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Ryan Tidman Charges from the back to take the win in the

Dave's Delaware Valley Towing ATQMRA feature

at MOUNTAIN SPEEDWAY

John Sanders Tops Junk Yard Dog Competition

From left to right are Delaware Valley Dave Williams, third place finisher and Junk Yard Dog Winner John Sanders, Race winner Ryan Tidman, Second Place finisher Don Adams with Pit Steward Joe Csernak and ATQMRA President Blu Metz. (Picture by Linda Bell)

Ryan Tidman made a methodical charge from his 12^th starting position to take the lead on lap 22 of the 25 lap race and went on to post his second win of the season in the Alan Mollot/ BJ MacDonald Competition Classics Badger in the ATQMRA event at Mountain Speedway in Pennsylvania Presented by Dave’s Delaware Valley Towing. Heat races were won by Robin Johnston and Matt Janisch.

The first Dave’s Delaware Valley Towing Heat race was won by Robin Johnston in his CRJ Construction Duchak Racing engines 13. Bruno Loembruno lead the initial lap but was overtaken by the previous shows feature race winner Lightening fast Tim Buckwalter. Johnston moved from his 6^th starting position to take the lead on lap 6 and crossed the line first followed by Don Adams and Dave Williams in third.Bob Watkins fourth and Jim Peruto rounded out the top five in his first TQ midget start. The race was marred by a red flag for the flipping Bruce Leote in his TQ built on an RTS 270 Micro Chassis as well as an incident that sidelined the Bruno Loembruno 91A.

The second Dave’s Delaware Valley Towing heat saw Matt Janisch and Zack Martini on the front row. A side by Side battle for the lead went on for the first three laps between Janisch and Martini before Janisch took the lead for good by the fourth lap and went on to take the heat race win followed by John Sanders with Martini third, Frank Fischer fourth followed by Team Risqué teammates Tim Behmer and Chris Deritis.

The Dave’s Delaware Valley Towing 25 lap feature saw Martini and Janisch bring the field down for the green with Martini anticipating Glen MacGowan’s green flag perfectly to take the lead. Janisch made it a side by side battle for just shy of a lap when a suspension failure sidelined the 46 car. On the restart Martini again got the jump on fellow Junk Yard Dog competitor John Sanders and opened nearly a straight away lead on second place.

In the mean time Don Adams and Ryan Tidman were making their charge through the field. Adams overtook the 29 machine of Martini to take the lead on lap 16. The Tidman 51 moved into second a lap later and overtook Adams for the lead on lap 22.

A side by side battle raged on between the top Junk Yard Dogs Martini and Sanders until Sanders took the position on lap 23. Martini came across the line in fourth in what appeared to be a dead heat side by side with Chris Deritis who was scored by the electronic timing and scoring system in fifth in a battle that was too close to call with the naked eye.

Tidman thanked car owners Alan Mollot and BJ MacDonald of Competition Classics for a perfectly set up car in his interview with Track announcer Mike Odwazny in front of a solid crowd at the St. John’s Pa oval. Tidman had the fastest lap of the day (13.016 Sec at 92.102 MPH ) in the 51 Lindblad badger that is one of the winningest TQ midgets ever built.

ATQMRA news and notes: Keenan Motors’ Jim Peruto and Ron Dennis made their driving debuts with the ATQMRA coming home with 11^th and 12^th finishing positions respectably. Peruto made his racing debut in the Team Risqué 66 Dart Racing Chassis. Former Flemington Modified racer Ron Dennis was in the former Bruce Wessel Shadow Sidewinder Chassis 27 with Jeff Mann as crew chief. To date 38 drivers and 31 cars have earned points with the ATQMRA with 5 different drivers winning in 6 races run with Tidman being the first to repeat to maintain the Championship points lead for the 51 car. The next event for the Keenan Motors ATQMRA is at Wall Township Speedway on Saturday July 7^th. Tune into Steve and Ed Pados CARQUEST Gasoline Alley TV/Radio/Internet Show on Monday night from 6 to 8 to win tickets to ATQMRA races at Mountain and Wall Township Speedway on the Internet at www.walncableradio.com and Service Electric Digital Cable TV, Channels 126, and137 is live from 6 to 9 PM and later tape delayed on Channel 50 at 11 PM.