Chris Raabe Scores First Airborne Park Speedway Victory Of 2024 Thursday Evening

Story By: AIRBORNE PARK SPEEDWAY – PLATTSBURGH, NY – Alexandria, Ontario’s Chris Raabe won the second Be Cool Heating and Air Conditioning Modified Feature of the season on Thursday, May 16th, after securing the lead from Justin Stone on lap 16.

Stone and Jeremy Roy led the field to green, with Raabe in the second row with Matt Woodruff. The race’s initial start was marred by a multi-car incident that ended the nights of George Foley, Tanner Siemons, Patrick Dupree, DJ Gonyo and Dany Gagne, but it was smooth sailing from there. Raabe was largely unchallenged through the second half of the race and pulled away on the only other restart of the event when an infield tire was forced onto the racing surface on lap 22.

Mike Mahaney finished 2nd with Justin Stone 3rd. Tim Fuller finished 4th with Jeremy Roy rounding out the top-five.

In the J&S Steel Sportsman, Donovan Lussier took advantage of his front- row starting position to handily cover the 30+ car field for the second time in as many weeks. Joey Scarborough, Travis Bruno, Michael Wright and Nick Heywood engaged in spirited battles throughout the race for the rest of the top-five positions, finishing in that order.

Nate Guay won the 9th State Cannabis Renegade feature. Opening night’s 2nd place finisher charged from 7th starting position to take the lead around the one-third mark of the race, holding off Shawn Duquette on a late restart to bring home the win in the extra-distance affair which paid $500 to win. Duquette was 2nd with Tyler Irwin 3rd. Richie Turner overcame a litany of incidents to finish 4th and Zack Daniels was 5th.

In Moore Recycling Mini Stock competition, Steven Bresette won the 15-lap A-main. Rick Doner charged from 12th to 2nd, with opening night’s B-main winer Josh Blake 3rd. Speedy Bresette and Josh Laporte, Jr. rounded out the top-five. The B-main was won by Chuck Mooney, making his first-career appearance in Egglefield Ford Victory Lane. Mooney started 4th and amassed a large advantage early. Jeb Beeson started 9th and finished 2nd with Kyle Botala 3rd, Kyle Hart 4th and Cory Collins 5th. Forty cars entered competition, with 21 going to the A-main and 19 to the B.

Airborne Park Speedway is back in action Thursday, May 23rd at 7 p.m. with “Hometown Heroes Night,” offering free general admission for Nurses, Police, Fire, Rescue and Military personnel with proper ID. The pits open at 4 p.m., the stands at 5:30. Practice is slated for 6:30 and racing will begin at 7 p.m.

358 Modifieds

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 01-Chris Raabe[4]; 2. 35-Mike Mahaney[6]; 3. 15X-Justin Stone[1]; 4. 19-Tim Fuller[7]; 5. 90JR-Jeremy Roy[2]; 6. 25*-Steve Bernier[5]; 7. 24F-Jordan Fornwalt[13]; 8. 45R-Preston Forbes[19]; 9. 25P-Michael Parent[10]; 10. 55-Matt Woodruff[3]; 11. 7S-Shaun Shaw[17]; 12. 1NY-Greg Atkins[8]; 13. 83D-Dustin Bradley[18]; 14. 35B-Francois Bellemare[12]; 15. 1T-Tyler Atkins[21]; 16. 91-Felix Roy[14]; 17. 24-Patrick Dupree[9]; 18. 90-Dany Gagne[11]; 19. 5-Tanner Siemons[15]; 20. 34-George Foley[16]; 21. 04-Dale Gonyo Jr[20]

Heat 1 (9 Laps): 1. 35-Mike Mahaney[1]; 2. 55-Matt Woodruff[2]; 3. 19-Tim Fuller[3]; 4. 25P-Michael Parent[4]; 5. 24F-Jordan Fornwalt[6]; 6. 34-George Foley[5]; 7. 45R-Preston Forbes[7]

Heat 2 (9 Laps): 1. 25*-Steve Bernier[5]; 2. 90JR-Jeremy Roy[4]; 3. 1NY-Greg Atkins[1]; 4. 90-Dany Gagne[3]; 5. 91-Felix Roy[6]; 6. 7S-Shaun Shaw[2]; 7. 04-Dale Gonyo Jr[7]

Heat 3 (9 Laps): 1. 01-Chris Raabe[1]; 2. 15X-Justin Stone[3]; 3. 24-Patrick Dupree[2]; 4. 35B-Francois Bellemare[7]; 5. 5-Tanner Siemons[5]; 6. 83D-Dustin Bradley[6]; 7. 1T-Tyler Atkins[4]

Sportsman

A Feature (25 Laps): 1. 61L-Donovan Lussier[2]; 2. 11VT-Joey Scarborough[1]; 3. 33R-Travis Bruno[8]; 4. 78-Michael Wright[3]; 5. 29H-Nick Heywood[6]; 6. 20-Bucko Branham[4]; 7. 38-Mike Phinney[7]; 8. 50X-Evan Roberts[5]; 9. 29-Tanner Forbes[22]; 10. 19-Jamy Begor[10]; 11. 78VT-Vince Quenneville[9]; 12. 88-Fire Swamp[17]; 13. 22R-Dylan Rabtoy[11]; 14. 88B-CD Beauchamp[15]; 15. 00-Beau Reeves[12]; 16. 2JT-Jonathan Toohill[20]; 17. 29D-Max Dolliver[16]; 18. 07-Rick Frenyea[21]; 19. 7-Codie Aubin[13]; 20. 00VT-Pat Miner[26]; 21. 98-Craig Wholey[18]; 22. 34X-Robert Gauthier[31]; 23. 29C-Mathew Lavalley[30]; 24. 42-Keith Pelkey[27]; 25. 76-Mike Wells[25]; 26. 17-Caleb Durgan[29]; 27. M70-Billy Cook[23]; 28. 03-Joshua Jock[14]; 29. 09-Charlotte Morin[19]; 30. 33JD-Nate Leonard[28]; 31. 10-Parker Dermody[32]; 32. 61-Cedric Tremblay[24]

