SOUTH PLATTSBURGH, NY \u2013 The luck of the draw and Big Block horsepower set up a wire-to-wire win for Mike Perrotte in the Akwesasne Mohawk Casino Syracuse Qualifier 100 Big Block\/Small Block Challenge at Airborne Speedway Sunday.
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\nPerrotte set third fastest time in time trials, won his heat race from the pole and then landed the Mohawk Casino 100 pole when the \u201cinvert 3\u201d chip was drawn. Lebanon Valley regular Keith Flach, who timed 1\/100th second slower than fast-timer Airborne DIRTcar Modified champion Martin Roy, was Perrotte\u2019s front row partner. Flach rose and fell within the top-5 throughout the race and finished fourth behind Roy and Patrick Dupree.<\/p>\n
The toughest competition for Perrotte\u2019s Adirondack Auto No. 35 Big Block was Roy in the Gamache Truck Center No.90. Roy drove his way to the track title on the high side of Airborne\u2019s progressively-banked half-mile, but he ran the low lane to press Perrotte hard from lap 50-70. Roy worked his way to Perrotte\u2019s door in turns 1-2 several times, only to have Perrotte pull away down the back chute.<\/p>\n
Two restarts in the final 10 laps proved to be no problem for the winner. \u201cI thought it was possible to keep the tires under a Big Block for 100 laps, but starting up front helped,\u201d Perrotte said. \u201cI never had to work the car really hard, even in lapped traffic.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cWith the rev limiters we run, the difference in power turned out to be a little too much,\u201d Roy said. \u201cI could get to him, but I couldn\u2019t get around him.\u201d Perrotte\u2019s winning margin was five car lengths.<\/p>\n
A few car-lengths behind the Perrotte\/Roy battle, George Foley and Patrick Dupree ran 3-4 until a lap 81 restart after tire failure ended Pat McGrail\u2019s top-10 run. Dupree took over third at the drop of the green and never gave it up. \u201cWith the extra-distance and the sun, the car was loose, something we\u2019ve been fighting all season,\u201d Dupree said. \u201cI\u2019m looking forward to going out to Syracuse and seeing what we can do with it though.\u201d Dupree was a four-time feature winner on the year in the Wes Moody prepared Saranac Country Store No.24.<\/p>\n
Foley, the regular season Ernie\u2019s Discount Tools Modified runner-up, started fifth and finished 5th. The second half of the top-10 was filled by Aaron Bartemy, Leon Gonyo, Martin Hebert, Roger Labreche and Andy Heywood. Brett Hearn drove the Bartemy TDI Truck Service & Towing team car, but pitted with motor problems 35 laps in.<\/p>\n
Danny Sullivan of Morrisonville drove to his first J&S Steel Sportsman win of the season after several near-misses. Sullivan took the lead on lap 8 and was never headed. Bucko Branham reeled in Jamy Begor to place second. Positions 3-5 went to Begor, 2011 Sportsman champion Robin Wood and Nick Heywood.<\/p>\n
Joe Warren of West Chazy also became a first-time winner by holding off Don Franklin in the Versatile Trailer Sales Renegade feature. Robert Gordon, Lonnie Rivers and 2011 Renegade champion Kevin Boutin completed the top five,<\/p>\n
The Modified Sportsman made their Airborne debut. Their 25-lap feature was won by 16-year-old Jessey Mueller of Pottersville, NY. Hunter Bates of Pittsford, VT was the runner-up.<\/p>\n
The final race on the Airborne schedule is the ACT Late Model Fall Foliage 200 with the Bond Auto Tiger Tour and Airborne\u2019s Renegades, Saturday, October 8.<\/p>\n
Modified Results:
\n1) Mike Perrotte
\n2) Martin Roy
\n3) Patrick Dupree
\n4) Keith Flach
\n5) George Foley
\n6) Aaron Bartemy
\n7) Leon Gonyo
\n8) Martin Hebert
\n9) Roger Labreche
\n10) Andy Heywood
\n11) Pat McGrail
\n12) Cam Grady
\n13) Pierre Berthiaume
\n14) Kevin Kezar
\n15) Daniel Brown
\n16) Chris Cayea
\n17) Matt Woodruff
\n18) Mike Reyell
\n19) Mikael Labreche
\n20) Colleen Salisbury
\n21) Kris Vernold
\n22) Brett Hearn
\n23) Todd Stone
\n24) Jim McComb
\n25) Vince Quenneville
\n26) Greg Atkins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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