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Thunder Valley Raceway
CENTRAL CITY, Penn. (July 24) - Two days short of the 7th anniversary of his last Thunder Valley win, John Britsky roared to the Late Model victory Saturday night at the track. The win was the ninth Thunder Valley win for Britsky but his first since July 26 2003. He became the seventh consecutive different winner in 2010. In other action, Dave Lee scored his first ever Semi Late event, Bill Replogle took the Pure Stock race and the Pluta family, Andrew and Robert split the 4 cylinder twin races.
Britsky, who had dominated his heat race earlier in the evening, shot by Tim Burkholder at the start and stretched out the field in the Late Model feature. Britsky ran off from the field after a lap 2 caution opening a huge margin. He was a straightaway ahead when Steve Everhart ripped by Gene Kain for second on lap 7, but Everhart immediately began closing, a few lengths each lap. When Scott Rhodes got by Kain for third on lap 10, he too began closing the distance.
By the time they entered lapped traffic on lap 20, Everhart was there to challenge. They cleared the first couple of lapped cars, and on lap 23, Britsky got by Steve Gibney. Everhart however tangled with Gibney coming off turn 4. The resulting front stretch melee left two crashed cars and Everhart mad at the world.
When the field got the final green, Britsky held off a fast charging Scott Rhodes the last 2 laps to secure the win. Rhodes was second, followed by Shawn Claar and Greg Fetters who came from 12th starting spot. Chuck Clise, Kain, Chris Rhodes, Burkholder Dwayne Taneyhill and Tom Decker completed the top 10. Britsky and Claar won the heats.
LATE MODELS 25 LAPS 1 John Britsky, 2 Scott Rhodes, 3 Shawn Claar, 4 Greg Fetters, 5 Chuck Clise, 6 Gene Kain, 7 Chris Rhodes, 8 Tim Burkholder, 9 Dwayne Taneyhill, 10 Tom Decker, 11 Dan Lee, Steve Everhart, 13 Steve Gibney, DNS Jeff Compton
SEMI LATE 20 LAPS 1 Dave Lee, 2 Jim Sayler, 3 Jeff Benson, 4 Ray Sheetz, 5 Greg Cornell, 6 Joe Pluta, 7 Bill Pluta, 8 David Puckett, 9 Mike Collins, 10 John Shaffer, 11 Dennis Collins, 12 George Beckett, 13 Jason Harbaugh, 14 Matt Custer, 15 Justin Robine, 16 Jonathan Hayman, 17 Jason Vangilder.
PURE STOCK 15 LAP 1 Bill Replogle, 2 Tom Warren, 3 Mike Siegele, 4 Ed Vogel, 5 Drew Black, 6 Jamie Kohan. 7 Justin Milburn, 8 Rod Mock Sr, 9 Ryan Beckett, 10 Greg Cornell Sr, 11 Jim Sacco, 12 Terry Mitchell, 13 Jesse Hunt, 14 Marty Johnson, 15 Alicia Legross, 16 John Hollis, 17 Chris Wolfe DNS John Replogle, Mike Ott
4 CYLINDER 15 LAP 1m Robert Pluta, 2 Andrew Pluta, 3 Casey Fleegle, 4 Jason Mullen, 5 Ian Will, 6 Martin Vinosky, 7 Tim Thomas, 8 Keith Deeter, 9 Ralph Miller, 10 Dan Jackson, 11 Mike Meck, 12 Leroy Booher, 13 Eric Cramer, 14 Ray Edwards, DNS Matt Winegartner
4CYLINDER 15 LAP 1 Andrew Pluta, 2 Casey Fleegle, 3 Robert Pluta, 4 Tim Thomas, 5 Keith Deeter, 6 Dan Jackson, 7 Martin Vinosky, 8 Ralph Miller, 9 Mike Meck. 10 Leroy Booher, 11 Jason Mullen, 12 DNS Ian Will, Eric Cramer, Ray Edwards, Matt Winegartner.
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