Jentile, Walls and Kelly Score Mountain Madness
Victories at Sundance
With only one enduro event remaining on the schedule this season, Round
no. 6 of the Mountain Madness Enduro Series kicked off Sunday at Sundance
Vacations Speedway. Despite fluid on the speedway, Joe “Millionaire” Jentile
of Bedminster stayed smooth and consistent to earn his fifth win of the
season in 6/8-Cylinder action. Folsom’s Jeff Walls, a former enduro champion
capitalized on Bill Price’s misfortune to snag the 4-Cylinder win and Brian
Kelly of Long Island drove to his first Trophy Truck win at the speedway.
Keith Frankenfield brought the 6/8-cylinder field down to the drop of the
green flag in the 100-lap enduro and Steve Tito quickly grabbed the race
lead. James Presley grabbed the second spot with TJ Kapish and Bill Schwenck
in pursuit.
Kapish made the pass for the lead stick on the second circuit and Presley
moved into the runner up spot. Meanwhile, last place starter, Joe Jentile,
overtook Dominic Ranieri and Robin Schewire to move into third.
Jentile disposed of Presley and set his sights on Kapish. With 21 laps
complete, Jentile took command.
Jentile began to check out from the field as the top ten drivers jockeyed
for positions over the first half of the event and with 50 laps complete he
continued to lead over Schewire, Kapish, Ed Brown, Jr. and Schewire.
The battle for third heated up in the second half of the race when Kapish
and Brown ran side by side for the third spot for more than 30 circuits.
Jentile remained out front and cruised to his fifth win of the season over
Ranieri, Kapish, Brown and Schewire. Only the top two drivers were on the
lead lap at the end of the event.
Brandon Brown started on the pole and lost the race lead to John Saccomandi
on the first circuit of the 100-lap four-cylinder enduro. Bill Price, Jr.
quickly climbed to third, followed by Mike Wahl and Jimmy White, Jr.
Price overtook Saccomandi for the lead with two laps complete and began to
check out from the field. Meanwhile, Jeff Walls climbed to third and began
to challenge for second. Lap after lap, Saccomandi and Walls ran side by
side for the spot, as Tony Rispin and Jim White took it all in from their
top five spots.
The top five remained the same when the cross flags flew and Price appeared
to be on his way to an easy victory. That changed with 30 laps remaining
when the leader began to lose power. Further back, Walls used a lap car to
overtake the second position.
Running second at the time, Walls reeled in Price with 24 laps remaining and
took the lead. Shortly after, Saccomandi got tangled up with a lapped car
and lost second to Rispin.
Walls, a former big car enduro champion, drove off to his first
four-cylinder victory at the speedway. Saccomandi overtook Rispin to finish
second. With a tire going down, Rispin finished third, followed by White.
Brown had a best career finish of fifth.
Only three Trophy Trucks took to the speedway for a 20-lap showdown, yet the
competition was not disappointing. Jeff Gregor, a four-time winner this
season started from the pole and lost the lead to Brian Kelly before a lap
was complete. The three trucks stayed nose to tail throughout the event,
with Gregor and Frank Katona swapping the second spot on several occasions.
Kelley took the win, which was the first of his career at the speedway.
Katona edged out Gregor for second.
The upcoming “Halloween Screamer” is the last enduro of the season at the
speedway. With double points, extended laps and a larger purse on the line,
the action should heat up on November 1, 2009. Registrations for the
Halloween Screamer are available at the track office, or they can be
downloaded from the speedway website.
Sundance Vacations Speedway is just minutes from Hazleton, Pa, located on
St. John’s Road, between Routes 93 and 309. Grandstand admission for all
regular events is just $10 for ages 11 and older. Children 10 years of age
and younger are admitted for free.
For further information, please visit the track site at
www.sundancevacationsspeedway.com.
6/8-Cylinder (100-laps) 1. JOE JENTILE 2. Dominic Ranieri 3. TJ Kapish 4. Ed
Brown 5. Robin Schewire 6. James Presley 7. Shawn Gallucci 8. David Allen 9.
Bill Schwenck 10. Mike Parisi 11. Tom Szoke 12. Richard Paciotti 13. Steve
Tito 14. Keith Frankenfield 15. Cory Student 16. Jimmy White Jr 17.Bob Wink
18. Mike Pollack 19. Bryan Kelly 20. Jeff Gregor 21. Mark Frankenfield
4-Cylinder (100-laps) 1. JEFF WALLS 2. John Saccomandi 3. Tony Rispin 4.
James White 5. Brandon Brown 6. Mike Wahl 7. Bill Rice 8. Dave Bartuski 9.
Bill Price Jr 10. Charles Barbeisch Jr 11. Denise Siegel 12. Tony Alcaro 13.
Matt Wahl 14. Jimmy White Jr 15. Larry Spencer III
Trophy Trucks (20-laps) 1. BRIAN KELLY 2. Frank Katona 3. Jeff Gregor
Source: Geno Ostrowski/Sundance
Vacations Speedway PR
Posted:
September 20, 2009