Kyle Ebersole

Kyle Ebersole Repeats With Second Straight Modified Victory at Mountain Speedway

kyle — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:08:23 +0000

Despite passing showers late in the afternoon, track workers and plenty of racers took to the track Saturday night at Mountain Speedway in an effort to dry the racing surface. The work was successful and the racing went off without a hitch. Kyle Ebersole of Hummelstown, PA drove to the front and then cruised to his second straight Modified victory. Steve Shultz of Drums notched his fourth Street Stock feature win of the season and Cody Roth of Kunkletown, PA steered clear of trouble to score his second FWD main event win of the year.

Allen Creveling led the Modified field to the drop of the green flag in the 40-lap main event. Following two complete restarts without a lap scored on the board, Todd Baer overtook Creveling. Tommy Wanick III ran third, with Barry Callavini and Jim Bojohnny in tow.

A red flag stalled the action when Dave Schneider got into Keith Bachman in turn one. Bachman then slid up the track and into Bojohnny, who then slammed the retaining fence. Ken Vogel, Jr. and E.J. Heim were also collected. Even though he took a hard hit, Bojohnny did not appear to be injured, as he climbed from his racecar under his own power.

Green flag racing resumed and Nick Pecko cracked the top five, then got by Creveling for fourth on lap three. Two laps later he overtook Callavini for third and then Bobby Jones grabbed fourth.

Kyle Ebersole started in fourteenth and cracked the top five in a hurry. Pecko overtook Wanick for the second spot on lap nine and set his sights on the leader.

Meanwhile, Ebersole got by several drivers that were ahead of him and then reeled in Pecko. He completed the second place pass on lap 11.

A quick caution for water on the speedway set up a lap 18 restart and Ebersole powered his way into the lead.

Uncontested over the remaining caution-free 22 laps, Ebersole took his second straight victory over Baer, Jones, Pecko and Brian DeFebo.

Heat race victories went to Allen Creveling, Todd Baer and Kyle Ebersole.

Jeff McGrath started from the pole position and led the opening circuit of the 25-lap Street Stock feature over Chris Burge, Mike Garris, Sr., Dale Santee and Daryn Miller.

Garris overtook Burge for second on lap one and then began to pressure McGrath for the lead. Meanwhile, Steve Shultz wasted no time, as he entered the top five and then overtook Santee for third on lap two.

Garris gave McGrath a shot to get him out of shape and then drove to the bottom of the track to take the race lead on lap five. His lead however was short-lived, as McGrath tried the same thing in turn one on the following lap.

Garris spun and then was t-boned by Burge, who had nowhere to go. Chip Wanamaker and Justin Mooney were also collected in the incident.

Shultz inherited the race lead with Santee in second for the restart. Robert Fink ran third with Joe Hoffman and Miller rounding out the top five.

Shultz distanced himself from the field in the latter stages of the race and Wanamaker mounted a charge back towards the front. Hoffman climbed to second on lap 13, but then he was forced to surrender the position to Wanamaker on the following circuit.

With a straightaway advantage over Wanamaker, Shultz pulled out his fourth win of the season. Hoffman, Fink and Miller completed the top five.

Heat race victories went to Steve Shultz and Chip Wanamaker.

Jay Skupski sat on the pole for the 20-lap FWD feature and trying to get a lap scored in the early portion of the event nearly seemed impossible. Following a tangle with Dan Freundt and then another with Skupski and Trevor Ahouse, Eric Banashefski held the lead.

Cody Roth quickly made his presence known and overtook Smith for second on lap one. Justin Hughes followed through to take third.

Roth caught and passed Banashefski for the lead on lap four and the race began to take place for second before a quick yellow slowed the field on lap 8.

Green flag racing resumed and the top five battled feverishly, but in the end it was Roth, winning for the second time this season. Banashefski settled for second, followed by Hughes, Freundt and Ahouse.

Heat race victories went to Eric Banashefski and Cody Roth.

News and notes: Sam Danaher lost his racecar to a fire two weeks ago. Donations were collected from the pit area and grandstands and they were given to the Danaher family. Street Stock competitor Robert Fink stepped in during the week and asked Danaher if he would like to pilot Fink’s back up car and Danaher accepted.

An even at Mountain was scheduled for Sunday, August 14. Due to threats of rain, that show has been cut from Sunday and will be rescheduled at a later date.

Mountain Speedway is just minutes from Hazleton, PA, located on St. John’s Road, between Routes 93 and 309. Grandstand admission for all regular events is just $10 for ages 11 and older. Children 10 years of age and younger are admitted for free.

