NYSSCA SAFETY AWARD WINNERS THROUGH JULY 14

The New York State Stock Car Association has held four of it's six Safety Award Nights.  The highest finishing NYSSCA member in each feature event received a $50 bonus from the Stock Car Association. 

At Afton Speedway, on June 14th, the Safety Award winners were:  Don Hart, 358 Modified; Tim French, Sportsman; James Cornell, Pro Stock; Bob Mills, Pure Stock; Dave Jaindl, Four Cylinder;  Wild Cards were Skip French and Ralph Cuozzo, Jr.

Bonuses were awarded on June 28th at Albany Saratoga Speedway in the following divisions:  4-cyl. Cruiser, Jason Duncan; 6-cyl. Cruiser, Keith Wright; Members Roy Fifield and Joe Santoro won the Hobby Stock and Pro Street features respectively, earning them the bonus. Bonuses in the Sportsman division went to Tom Proctor and Tim Clemons.  The Modified winner was Brett Hearn.  Wild Card went to Brian Gerrain.

NYSSCA members won all but two feature events at Fonda Speedway on July 13th. The Modified feature winner was Ronnie Johnson.  Tim Clemons won the Sportsman Event.  The IMCA Modified feature was won by Kevin Buff and Butch Irwin won in Pro Stocks.  John Babcock won Street Stock A and the NYSSCA bonus.  Ricky Quick finished 6th in Street Stock B, but was the first member and took home an extra $50.  Dave Daniels won the bonus by finishing 2nd in Street Stock C.  The Wild Card went to Keith Ackerknecht.

Safety Award Night at Devils Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, Vt was held on July 14th.  Tim Whitney and Robert Cole won the NYSSCA bonuses for the 4 and 6 cyl. cruisers respectively.  Lori Cary won the Hobby Stock feature and the bonus.  Ed Thompson, winning his first Pro Street feature event also picked up the member bonus.  The Modified bonus went to feature winner Gene Munger.  Randy Alger won the wild card.

The final two Safety Award Nights for 2002 will be held at Lebanon Valley Speedway on August 3rd and at Utica Rome Speedway on August 4th.

In other NYSSCA news, there are currently almost 650 members enrolled.  Members should look in their next newsletter, in late August, for a ballot requesting their input on who is eligible to receive track achievement awards from the Stock Car Association.  Members will be asked if they feel that only fellow members should be eligible to receive these awards, or if they should be open to any member of the racing community.

Currently, anyone is eligible to receive the awards and any change will be effective next racing season for awards presented in January 2004. Ballots need to be returned by Sept. 24th, which is the night of our next meeting.  The Sept. 24th meeting will be held at Denny's Restaurant off Route 146 in Clifton Park at 7pm.  All members are welcome and encouraged to attend.