September 2, 1995
Perley and Goutermout tops in Oswego's Saturday races
By Dan Johnson
Oswego, NY - Star Speedway regular Chris Perley,
from Rowley, Mass., made his first ISMA
win memorable as he won the ISMA
Supernationals at Oswego Speedway Saturday
night. Perley took the lead at the start
of the race from his outside front-row
starting spot and led all 50 laps of the race
for the biggest win of his career.
Joe Gosek and Perley started the main
event from the front row, with the Auto
Palace team cars of Russ Wood and Mike
Ordway in row two. When the race started,
Perley went to the lead. He wasted no time
in opening up a sizeable lead as by lap five
his advantage was eight car lengths ahead
of the rest of the top ten of Gosek, Ordway,
Wood, Scott Martel, Dave Simard, Doug
Didero, Dave McKnight, Gary Morton,
and Danny Soule. Perley used laps in the
area of 16.03 and 15.94 to gain the lead.
Cliff Graves brought out the first caution flag of the race as he banged the
back-stretch wall with the 1. Ordway went
to the outside of Gosek on the restart to
take over second place and try to run down
his fellow New Englander. Two laps later,
Wood pulled the 29 to the pits with
mechanical problems, out of the race.
Successive cautions caused by Rebel
Jackson and Randy Ritskes slowed the field
on laps 14 and 15, which again slowed the
race pace. Perley went back to work with
laps of 16.16 and 16.13 in building up a
seven-car-length lead over Ordway near
the halfway point of the race. Gosek still
rode third, four lengths behind Ordway,
with Martel and Dave McKnight a distant
fourth and fifth. Sixth through tenth at the
halfway mark were Didero, Soule, Morton,
Joey Moriarty, and Bentley Warren.
In the next few laps, Ordway began to
catch Perley as they entered lapped traffic.
On lap 29 the lead pair ran bumper to
bumper, with Gosek starting to close the
gap from third place. In the next couple of
laps the lead trio ran nose to tail, with the
threesome of Martel, McKnight, and
Didero a full straightaway behind. Gosek
fell off the torrid pace set by the lead duo
and faded six lengths back in the next few
laps.
Gary Morton brought out a yellow flag
at lap 40 as he blew his second motor of the
night in the 70. Perley kept Ordway at bay
on the restart and quickly clocked in laps of
16.31 and 16.38 as he kept the lead. The
remainder of the field followed in single file
and the race drew to a close. Ordway
couldn't muster a challenge to Perley at the
end, and Perley turned in a last lap of 16.41
as he crossed under the checkered flag .56
seconds ahead of Ordway, Gosek, McKnight, and Martel.
"We're real happy. We ran strong here
in July," Perley stated after the race. "We
picked it up today as we were really hooked
up. The car developed a push early, and I
just hoped it wouldn't get too bad."
Danny Soule, Gary Morton, and Joe Moriarty won ISMA heat races.
Scott Landers won the ISMA B-main. Mike Ordway won the ISMA dash for the
top eight time trialers, which also included Gosek, Didero, Wood, McKnight, Perley, Simard, and Martel.
LIMITEDS:
In the companion limited supermodified
50-lap Nautilus, all-time limited feature
win leader Bob Goutermout added one
more win to his list as he won his first
Nationals. Goutermout like Perley, started
the race on the outside of the front row and
led all 50 laps.
Andy Jodway and Goutermout started
in the front row. When the green flag came
out to start the race, the front row mates
stayed side by side for over two laps before
Goutermout got the lead. The lead two
pulled out early in the race with laps of
19.53 and 19.39.
At the lap-10 mark Goutermout led with
Jodway right in his tracks. Greg Furlong,
Bob Bond, Ray Graham, Alan Tblly, Daryl
Nichols, Charley Pike, Shawn Muldoon,
and Todd Gordon were the top ten. The
next few laps turned into a three-car race
up front as Furlong caught the lead pair.
Jodway tried for the lead on the inside with
Furlong taking the oustide lane.
Yellow flags bunched the field a pair of
times in the next few laps, with the Todd
Gordon and Mike Bond the two drivers on
the move as they raced up to seventh and
eighth place by lap 16. Gordon kept his
march going as in the next couple of laps
moved past Nichols, Bob Bond, and Graham to move
into fourth behind the lead trio.
At the halfway point of the race, Goutermout turned
in a lap of 19.41 and still had Andy Jodway and Furlong on his
back bumper. Gordon, Dean Hoag, Bond,
Graham, Tom Jodway, Denny Wheeler, and Keith Abbott rounded out the top ten.
Jodway and Furlong kept the pressure on the 77 going high and low,
but Goutermout was up to the task. Laps of 19.38 and 19.44 kept the 77 in the lead.
Lap 35 saw Furlong's chances for win end as he spun the 72 in the third turn.
On the restart, Jodway could not make a move
on the leader. A caution flag late in the race
bunched the field for one last chance.
Jodway couldn't make a serious challenge
on the leader, and Goutermout drove a
19.22 last lap as he hung on for the popular
win. Jodway held on for second with Hoag,
Gordon, and Mike Bond rounding out the
top five.
"The guys on my crew have worked
hard all season," Goutermout said after the
race. "I just drove as hard as I could to
stay in front. I heard him and felt him
behind me, so I knew he was there."
Greg Furlong, Andy Jodway, and Bob Goutermout
won limited heat races.