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Waterford Speedbowl Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday 8/31 Results

First time winners populate Victory Lane – Pappa, Molleur and Cassidy
score wins; Voglesong and Beal join night’s winners

Waterford, CT (August 31, 2011) – Waterford Speedbowl lit up the night sky
in the wake of Hurricane Irene, providing fans with an action packed night
of Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday motorsports at the shoreline oval. Visiting
Victory Lane on the night included a host of first-time winners for the
Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday racing program. Fourteen-year old Matthew Pappa
of Nassau, NY took his first Speedbowl checkered flag in the Legends Cars,
while Andrew Molleur of Shelton became the track’s youngest winner in its
61-year history, taking down the win in the night’s Bandolero race at age
eight. In the X-Cars a veteran racer took the checkered flag as Brad
Voglesong of Middletown crossed the finish line first. Charles Beal of
Ledyard won the night’s Wacky Race and Ken Cassidy Sr. was awarded the win
in the Super X-Car feature, a first for the veteran driver from Lisbon at
the track’s Wednesday series.


An entertaining 20-lap Legends Cars feature had Ed Field on the pole. He
took the early lead ahead of fellow veteran racer Carl Blandina. Angelo
Belsito moved to third position on lap-3 while Pappa was hot on his tail
and followed into fourth place. That would not last for long as Pappa
raced past Belsito on lap-4. He was not content to ride in third for
long, and shot past the inside of Blandina on lap-6. He took up pursuit
of Field for the lead from there.

The battle for the race lead intensified as Pappa pressured Field. He
looked to Field’s inside exiting the corners, with field holding him off
for a lap until they raced off turn four to lap-8. Pappa made an inside
bid, however made slight contact with Field sending him spinning in front
of the field. The turmoil collected Dave Garbo Jr., Belsito, Dana
Dimatteo and others and drew the yellow and red flags to clear the track.
Pappa resumed the race at the rear of the field.

After the delay, Field continued to show the way through lap-9 when Troy
Talman raced by his inside. Talman led the second half of the race while
Pappa was blistering his way back through the field, which was being
slowly eliminated by attrition. Talman led Blandina and Pappa who began a
torrid battle for second. Pappa finally found his way by Blandina in turn
one and set chase on Talman. With both drivers seeking their first
Speedbowl wins it set the stage for an exciting conclusion.

Talman raced the bottom of the track and Pappa patiently awaited an
opportunity to make a move on the leader. That came on lap-18 as Pappa
found room to Talman’s inside down the back chute, then the pair raced
hard into turn three before Pappa came out of turn four with the lead. He
went on over the final two laps to the win. Talman, Blandina, Field and
Nick Lascuola completed the top-five.


Joey Ternullo led the field to green for the 20-lap Bandolero feature,
however the multi-time winner this year was overtaken by Molleur on lap-2.
Molleur scooted out to a several car length lead over Ternullo while
point leader Rachel Forte raced her way up to third. She ducked past
Ternullo to take second position on lap-5. Shortly after, Ternullo
surrendered third place to a train of cars that included Nicholas Sowa and
Ken Morin Jr. who were working together as they marched through the pack.
The pair caught and passed Forte for second on lap-10 with the half-way
mark shown.

The only caution finally waved on lap-13 for two cars that got together in
turn two, erasing Molleur’s advantage. The eight-year old got a great
restart to take back his lead. Morin picked up second position and chased
down Molleur over the final four laps. Morin made a last ditch bid to
take away the win in turn four on the final lap, however Molleur held off
the charge to take his first career win. Morin, Sowa, Forte and Jordan
Churchill finished second through fifth.


The 20-lap Super X-Car race was highlighted by tight racing from the
start. Caution waved for the first time on lap-2 as Eric Finkbein, Ed
Ryan, R.J. Cunningham and Cassidy found trouble at the end of the front
chute into turn one.

After the restart Dan Butler looked strong out front of the field. He led
over a battle behind for the top positions. Mike Maskell made his way to
the front along with Ken Downing as they fought past Jim Boyle, Bill
Reiman and Kevin Moon over the middle of the race. The battle for second
between Maskell and Downing turned into a battle for the lead as Butler
was in jeopardy of falling victim to both. Through turns one and two on
lap-14, Maskell and Downing got together setting off an incident that also
collected Frank Alessio and drew the second and final caution flag of the
race.

Cassidy had recovered from the early altercation to join Butler on the
front row for the restart. Butler got the jump when the green flag
returned, resuming his. Butler went on to take the checkered flag first,
however following post-race inspection, the win was awarded to Cassidy.
Boyle was bumped up to second, while Downing rallied back for third.
Reiman and Peter Pollard were fourth and fifth.


The 20-lap X-Car race had Chris Ivory setting the pace following an
incident on lap-1 that sent cars scattering to avoid Scott Bellisle in
turn four. In typical Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday action, the X-Cars put on
several side-by-side battles over the opening laps as the drivers jockeyed
for position. Scott Limkemann along with Voglesong and Pete Zaikarite
were early movers, coming out ahead of three and four-wide battles to rise
into the top-five. Several cars became entangled exiting turn four on
lap-3 to return the race to the caution.

Limkemann was too strong for Ivory after the restart, taking over on
lap-4. Behind the new leader, Voglesong and Zaikarite moved into
positions two and three putting Ivory back to fourth. Before long
championship points contender Randy Johnston had joined the front pack,
racing by Ivory’s inside into fourth just before halfway.

The second half of the race stayed clean and green. The leaders
encountered lapped traffic tightening the top four positions. Voglesong
had closed in on Limkemann however was under fire from Zaikarite,
momentarily preventing him from putting on a serious challenge for the
lead.

