Column By: MIKE TRAVERSE / RPW – FONDA, NY – After getting off to a bit of a delayed start, the 73rd Fonda Speedway Opener was moving along nicely.
There was a bit of a delay during the heat races as a light shower covered the track. But that shower dissipated quickly and the heat races along with two Mohawk Valley Vintage Dirt Modified Series features that were completed.
As the 4 Cylinders took to the track, a much more steady rain moved in and with the track getting more slick with another hour of rain on the radar, the balance of the program was lost.
It was the Frank Trinkaus Memorial for the MVVDMS at the track Saturday.
In the Antique feature, it was Bryan Scofield taking the win. In the combination Late Model/Mystique feature, Curtis Condon was the Late Model winner with Joe Rando with the Mystique win.
Modified heat winners were Chris Curtis, Jessica Friesen and Jack Lehner.
Sportsman heat winners were Clayton Dumond, Chip Constantino and Jonny Feagles.
Limited Sportsman heats were won by Ryan Sweet and AJ Greco.
The Pro Stock heat was won by Jason Morrison.
Fonda notes: As the Orange County Fair Speedway is not running a regular schedule this year, many of their racers have moved on to other tracks for Saturday racing.
Those who would normally be in Middletown that were in the Fonda pits on Saturday were Roger Henion Jr. and Daniel Morgiewicz Jr. in the Modifieds and Jared LaBagh, Anthony Falanga, Gary Edwards III and Tyler Peet in the Sportsman.
Modifieds
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 35-Chris Curtis[2]; 2. 1G-Darwin Greene[1]; 3. 97H-Bobby Hackel IV[8]; 4. 27-Jason Reome[4]; 5. 42-Tucker O’Connor[9]; 6. 76-Jamike Sowle[7]; 7. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr[3]; 8. 19JR-Roger Henion Jr[6]; 9. 111-Demetrios Drellos[5]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 1Z-Jessica Friesen[2]; 2. 7MM-Michael Maresca[1]; 3. 44-Stewart Friesen[7]; 4. 1-Rocky Warner[3]; 5. 84Y-Alex Yankowski[5]; 6. 2RJ-Ronnie Johnson[8]; 7. 24P-Brian Pessolano[4]; 8. 4-Cody Clark[6]
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 85-Jack Lehner[5]; 2. 21C-Brian Calabrese[8]; 3. 21P-Luciano (Pep) Corradi[7]; 4. 93-Ryan Odasz[2]; 5. 20C-Craig Hanson[4]; 6. 66-Don Bellen[6]; 7. 0-Glenn Styres[1]; 8. 34-Dave Constantino[3]
