May 17, 2003

Bear Lake, PA --- Defending Renegade Dirt Car Racing Series 3 time champion Chub Frank, driver of the Corry Rubber, Corry Laser, Nystrom's Auto Sales, Draime Racing Engines, Rocket Chassis, Pierotti Motorsports, Farr MotorSports Chevrolet Monte Carlo was headed for K.C. Raceway near Chillicothe, OH when they received a Call from Ron Slavic to tell them that KC was rained out. They were in Columbus Ohio when they turned around and headed for Busti, NY.

By: Glenn Slocum

Overcast skies greeted fans on Fan Appreciation Night sponsored by Costello’s Music of Fredonia. The racing surface was tacky and very smooth. Chub Frank made an exciting high side pass of Dan Armbruster in the last corner of the last lap to win the Super Late Model feature. It was Franks third appearance and his second win of the season.

Rich Gardner and Dan Armbruster were in row one of the Super Late Model event with twenty-six late models behind them. Chub Frank was third with Scott Johnson fourth. The start was marred by Dick Litz whose car did not fire at the drop of the green immediately bringing the yellow out. Chad Valone slowed coming out of turn two on the restart collecting Al Crocker and once more the race fell under the yellow flag. The next attempt worked and Gardner led the lap followed by Armbruster and Frank but the caution appeared again as Randy Lobb had problems negotiating turn three on lap two. Andy Boozel stopped for the fourth caution with only one completed lap. Armbruster made the move by Gardner to lead lap two but once more the caution flew for Bryan Emory. Frank moved into the second spot on the restart and once again only one lap was completed before the yellow appeared for John Lacki who had spun to a stop in turn four. Two more laps were completed before the next yellow when Matt Urban tagged the retaining wall on the back straight and came to stop. Armbruster was still out front with Dave Hess Jr. second and Frank third, Johnson was fourth and Gardner had slipped to seventh. Armbruster and Hess moved to the outside on the restart leaving the bottom for Frank. One more lap was completed before an incident with Lobb and Fiesler stopped the race again. Boozel stopped the race with one move complete as Hess faded to fourth and Johnson was now second behind Armbruster and Frank. Frank moved up the speedway on the single file restart and Johnson moved by for second spot. Johnson slowed to a stop five laps then drove into the pits once the yellow appeared. Armbruster was still the leader with Frank back in to the second position and Hess third followed by Chris Hackett, Scott Gurdak and Bill Cunningham. Rod Maloy was in the top six on lap seventeen passing Cunningham for the spot. With five remaining Armbruster led Frank by two car lengths and Hess was a distant third. Frank moved under Armbruster as the white flew then moved to the high side coming out of turn four beating Armbruster to the flag.

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