Lieto Doubles Up at Whip City; Mattesen Takes First 270 Victory of Season
• Whip City Speedway
On a beautiful Saturday evening, a number of close races took place that saw John Lieto take down a double on the evening in the 750cc class and the 1200cc class, respectively. In the 270cc division, Wade Mattesen took down his first victory of the year, after coming close in the first week, and Jay Coppo came back to win in the 600cc class after a bad wreck on practice day.
Starting off the evening in the 250cc Junior class, William Wall continued to impress as he never was seriously challenged. Wall went on to win the feature and was followed across the line by Mike King, Matt Gallo, Brian Boudreau, Justin Phillips and Ryan Bigelow.
In the 270CC class, Wade Mattesen came back after a close run in week one to take down his first victory of the season, and his second career victory on the ¼ mile dirt oval. Mattesen also moved into the points lead over Brooks Bennett, who had a disappointing eleventh place finish on Saturday. Following Mattesen across the line was Rich Shepard, an impressive run by Sam Christie, John Agor, Chase Bennett, Aaron Wall, Bryan Russo, Michael Chmura, Brandon Igo, Richard Crooker, Brooks Bennett, Phillip Bessette, Eli Deshaies, Lex Burritt and Dave Young.
In the 600cc division, Jay Coppo came back after a bad wreck in the practice day session to take down his first win of the season. Coppo has been consistent right off the bat this year, with a third, a second and now a win, which puts him in the driver’s seat in the 600cc points standings. Following Coppo across the line was Ricci Hirth, Frank Russo, Jody Tripp, Jeff Amaral, Shawn Lawler, Patrick Broderick, Jim DeCambra, Mitch Griswold, Carl Sherman, Chad Gaudiosi, Greg Smith and David Bodio.
The 750cc feature was the start to John Lieto’s storybook evening, as he jumped out into an early lead driving the Ken Latour prepared #36 machine. Lieto would go on to take down his first victory of the evening as he was followed across the line by Rick Gemme, points leader Anthony Montesi, Richard Lemelin, Jon Moore, Joseph Kalk, Chet Hinkle, Terri Lemelin, Dan Schaubert, Jamie Beaudry, Paul Corazzo Sr, Jon Walts, R J Tufano, Mark Dupuis, Josh Walts, Bubba Broderick, Josh Webb, Mindy Neron, Don Masciadrelli and Jason Wood.
In the Dwarf car division, Joseph Anselmo backed up a second place finish on opening night with a win on night number three as he impressed the field to take down the victory. Anselmo was followed across the line by Ryan Nicewicz, Christopher Travinski, Mark Lataille, John Durst, Tim Johnson, Roert LaForge, Alan Provost, Brett Crowther, Thomas O'Malley, Steve Travinski, Jeff Peterson, Ralph Cook, Scott Viets, Brian Peterson, Wayne Tack, Ted Nicklis, Eric Bacon, Ryan Charland, Roy Bacon and Bobby Poloski.
John Lieto’s night continued to get even better in the 1200cc class as Lieto pulled off an impressive victory in the Coppo Motorsports machine. Lieto’s run propelled him into second place in both the 1200cc class and 750cc class respectively. Lieto crossed the line ahead of Dennis Lamke, Paul Corazzo Jr, Glenn Pressel, Robert Dance, Joel Gamache, Larry Ash, Bubba Broderick, Matt Pravia, Fremont Dickerson and Mark Dupuis.
In the 750cc Sportsman division, Ed Vickery took down his first victory of the season and was followed across the line by Kyle Spencer, multi time winner Arthur LeBlanc, Mike Fogarty, Bob Korner, Jack Fogarty and John Cole.
In the Quad 4 division, Scott Viets bested Dan Belliveau and Kelly Ferrell.
The go-kart results were as follows:
Novice - Andrew Mattesen, Peter Dance, Justin Walts and Daniel Gelina.
Turquoise: John Virgilio, Tyler Virgilio, Dalton Laurinitis.
Junior: Allen Currier, Matt Seymour, Ryan Bigelow, Kim Rivet, Bill Tack, Zachary Stevens, Dan Murdzia, Scott Franqueza, Rich Dulac.
Lite: Ryan Rivet, Jim Close, Shannon Close.
Heavy: Ted Nicklis, Jason Wood, Rit Dulac, Rob Flanagan.
Two stroke: Jason Wood.
Microstock: Joe Barrows, Jon Whetton and Joe DiUlio.
Whip City returns to a regular evening of racing this coming weekend, with the 360ci sprints visiting again on June 12th.
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