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Modified (40-laps) 1. KYLE EBERSOLE 2. Todd Baer 3. Bobby Jones 4. Nick Pecko 5. Brian DeFebo 6. Tommy Wanick III 7. Barry Callavini 8. Allen Creveling 9. Chip Wanamaker 10. Jarred Nace 11. Wayne Szerencsits 12. E.J. Heim 13. Craig Doherty 14. Troy Bollinger 15. Tom Casagrande 16. Jim Bojonny 17.David Schneider 18. Keith Bachman 19. Ken Vogel Jr

Street Stock (25-laps) 1. STEVE SHULTZ 2. Chip Wanamaker 3. Joe Hoffman 4. Robert Fink 5. Daryn Miller 6. Justin Mooney 7. Bernie Uphold 8. Jeff McGrath 9. Dale Santee 10. Keith Frankenfield 11. Bill Verwys 12. Sam Grow 13. Sam Danaher 14. Joe D’Angelo 15. Mike Garris Sr. 16. Chris Burge DNS: Kyle Curtis

FWD (20-laps) 1. CODY ROTH 2. Eric Banashefski 3. Justin Hughes 4. Dan Freundt 5. Trevor Ahouse 6. John Smith 7. Jay Skupski 8. Dylan Hoffman 9. Alex Doyle 10. Frank Hughes 11. Peter Verwys Jr DNS: Larry Spencer III

By: Gene Ostrowski

August 13, 2011

Top Ten finish for Ebersole in Bud 150

kyle — Sun, 14 Aug 2011 22:06:03 +0000

Unofficial Chemung Speedrome RoC Bud 150 Finish:

1. 25 Mike Leaty
2. 6 Jan Leaty
3. 72 T.J. Potrzebowski
4. 53 Brian DeFebo
5. 8 Earl Paules
6. 34 Rusty Smith
7. 22 Chuck Hossfeld
8. 3 Daren Scherer
9. 5 Kyle Ebersole
10. 27 Andrew Walko
11. 7 Eric Kocher
12. 69 Tommy Cloce
13. 47 Jim Storace
14. 71 Jimmy Zacharias
15. 14 Doug Reaume
16. 95m John Markovic
17. 1 Chris Ridsdale
18. 18 Lee Sharpsteen
19. 62 Joe Mooney
20. 9x Matt Clemens

Kyle Ebersole Pockets $2000 in Mountain Modified Victory

kyle — Sun, 31 Jul 2011 19:04:12 +0000

Using a cone racing format and with $2,000 on the line for the winner of the 75-Lap Modified main event Saturday at Mountain Speedway, Kyle Ebersole of Hummelstown stayed clear of trouble and then held off point leader Bobby Jones to score his first race of the season at the speedway. In dominating fashion, Chip Wanamaker of Walnutport went on to take the checkers in the Street Stock feature and Pete Verwys of East Stroudsburg notched his first FWD win of the year.

Time trials were held to set the field for the start of the 75-lap Modified main event and Kyle Ebersole ran the quickest lap, with an impressive 13.307. He redrew the pole and led the opening circuit of the event over Todd Baer, Mike Speeney, Rusty Smith and Ken Vogel, Jr.

The red flag waved on lap three when Dan Speeney spun in turn one. In an attempt to avoid the incident, Dave Schneider also spun and faced oncoming traffic. With nowhere to go, Barry Callavini climbed up the front of Schneider’s car, which launched his machine into the retaining fence. Luckily, Callavini was not injured, but the damage was too severe for him to continue.

Several yellow flags plagued the event in the early going, including an incident on lap 14, which involved some racing contact between Bobby Jones and M. Speeney. Schneider was also collected in the turn two tangle and all three drivers were forced to the rear of the field for the restart.

A cone was placed in the middle of the start/finish line during each yellow and drivers had the choice to take the top or bottom lane for the restart. During this particular yellow, Nick Pecko chose the outside and moved from fifth to second behind Ebersole.

Green flag racing resumed and Brian DeFebo joined the mix up front. He held third and then shot by Pecko for second. He then reeled in the leader and over took Ebersole for the top spot on lap 40.

A quick yellow flag flew on lap 49 and the pits suddenly got busy. With the exception of DeFebo, Pecko and Allen Creveling, all of the other racers pitted. M. Speeney came out to restart fourth and Ebersole was fifth.

Green flag racing resumed and the yellow flew again, this time on lap 51 when Pecko appeared to cut down a tired and rode nearly the entire length of the front stretch wall. He was unhurt but did retire from the race.

