Race Report May
18th, 2008
WEEK #3
No National Events in the area
and no Holiday to deal with. What could possible go
wrong on this week? W-E-A-T-H-E-R,
that was today’s buzz word as the day dawned cloudless
but forecasters were all predicting rain between 1:00
and 3:00 pm.
This was week number 3 for the Tommy’s
Bicycle and Fitness Weekly Racing Series
with 203 riders registered to compete. Add to that the
18 riders who were in the house for the first stop on
the 5 race Biker’s Edge Ultimate Warrior
Pro-Am Challenge Series and you have a
large race by 2008 local standards. A total of 57 motos
were posted and the action started off on a very negative
side. A rider, who calls Puerto Rico home, 21 year old
expert Armando Curbello fell very hard in only the 5th
moto of the day cracking a bone in each elbow and breaking
a fore arm. That made the atmosphere about as gloomy
as the increasing clouds overhead. As the day wore on,
the sky darkened and by moto 30 of the second round
the rain was coming down pretty hard. It was decided
to not risk more injuries and the race was called after
two rounds of motos and no main events in the amateur
classes. Only the Warriors did the full pull of three
rounds of motos, two semis and the 8 rider main event.
Lets start with the Biker’s Edge Ultimate Warrior
Pro-Am Challenge Series race. 18 racers including riders
from the Bay State and New York joined our own Connecticut
Contingent of hot-rods to vie for the title of Ultimate
Warrior.
Adding moto points this year and scrambling the motos
provided some more than usual exciting racing action.
No matter who he was scrambled with, Allen Currier would
ace a perfect in the motos. With the new point system
12 of the 18 riders earned moto points even though only
the top three finishers earn them. The 8 riders who
made the main were Max Egdorf, Mike Campbell, Dan Bycenski,
Ty Johnson, Matt Markie, Allen Currier, Alex Rivera
and Pete Lorenzo. When the race was finally over it
was Allen Currier the winner, Max Egdorf 2nd and Pete
Lorenzo 3rd. All in all it was a great day of competition
for some of New England’s finest and a big thanks
to the Biker’s Edge for being its primary sponsor.
In Expert action the 19-25 gang
saw 5 riders going for the glory. Hector (Speedy) Gonzalez
would enjoy a perfect with Enzo Vinci and Dan Bycenski
2nd and 3rd. the 15 Expert group had 4 riders and T
& M Builder’s Pauly Maher was the “Dominator”
in this one. Kyle Stron g edged out Josh Wedge for 2nd.
Tom McClure won both rounds in 13 Experts with Jason
Chamis, and Austin Vailancourt finishing 3rd for the
Weight Room. Multi-time State champion Shawn McAuley
finshished in front of Aggro’s Josh Thimmish and
George’s Music Center’s Chris Pfeffer in
12 Expert action.The 10 Experts saw Todd Maniscalchi
finish in front of Casey Tanner and Chris Therriault.
Some of the Experts had to be Combined with Novices
and such was the case in 35-40 combined. Mike Sigrist
beat Garrick Yanosky and novice rider Mike Jasensky,
who is sponsored by Extreme Marine. The 26-34 group
saw CMR’s Kevin Clark the winner and novice Bruce
taber Jr. 2nd. In 17-18 Expert / Novice combined it
was OFR’s Max Egdorf and Stylin’s Kory Buck
as co-winners of the class, again, as no main event
were run. 16 Expert and Nov combined racing saw a very
dirty Logan Mitchell come out on top with nov Keith
Brown 2nd. Nice tumble in practice Logan.
Only two 14 yr old Experts were here so they were combined
with the 15 Novice class. Cody Dunn had enough to eke
out the win and the Schweiger Tile & Flooring sponsored
Anthony was 2nd as Novices swept the top two spots.
11 Experts and 11 Novices were combined and it would
be Dan Delisle acing a perfect with Fusco’s Auto
Salvage’s Chris Pannullo, in his first race as
an Expert, finishing a solid 2nd. Congrats Chris on
the move-up. Justin Boissonneault won the 8 Ex / 9 Nov
combined grouping as he was the only expert in the class.
