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Friday
June 11th |
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Twin State NEMA Midgets Winner Randy Cabral #47 |
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NEMA Firsts for Cabral, Honda |
Claremont, NH - Randy Cabral ran a Twin State Speedway
win streak to three Friday night, capturing the 25-lap
Northeastern Midget Association feature in convincing fashion.
It was the first-ever win for the Stewart Racing Engines Honda.
Coming from the fourth starting spot, Cabral won a pair of
restarts inside two laps en route to his 27th career victory.
Cabral bested pole sitter Jim Miller (Miller 3m), the only
other leader, on an 11th lap restart. Yellow, however, flew
immediately when Miller spun in turn two and Cabral did it
again, this time against Adam Cantor (Cantor 7ny).
The
leaders quickly left behind a third place battle between that
eventually went to Chris DeRitis (DeRitis 75) over Jeff Horn
(Horn A-1). Russ Stoehr (Dumo’s Desire 45) was fifth.
“I
really do like this place,” said Cabral, who ran third before
grabbing second from Horn in turn one with seven gone. “It is so
technical, so much fun.”
The motor, he continued,
actually “bogged” on the restart enabling Miller to get a slight
edge. The car, however, “was running so well” he was able to
move around Miller through one and two.
The win with
Honda, which comes in the second race, was “really significant,”
offered Cabral. He pointed out the team, notably his dad Glenn,
“put so much effort into it over the past year and a half.”
Lee USA Speedway is next for NEMA Friday night, June 24.
RESULTS: 1. Randy Cabral,
2.Adam Cantor, 3. Chris DeRitis, 4.Jeff Horn, 5. Russ Stoehr, 6.
Greg Stoehr, 7. Barry Kittredge, 8. Jesse State, 9. Lee Bundy,
10. Jim Miller, 11. Chris Leonard, 12. Paul Scally (DNS), 13.
Matt O’Brien (DNS).
 Cabral and owner Tim Bertrand swept
both NEMA events at Twin State in ’09
Russ Stoehr and Cabral captured the
heats…Cabral had the quickest lap in the feature, a 12.539;
Cantor’s 12.562 was the fastest in practice
Rookie of the Year candidate Jesse
State drove the Andy Shlatz No. 20 to eighth place. The car
usually competes with the Lites
Cabral now sits two behind sixth
place Johnny Mann on NEMA’s
all-time win list
The Bertrand crew worked on six
cars including third place DeRitis. |
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| Twin State NEMA
Lites Winner Paul Luggelle #28 |
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Luggelle Lites Winner |
Claremont, NH - Powered by a $500 “junk yard motor,”
Paul Luggelle won the 20-lap NEMA Lites feature Friday night at
Twin State Speedway. Luggelle beat back a determined late
restart challenge from Todd Bertrand (Bertrand 48).
Russ
Wood Jr., in the thick of the late battle as well, was third.
Carl Medeiros Jr. and Lanson Fornoro completed the top five.
Luggelle, coming from the fifth starting spot, took the lead
from pole sitter and teammate Fornoro in turn one soon after a
lap three caution. He left behind a battle between youngsters
Fornoro and Bethany Viets.
Starting eighth, Bertrand
passed Viets for third in the back stretch with 11 laps gone.
Wood soon followed. With five laps left, Bertrand and Wood went
on either side of Fornoro exiting four to assume second and
third. Yellow flew a lap later.
“I wasn’t too worried,”
Luggelle said of the final restart. “I felt if I could in front
of him I could get away.” Bertrand, however, gave Luggelle all
he could handle, the two battling side-by-side before the latter
assumed control.
Luggelle, who lost a motor at Seekonk
“before we even got it on the track”, said the Quad 4 motor was
“right out of the junk yard just a couple days ago.”
Heat
winner Fornoro, the next in line for the legendary racing
family, and the heralded Viets made up the front row for the
feature. They were both impressive, Viets retiring with
mechanical woes after a brief racing confrontation with Wood.
Wood was also a heat winner.
A lap three crash
eliminated contenders Anthony Nocella, Randy Cabral and Eric
Cabral.
RESULTS: 1. Paul
Luggelle, 2. Todd Bertrand, 3. Russ Wood Jr.,
4. Mike
Muldoon Jr., 5. Lanson Fornoro, 6. David Monitz,
7. Bethany
Viets, 8. Ed Leclerc, 9. Eric Cabral, 10. Anthony Nocella, 11.
Randy Cabral, 12. Joey Mucciacciaro. |
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Cabral, Cantor Lead NEMA
to Twin State Speedway |
Brockton, MA -
Randy Cabral will be after a third straight Twin State Speedway
victory when the Northeastern Midget Association visits the
Claremont, NH facility on Friday night, June 12.
Defending two-time champions Cabral and car owner Tim Bertrand
swept NEMA’s two 2009 Twin State races. They hope to put Honda
in Victory Lane for the first time.
Russ Wood Jr. and Anthony Nocella, both Twin State winners last
year, lead the NEMA LITES to the challenging third mile.
Going back to 2005, Adam Cantor has four straight top four
finishes at Twin State including a couple of seconds. The Long
Islander was second and fourth last season.
Chris Leonard, who hails from nearby Pelham, NH will be aiming
for a second straight checkered. Leonard was the winner way back
on March 27 at Waterford Speedbowl.
A
rain out at Monadnock – ruining a large field and impressive
times – has put extra emphasis on Twin State. “A lot of teams
have special motivation and everybody is anxious go get going,”
says NEMA president Mike Scrivani Jr.
The
Stoehr brothers are part of a group of championship contenders
that includes Cabral/Bertrand and Cantor. Russ Stoehr hopes to
give the Dumo’s Desire #45 team its first ever Twin State
victory. Greg Stoehr had a third last year.
Other contenders include Erica Santos, Jeff Horn, Barry
Kittredge, Jim Miller, Aaron and Will Wall and Chris DeRitis.
Randy Cabral’s 12.389 was the fastest
feature lap at Twin State last year.
Should Russ Stoehr prevail at Twin State
it will be the 13th track where he has won at least one feature.
He has made only two starts there, both coming last year.
NEMA’s all-time leader in the category is
Dave Humphrey with 20 including a victory at Claremont back in
1973, the first-ever visit by NEMA. Drew Fornoro won at 19
different tracks.
Thirty-two years passed between Twin
State’s first and second NEMA races, Kyle Carpenter winning the
second in 2005. Bobby Santos III was a winner in 2008. |
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