Hot Laps: 1. 85-Jack Lehner, 00:18.091[15]; 2. 1-Rocky Warner, 00:18.516[24]; 3. 4-Cody Clark, 00:18.665[3]; 4. 93-Ryan Odasz, 00:19.022[19]; 5. 24P-Brian Pessolano, 00:19.062[20]; 6. 84Y-Alex Yankowski, 00:19.132[25]; 7. 2RJ-Ronnie Johnson, 00:19.214[14]; 8. 20C-Craig Hanson, 00:19.293[12]; 9. 34-Dave Constantino, 00:19.295[4]; 10. 44-Stewart Friesen, 00:19.335[9]; 11. 19JR-Roger Henion Jr, 00:19.346[13]; 12. 21C-Brian Calabrese, 00:19.354[2]; 13. 15M-Daniel Morgiewicz Jr, 00:19.371[17]; 14. 1Z-Jessica Friesen, 00:19.402[8]; 15. 7MM-Michael Maresca, 00:19.462[16]; 16. 27-Jason Reome, 00:19.629[21]; 17. 42-Tucker O’Connor, 00:19.897[18]; 18. 21P-Luciano (Pep) Corradi, 00:20.064[5]; 19. 76-Jamike Sowle, 00:20.600[22]; 20. 35-Chris Curtis, 00:20.600[6]; 21. 66-Don Bellen, 00:20.600[1]; 22. 0-Glenn Styres, 00:20.600[23]; 23. 97H-Bobby Hackel IV, 00:20.600[11]; 24. 1G-Darwin Greene, 00:20.600[10]; 25. 111-Demetrios Drellos, 00:20.600[7]
Sportsman
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 314-Clayton Dumond[2]; 2. B24-Brendan Gibbons[6]; 3. 84-Ricky Quick[7]; 4. 9K-Blaine Klinger[4]; 5. 12B-Tyler Bobar[5]; 6. 7J-Dan Santabarbara[9]; 7. 2K-Mike Kalkbrenner[3]; 8. 2-Anthony Falanga[1]; 9. 23N-Nathan Peattie[10]; 10. 21-Gary Edwards III[8]
Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 63-Chip Constantino[1]; 2. 12T-Tyler Peet[7]; 3. 89-Dylan Madsen[6]; 4. 8-Josh Kane[5]; 5. 78-Tanner Warner[8]; 6. 14J-Jeremy Tyrrell[9]; 7. 1M-Mark Mortensen[2]; 8. 312-Bill Port[4]; 9. (DNS) 1D-Kyle Dingman
Heat 3 (8 Laps): 1. 55-Jonny Feagles[1]; 2. 10%-Chad Edwards[2]; 3. 25-Stephen Gray[5]; 4. 1B-Brett Mortensen[7]; 5. 14T-Payton Talbot[8]; 6. 38SPEC-Jared LaBagh[3]; 7. 40D-Butchie Irwin[6]; 8. 31J-John Dumond[9]; 9. 16X-Savannah Laflair[4]
Hot Laps: 1. 63-Chip Constantino, 00:20.663[2]; 2. 10%-Chad Edwards, 00:20.867[6]; 3. 314-Clayton Dumond, 00:20.983[4]; 4. 89-Dylan Madsen, 00:21.073[18]; 5. 38SPEC-Jared LaBagh, 00:21.173[16]; 6. B24-Brendan Gibbons, 00:21.215[10]; 7. 1M-Mark Mortensen, 00:21.418[20]; 8. 40D-Butchie Irwin, 00:21.546[12]; 9. 23N-Nathan Peattie, 00:21.685[28]; 10. 84-Ricky Quick, 00:22.363[23]; 11. 12B-Tyler Bobar, 00:22.403[1]; 12. 16X-Savannah Laflair, 00:22.886[17]; 13. 312-Bill Port, 00:23.380[22]; 14. 21-Gary Edwards III, 00:24.082[7]; 15. 2-Anthony Falanga, 00:24.796[8]; 16. 31J-John Dumond, 00:24.999[5]; 17. 7J-Dan Santabarbara, 00:25.174[24]; 18. 78-Tanner Warner, 00:25.295[27]; 19. 2K-Mike Kalkbrenner, 00:25.317[13]; 20. 9K-Blaine Klinger, 00:25.342[15]; 21. 25-Stephen Gray, 00:25.706[11]; 22. 12T-Tyler Peet, 00:25.709[21]; 23. 55-Jonny Feagles, 00:26.028[9]; 24. 1D-Kyle Dingman, 00:26.422[3]; 25. 14J-Jeremy Tyrrell, 00:26.568[26]; 26. 1B-Brett Mortensen, 00:26.568[19]; 27. 8-Josh Kane, 00:26.568[14]; 28. 14T-Payton Talbot, 00:26.568[25]