Heat 1 (9 Laps): 1. 29H-Nick Heywood[2]; 2. 78-Michael Wright[1]; 3. 38-Mike Phinney[4]; 4. 78VT-Vince Quenneville[6]; 5. 00-Beau Reeves[3]; 6. 88B-CD Beauchamp[8]; 7. 88-Fire Swamp[9]; 8. 2JT-Jonathan Toohill[7]; 9. 29-Tanner Forbes[10]; 10. 17-Caleb Durgan[12]; 11. M70-Billy Cook[5]; 12. 10-Parker Dermody[11]

Heat 2 (9 Laps): 1. 50X-Evan Roberts[2]; 2. 61L-Donovan Lussier[3]; 3. 33R-Travis Bruno[4]; 4. 19-Jamy Begor[1]; 5. 7-Codie Aubin[5]; 6. 00VT-Pat Miner[10]; 7. 98-Craig Wholey[6]; 8. 42-Keith Pelkey[7]; 9. 33JD-Nate Leonard[9]; 10. 29C-Mathew Lavalley[8]

Heat 3 (9 Laps): 1. 20-Bucko Branham[3]; 2. 11VT-Joey Scarborough[6]; 3. 76-Mike Wells[4]; 4. 22R-Dylan Rabtoy[2]; 5. 03-Joshua Jock[8]; 6. 29D-Max Dolliver[11]; 7. 09-Charlotte Morin[1]; 8. 07-Rick Frenyea[9]; 9. 18-Chris Cayea[7]; 10. (DNS) 61-Cedric Tremblay; 11. (DNS) 34X-Robert Gauthier

Renegades

A Feature 1 (30 Laps): 1. 975-Nathaniel Guay[7]; 2. 18-Shawn Duquette[9]; 3. 54-Tyler Irwin[8]; 4. 17-Richie Turner[2]; 5. 30-Zack Daniels[11]; 6. 69-Bill Thwaits[3]; 7. 61-Levi Bombard[5]; 8. 7-Shawn Fountain[6]; 9. 28-Bart VanLuevan[14]; 10. 44-Tylor Terry[12]; 11. 11-Tim Wilcox[15]; 12. 5-Mark Caron[1]; 13. 63-Travis Stokes[4]; 14. 69F-Robert Foley[13]; 15. 65-Josh Terry[10]

Heat 1 (8 Laps): 1. 44-Tylor Terry[2]; 2. 65-Josh Terry[4]; 3. 54-Tyler Irwin[5]; 4. 7-Shawn Fountain[1]; 5. 63-Travis Stokes[3]; 6. 69F-Robert Foley[7]; 7. 28-Bart VanLuevan[6]

Heat 2 (8 Laps): 1. 30-Zack Daniels[2]; 2. 18-Shawn Duquette[1]; 3. 975-Nathaniel Guay[6]; 4. 61-Levi Bombard[5]; 5. 69-Bill Thwaits[7]; 6. 17-Richie Turner[4]; 7. 5-Mark Caron[3]; 8. 11-Tim Wilcox[8]

Mini Stocks

Heat 1 (6 Laps): 1. 1-Rick Doner[1]; 2. 03-Speedy Bresette[5]; 3. 4-Josh Laporte[7]; 4. 17E-Glenn Engstrom[4]; 5. 77NY-Chris Clark[8]; 6. 45B-Josh LaPorte[6]; 7. 19B-CJ Belanger[10]; 8. 07-Cory Collins[2]; 9. 75-Jeremiah King[14]; 10. 83-Ed Goddeau[9]; 11. 01-Ernest Parent[13]; 12. (DNS) 22-Jake Fountain; 13. (DNS) 35-Jeb Beeson; 14. (DNS) 77V-Jamie Vallance

Heat 2 (6 Laps): 1. 94-Ryan Senecal[3]; 2. 28X-Matthew Parker[4]; 3. 42X-Ken Tourville[6]; 4. 76-Joshua Blake[9]; 5. 61-Jp Corrow[5]; 6. 69M-Cale Manor[10]; 7. 82-Jamie Whitney Jr[12]; 8. 26-Tyler Warren[13]; 9. 5-Kyle Botala[2]; 10. 59-Tyler Noel[8]; 11. 24D-Dustin Drake[11]; 12. 50-Brett Manor[1]; 13. (DNS) 44-Bob Lavair

Heat 3 (6 Laps): 1. 125-Nick Harnden[3]; 2. 46-Greg Zindler[4]; 3. 95-Steven Bressette[9]; 4. 42-Caleb Tourville[5]; 5. 18B-Clem Bell[2]; 6. 13-Nathan Smart[13]; 7. 14-Bill Doner[10]; 8. 73-Jon Brown[7]; 9. 79-Charles Mooney[8]; 10. 3-Jason Bradley[12]; 11. 2-Kyle Hart[11]; 12. 9-Tyler Bell[1]; 13. 64-Brad Jerome[6]