It was a beautiful night for racing as fans packed the stands
at Riverhead Raceway. On the card Saturday night were Super Pro
Trucks, Late Models, Chargers, Modifieds, Island Slide Drift
demonstration, a Mini School Bus Figure-8 and a 4cyl. Demolition
Derby.
The first feature to hit the track were the Super Pro Trucks,
with a 17 truck field ready to go 20 laps. Starting on the pole
would be the Tonino's Pizza #95 of Erin Dumicich with Eddy's
Long Island RV Center #30 of Shaun Gouldsbury on the outside. At
the drop of the green Dumicich and Gouldsbury would race side by
side. The first caution would come out on lap 2 as a lot of side
by side and three wide racing resulted in a flat tire for the
#15x of Rob McCormick. The restart would be yellow flagged for a
flat tire on the Bill Lyons Equipment #81 of Chris Turbush. The
restart would come two laps before the yellow flag was thrown
again for Erin Dumicich as her second place truck suffered a
flat on lap 4. The restart would see Gouldsbury taking the lead
with the Gershow Recycling #1 of Lou Maestri coming to second.
Maestri would take the lead away from Gouldsbury on lap 9 coming
to the inside off turn four. The Marcello Masonry #88 of Roger
Turbush would follow Maestri and come to second getting around
Gouldsbury on lap 10. The caution would come out one lap later
on lap 11 for Gouldsbury who would hit the wall hard in turn
two. The restart would see Maestri leading with Turbush all over
his rear bumper. The final caution would come out on lap 14 as
the Hollis Court Collision #66 of Mike Albasini would get a
flat. The restart once again saw Maestri take the lead but with
a little more of a lead as Turbush had the P.C.H.S. Racing
Engines #38 of Dan Grennan all over him for 2nd. After numerous
laps of great close clean racing the #1 of Lou Maestri would
take the win, followed by Turbush in 2nd, Grennan in 3rd, and
coming back from an early race flat to take 4th would be Rob
McCormick.
The Late Models would be next out with 10 cars going 25 laps. On
the pole would be the #88 Patrick Racing of Shawn Patrick with
the outside going to the LaSpisa Racing #7 of Chris LaSpisa. The
green flag would drop and the lead would go to Patrick with the
Harley Davidson of Nassau Co. #68 of Buzzy Eriksen coming to
second. Buzzy would take the lead no too much later on lap 6
getting inside Patrick off turn two. The Metzger Racing #23 of
Kevin Metzger would come to fourth on lap 10 getting inside the
P.C.H.S. Racing Engines
#00 of Mike Bologna. Metzger would then come to third on lap 23,
getting inside LaSpisa off turn two. Buzzy would take the win
with Patrick finishing 2nd, Metzger 3rd and LaSpisa finishing
4th.
The Island Slide Drift Club was next out for a little Drifting
Demo. Four cars slid around the track putting on a great
smoke-filled show for the appreciating crowd.
The Chargers were next out with a strong 17 car field ready to
go 20 laps. The Anderson 23 Racing #23 of Tom Anderson would
start on the pole with the P&M Door #96 of Frank Scimeca Jr. on
the the outside. At the drop of the green Scimeca would take the
lead, the caution would come out soon after for a multi car
accident. Numerous cars would have to pit with all of them
coming back out. The restart would see Scimeca take the lead
once again with the Gershow Recycling #89 of Chris McGuire
coming to third and the LMR #56 of Jay Henschel coming to
fourth. McGuire would take the second spot from Anderson on lap
2 off turn four and then set his sights on Scimeca. McGuire
would make his move on lap 9 off turn four for the lead going
inside Scimeca for 1st. The caution would come out on lap 14 as
the Carpet Express #8 of Dan Turbush got together with the Sandy
Shore Building #51 of Alan Reeves. After some confrontation
under the caution both drivers would be sent to the pits, ending
their nights. The restart would see McGuire pulling out to a big
lead with the Bill Lyons Equipment #81 of Chris Turbush making
his way through the field trying to catch him. Turbush would
over come two flat tires early in the race and make his way to
third on lap 15 and second on lap 18. Even with the late charge
nobody could catch McGuire as he’d hang on for the win with
Turbush finishing second, Scimeca having a strong race coming
3rd and Anderson hanging on for a 4th place finish.
The Modifieds were next out onto the track with 16 cars going
for 35 laps. The #3 of Mike Andrews Jr. would start on the pole
with the Eastport Feeds #15 of Wayne Anderson starting on the
outside. Andrews would take the lead at the drop of the green
with the Smithtown Nissan #20 of Bill Park coming to second and
the sponsor wanted #51 of Justin Bonsignore coming to third. The
caution would come out on lap 10 as the WPW Growers #98 of Dave
Brigati would spin in turn two. The restart would see Andrews
lead with Park trying to hold off Bonsignore who was all over
him for 2nd. The caution would come out on lap 13 for the
sponsor wanted #04 of Amber Fortin as she spun on the
backstretch. The caution would be back out one lap later for
after a spin by the #12 of Marisa Niederauer. The restart would
once again see Andrews leading with Bonsignore and Park going at
it behind him. After close tight racing between Bonsignore and
Park, Park would go spinning in turn 2 after contact on lap 23.
Bonsignore would be sent to the rear after the incident. The
restart would be how they finished with Andrews taking the
dominating win, Chris Young finishing second, John Fortin third
and Chuck Steuer finishing fourth.
The Mini School Bus Figure-8 race was next out and what an
exciting race it was. Mike “Cheesebox” Rommeney would come to
first and soon after Bob “Whiplash” Genovese decided the race
would look better looking out of his back widow as he would race
backwards around the track. After putting the bus up on its
right side tires briefly and then making hard contact with the
frontstretch wall Whiplash turned his bus in the right
direction. After numerous close, close calls in the X and buses
going out of their way to make it thru, the race was won by Mike
Rommeney.
The 4cyl. demolition derby was just as exciting with a car
flipped over early on in the race after a passenger side door
hit by Jimmy White. The race was won by Garcia.
Extra: J.R. Bertuccio made his season debut at Riverhead
Raceway tonight finishing 7th.
Source: Ryan McGrellis/LongIslandJam.com
Posted: May
23, 2009
