway with the running of their ‘Firecracker Smacker on
the 3rd of Junkly’. Joe Jentile and Pat Verwys each picked
up their second wins of ’05 in the 104-lap events.
Andrew Pfuafelder led the Valley
Service 4 Cyl. division to the green flag from the pole position.
However, it wasn’t even a lap later when Bob Haeger shot to the front.
The first red flag of the event came out when Ryan Nelson attempted to
head into the pits. As the cars behind him, which were running
four-wide approached Nelson; three of them forced him into the wall, and
also blocked the pit entrance.
On lap seventeen, Pat Verwys grabbed
the top spot, after starting deep in the seventy-six-car field. By lap
thirty, Pat’s younger Brother, Pete Verwys found his machine in the
second spot, not far behind his brother.
The third of six red flags came out on
lap forty, when Ollie Stewart, Bill Verwys Sr, Robert Fink and Jeremy
Kunkel joined together for a crash conference in turn two. When the
action resumed, Pat Verwys was still out front, but that was about to
change.
When the green light came back on, Pat
was slowed by a tangle in front of him as he entered turn one. Pete
pounced on the opportunity and dove underneath his brother, and into the
lead.
Pete Verwys went on to take the
checkers, but was later disqualified during post race inspection.
Pete’s misfortune handed the win to his older brother, Pat Verwys.
Harry Sagar, Bobby ‘Peaseman’ Pease, Duane Garrison and Shawn Wanat
rounded out the top five.
A ‘burping contest’ was held during
intermission, where ten people (kids and adults) entered from the
grandstand and pits. Pottstown’s Zack Brown, only 6 years of age beat
out many adults as he displayed the results after a warm Pepsi. When
asked how he gained experience at it, Zack thanked his dad, Kevin.
Kory Stevens sat on the pole for
fifty-four car, 104-lap Cottman Transmission 6/8-cylinder feature, but
was passed by Tom ‘Slippery’ Slee soon after the green dropped. Slee
slowed with problems two laps later and Richard ‘Uncle’ Petey took over
the top spot.
In the meantime, hard-charging Mark
Spencer worked his way into the top five, and would soon pressure Petey
for the lead. That was until the red flag flew on lap twenty-nine for a
fire under the hood of the Mike Rudolph machine.
With the green flag out again, Petey
continued to lead over Spencer, and on lap thirty-nine, the red was out
once again when the stalled car of Shek Weber was rear-ended hard by top
ten runner, Frank Petroski. The ambulance was brought to the scene, and
after a period of time, it was announced that Petroski was all right,
but had to settle for a thirty-eighth place finish.
Spencer was able to get by Petey on the
next restart and took over the lead. Meanwhile, Petey held second.
Again, things changed on lap sixty, when Petey relinquished the second
place spot, due to overheating.
On the following lap, when leading,
Spencer spun around a few times on the front stretch and headed in the
pits with a flat right rear. That handed the lead to ‘Racin Rich
Johnson, who led the event until a lap one hundred red flag. The red
was brought out when Joe Kmetz and Richie Knell made heavy contact on
the backstretch.
Following the fifth red flag, the green
flew again for some exciting racing. Sitting in second was Tim Pauch,
and third was 2004 NEETS champion, Joe ‘Millionaire’ Jentile. Johnson
had problems getting his ride to speed, and Pauch had suffered damage a
few laps earlier.
Jentile shot past the top two drivers
with two laps to go, picking up his second win of ’05 over Pauch, Tom
Moises, Rich Johnson and Phil Lomonaco.
The Bartley Racing Enterprises ‘best
appearing awards’ were presented to the #94
Four Cylinder: of Rodney Nussbaum and the #02 8 Cyl. Driven by George
'Pappy' Herman.
A trial four-cylinder
demolition derby ran at the end of the features, and with only six cars,
proved to be a successful event!
The NEETS charity of the
event was the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. $1 from each general
admission ticket will be donated to the foundation.
The next race on the
NEETS tour schedule is the non-points ‘NASCARE’ event, which will be
held Sunday, July 31st. All the racing action begins at 1:00
PM. The retro-themed event will feature past and present Nextel Cup
paint schemes for the 4 cylinders and 6/8 cylinders. Admission is $7
for ages seven and up. Ages six and under are admitted free. The
select NEETS charity for the day will be Checkered Dreams, which is a
non-profit organization, which associates racing with seriously ill
children.
