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Hinckley Helps Point Lead With Seekonk Win

Seekonk, MA – Les Hinckley, of Windsor Locks, CT., passed

race leader Dwight Jarvis, of Ascutney, VT., on lap 78, to go

on and win the Valenti Modified Racing Series “Seekonk 100”

Saturday night at Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, MA

Hinckley started 14^th in a 19 car field and methodically worked

his way to second to battle with Jarvis. The second generation

driver raced with the Vermont hot shoe for six laps before passing

him for the lead.

“We started deep in the field and it’s always gratifying passing a

lot of race cars. We had a little trouble in the heat race that put us

to the back for the feature but I knew we had a good piece.”

Early on in the race, very spirited battles took place between

several drivers. Hinckley feels you need to be aware of what is

happening toward the front of the field.

“You have to keep a balance between what’s going on in front of

you and beyond,” he said, “I saw some cars banging and you have

to be careful. Coming up through you have to be on your toes.”

Jarvis, who has run selected events this season, finished second.

“The boys (crew) did a helluva job getting the car set-up for

me,” he said. “Les did a good job, I didn’t realize he was that close.

I don’t have a lot of radio chatter on my radio, I like to drive the

car myself. He got by me, I thought at the end I would get

back by him, but he was good,” he said. “ He is a good clean

driver that you can run on the outside. It was fun.”

Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon,CT., finished a solid third after starting outside front row and running in the top four throughout the 100- lap race. “We ended up a little tight and it really went away at the end

but it was a fun race,” he said, “Congratulations to Les and Dwight, they both had good cars tonight.”

The victory, Hinckley’s second this season, was his third win at

the famed 1/3 mile speedway and his 15^th career VMRS win.

Hinckley joins Pasteryak as the only two-time winners this season.

Joey Jarvis, Ascutney, drove to a solid fourth place finish, with

Norman Wrenn, of Nashua, NH., rounding out the top five.

Sixth through tenth were; Mike Holdridge, Jimmy Kuhn, Joe

Doucette, Jack Bateman, and Rowan Pennink. The Pennink

team changed an engine prior to qualifying and started last in

the 19 -car field.

Hinckley entered the race only 6 points ahead of Chris Pasteryak,

of Lisbon, CT., as the two Connecticut drivers have emerged as the

two contenders that will battle it out for the series title. Hinckley

is vying for his first series championship. Pasteryak claimed that

honor in 2008.

20 cars entered the program with 19 starting the feature race.14

drivers finished the race on the lead lap.

5 caution flags slowed the race that took 38 minutes 53 seconds

to complete.

Race Summary

August 20,2011,

Seekonk Speedway Seekonk, MA

Distance: 100 laps

Time of Race: 38:53:737

Best Lap Time: 12:24 (Dwight Jarvis)

Best Speed: 97.941

Margin of Victory: 5.508

Lead Changes: 6

Lap Leaders: Mechalides (1-24) Pastertyak (25-34)

Annarummo (35-50) Pasteryak (51-52) Annarummo

(53-72) D. Jarvis (73-78) Hinckley (79-100)

Cautions: Laps; 21,22,36,49,87

Unofficial Order of Finish;

(1)Hinckley (2) D.Jarvis (3) Pasteryak (4) J. Jarvis

(5) Wrenn (6) Holdridge (7) Kuhn (8) Doucette (9) Bateman

(10) Pennink (11) Preece (12) Jordan (13) Mechalides

(14) Goodenough (15) T. Annarummo (16) V Annarummo

(17) Berghman (18) Malave (19) Zachem.