Bedford Speedway
July 27, 2012
________________________________________

Rine dominates Annual Fair race at Bedford Speedway

by Dave Harclerode
BEDFORD, PA  (July 27) - Racing was the Friday night main attraction at the 139th Bedford Fair. Every Bedford racer puts forth extra effort to do well at the fair in front of the largest crowd of the year and the Fair atmosphere. Jeff Rine brought his A game as he guided Bob Elbins to a dominating win in the Late Model event. It was Rine’s second Bedford win of the season. In other action, Robby Black was almost as dominant in winning the Limited event, and Chris Chamberlain emerged from wild three car racing to take the Semi Late win. Bill Replogle and Mike Lauffer ended the evening by scoring second consecutive wins in Pure Stock and 4 Cylinder wins.

Jeff Rine started fourth in the Late Model event but left no doubt as to who was incharge as he was in the lead at the completion of lap one. Rine continued to lead and ran off from the field after each of several early lap caution events. Once the field settled down and ran 13 consecutive green flag laps after lap 7, Rine opened up a commanding lead of over a half lap over Cory Weaver.

Weaver though attracted lots of company as Mason Zeigler was streaking through the field with Jack Pencil in tow. As Rine zipped in and out of lapped cars, the pair ran Weaver down and were in second and third when the long green flag session ended on lap 20. On the much anticipated restart with 5 to go, Rine did not let up romping to a almost three second win at the finish. Zeigler scored his best ever Bedford finish with a second, followed by Pencil DJ Troutman was fourth and Matt Sponaugle came from 18th to take fifth. Andy Haus, Steve Campbell, Matt Howsare, Chuck Clise and Wayne Johnson completed the top 10. Rine lapped all the way up to tenth place after setting his torrid pace. Lincoln Ritchey, Campbell and Pencil won the heats.

LATE MODEL 25 LAP 1 Jeff Rine, 2 Mason Zeigler, 3 Jack Pencil, 4 dJ Troutman, 5 Matt Sponaugle, 6 And Haus, 7 Steve Campbell, 8 Matt Howsare, 9 Chuck Clise, 10 Wayne Johnson, 11 Dan Cornman, 12 Dan Lee, 13 Cory Wewaver, 14 Greg Fetters, 15 Chad Hollenback, 16 Chris Harr, 17 Eric Zembower, 18 Chad Walter, 19 Samm Schaffer, 20 Matt Parks 21 Lincoln Ritchey.

LIMITED 20 LAPS 1 Robbie Black, 2 Donnie Farlling, 3 Mike Altobelli, 4 Tim Smith, 5 Ron Bottenfield, 6 Brian Lessley, 7 Eric Irvin, 8 Dave Leidy, 9 Mike Duck, 10 Willy Rowe, 11 Scott Daniels, 12 Travis Wilson, 13 Ralph Morgan, 14 Craig Perigo, 15 Travis Calhoun, 16 Josh Berrier, 17 Nathan Lasalle, 18 Jesse Snyder.

SEMI LATE 15 LAPS 1 Chris Chamberlain, 2 Greg Hainsey, 3 Cody butterbaugh, 4 Kerry Molovich, 5 Don Wyles, 6 Jamie swank, 7 Greg Cornell, 8 Darryl Whetstone, 9 Dave Whetstone, 10 Dennis Collins, 11 Joe Means, 12 Ryan Beckett, 13 Vigi Zuccollotto, 14 Zane Weicht, 15 Brian Duffy, 16 Bob Jay, 17 Paul Gambol 19 Taylor Farlling

PURE STOCKS 12 LAPS 1 Bill Replogle, 2 Chad Gambol, 3 Terry Norris, 4 Travis Group, 5 Justin Milburn, 6 Brad Feight, 7 Mike Ott, 8 John Replogle, 9 Jim Sacco, 10 Ed vogel, 11 Ron Varner, 12 Bill Kennell, 13 Dan Daniels, 14 Jarrod Brown, Tim Brown, 16 Brandy Mills.

4 CYLINDERS 12 LAPS 1 Mike Lauffer, 2 Andrew Pluta, 3 Cale Martin, 4 Juan Ryan, 5 Cindy Rhodes, 6 Dave Lambert, 7 Phil Best, 8 Nick Isky, 9 John Diehl, 10 Ron Valentine, 11 Bill Hassenplug, 12 Tyler Beckett, 13 EJ Johnson, 14 Mike Barclay. Ernie Bowser, 16 Mike Datko, 17 Robert Pluta, 18 Jack, 19 Matt Diiehl, 20 Dustin Drake, 21 Kevin See, 22 Jeff Treece, 23 Irv Fleegle, 24 Steve Fredrick, DNS Garrett Watkins, Jon Gerhart.