On behalf of NEETS and
all the fans, here’s wishing all our overseas service men and women a
very healthy and happy Independence Day. Thanks to all of you in the
present, ad from the past we can all do what we love!
For more information on
The ABC Car Crushing, NEETS Holiday Stock Car Series, please visit
www.neetstour.net.
Full Results:
Valley Service 4 Cyl.
Pos No. Name
1 18 Pat Verwys
2 61S Harry Sager
3 97 Bobby Pease
4 666 Duane Garrison
5 2 Shawn Wanat
6 472 Steve Elliston
7 62 Luke Colleran
8 70 Denise Siegel
9 30 Joe Grocholski
10 200 Sig Albarran
11 1974 Mark Hammer
12 21 Pete Rabaglia
13 4 Harry Oneal
14 51C Don Shipley
15 39 Rob Pyle
16 79 Eric Conklin
17 13 Adam Kratzer
18 81 Billy Connolly
19 22 Laura White
20 777 Mike Racho
21 7 Jeremy Kunkel
22 94 Rodney Nussbaum
23 19 Brian Kunkel
24 300 Dave South
25 5R11 TJ Stevens
26 3B Bob Bogart
27 32 Alex Fletcher
28 M0 Maurice Ott
29 25 Jerry Ellingsworth
30 43A Andy Pluegfelder
31 28 Joel Vought
32 17 Art Kulik
33 20x Ken Cornell
34 91 David Kunkel
35 2X Robin Vollmoeller
36 8 Eric Haeger
37 78 Robert Fink
38 800 Craig Parker
39 56 Brian Moses
40 287 Jim Buckley
41 17 Jeff Hollock
42 5 Ross Gursky
43 12 Simon Whitnell
44 33 Fred Nolan
45 57 Ollie Stewart
46 88 Bill Verwys Sr
47 82 Matt Guida
48 27 John Saccomandi
49 13 Steve Elicati
50 519 Ron Pierson
51 131 Ryan Nelson
52 34 Woot Lawrence
53 43B Michael Pluegfelder
54 91 Jamie White
55 10 Bob Haeger
56 2025 Donny Oliver
57 118 Mark Neberdosky
58 13J Jarrid Housman
59 19 James White
60 762 John Farris
61 288 Jack Husband Jr
62 64 Jeff Dauberman
63 15 John Mondelli
64 3 Chris Siegel
65 70G Dave Garrison
66 9 Bobby Pease
67 2 Larry Spencer
68 45ac Nick Cudolij
69 73 Erik Nobel
70 76 Jamie Presley
71 74 Jeremy Soloman
72 96 Fred Shotwell
73 26 John Bittoni
74 4? Brad Vollmoeller
DQ 12 Peter Verwys
DQ 69 Justin Nesbitt
Cottman Transmission 6/8 Cyl.
Pos No. Name
1 41 Joe Jentile
2 5 Tim Pauch
3 97 Tom Mosies
4 1 Rich Johnson
5 14 Phil Lomonaco
6 25 Chad Bezubek
7 15 Glenn Osbourne
8 75 Howie Bott
9 302 Joe Helberg
10 2 Pappy Herman
11 168 Robert Wohlgemuth
12 33 T.J Kapish
13 9LI Jim White
14 438 Paul Mercante
15 124 Mark Spencer
16 4H Chris Lamura
17 177 Matt Keahey
18 134 Terry Nansteel
19 13 Brock Miller
20 60 Ron Dirkes
21 26 Joe Kmetz
22 58 Randy Parsons Jr
23 266 Bob Kulik
24 0 Josh Schwartz
25 11X Robert Benz
26 79X Richie Knell
27 830 Kevin Makarewicz
28 3C Mike Chimbres
29 47 Joe Intermaggio
30 81 David Moore
31 705 Charlie McKeown
32 28 Dean Wollford
33 71 Leroy Radcliff, Jr.
34 1X Cory Student
35 43 Richard Petey
36 3 Richard Deck Jr
37 27 Gary Hubbard
38 78P Frank Petroski
39 09 Bob Baker
40 17 Ray Rothfuss
41 410 Steve Tito
42 427 Shek Weber
43 19 James White, Jr.
44 7 Mike Rudolph
45 25 Kory Stevens
46 3A Tim McCarraher
47 21J Jason Dunn
48 29 John Orourke
49 10 Tom Slee
50 103 John Plitsas
51 37 Jack Schultz
52 56 Brian Moses
53 18 Terry Nansteel
54 4 Harry O'Neil