With the green flag back out, M. Speeney quickly moved to second and then overtook DeFebo for the lead on lap 55. His lead however was short-lived, as he spun at the end of the backstretch on the following lap. Baer caught a piece of the incident and his car was towed back to the pits with fairly substantial damage. The change of events gave the lead back to Ebersole with Jones in second.

Green flag racing resumed and Jones pressure Ebersole for a few laps. With Vogel running third, Rusty Smith moved to fourth and M. Speeney moved back into the top five.

Ebersole continued in front over the closing laps and took his first victory of the season over Jones, Vogel, Smith and Speeney.

Sam Grow started from the pole in the 25-lap Street Stock feature but was scored second to Jeff McGrath when they crossed the stripe to complete lap one. Mike Garris, Sr. held third, followed by Bernie uphold and Chris Burge.

Garris overtook Grow for the second spot on lap three and tried to reel in McGrath and then Burge took the spot from Garris. Meanwhile, Steve Shultz, Chip Wanamaker and Justin Mooney cracked the top five.

Shultz climbed to second and following a quick lap five yellow, he lined up alongside McGrath for the restart. Green flag racing resumed and Shultz got into the back of the leader as the entered turn one. The contact caused McGrath to spin and Bill Verwys, Uphold and Daryn Miller were collected in the incident. Shultz and the others involved were sent to the back for the restart, which handed the lead to Burge. Wanamaker held second at that point, followed by Garris, Keith Frankenfield and Dale Santee.

With the green flag back out, Wanamaker grabbed the top spot with an outside pass on lap seven and then began to put some distance on second. Garris overtook Burge for second on lap nine and Santee followed to third.

McGrath made his charge back toward the top five and grabbed that spot from Mooney on lap 16. However, his luck changed when he received a flat tire with two laps remaining.

Untouchable over the closing laps, Wanamaker went on to take the checkered flag for the fourth time this season. Garris finished as the runner up, followed by Burge, Mooney and Uphold.

Heat race wins went to Chip Wanamaker and Jeff McGrath.

Pete Verwys started from the pole position and led the first circuit of the 20-lap FWD feature over Trevor Ahouse, Dan Freundt, Eric Banashefski and Cody Roth.

Freundt got by Ahouse for second on lap three and trued to reel in Verwys. Meanwhile, Roth grabbed fourth from Banashefski.

With Verwys still in command, Roth overtook Ahouse for third on lap 11 and then battled side by side with Freundt for the second spot.

The top five ran side by side and nose to tail during most of the event and it appeared that anyone could come out with the victory, but in the end it was Verwys in victory lane, as he claimed his first win of the season. Roth finished second, followed by Ahouse, Freundt and Banashefski.

Heat race victories went to Pete Verwys and Dan Freundt.

Modified (75-laps) 1. KYLE EBERSOLE 2. Bobby Jones 3. Ken Vogel Jr 4. Rusty Smith 5. Mike Speeney 6. Brian DeFebo 7. Allen Creveling 8. Keith Bachman 9. Tommy Wanick III 10. Todd Baer 11. Nick Pecko 12. David Schneider 13. Paul Frantz 14. Dan Speeney 15. Billy Weichert 16. Barry Callavini

Street Stock (25-laps) 1. CHIP WANAMAKER 2. Mike Garris Sr 3. Chris Burge 4. Justin Mooney 5. Bernie Uphold 6. Dale Santee 7. Steve Shultz 8. Sam Danaher 9. Daryn Miller 10. Keith Frankenfield 11. Sam Grow 12. Brandon Oltra 13. Jeff McGrath 14. Todd Gadoury 15. Bill Verwys 16. Darryl Schwarz Jr

FWD (20-laps) 1. PETER VERWYS 2. Cody Roth 3. Trevor Ahouse 4. Dan Freundt 5. Eric Banashefski 6. Justin Hughes 7. Dylan Hoffman 8. John Smith 9. Frank Hughes 10. Scott Adams 11. Alex Doyle 12. Jay Skupski

By: Gene Ostrowski

July 30, 2011

Early Crash for Ebersole in 61st Sunoco Race of Champions Modified 200

kyle — Wed, 27 Jul 2011 22:08:24 +0000

ZANE ZEINER WINS 61ST SUNOCO RACE OF CHAMPIONS MODIFIED 200.

