Wednesday, 08 May 2013 14:00

Tremont Secures 300th Career Win on Albany Saratoga Speedway

By Staff Report | Sports

MALTA — With all the talk about Brett Hearn and Stewart Friesen at the 4/10-mile Albany Saratoga Speedway this season, it appeared that Kenny Tremont was trying to remind folks that you can’t count him out when it comes to dominating at the “Great Race Place.”

Tremont, a 12-time modified point champion at the Malta-based speedway, drove his S&S Asphalt Paving sponsored automobile like he stole it on Friday night, May 3.

At the start of the 35-lap modified feature event it was all Jeff Trombley. But Tremont was lurking and cracked the top five, from his 11th place start, by the sixth circuit. Ten laps later and Tremont was sitting in second place.

The two put on a show before Tremont went upstairs, going into the first turn and passing Trombley for the race lead on lap 24.

The win was Tremont’s 58th win at the oval and his 300th career win.

“We had a good race there and you throw a couple of lap cars in there and it makes it interesting,” said the 51-year-old Tremont. “If he [Trombley] picked the bottom, I was going to pick the top, and if he had picked the top I would have picked the bottom. Sometimes it’s easier to run second through lap traffic then it is to lead.”

Trombley followed Tremont across the finish line and was followed by Matt Delorenzo, Jeremy Wilder and Stewart Friesen.

At some points during the event it was hard to tell who was faster, Delorenzo was flying on his ride up through the field after starting outside of Tremont in the sixth row.

The 25 lap Sportsman feature was owned by Jeremy Pitts. Despite a sixteen place starting position, Pitts was in top five status only a few circuits after the green flag dropped. Nick Lussier didn’t make it easy for Pitts at first and with one lap remaining Pitts made his move.

“He [Lussier] left a hole open, just enough where I could get in there,” said Pitts during post-race ceremonies. “I’m happy. The car has been good the last two weeks.”

Lussier, Andy Durie, Derrick McGrew and Fred Mullberger all got top five bragging rights when the Sportsman event concluded.

After a runner up finish the week prior, Jack Bublak came to the track to better that run and he did just that winning the 10 lap [shortened from 12 laps] Novice Sportsman feature event.

An incident early on, on the restart to lap six, put Matt Pappa to the rear and Bublak back intothe race lead. Bublak brought his BW Steel sponsored automobile in for the win.

Pappa made it back up to the runner up spot and was followed by Chris Murray, Ricky Davis and the season opener winner, Connor Cleveland.

Pro Stock racer Rob Yetman has been so dominant this year. Yetman already has two wins at Albany Saratoga Speedway’s sister track, Lebanon Valley Speedway, and after Friday night he was showing two credits at AS as well.

Yetman started from 10th place and was leading the pack around after a lap seven pass. By the time the checkered flag fell Yetman’s Lazzaro’s Auto Body sponsored mount had almost a full straightaway lead over the rest of the field.

“Man what a mess that was,” said Yetman in victory lane of the caution plagued event.

Dan Older, Brandon Emigh, Kim Duell and Ed Thompson followed Yetman.

On the third time around the speedway Yule Cook took the lead in the 20 lap Street Stock feature event and never looked back despite many serious challenges from Ken Conroy and Bill Duprey.

With only five circuits remaining you could have thrown a blanket over the top three but the ‘Flying Carrot’ held tight and took his first win of the 2013 season.

Duprey, who finished second for the opening night festivities, would secure another runner-up finish. Ken Conroy, Scott Lawrence and Nathan Dahoda rounded out the top five.

Todd Goldstein owned the 4 Cylinder Combined feature. Mark Lindblade, Steve Ryan, Dan Older and Lance Robertson followed Goldstein across the line.

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