As the laps continued to click off the scoreboard Voglesong used his
experience to turn up the heat. With two laps remaining, more lapped
traffic was ahead. Voglesong found room on the bottom of the track coming
to the white flag, then spent the final lap underneath Limkemann in a last
lap duel. Voglesong navigated lapped cars in turn three and four to exit
the corner in the lead and nailed down the victory. Limkemann ran
impressive for second. Zaikarite, Johnston and Chris Garside rounded out
the top-five.


The weekly Wacky Race had the bravest Super X-Car pilots touring the
Speedbowl in the opposite direction. It wasn’t long before those
comfortable making right hand turns emerged as the top competition. In
the end, last year’s division champion Charles Beal took the Wacky
checkered flag.


For more information about Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday and the calendar of
events, please visit www.speedbowl.com or contact track offices at
860.442.1585.


Waterford Speedbowl 8/31 Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday Results and Standings:

Legends Cars (20-laps): 1. Matthew Pappa, Nassau, NY; 2. Troy Talman,
Oxford, MA; 3. Carl Blandina, Milford; 4. Ed Field, Deep River; 5. Nick
Lascuola, Brockton, MA; 6. Nicholas Sowa, Middletown; 7. Taylor Martin,
Windham, NH; 8. Peter Cirilli, Farmington; 9. Angelo Belsito, Auburn,
MA; 10. Dana Dimatteo, Farmington; 11. Dave Garbo Jr., Stonington; 12.
Dennis Pantani, Branford; 13. Max Zachem, Preston; 14. Dennis Lambert,
Indian Trail, NC; DNS - Arthur Marrero, Baltic

Standings after sixteen events: 1. Dimatteo, 719; 2. Garbo, 646; 3.
Joey Mucciacciaro, 624; 4. Belsito, 622; 5. Field, 586; 6. Blandina,
552; 7. Talman, 540; 8. Jason Palmer, 431; 9. Giovanni Giarratana,
404; 10. Lascuola, 366


Bandoleros (20-laps): 1. Andrew Molleur, Shelton; 2. Ken Morin Jr., Old
Saybrook; 3. Nicholas Sowa, Middletown; 4. Rachel Forte, Douglas, MA;
5. Jordan Churchill, Lisbon; 6. Cory Dimatteo, Farmington; 7. Jacob
Perry, Pawcatuck; 8. Jacob Urch, Suffield; 9. Taylor Martin, Windham,
NH; 10. Joey Ternullo, Middletown; 11. Corey Comeroski, Lebanon; 12.
Rene Morgillo, Niantic; 13. Alan Eastman, Fishers Island, NY

Standings after twenty-one events: 1. Forte, 924; 2. C. Dimatteo, 836;
3. Martin, 829; 4. 4. Ternullo, 808; 5. Churchill, 805; 6. Morin, 714;
7. Jacob Urch, 636; 8. Perry, 634; 9. Molleur, 587; 10. Jordan Lamothe,
512


Super X-Cars (20-laps): 1. Ken Cassidy Sr., Lisbon; 2. Jim Boyle, East
Windsor; 3. Ken Downing, Branford; 4. Bill Reiman, Southington; 5.
Peter Pollard, Old Lyme; 6. Dan Moon, Exeter, RI; 7. Mark Boisvert,
Uxbridge, MA; 8. Kevin Moon, Exeter, RI; 9. Mike Maskell, Quaker Hill;
10. Jon Porter, Canterbury; 11. R.J. Cunningham, Durham; 12. Frank
Alessio, Colchester; 13. Eric Finkbein, Colchester; 14. Ed Ryan,
Preston; 15. Sean Lisle, Clinton; DQ - Dan Butler, Waterford

Standings after sixteen events: 1. Alessio, 651; 2. Maskell, 650; 3.
Ryan, 628; 4. Downing, 594; 5. Pollard, 591; 6. Boyle, 581; 6. 7. D.
Moon, 568; 8. (tie) Robert Norman, Reiman, 490; 10. Boisvert, 426


X-Cars (20-laps): 1. Brad Voglesong, Middletown; 2. Scott Limkemann,
East Lyme; 3. Pete Zaikarite, Niantic; 4. Randy Johnston, Westerly, RI;
5. Chris Garside, Waterford; 6. Wayne Shifflett, Preston; 7. Shawn
Stula, Colchester; 8. Dan D’addario, Middletown; 9. Mike Trask,
Plainfield; 10. Melissa Clavette, Bozrah; 11. Larry Loomis, Plainfield;
12. Onie Pierce, Norwich; 13. Robert Carlson, Rockfall; 14. Richard
Mollo, Seymour; 15. David Lloyd, Mystic; 16. Josh Barrie, Voluntown;
17. Jeremy Bourbeau, Taftville; 18. Christopher Ivory, Oakdale; 19.
Chuck McDonald, Groton; 20. Kristie Hamel, Jewett City; 21. Christopher
Lee, Uncasville; 22. Danny Gervais, East Hartford; 23. Javier Rivera,
Willimantic; 24. Scott Bellisle, Griswold

Standings after sixteen events: 1. Voglesong, 732; 2. Johnston, 730; 3.
Zaikarite, 718; 4. Garside, 640; 5. Trask, 574; 6. Stula, 540; 7.
Limkemann, 510; 8. Patrick Williams, 498; 9. Shifflett, 460; 10. Ivory,
422


Wacky Super X-Car Race: 1. Charles Beal, Ledyard; 2. Dan Moon, Exeter,
RI; 3. Kristie Hamel, Jewett City; 4. Bill Reiman, Southington; 5.
Ricky Moore; DNS - Peter Pollard


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