SUNOCO RACE OF CHAMPIONS MODIFIED 200 OFFICIAL FEATURE FINISH: ZANE ZEINER, Tony Hirschman, Eric Rudolph, Lee Sherwood, Jimmy Zacharias, T.J. Potrzebowski, Dave Wollaber, Jan Leaty, Terry Cheetham, Billy Putney, James Civali, Dean Rypkema, Ryan Preece, Jim Storace, Tom Cloce, Daren Scherer, Doug Reaume, Earl Paules, Mike Leaty, Kyle Ebersole, Tommy Farrell, Chuck Hossfeld, Rusty Smith, Wilbur Hebing, Karl Hehr, John Ramsey, Patrick Emerling, Sege Fidanza, Jody London, Chris Ridsdale, Kevin Lewis, T.J. Zacharias. DQ- Matt Hirschman.

SUNOCO RACE OF CHAMPIONS SUPER STOCKS 75 LAP OFFICIAL FEATURE FINISH: LEE SHARPSTEEN, Steve Shultz, Chip Wanamaker, Michael Ramos, Jay Mudra, Robert Fink, Billy Coyle, Chris Zacharias, Willie Strusz, Charles Sharpsteen, Mike Scott, Keith Frankenfield, Matt Visingard, J.R. Swansbrough, Kyle Sharpe, Dylan Terry, Justin Mooney, J.R. Mooney, Jason Dingler, Mike Nichols. DQ – Glenn Lippolis.

SUNOCO RACE OF CHAMPIONS SUPER MODIFIED 61 LAP OFFICIAL FEATURE FINISH: RAY GRAHAM, Kody Graham, Joe Gosek, Bobby Haynes Jr., Joey Payne, Dave McKnight, Randy Ritskes, Otto Sitterly, Bobby Bond, David Gruel, Tim Snyder, Brian Sobus, Michael Barnes, Dan Connors Jr., Hal LaTulip, Jerry Curran, Dave Danzer, Keith Gilliam, Guard Nearbin, Shawn Muldoon, Steve Abt, Michael Muldoon Jr.

Ebersole Leads 72, Finishes 2nd in ROC Shangri-la 2 100

kyle — Sun, 24 Jul 2011 18:51:41 +0000

For the first time in fourteen months, the Race of Champions Modifieds competed at the half mile high banked concrete oval, Shangri-La II Motorspeedway in Tioga Center, NY last Saturday night. The race was the fourth RoC race scheduled at the ASA member facility during the 2010 and 2011 seasons, but the last two scheduled events have been lost to rain. The RoC Modifieds and Speed STR’s joined the RoC Modifieds, ASA Latemodels, Sportsman and Street Stocks in a full night of racing activity. The competitors showcased their talents before the largest grandstand crowd of the season on a beautiful and comfortable summer night. The on track action began following the singing of the national anthem by 7 year old Baylee Morrison. Baylee is a student at the Hochstein School of Music and is a National American Miss state finalist. Her parents are avid RoC Tour and NASCAR Whelan Modified Tour fans, and the family made their first trip to Shangri-La II.
There were 29 RoC Modifieds on hand, competing in three heat races. All of the divisions made it through the heat races with little to no problems. 12 Modified drivers took part in the re-draw with heat race winners Jimmy Zacharias, Chuck Hossfeld and Chris Whitenight drawing starting positions 6, 10 and 9 respectively. It took until the ninth driver to re-draw to pull a top 4 starting spot. Oxford, NY’s Rusty Smith was that ninth driver, and he drew the Pole. The final driver to draw, Kyle Ebersole, started on the outside of the front row. The 26 car Modified feature began under Gary Folk, Jr’s green flag. Ebersole quickly captured the front spot by passing polesitter Smith in turn two of the first lap. The first of nine cautions flew on lap 17 after Chris Whitenight and Doug Reaume got together in turn 4. The field remained under the green flag until the second caution flag appeared on lap 41. Five more cautions slowed the racing through lap 62. Hirschman followed Ebersole for 30 laps, but had a run on lap 72 and took the lead when Ebersole slipped coming off turn four. One final caution on lap 97 set up a tremendous restart with Ebersole right on Hirschman’s rear bumper. Hirschman held off Ebersole on for his second Tour win of the season, and his first ever win at Shangri-La II. Ebersole’s second place finish was also his best finish at Shangri-La II. Ebersole finished fifth in the May 2010 RoC event and third during a regular feature on August 5th, 2010. Erik Rudolph started in the fifteenth position, and used patience in working his way toward the front. The Ransomville, NY driver passed cars on the inside and on the outside, but could not take advantage of the late race restart to make a bid for the win and took the checkers in third. Rudolph finished fifth in the May, 2010 event. Rusty Smith tried to have everyone think he was disappointed when he drew the Pole starting position, but Smith had a good run, remaining in the top 5 all race long, finishing fourth. Jan Leaty improved three spots from where he started to finish in fifth place. Daren Scherer captured the Hard Charger Award, passing 14 cars from his twentieth starting spot to finish sixth. Earl Paules and Chuck Hossfeld pitted for a right rear tire change on lap 62, and quickly began working toward the front of the pack. Paules finished eighth. Hossfeld was involved in the final caution on lap 97, and wound up finishing fourteenth.

