{"id":2624,"date":"2010-06-28T02:25:32","date_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:25:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2010-06-28T02:25:48","modified_gmt":"2010-06-28T07:25:48","slug":"jerry-sehn-scratches-7-year-itch-at-whip-city-speedway","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2010\/06\/jerry-sehn-scratches-7-year-itch-at-whip-city-speedway\/","title":{"rendered":"Jerry Sehn Scratches 7 Year Itch at Whip City Speedway"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Jerry Sehn Scratches 7 Year Itch<br \/>\nat Whip City Speedway<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>BY MARK McKEON<\/p>\n<p>WESTFIELD, MA \u2013 Jerry Sehn raced Mini Sprints for seven years without a win until his decisive 1200cc victory at Whip City Speedway on Saturday. Sehn, who last visited victory lane in 1991 as Utica-Rome Speedway Pure Stock track champ, led every lap and withstood a restart on lap 14, to win by 10 car lengths over Charlie Pease.<br \/>\n\u201cThe competition here is so close and the drivers are so good, that I put it in my mind that I had to get a good start,\u201d said a smiling Sehn, who makes a seven hour roundtrip tow to race at the Whip. \u201cAfter I did, I just kept on trying to hit my marks.  The car got a little upset once in turn 1, but I tried to keep my focus on running my line.  I really didn\u2019t want a caution, so when the yellow flag came out I said \u2018oh, no\u2019, but I was able to get a good restart.  Just before the race, we made a last minute change to the wing and I think that was a big factor.\u201d<!--more--><br \/>\nScott Viets won the Quad 4 Midget feature in a car owned by Ray Miller, a top chauffer during the Golden Era of Modified Stock Car racing.  The Miller family has raced Midgets, Modifieds and Pro Stocks since the 1940\u2019s and Viets\u2019 victory marked the eighth consecutive decade in which a car from the Miller shops has scored a win.<br \/>\nMaking his first feature start of the season, Brandon Igo showed that he hasn\u2019t lost his edge by winning the 600cc feature.  With just a few laps remaining, Igo used a lapped car to get by Jim DeCambra and won by half a straightaway in the non-stop event.<br \/>\nWayne Ibitz swept the night in 270cc action, winning his heat and then picking up his firs feature of the year. \u201cThe car was perfect, I couldn\u2019t have asked for more,\u201d Ibitz said.<br \/>\nVeteran Phil Bessette won his second 750cc feature this season, taking advantage of a midrace caution to get past rookie Nikki Oullette.<br \/>\nShelby Klekotka won both the heat and the feature in her second 750 Sportsman start of the year.<br \/>\nJohn Durst had to survive 8 restarts to win his first Modified Lite victory this year, in an extremely physical event.  Ryan Nicewicz had to race from the tail end on three separate occasions to finish second.<br \/>\n1200cc: JERRY SEHN, Charlie Pease, Peter Dance, Jon Moore, John Virgilio, Jamie Beaudry, Bill Adamsky, Kristen Phillips, Mark Taylor, Bethany Viets.<br \/>\nQuad 4 Midget: SCOTT VIETS, Scott Krawiec, Josh Woollam,  Tim Gallant, Jim Mossman, Denny Zimmerman, Jamie Spalding.<br \/>\n600cc: BRANDON IGO, Jim DeCambra, Richard Crooker, Anthony Nocella, Ricci Hirth, Jay Coppo, Greg Smith, Susan Lescynski.<br \/>\n270cc: WAYNE IBITZ, Grant Sabo, Seth Carlson, Kurt Conklin, Frank Russo, Brian Boudreau, Tara Galko, Kendall Segar, Jeremy Sorel, Ben Martelle, Bryan Russo.<br \/>\n750cc: PHILL BESSETTE, Nikki Oullette, Richard Stone, Tony Montesi, Mark Taylor, Tyler Jackson, John Casazza, David Williamson, Jack Fogarty.<br \/>\n750 Sportsman: SHELBY KLEKOTKA, Timothy Stick, Makayla Lucia, Kyle Smith, Cori Tufano.<br \/>\nModified Lite: JOHN DURST, Ryan Nicewicz, Brett Crowther, Rick Ashlaw, Dale Shallow, Casey Ouellette, Roger Angers Jr., Robert Poloski.<br \/>\nNovice: TANNER CORREIA, Darren Taylor, Keriann Adamsky.<br \/>\nTurquoise: COREY LEMELIN, Dylan Irish, Spencer Brockman, Matthew McCuin, Timothy Shallow.<br \/>\nJunior: JEFF CHAMPAGNE, Ryan Irish, Nora Lemelin, Travis Snow, Ryan Fujimoto, Connor Leighton.<br \/>\nLite: KATE LAFRENIERE, Steven Banach, Mike Hauser, Josh Rutola.<br \/>\nHeavy: GARY SOKLOSKI JR, Jake Sapowsky, Bill Tack, Tim Gallant, David Comeau.<br \/>\n250cc Youth: DEREK ROBBIE, Cullen Pike, Alex Adamsky.<br \/>\n2 Stroke: BRUCE DODGE, Steve Rockwood, Roger Angers Jr., Ernie Whidden, Jason Wood.<br \/>\n4 Cyl: MICHAEL PIERCE, Wade LaFogg, Stephanie Banach, Darren Sallee, Steven Banach, Keith Holtman, Brien Hohenstein. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Jerry Sehn Scratches 7 Year Itch at Whip City Speedway BY MARK McKEON WESTFIELD, MA \u2013 Jerry Sehn raced Mini Sprints for seven years without a win until his decisive 1200cc victory at Whip City Speedway on Saturday. Sehn, who last visited victory lane in 1991 as Utica-Rome Speedway Pure Stock track champ, led every [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[198],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2624","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-whip-city"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2624"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2624\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2624"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2624"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2624"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}