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Tim Buckwalter takes ATQMRA Essington Avenue Auto Parts Night at Mountain Speedway

Tim Buckwalter in victory Lane receives congratulations from the race sponsors from Essington Avenue Auto Parts in Philadelphia.

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Tim Buckwalter captured another ATQMRA feature event win at Mountain Speedway in the Colin Martin Spitfire 26 Powered by a potent Duchak Racing Engine in the Essington Avenue Auto Parts night of racing. Buckwalter advanced from his sixth starting position to take the lead from Mike Tidaback on lap 11.

Tidaback and Zack Martini made up the front row for the start of the Essington Ave Auto Parts feature event. Tidaback jumped out to the early lead with Martini in tow. Martini held on to second until Ryan Tidman in the 51 Badger was able to assume the spot on lap 5 and begin to challenge Tidaback. Buckwalter used the lap 10 restart to his advantage to move from third to the lead passing both Tidaback and Tidman to assume command of the race. Tidman overtook Tidaback to remain in second and stayed glued to the Buckwalter Spitfire working hard to find a way around.

A restart on Lap 23 gave Tidman the opportunity to challenge Buckwalter on a green white checker finish for the race. A broken rear on the 51 took Tidman out of contention and allowed Buckwalter to walk away and take the win. Robin Johnston made a methodical charge from his 13th starting position to finish second in the CRJ Construction Duchak Racing Engines 13. Mike Tidaback hung on to a podium finish in third with Chris Deritis fresh off his first feature win of the season at Wall Township Speedway finishing fourth in the Keenan Motors Team Risqué 35 Dart. Matt Janisch advanced from his 11th starting position in the Keenan Motors Valley Extrusion 46 to earn a fifth place finish.

The First of three Essington Avenue Auto Parts Heats was won by Zack Martini driving the Howard Boss owned 29 Courtwright Mountain City Transportation car. This was a career first ATQMRA heat race win for Martini as a driver and for Boss as a car owner. Martini Advanced from his third starting position to annex the 8 Lap heat race. Tidman moved from his second starting position to take the second heat race win with Buckwalter winning the third heat.

ATQMRA News and Notes: 22 cars were present on the night with 20 taking the Glen McGowan green flag for the Essington Avenue Auto parts 25 lap race. 8 out of the top ten cars were powered by Duchak Racing Engines. A special thanks goes out to Dave Williams for his efforts to promote the ATQMRA events by bringing Essington Ave Auto Parts on board for the night. Former ATQMRA Secretary Joe Pryzbelinski came to Mountain for the night's races with the Zrinski team and is contemplating a return to competition in his Bruce's Pro car #60 for a limited schedule for the 08 season. Details will be forthcoming about the King of the Mountain ATQMRA championship weekend at Mountain Speedway on September 29th. Keenan Motors, Ajax Auto Glass, Team Risqué and Duchak Racing Engines have agreed to come on board to sponsor the Championship determining event. The ATQMRA is looking for additional Sponsorship partners for the King of the Mountain as well as the Turkey Derby. The ATQMRA's Next race will be Saturday August 25th at Wall Township Speedway.

Tim Buckwalter Following his Essington Avenue Auto Parts ATQMRA Feature victory is interviewed for Blue Ridge Cable TV 11's award winning Victory Lane show Hosted by Brian Unangst airing Wednesdays at 9:30 pm and Thursday at 11:30 am.