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CHRIS PASTERYAK
WINS VMRS 80
AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY |
The
Valenti Modified Racing Series made its final visit
of the 2015 season to Stafford Motor Speedway for
the 6th Annual VMRS 80. Chris Pasteryak took the
lead from Woody Pitkat on a restart with 20 laps to
go and then held Pitkat off to the checkered flag to
pick up his 5th VMRS feature win of the 2015 season.
The race began with Dylan Kopec taking the lead from
the pole with Norm Wrenn, Rowan Pennink, Todd
Szegedy, and Keith Rocco making up the top-5. The
caution came out with 6 laps complete as Dan
Meservey took a spin through the frontstretch
infield.
Kopec took the lead back under green and he held the
lead until lap-9 when Rowan Pennink moved to the
front. Pennink’s time out front was short lived as
Todd Szegedy took the lead on lap-12, but his time
at the front was even shorter than Pennink’s as
Woody Pitkat took over the lead on lap-13. By
lap-20, Pitkat was still in the lead with Szegedy in
second and Ted Christopher third. Keith Rocco was
fourth and Kopec had fallen back to fifth.
Pitkat and Szeged were starting to pull away from
Christopher in third and by lap 30 they had a 2.5
second margin built up. Pitkat was closing in on
lapped traffic and he began to start navigating his
way by the slower cars on lap-37.
Bobby Drown dropped off the pace and parked his car
behind the pit wall on lap-46 while Pitkat continued
to lead the race with Szegedy, Christopher, Rocco,
and Kopec giving chase. Pitkat’s lead was erased by
the caution with 58 laps complete for Carl Medieros,
Jr. coming to a stop on the backstretch.
Pitkat took the lead on the restart with Szegedy,
Rocco, Christopher, and Chris Pasteryak making up
the top-5. Kopec dropped out of line and slid back
to 8th place but his car looked to be back up to
speed. The caution came back out with 59 laps
complete for spins by Medieros and Russ Hersey in
turn 3.
Szegedy spun in turn 2 on the restart and the chain
reaction behind him collected several cars including
Pennink, Kirk Alexander, Medeiros, Rocco and brought
out the red and yellow flags.
Pitkat took the lead with Pasteryak, Wrenn, Kopec,
and David Schneider making up the top-5 before the
caution came out with 60 laps complete when Szegedy
and Mike Keeler spun in turn 1.
Pitkat didn’t come up to speed on the restart and
Pasteryak streaked into the lead with Kopec taking
second. Pitkat settled into third with Mike Willis,
Jr. and Christopher behind him. Pitkat quickly
worked his way back into second with Willis,
Christopher, and Wrenn behind him.
With 10 laps to go, Pasteryak had a half second lead
over Pitkat and Pitkat was closing that gap down
slowly lap by lap. With 5 laps to go, the gap was
down to less than three tenths of a second. Pitkat
was able to close to within a car length of
Pasteryak, but Pasteryak was able to hold him off to
the checkered flag to pick up his fifth Valenti
Modified Racing Series feature win of the 2015
season. Willis finished third, with Christopher and
Wrenn rounding out the top-5.
VMRS 80 (80)
1) Chris Pasteryak
2) Woody Pitkat
3) Mike Willis, Jr.
4) Ted Christopher
5) Norm Wrenn
6) Dave Etheridge
7) Keith Rocco
8) Dylan Kopec
9) Dan Meservey, Jr.
10) Matt Swanson
11) Donnie Lashua
12) David Schneider
13) Mike Keeler
14) Kyle James
15) Jeff Pearl
16) Russ Hersey
17) Anthony Nocella
18) Todd Szegedy
19) Rowan Pennink
20) Todd Patnode
21) Kirk Alexander
22) Chase Dowling
23) Carl Medieros, Jr.
24) Dennis Perry
25) Bobby Drown
26) Ronnie Williams
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Source:
Scott Running / Stafford Motor Speedway
Posted:
September 4, 2015 |
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