Brett Hearn

Races: 72 Wins: 18 Top 5: 43 Top 10: 59




Fonda Speedway

9/21/08

1. Ronnie Johnson

2. Brett Hearn

3. Dave Camara

4. Matt Delorenzo




BPG RACING FREEDOM 76 MODIFIED STOCK CAR FEATURE FINISH: 1. Craig VonDohren 2. Doug Hoffman 3. Duane Howard 4. Doug Manmiller 5. Kerry Kratz 6. Kevin Hirthler 7. Jeff Strunk 8. Ray Swinehart 9. Jason Hamilton 10. Tom Umbenhauer 11. Terry Meitzler 12. Jimmy Horton 13. Ryan Godown 14. Brett Hearn 15. Kyle Weiss 16. Kenny Gilmore 17. Jon Kellner Sr. 18. Danny Erb 19. John Stangle (Rest of the starting field did not finish). 20. Sean Merkel -71 laps 21. Kenny Bright bill -43 laps 22. Shawn Reimert - 43 laps 23. Troy Wink -43 laps 24. Rick Schaffer - 35 laps 25. Todd Smith - 24 laps 26. Danny Hieber - 24 laps 27. Tommy Scheetz Jr. - 14 laps 28. Meme DeSantis - 7 laps 29. Randy Stoudt - 7 laps 30. Mike Gular - 3 laps 31. Brian Kressley - 3 laps.


Lebanon Valley Speedway
9/7/08

FIN STR CAR# DRIVER

1 7 34 Andy Bachetti/Sheffield,MA($10,000)
2 1 88 J.R. Heffner/Pittsfield,MA
3 10 98 Eddie Marshall/Ridgefield,CT
4 18 77f Mark Flach Jr./Selkirk,NY
5 21 64 Rich Ricci Jr./New Paltz,NY
6 17 33-1/3 Tommy Meier/Waldwick,NJ
7 5 98h Jimmy Phelps/Baldwinsville,NY
8 13 fx1 Frankie Caprara/Watertown,NY
9 26 87 Hector Stratton/Bennington,VT
10 11 20h Brett Hearn/Sussex,NJ
11 6 77x Dale Planck/Cortland,NY
12 22 24 Chris Shultz/Pawling,NY
13 28 87x Paul Gilardi/Pittsfield,MA
14 20 14 Lorne Browe/East Greenbush,NY
15 16 60 Brian Berger/Castleton,NY
16 31 27j Danny Johnson/Rochester,NY
17 15 43 Keith Flach/Ravena,NY
18 23 45 Wayne Jelley/Pittsfield,MA
19 4 115 Kenny Tremont/West Sand Lake,NY
20 2 518 Kyle Sheldon/Schodack,NY
21 24 84 Gary Tomkins/Clifton Springs,NY
22 27 93x Craig Mitchell/Wappingers Falls,NY
23 19 10 David VanHorn/Phillipsburg,NJ
24 9 9s Matt Sheppard/Waterloo,NY
25 8 42 Guy Sheldon/Nassau,NY
26 25 53 Ric Hill/Lafayette,NJ
27 29 99 Ryan Phelps/Fulton,NY
28 3 91 Billy Decker/Unadilla,NY
29 30 3 Justin Haers/Phelps,NY
30 12 49 Billy Dunn/Watertown,NY
DNS 14 20 Matt Quinn/New Ashford,MA

EVENT SUMMARY:

LAP LEADERS: Heffner (1-29), Bachetti (30-52), Meier (53-58), Hearn (59-191), Bachetti (192-200).

Hearn, Tremont share spotlight

MALTA, NY - Two kings were crowned Friday night on Hometown Heroes Night at Albany-Saratoga Speedway.

Brett Hearn swept the two 358-modified features to become the winningest driver in the history of the Malta track, and Ken Tremont Jr. parlayed two second-place finishes into his 10th track championship.

The final night of the points season at Albany-Saratoga turned out to be a wild one, as many of the divisions also had carryover features from a rainout the previous week, creating essentially a night of triple points.

But when all was said and done, the night belonged to Hearn.

By winning both 358-modified features, giving him eight wins this season, Hearn pushed his career win total to 92, moving him past the legendary Jack Johnson (90 wins) on the track's all-time win list.

Jumpin' Jack had been at the top of the all-time win list for 26 years. Lou Lazzaro and Johnson both had 27 wins going into Triple 25s on the night of July 12, 1982. Johnson won two of those races to move to the top of the list, and had been there ever since.

Hearn got his first win at Albany-Saratoga in 1994, when he hauled in to run a big block in a co-feature with the Champlain Valley Racing Association 358s. He started making regular stops at the speedway the next season, and had his best year at Albany-Saratoga in 2002, when he tied the track record of 12 wins in a season, set another record with six consecutive victories and picked up his first track championship.

Tremont recorded his second straight track championship and 10th of his career the hard way, without winning a feature, the first time since 2004 that he didn't make a visit to victory lane. But Tremont had five second-place finishes this season, and every time, he followed Hearn across the finish line.

Hearn may have won the battle, but Tremont won the war, finishing 13 points ahead of Hearn in the final standings.

While Tremont was locking up the 358-modified crown, Mike Ketchum and Rob Langevin finished in a dead-heat for the sportsman division crown. Langevin finished second in the first feature Friday night, and then came back to win the double-points Ford Flex 50 in the second event. Ketchum, who lost the track championship by one point last year, finished fifth in both features to hang on to a share of the title, after starting the night with a 22-point lead.

A familiar face returned to victory lane in the first sportsman feature, as Mike Ballestero recorded his first win in two years. Ballestero, a four-time track champion who returned to racing midway through the 2008 season, tops the all-time sportsman win list at Albany-Saratoga with 32 victories.

Jeremy Pitts and Lori Langevin split victories in the pro-street stock class. Pitts' win was his second of the season, while Langevin took the checkered flag for the sixth time.

Kim Duell also had a night to remember, using a third-place finish in the second double-points feature to nail down the pro-street stock track championship, finishing just seven points ahead of Langevin.

Duell started the night with a 26-point lead, but most of that evaporated in the first feature, when he finished ninth, while Langevin came across the finish line third..

John Filarecki capped his championship campaign in style in the limited division, recording his first win of the year to lock up the track championship. John Morris Jr. won the first feature.

Cullen Howe was victorious in the budget sportsman feature, his third win of the season, while Josh Rheome took the checkered flag in the mini-stock feature.

MODIFIEDS (From Aug. 29 rainout): BRETT HEARN, Ken Tremont Jr., Todd Stone, Mike Perrotte, Ronnie Johnson, Jeff Trombley, Matt DeLorenzo, Tony Kawalchuk, Keith Flach, Dave Camara, John Proctor, Marc Johnson, Mike Ronca, Elmo Reckner, Don Ronca, Jimmy Cottrell, Jack Johnson, Ron Proctor.

MODIFIEDS (Double points): BRETT HEARN, Ken Tremont Jr., Matt DeLorenzo, Don Ronca, Todd Stone, Mike Perrotte, Jeff Trombley, Keith Flach, Don Mattison, Tony Kawalchuk, Mike Ronca, Elmo Reckner, John Proctor, Vince Quenneville Jr., Jimmy Cottrell, Marc Johnson, Ron Proctor, Dave Camara, Ronnie Johnson, Jack Johnson.