The Speed STR’s made their second and final appearance of the season at “The Concrete Castle” with Kyle Hieber keeping the winning in the family. Kyle started fourth after winning his heat race. He quickly took the lead as lap 1 was being recorded. He never looked back, and captured his first win of the season, and his first win at Shangri-La II. Chris Stockham started sixth and challenged for the win in the late laps, but had to settle for second. Paul Lotier, Jr was the winner of the second heat, but finished third after starting fifth. Tyler Potts and Justin Thompson completed the top five.

Sportsman action saw defending division champion, Jimmy Zacharias collect his third win of the season. Zacharias took the top spot away from 2010 track rookie of the year, Bryan Sherwood on lap 10. In the previous features this season, Zacharias generally runs away from the pack once out front but, Saturday night, Rusty Smith run out of laps as he ran down Zacharias finishing second by half a car length at the stripe. Sherwood held off John Wilbur for third and Zack Curren completed the top five in his first appearance of the season.

The ASA Latemodels ran a 25 lap feature with Jerry Dineen and Joe Brown on the front row. Brown took the lead on lap 1, and pulled away from Dineen. Jim Lamoreaux started fourth and got by third place starter Joseph Burns by lap 5. Matt Barhdt , in his first Shangri-La II start of the season, started fifth, and quickly showed he was the car to beat. Barhdt got by Brown on lap 14 to pull away for his first ever win at the track. Lamoreaux finished second with Brown, Dineen and Burns completing the top five. The race went caution free.

Street Stocks completed the racing program. Gil Sharpsteen and Chris Zacharias led the field to the green flag. Zacharias took the top spot on lap 1 and held the top spot for the first eight laps until Gil Sharpsteen took the lead. Lee Sharpsteen started eighth, and quickly gave challenge to his brother. It only took Lee one lap to pass Gil. Lee held on for his fifth consecutive race win to remain undefeated at the track this season. Gil Sharpsteen finished second with Billy Coyle, Zacharias and Cricket Clonch completing the top five in the two flag race.

The most talked about 50/50 was decided Saturday night. The $ 1,003.00 which was not claimed on May 16, 2010 (the first RoC Modified race) was added to the 50/50 from Saturday night. The total amount to be awarded added up to $ 2,551.00 and RoC Modified feature winner pulled and announced the winning number. Chris Zacharias thought he had the winning number and came forward to see if he indeed had the ticket. Earlier in the night, RoC Administrative Director Andrew Harpell brought a donation to Chris which was collected at Five Mile Point Speedway for the family of Brianna Baker. Baker was seriously injured in a Microd accident at the Finger Lakes Microd Club. Chris used a twenty dollar bill from the money to buy tickets for Brianna. At the end of the night an emotional Zacharias anxiously watched as track officials reviewed his bunch of tickets. There, in the bunch was the winning number. Zacharias was elated as he saw the two matching ticket halves and proclaimed Brianna “Boo” Baker as the winner of the 50/50. He was going to deliver the money to the Baker family on Sunday. In addition to the money from Shangri-La II, Five Mile Point Speedway collected $ 537.00 and the RoC Dirt Sportsman race winner on 7/5/2011 Nick Petrilak donated $ 250.00 for a grand total of $ 3,338.

Race of Champions Modified Tour, 100 laps: Matt Hirschman, Kyle Ebersole, Erick Rudolph, Rusty Smith, Jan Leaty, Daren Scherer, Jim Storace, Earl Paules, Tommy Cloce, Brian DeFebo, John Markovic, Doug Reaume, Steven Reed, Chuck Hossfeld, Eric Kocher, Billy Putney, Patrick Emerling, John Ramsey, Chris Whitenight, Scott Conover, Mike Leaty, Andy Walko, Wilbur Hebing, T-J Zacharias, Jimmy Zacharias, Rick Kluth DNQ Ken Canestrari, Chris Risdale, Rick Coyle Lap Leaders: Ebersole( 1-71), Hirschman (72-100) Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Charger: Daren Scherer Hoosier Racing Tire Hard Luck Driver: Jimmy Zacharias Gater Racing Photo News Driver Bonus Draw: Chris Risdale DART Machinery set of $1,500 Heads: Jim Storace

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