Justin Rivera was second and the Jack’s Autobody
sponsored R.J. Miville was third in his first Novice
race.
Many Novices were in the house and the 19-25 gang had
Schenectady New Yorks Dave nelson come out on top with
Carl Norris 2nd and Cliff Richards 3rd. In 14 Novice
comp the Waterbury Tire and Auto sponsored Jim Oslander
won in his first race as a novice keeping Halton McCready
behind him and Esquire Cleaners mason Johnson was 3rd.
The 13 Novice class was interesting as Brett Wojtkowski,
Dave Norris and Justin Thompson must have wondered what
happened as Aggro’s Ali Thimmish beat all of them
for the win. Welcome back Ali! Austin Cyr continued
his quest toward the Expert ranking with yet another
perfect in 12 Novice. Troy Atchison won the 10 novice
class with Zeiner Hardwood Flooring’s Jon Zeiner
finishing 2nd. Cody Ruth held off Owen Giese for the
8 Novice win. Hartford County Tattoo’s Lane Maher
(Superfly) was the 7 Novice champ with Oxycare’s
Hunter Zeiner 2nd and Sky Elwood, after breaking his
arm in Trumbull, just touched the gate for a 3rd. Tough
break Sky (No pun intended).
17 & over women racing saw new rider Katelyn Pariala
hold off Michelle Main and Nicole Milton for the win.
Angela Therriault aced a perfect in 14-15 Girls as she
was able to keep Amy Block behind her. Nina Rintharamy
and new rider Jessica Pease, sponsored by The hair Doctor”
had a classic battle with Nina winning the class. Chealsee
Kalivis Beat Shay Brown and Kendra Covington for the
11 Girls title. Devon Murphy #4 and Julionna Olson #14
would take it to the wire and it was Devin coming out
with the win. In the 8 yr old girls class “Mac
Attack” Mackenzie Atchison beat Alysha Olson for
the win. Amanda Wedge and Jayne Roy finshed 1 –
2 in 12 Girls. Olivia Ruth beat Dixie Damelio in 5-7
Girls action.
A huge throng of Rookies were in the house and 17 &
over Brandon Miville put one in the record books for
himself as he topped Dan Sears. Another new rider had
a great day as Xavier Dubois held off CJR’s Mike
Clark in 16 Rookie. James Norris was the 15 Rookie Champ.
Traveling all the way from Higganum CT., Dan German
finished in front of Sid Hannah in 14 Rookie. The 13
Rookie class had two winners, (again, the main was not
run) and Alex Hubbard and Tim Osborne would share the
spotlight. Same deal in 12 Rookie racing as Nick Hull
and Mike Valentine were champs. “Quick-Nick”
Painchaud topped the filed in 11 Rookie racing and Ty
Hesterberg did the same in the 10 Rookie gang. Sponsored
by “The Pines” Pete Franolich won the 9
Rookie class with a much improved Nick Bates a solid
2nd. Brandon Galeski and Jacob Sphur were co-winners
in the 8 Rookie class. 12 riders were in the 7 Rookie
class and the co-winners were Collin Riggs and Collin
Penn. There were so many 6 yr old Rookies here that
they were split into three different groups. Under normal
circumstances there would have been two semis required
to see who would transfer into the 8 rider main event
but, because of the rain, there were actually 3 winners.
Jason Lee, Dustin Souza and Tactical Arms Zack Ferris
all went home with first place trophies for winning
their motos. Litle Jamie Corsillo and Arefin Milton
each were winners in the 5 & under Rookie class.
Cruiser winners were Tim Buck in 45-49; Tom Johnson
in 40-45; Bob Desmarais in 30-39; Mike Vallone in 17-24;
Dan Delisle in 9-12
There was an Eliite Open race with Pete Lorenzo winning
it.
Footnote:
Because of the fact that mains were not run, riders
who won their motos but did not get to run their mains
will not earn NBL Move-Ups (15 Move-ups required to
turn Novice)
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