Pro Stocks
Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 715-Jason Morrison[4]; 2. 35-Ken Gates[8]; 3. 75-Gary Silkey[1]; 4. 110-Devon Camenga[10]; 5. 7C-Caden Dumblewski[6]; 6. 6-Shane Playford[9]; 7. 2H-Luke Horning[5]; 8. 49-Ivan Joslin[2]; 9. 1D-Nick Santuccione[7]; 10. (DNS) 8N-Nick Stone
Hot Laps: 1. 715-Jason Morrison, 00:23.997[5]; 2. 110-Devon Camenga, 00:24.569[10]; 3. 35-Ken Gates, 00:24.776[2]; 4. 7C-Caden Dumblewski, 00:24.938[1]; 5. 8N-Nick Stone, 00:24.973[8]; 6. 75-Gary Silkey, 00:25.744[7]; 7. 49-Ivan Joslin, 00:26.050[4]; 8. 1D-Nick Santuccione, 00:26.440[6]; 9. 6-Shane Playford, 00:26.794[9]; 10. 2H-Luke Horning, 00:26.794[3]
Limited Sportsm
Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 37-Ryan Sweet[1]; 2. 44J-Adam Tranka[2]; 3. 47-Walter Cook[4]; 4. 13J-Jim Mallia[8]; 5. 14W-Timothy Wilmot[7]; 6. 16H-Dylan Huston[3]; 7. 618-Bobby Rhinehardt[5]; 8. 1B-Jeff Bobilin[10]; 9. (DNS) 57-Ben Balzer; 10. (DNS) 2-Brandon Tyler
Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 12AJ-AJ Greco[1]; 2. 00X-Josh Coonradt[6]; 3. 797-Corky Warner[3]; 4. 216-Phil Arnold[7]; 5. 32-Steve Wagoner[5]; 6. 07-Josh Persse[9]; 7. 87J-Joel Knudsen Jr[2]; 8. 44-Rocco Constantino[10]; 9. 24-Kirsten Swartz[8]; 10. (DQ) 22L-Lance Hill[4]
Hot Laps: 1. 22L-Lance Hill, 00:21.805[7]; 2. 12AJ-AJ Greco, 00:22.136[6]; 3. 14W-Timothy Wilmot, 00:22.907[19]; 4. 44J-Adam Tranka, 00:23.570[15]; 5. 00X-Josh Coonradt, 00:23.641[5]; 6. 13J-Jim Mallia, 00:23.800[10]; 7. 618-Bobby Rhinehardt, 00:23.997[12]; 8. 37-Ryan Sweet, 00:24.155[14]; 9. 24-Kirsten Swartz, 00:24.636[13]; 10. 797-Corky Warner, 00:24.661[18]; 11. 1B-Jeff Bobilin, 00:24.956[3]; 12. 2-Brandon Tyler, 00:25.115[16]; 13. 32-Steve Wagoner, 00:27.132[17]; 14. 87J-Joel Knudsen Jr, 00:27.295[9]; 15. 216-Phil Arnold, 00:28.101[1]; 16. 57-Ben Balzer, 00:28.101[2]; 17. 47-Walter Cook, 00:28.101[4]; 18. 16H-Dylan Huston, 00:28.101[8]; 19. 07-Josh Persse, 00:28.101[11]
Four Cylinders
Hot Laps: 1. 97JD-Jay Ingersoll, 00:29.063[6]; 2. 3D-John Napoli, 00:29.325[12]; 3. 54S-Wayne Russell Jr, 00:29.379[13]; 4. 26D-Len St Andrews, 00:32.191[14]; 5. 777D-Chris Hemstreet, 00:33.427[2]; 6. 212S-TJ Marlitt, 00:34.129[10]; 7. 98S-Stephanie Maille, 00:49.368[8]; 8. 223S-Josh Beals, 00:49.368[1]; 9. 5D-Shawn Hemstreet, 00:49.368[3]; 10. 12S-Ken Hollenbeck, 00:49.368[4]; 11. 33D-Kerrie Hollenbeck, 00:49.368[5]; 12. K1S-William Liberatore, 00:49.368[7]; 13. 29D-Howard Marlitt, 00:49.368[9]; 14. 36D-Todd Morey, 00:49.368[11]; 15. 420XS-Tim Warner, 00:49.368[15]