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PITTSBURGH’S PENNSYLVANIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY
IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Media Contact: Judy Gower 724-853-7223 jdgocar@aol.com September 23, 2007
JOSH RICHARDS ROCKETS TO OVERWHELMING VICTORY IN WoO LATE MODEL SERIES “PITTSBURGHER 50”
IMPERIAL, PA (Sept. 22, 2007) – Complete, utter dominance. That’s the only way to describe Josh Richards’s performance on Saturday night at Pittsburgh’s Pennsylvania Motor Speedway. The 19-year-old sensation was simply in a league of his own, running away with a flag-to-flag victory in the half-mile oval’s 19th annual ‘Pittsburgher 50.’
“That car was awesome,” Richards said of his father Mark’s Rocket Chassis House Car. “It was like a video game out there. If I wanted to I could run harder, or I could just cruise for awhile. Whatever I wanted the car to do, it did without a problem. It’s hard to get a car that good very often.”
Richards, who started from the pole position, was never seriously challenged. He pulled away from the pack with ease after each of the race’s four caution flags, extending his lead by at least two-tenths of a second per lap.
In action at the track where he ran the third feature event of his career in 2004, Richards became the youngest winner in the history of PPMS’s ‘Pittsburgher’ spectacular. He earned $10,225 for his fourth WoO LMS triumph of the season.
WoO LMS Rookie of the Year contender Brian Shirley of Chatham, Ill., finished a distance second, 3.4 seconds behind Richards. He used the inside groove to steer his brand-new Ed Petroff-owned Rocket car through the top five during the race’s second half.
WoO LMS points leader Steve Francis of Ashland, Ky., finished third, followed by Darrell Lanigan of Union, Ky., and Bart Hartman of Zanesville, Ohio.
Chub Frank of Bear Lake, Pa., who is second in the WoO LMS points standings, finished a quiet sixth but didn’t lose any ground to Francis. The event offered only show-up points (75 points to each driver entered) because an open practice session was held at PPMS on Thursday night, violating the tour’s rule that prohibits open or private practices at a track within one week of a one-day show.
Forty-six dirt Late Models were entered in the event.
Clint Smith of Senoia, Ga., earned his first $100 National Interstate Insurance Fast Time Award of the season with his lap of 20.320 seconds in qualifying.
Heat winners were Frank, Brian Birkhofer of Muscatine, Iowa, Richards and Lanigan, and the B-Mains were captured by Rick Eckert of York, Pa., and Donnie Moran of Dresden, Ohio.
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IMPERIAL, PA (Sept. 22, 2007) - Kyle Lukon Burgettstown, PA the 2007 PPMS track champion in the Brougher’s Speed Shop Crate Late Models capped his season by winning the 30 lap Pittsburgher special. Lukon who started 5th worked his way past early leader Jim Kutas on lap 6 and easily led the remaining 25 laps to pick up the $1000 first prize. It was Lukon’s 6th win of the season. Mark Moats Jr. drove his best race ever in the class to come from 8th to finish second, getting by 2006 track champ Mike Cecere on the last lap. Russ Kolesar was fourth followed by Friday nights winner Jason Rider, Tommy Schirnhofer, hard charger Daryl Charlier, who came from 20th, Dan Angelicchio, Kutas, and Steve Beatty. Twenty-two cars started the main.
In the caution filled Miley Truck Rental E-Mod main, it continued to be a night for 2007 track champions, as Wayne Tessean Austintown, OH picked up his 4th win of the season. Chris Basich grabbed the lead at the start, and led the first 8 laps before Tessean took over on lap 9. Invader Carl McKinney moved into second from 8th on lap 11, and battled with Tessean the entire distance, but came up short at the finish. Getting his second, second place finish in two nights. Jacob Hawkins worked up from 7th to get his second third place finish in two nights, followed by Chris Basich, Mike Basich, invader Jeff Taylor, Kari Gasser, Kevin Miller, Bruce Dreistadt, and Friday nights winner Daryl Charlier. It was Tessean’s 67th career PPMS E-Mod win and moved within two of all time E-Mod winner Larry Kugel who has 69 wins.
PITTSBURGH’S PENNSYLVANIA MOTOR SPEEDWAY
WoO Late Models Heat Race Winners: Chub Frank, Brian Birkhofer, Josh Richards, Darrell Lanigan B-Main Winners: Rick Eckert, Donnie Moran 46 Cars entered the event. Fast Qualifier: Clint Smith, Senoia GA 20.320 Provisionals: Roy Mitchell & Dan Stone (WoO), Dave Wade & Brandon Burgoon (PPMS) Lap Leaders: Josh Richards 1-50
WoO Late Model Series “Pittsburgher 50”
Feature (50 Laps): 1) Josh Richards, Shinnston WV,
2) Brian Shirley, 3) Steve Francis, 4) Darrell Lanigan, 5) Bart
Hartman, 6) Chub Frank, 7) Brian Birkhofer, 8) Tim Hitt, 9) Keith
Barbara, 10) Jared Miley, 11) Clint Smith, 12) Rick Eckert, 13) Gregg
Satterlee, 14) Jackie Boggs, 15) Dutch Davies, 16) Al Atallah, 17)
Brandon Burgoon, 18) Steve Casebolt, 19) Jeremy Miller, 20) Lynn
Geisler, 21) Dan Stone, 22) Shane Clanton, 23) Davey Johnson, 24)
Roy Mitchell, 25) Dave Wade, 26) Donnie Moran
B-Main #1 (12 Laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1) Rick Eckert, 2)
Dutch Davies, 3) Al Atallah,
4) Steve Baker, 5) Chris Hackett, 6) Scott Gunn, 7) Chad Ruhlman, 8)
Brandon Burgoon, 9) Rick Heim, 10) Steve Wilmoth, 11) Rodney Sweitzer,
12) Ronnie DeHaven, 13) Dennis Niederriter (DNS) Leo Stadelman, Nick
Dickson, D. J. Miller B-Main #2 (12 Laps – Top 3 Transfer): 1) Donnie Moran, 2) Gregg Satterlee, 3) Jeremy Miller, 4) Jeff Rine, 5) Mike Johnson, 6) Jim Lepro, 7) Dan Stone, 8) Dave Wade, 9) Larry Marks, 10) Matt Urban, 11) Michael Davis, 12) Kyle Lukon, 13) Roy Mitchell
Brougher’s Machine Shop Crate Late Models Feature (30 Laps) – 1) Kyle Lukon, 2) Mark Moats, 3) Mike Cecere, 4) Russ Kolesar, 5) Jason Rider, 6)Tommy Schirnhofer, 7) Daryl Charlier, 8) Dan Angelicchio, 9) Jim Kutas, 10) Steve Beatty, 11) Scott Schempp, 12) Chris Angelicchio, 13) Neal Isiminger, 14) Bryan Hoffman, 15) Brad Westover, 16) Dave Johnson, 17) Josh Holtgraver, 18) Rocky Kugel, 19) Mike Pegher Jr., 20) Tom Copeland, 21) Louie Bradich, 22) Bobby Snyder (DNS)
Miley Truck Rental E-Modifieds Feature (30
Laps) – 1) Wayne Tessean, 2) Carl McKinney, 3)
Jacob Hawkins, 4) Chris Basich,
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