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Strutmasters.com
100

South Boston
Speedway
April 9th, 2009
 
Whelen Modified
Online Tour
Official Race Results

1. Richie Coy
2. JD Laird
3. Corey Riley
4. AJ Griffin
5. Charli Brown
6. Mike House
7. Rick Dutra
8. Ryan Curran
9. Rich Warden
10. Bobby Ambroceo
11. Tim Jordan
12. Scott Bryant
13. Mike Whiting
14. Keith Joseph
15. Dennis Frates

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April 9th, 2009
Richie Coy returns to victory lane by winning the Strutmasters.com 100 at South Boston!
 - by Charli Brown

Richie Coy returned to his winning ways as he held off a late race charge from JD Laird to win the Strutmasters.com 100 at the South Boston Speedway, Thursday night.

South Boston, VA - Haskell, New Jersey's Richie Coy returned to victory lane Thursday night as he held off a hard charging JD Laird in the closing laps to win the Strutmasters.com 100 at the South Boston Speedway.

Coy started off his night by setting fast time in qualifying to win his second NPGPro.com Pole Award with a lap time of 14.574 seconds at 98.806 Miles Per Hour. Tim Jordan made his first appearance of the new season in his Concrete Express #47 machine, but was found to be too light in post qualifying inspection, thus moving him to the rear of the field. This would move Mike House to second with Scott Bryant, Rick Dutra and Keith Joseph rounding out the top five.

At the drop of the green flag, Richie Coy jumped out to lead the first five laps before Keith Joseph and Mike House got together in turn one to bring out the night's first caution.

Sixth place starter Mike Whiting lost several positions on the first lap after getting loose in turn three and slid up the race track as the field raced by. Charli Brown would receive the free pass after getting collected in the same incident after contact from Ryan Curran sent him spinning into the inside wall on the front stretch.

By lap 25, SIModified rookie Cory Riley was making his presence known in his Lance Snacks machine as he moved to the second spot behind race leader Richie Coy. Scott Bryant was third, followed by Bobby Ambroceo and AJ Griffin.

The race's fourth caution came out just four laps later for Keith Joseph spinning his Earthscapes #26 hard into the turn two barriers on lap 29. Charli Brown, JD Laird, Tim Jordan, Rich Warden and Ryan Curran all hit pit road for service as several drivers began planning their pit strategies.

Richie Coy gave up the lead after hitting pit road under the next caution on lap 36 for contact between Scott Bryant and AJ Griffin, who were racing for the fourth and fifth positions in turn three. A majority of the cars behind them had no place to go and the track was blocked in turn four as drivers tried to sort out their positions coming to the caution.

This gave the lead to Corey Riley who stayed out while the rest of the leaders behind him all pitted for service. Richie Coy won the race off pit road and lined up next to the rookie for the restart on lap 40. Coy worked the bottom groove and retook the lead on lap 42 and led to the KING Design Halfway Leader lap on lap 50. Riley continued to hold onto second over Charli Brown (whose earlier pit strategy moved him past all the cars that pitted on the previous caution) AJ Griffin and Mike House. Sixth through tenth were Tim Jordan, Rich Warden, Bobby Ambroceo, Rick Dutra and Ryan Curran.

Corey Riley pitted from the second position under caution on lap 62 for JD Laird and Rick Dutra who got together in turns three and four. Both cars drove away and pitted to check over their cars.

Richie Coy led the single file restart on lap 65 over Charli Brown, AJ Griffin, Mike House and Ryan Curran. Sixth through tenth were Rick Dutra, Rich Warden, Tim Jordan, Corey Riley, Bobby Ambroceo.

JD Laird and Corey Riley quickly started carving their way to the front on fresh tires as the two worked through traffic and by lap 80 were running in the fifth and sixth positions respectively.

Charli Brown briefly took the lead for a lap before waving Coy past as he struggled with a miss in his engine. Laird and Riley continued to charge their way forward as JD Laird caught the second place car of Charli Brown on lap 88. Brown's fading machine yielded the third spot to Cory Riley on lap 92 as JD Laird chased down Coy for the lead.

Laird would get to Coy's back bumper but ran out of laps as the two flashed under the double Sunoco checkered flags less than 2/10ths of a second apart! Corey Riley made an impressive debut to come home third with AJ Griffin and Charli Brown holding on for fifth. Mike House took home the sixth spot over Rick Dutra, Ryan Curran, Rich Warden and Bobby Ambroceo.

Richie Coy took home the majority of the post race awards including the NPGPro.com Pole Award, The KING Design Halfway leader and the Mends Image Most Laps Led Award. JD Laird earned the Powerade "Power Move of the Race" Award for his drive from the fourteenth starting position. Ryan Curran won the Featherlite "Most Improved Driver" Award for improving his finishing position from the previous week's event. Corey Riley set the Fastech Race Car Bodies "Fastest Lap of the Race" while Tim Jordan received the Hoosier "Hard Luck" Award.

Next week, the Whelen Modified Online Tour heads to the Thompson Speedway for the "Icebreaker 100." Richie Coy holds an impressive 141 point lead over Mike House, Bobby Ambroceo, AJ Griffin and Charli Brown.