Seekonk DAV Memorial

By admins October 17, 1999

Seekonk, MA — The D. A. V. Memorial is now history for the 1999 season. It took two weeks to get it into the record books with a rain delay forcing the cancellation of the race last Sunday. This Sunday Mother Nature allowed us the courtesy of a beautiful day as it should always be when there is a race scheduled.

The Pro Stock 100 lapper was a great race with only minor flaws. The biggest disappointment of the day came when race leader Fred Astle was taken out by a lapped car. Prior to that happening, Fred was leading with his car owner Rick Martin running second while Larry Gelinas ran third. The race was a very exciting one as Gelinas worked Martin over time and again, trying him in the inside, then moving to the outside, back underneath him again and so on lap after lap. The fans went wild as Gelinas would bring the nose of the car under Rick’s door, they would go wheel to wheel and just when you thought that Gelinas had him, Radical Rick would once again bounce back. When the caution came out for Astle it moved his car owner up into the lead with Gelinas starting on the outside. Again, the duo went at it for several laps and with the white flag in the air it Gelinas made his move but he just wasn’t strong enough to hold off the home track ( four time) track Champion Radical Rick Martin. Larry Gelinas had set a new record here at Seekonk in time trials just a week ago when he went 12.337.

1) Radical Rick Martin

2) Larry Gelinas
3) Jim McCallum
4) Bobby Leclerc
5) Johnny Clark
6) Jimmy Rosenfiled
7) Rusty Bryant
8) Wayne Dion
9) Dick Houlihan
10) Lenny Ellis

 The Sportsman feature event also went to this years 1999 Champion Bryan Souza. Bryan drove a super race as he worked his way through the field of cars.

1) Bryan Souza
2) Ken Bamford
3) Jeff Goodrow
4) Mike Tracey
5) Linwood Cohen
6) Darryl Stamphl
7) Glen Lawton
8) Ron Lauro
9) James Lawrence
10) Ken Spencer

In the Street Stock feature event it was Stacey Moulton in for his sixth victory of the 1999 season. As usual Stacey drove an impeccable race through out. A great way to end the season as there was lap money for each of these feature events. 

1) Stacey Moulton
2) Jody Cerullo
3) Bobby Rose
4) Ed Moniiz
5) Steve Malcom
6) Bob Bettencourt
7) Pete Roda
8) Ray Gardner
9) Eric Snow
10) Turk Gumbay

The Formula Fours drove a wild race to the finish with Ryan Vanasse chasing the #10 of Leon Hayes all the way to the checker. Hayes has made his way through traffic with the young Vanasse on his tail all the way through. It was an excellent run for Ryan as well as for Hayes. While being interviewed in Victory Lane, Hayes stated “I appreciate the way that Ryan ran his race, he could have taken me out at any time.”

1) Leo Hayes
2) Ryan Vanasse
3) Mike Viens
4) Billy Prisco
5) Danny Perry
6) Mike Chattery
7) Ned Ryan
8) Jim Helger
9) Mike Vanasse
10) Mike Rebelo

Truck feature win went to John Tripp in the Blanchette’s Boutique #18.

1) John Tripp
2) Bill Clarke
3) Kevin Casper
4) Robin Sloane
5) Mark DeJesus
6) Tracey Oulette
7) Jay Macedonio
8) George Rego
9) Mike Butts
10) Tom Kieffer
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