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Lernerville Speedway 7/16/04
For the second consecutive year, "Revin" Kevin
Bolland ruled
It was de-jevu! For the second consecutive year, "Revin"
Kevin Bolland ruled in the 30-lap Ferrante Motor Cars/BRP Modified
Tour after narrowly defeating the strong-running Ron Smoker. Hugging
the inside line in "wheel-to-wheel" action, Bolland
reigned victorious after a late lap-15 charge from Smoker, who
came from 18th to assert himself. Bolland said, "What
a good show! Lernerville had a nice track! I tried to keep it
as tight as I could tonight." With four laps to go a caution
flag waved for George Hobaugh's #40 that stopped in turn four.
When the race continued, the field tightened, there was electricity
in the air, and the fans knew there would be a shoot-out! Bolland
said "Late cautions are usually bad for you when you have
some distance on those guys, but I knew Ronnie was coming and
he had to go high where there were some slippery spots and he
couldn't get off the corners as fast as I could in the low groove."
Smoker, the 2002 BRP victor said,"We had to come from 18th
tonight. When you do that, the guy leading has the perfect line
so I just had to go where he didn't." Bolting from third
to first, Bolland's Northland Ford /Brighton Hot Dog Shoppe/Bolland
Machine/Cintas #777 took the lead on an eighth lap restart after
the yellow flag was thrown for leader Bob Dorman and Brian Swartzlander's
collision. Approaching lapped traffic, Bolland had another significant
scare on lap 17 when his racer and Carl Murdick's made contact
on the front straight sending the field scattering but Bolland
recovered quickly. Murdick's #6 went over turn one and almost
collected Smoker in the process. As the fireworks sprayed victory
lane, Bolland said, "I especially want to thank my father
and crew. We had to "thrash" to get here tonight after
losing a motor at Sharon last week!" This was Bolland's
third of the season and 26th overall. Behind Smoker was Tom Winkle
in third. Joe Crawford was fourth, Mark Flick fifth, and Dave
Murdick sixth. Jim Weller got high on the last lap and lost
several spots to finish 7th. Rodney Beltz, Chanda Reitz, and Andy
Priest rounded out the top ten. Josh Skarzenski, Brian Swartzlander,
Kevin Bolland, and Rodney Beltz scored in the preliminary events.
JR McGinley and Ron Smoker won the B-Mains.
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