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CHANCE OF A LIFETIME!!!

Burley Best in Ransomville Mods

By Dave Sully

(Ransomville, NY) Todd Burley, from Spencerport, strengthened his hold on the point lead, which he hopes will carry him to a third Ransomville title, by overpowering a twenty-six car field in the thirty-five lap Modified Lucas Oil Shootout on Friday, July 18^th. Burley seized the lead from Jeff McGinness on lap twenty-one, after executing a nifty two car pass in turn three the lap before, and drove away to the win, his third of the season.

McGinness and Todd Gordon had shared the lead early in the event after manning the front row at the drop of the green. Burley, who went off fifth, had to be patient as the preferred high line was occupied. As the laps wore on, he realized that he had to get going and seized the opportunity to dive under Boyd Mactavish and Gordon with the same move, setting up the winning pass on McGinness. After that he went to the top and cruised from there.

McGinness finished second, followed by Pete Bicknell, who came from eleventh, Scott Kerwin, up from tenth, and Chad Brachmann to round out the top five. Of the double pass, Burley noted, “ I couldn’t get to the top. Everybody was on the top. I figured I had to try something. We just had to do a slide job to get by them.”

The twenty-five lap sportsman feature looked for all intents and purposes that Curtis Friesen, brother of fellow sportsman driver, James Friesen, was on a solo dash to his first win, opening a huge lead from then pole. However, in the course of the event his brakes wore out and on a lap seventeen restart he had no pressure at all, forcing him to throttle back, ultimately surrendering the lead to Mike Short.

Steve Schumacher, from Lockport, who started eleventh, moved past Friesen into second on lap twenty-three, just before a caution, took the lead from Short on the subsequent restart and went on to win. Short finished second, with Friesen nursing his brakeless racer home in third. Defending champion Don Spatorcio ended up fourth from twelfth, with Jipp Ortiz completing the top five, after starting fourteenth.

Twin fifteen lap street stock features went to Wayne Close, from Newfane, his first of the year and Roger Israel, from Wilson, his second. Jamie O’Donnell, from Wilson, won the rugged fire hall enduro over Mark Brown.

MODIFIED/LUCAS OIL SHOOT-OUT: (35 laps) TODD BURLEY, Jeff McGinnis, Pete Bicknell, Scott Kerwin, Chad Brachmann, Rich Vinson, Todd Gordon, Danny O’Brien, Boyd MacTavish, Ricky Richner, Robbie Krull, Kevin Wills, Sam Crogan, Chris Steele, Joe Kubiniec, Jon Miller, Bill Bleich, Tim Jones, Travis Braun, Bob Broomfield, Bill Torrisi, Rick Hoctor, Tommy Flannigan, Pete Cosco, and Roger Chrysler. Heat winners were Torrisi, MacTavish, and Wills.

SPORTSMAN: (25 laps) – STEVE SCHUMACHER, Mike Short, Curtis Friesen, Don Spatorico, Jipp Ortiz, James Friesen, Steve Miller, Derek Smith, Justin Wright, Ricky Newton, Ryan Susice, Brad Rouse, John Smith, Sandy Pembleton, Jesse Cotriss, Jeff Jepson, Tony Purgarich, Allan Wills, Gordon Hermanson, James Henry, Justin Sharp, John Pembleton, Peter Gordon, and Chris Purgarich. Heat winners were Miller, Derek Smith, and Short.

STREET STOCK #1: (15 laps) – ROGER ISRAEL, Alex Morris, Kenny Washburn, Scott Krull, Ricky Washburn, Mike Childrose, Don Rappleyea, Mike Greenewalt, Pat Dell, Pat Burek, Brian Harris, Gerald Poole, Bob Urtel, Brandon Sherwood, Jaren Israel, and Sean Letts. Heat winners were Krull, Nashwinter, and Raymond.

STREET STOCK #2: (15 laps) – WAYNE CLOSE, Webb Nashwinter, Boo ts Martin, Stuart Kumm, Chris Burek, Charles Harvey, Randy Zimmerman, Tim Raymond, Billy Coleman, Derrick Borkenhagen, Dave Conant, Jon Richael, Brandon Poole, Carla Duchnick, Tim Hall, and Chad Livermore.

FIREHALL ENDURO: JAMIE O’DONNELL, Jim Stone, Jonathon Stoelting, Dan Szratter, Eric Gunio, Rick Hess, Todd Brunning, Hoyt Desso, Mike McDounough, Tim Durfy, Ryan Stephenson, Bob Liddell, Dennis Redmond, Dick Wilkinson, Lori Brown, Dave Nashwinter, Russ Jackman, Chris Lederhouse, Nick Baes, Orville Harris, Bradley Guay, Gordon Dietz, Danny Walczyk, Mark Brown, and Richard Champion.