RPW Exclusive: Warner’s Hot Streak Continues At The Ridge; Wins Three Sunday; Varin Also Wins

Column By: LAURIE FALLIS / RPW – FULTONVILLE, NY – The Modifieds returned to the little track on the hill, the Glen Ridge Motorsports Park as it would be double the fun. Also slated on the nights card would be double features for the 602 Crate Modifieds.

First of two twenty five lap Modified main events Bobby Varin would bring the field down to the Green with Randy Green sitting on the outside pole.Varin in the Palmers Service would jump out to the lead with Rocky Warner following in tow with Brown and Green. As Varin would set the pace

Warner would try his luck on the outside, as Varin was not giving any openings on the bottom of the track. Warner would shift gears to the outsider.

It would not take long for Warner to realize his car was not to his licking and would slip up the track. This was all Jackie Brown Jr. needed to get by for second position. and would try to
challenge Varin for the lead. The top five cars were settled in on their spots they were running.

One car that was gaining was Mike Ricci who coming from his ninth starting spot was making a late race charge as he would take over the fourth position on the low side. The leaders would run into lap traffic on lap 22 but Varin would go onto the smooth victory. He was followed by Brown, Warner, Ricci and Randy Green “I new Rocky was fast and I was a little scared so I just tried to stay on the bottom grove” Varin stated.

But at the time Varin didn’t realize it was Brown lurking in second.

Round two of the Modified feature go around would see Jackie Brown and Bobby Varin bring the field down for the second leg of the Twenty five lap feature.

Varin would take the lead but a fast paced Warner was on the move from his third place start. Varin would hold the lead until lap thirteen and that’s when the “Flying Squirrel” had his Jake Spraker 1J rolling to the outside. Warner would test the waters once again on the outside.

Question was, did his crew make the right adjustments that was needed to make the car stick on the outside. Unlike the first feature. Well! They did as Warner would peddle around Varin and take over the number one spot and put it on cruise control.

A last lap caution had the leader scrambling with a car spinning in his sites. Could Varin running second out duel Warner on the restart? Rocky’s car was to strong and would capture the win over Varin. The late restart helped Ricci as he was able to take over third with Brown and Green.

Rocky Warner would sweep both 602 Crate Modified events which one of them was very special to Warner was the Jason Morrison Memorial. The race was in honor of a life long friendship and someone very special to Warner.

Ivan Joslin would grab the win from Andy Graves as the rookie spun in turn four going for the checkers.

Mike Hill would capture the Allstar Slingshot feature while Brock Pinkerous brought home the Jr.Slingshot.

Mini stock feature winners were Josh kane duel cam winner and Wayne Russell for the single cam.

Damon Anderson would take the win for the Street Stock division. Winning the limited Sportsman was Jerry Cohn.

Nights results
25 lap Palmers Service 25 laps Race 1
Bobby Varin, Jackie Brown Jr., Rocky Warner, Mike Ricci, Randy Green, Cody Bleau, Jim Introne, Richie Price, John Lutes, Don Bellen, Jim Becker, Leo Fotopoulos

25 lap Palmers Service Race 2
Rocky Warner, Bobby Varin, Mike Ricci, Jackie Brown Jr., Randy Green, John Lutes, Cody Bleau, Richie Price, Jim Introne Jr., Jim Becker, Leo Fotopoulos, Don Bellen

30 Lap 602 Crate Modified Feature
Rocky Warner, Brian Calabrese, Ricky Quick, Jim Introne Jr., Joe Orlando, Scott McCoy, Ryan Heath, Brett Mortensen, Andrew Buff, Brendon Gibbons, Kathy Bellen, Tony Ferone, Dan Fassett, EJ McAuliffe, James Vendetti, Adam McAuliffe

20 lap Jason Morrison Memorial 602 Crate Modified Feature
Rocky Warner, Brian Calabrese, Joe Orlando, Scott McCoy, Jim Introne, Brendan Gibbons, Ryan Heath, Brett Mortensen, Andrew Buff, Kathy Bellen, Ricky Quick, Dan Fassett, DNS James Vendetti, EJ McAuliffe, Tony Farone

Prostock Feature 20 Laps
Ivan Joslin, Luke Horning, Devon Camenga, Steve Cosselman, Jim Normoyle, Andy Graves, Justin Knight, Jim Gronki, Buck Gasner

Allstar Slingshot Feature 15 laps
Mike Hill, Brett Putman, Jim Gage, Jim Polland, Don Boonstra, Nick Auspelmyer, Danny Ballard, Bob Morey, Andrew Millard, Garrett Poland, Tyler Vandney, Scott Sprague, Spencer Cherko

JR. Slingshots Feature 12 laps
Brock Pinkerous, Tavien Blowers, Connor Hill, Adrianna DeRocher, Matthew Backus, Lucus Duncan, Ryan McCoy, Corky Warner, Sloan Cherko, Darryn Fallis

Mini Stock Feature 15 Laps
Josh Kane, Jeff DeGroat, Wayne Russell Jr., Josh Samrov, John Napoli, Jason Celebucki, Zach McSpirit, Chris Burnett, Tim Billington

Street Stock Feature 12 Laps
Damon Anderson, Cliff Haslin, Ken Allen, Jason Samrov

Limited Sportsman Feature 8 laps
Jerry Cohn, Harold Robitaille