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Welcome to the Official Genesee Speedway Web
Site Till 12-31-2009
Promoter Mike Lauterborn note:
2009 Was the last season as the Genesee
Speedway track operator.
I would like to thank all the loyal race car
drivers and their crews, our great fans,
sponsors and staff for the past 3 years.
Hopefully what I have learned in the past 3 years at
Genesee Speedway in Batavia NY can be put to
use at
SOUTH ARCADE SPEEDWAY
.
MIKE LAUTERBORN IS
THE NEW OWNER OF
SOUTH ARCADE
SPEEDWAY
WWW.SOUTHARCADESPEEDWAY.COM
MAY THRU SEPTEMBER 2010
FRIDAY NIGHTS AT 7:00PM
MAIN OFFICE WEEKDAYS
585-293-2780
OFFICE......Amie
or Mike.........AMIE_SAS@YAHOO.COM
MEDIA......MIKE
PAZ......mikepaz@rochester.rr.com
MEDIA.....Steve
Petty......stevenj.petty@gmail.com
www.thedailynewsonline.com
1-29-10
GET WELL BIG RON
OUR PIT/TECH GUY.
HE HAD MOST OF HIS FOOT
REMOVED.
RON IS BACK HOME.....boscoe168@yahoo.com
1-9-10
DIRTcar
SPORTSMAN
TROYER
DIRTcar SPORTSMAN
TEAM MAIER
WINS THE 2010 TROYER DIRT CHASSIS
Genesee
Speedway Celebrated Night of Champions
By: Steven
Petty
BATAVIA, NY… The
Genesee Speedway
celebrated their
Night of Champions at Batavia Downs Gaming
on Saturday night. The speedway recognized
those who finished in the top of each division
while thanking all of those who helped kept
the track running week in and week out
throughout the 2009 racing season. The awards
portion of the program were led by
Kenny Hangauer Jr,
Mike Paz, and Steven Petty.
The
Troyer Engineering DIRTcar Sportsman
champion Brian
Sage collected his seventh
championship trophy along with the
Lauterborn Electric
Sprint Cars Rookie of the Year.
Sage, from Brockport won eight times on the
1/3rd mile oval on the historic
Genesee County Fairgrounds, while having 13
top five finishes as well as 17 top ten
finishes in the Sportsman. For Sage in the
Sprint Cars, two victories, 14 top fives and
15 top tens.
The
Original Pizza Logs Late Models had
a competitive season between champion
Jon Rivers
and defending division champ
Dave DuBois.
Rivers, from Basom graced victory lane five
times while finishing in the top five 14 times
along with 17 top ten finishes. Rivers won the
points champion by a slim four point margin
over Dave “the Outlaw” DuBois who won
five times but had 15 top fives and 17 top
tens.
Churchville, NY resident Josh Smallidge
won only two times but his 16 top five
performances gave him his first
Lauterborn Electric
Street Stocks championship.
Dan
Norton won ten times to give him
the championship in the
Mini Stock division.
Dave
Ferguson won once in the four race
mini series for the
600cc Sprint Cars to give him the
title over John Smith
and Timex Morgan.
Rookies of the Year awards were
awarded to Jim Maier
in the Mini Stock division. Maier
had 16 top fives and 19 top ten finishes in
his first season in the Mini Stock.
Jerry
Harding Jr was the Rookie of the
Year in the DIRTcar
Sportsman class. Harding ran for
the first time on dirt since the dirt days at
the Perry Speedway (now Wyoming County
International Speedway).
Corfu’s Nick Skeet was the Rookie
of the Year in the
Original Pizza Logs Late Model division.
The
Jack Veach Memorial Award for
dedication to auto racing was awarded to Mike
Paz. Paz, who suffered a stroke early in the
year, made a comeback to the speedway towards
the end of the season and with his love for
auto racing, was awarded with the Jack Veach
Award. Jack was a longtime official at many
speedways across Western New York and Southern
Ontario and was a friend to many that knew
him. Jack passed away a couple of years ago.
His family including son John, daughter Dawn,
wife Bonnie and their two grandchildren
presented Paz with the award.
The special awards were
handed out and the first award was
presented to Ms
Genesee Speedway Mary Walworth for
her years of support to the racing at Genesee
Speedway.
Dave
Gleason was honored with the
Keeper of the Gate Award
for watching the gate between the
grandstands and the pit area.
Former Pro Stock competitor
Jim Bieber
was awarded with the Man who
Ran the Most Laps of the
Season award for his service of
driving the Ken Barrett Chevrolet Pace Car
throughout the 2009 season.
Ted
Griffin won the award for the
Best Tuck and Roll
for his spectacular dive off of a
tow truck after a car flipped over during the
season.
John
Raniewzc, aka City Slicker, was
honored for his
dedication to the speedway.
Raniewzc was always one of the last to leave
the speedway after the night’s racing action
and went above and beyond what was asked of
him.
The speedway would like to
thank all that attended the banquet along
with supporting the speedway throughout the
past three seasons. Genesee Speedway wishes
everyone has a safe and joyous holiday season
and many thanks of your patronage over the
past many seasons.
2009 AWARDS HONOREES
2009
GENESEE CHAMPIONS
2009
Lauterborn Electric Mini Stock Champion Dan
Norton
Original Pizza Logs Late
Model Champ.......
Jon Rivers
Josh Smallidge
Lauterborn Electric Street Stock Champ for
2009
Terrell’s Potato Chips “Cruisin’
Route 5” Pro Stock 2009
CHAMPION
PETE STEFANSKI
Troyer
Engineering DIRTcar Sportsman:
BRIAN SAGE....2009
TRACK CHAMPION
LAUTERBORN ELECTRIC SPRINT CHAMP 2009.....MIKE
LAUTERBORN
Dave Ferguson
is the champion in the 600cc 4 race shootout
PICTURES
Performance Video & Photo
Performance Video & Photo
I'll be posting all the racing photos on this
site.
Thanks, Michelle Mullen
Performance Video & Photo
Lauterborn buys
Arcade track, leaves Genesee
SPECIAL TO THE BUFFALO NY NEWS
For the fourth
consecutive year, when the green flag flies to
open the 2010 local auto racing campaign,
Arcade International Speedway will open with a
new management team in place.
The Delevan based track
will also undergo its third name change in as
many years.
Mike Lauterborn,
promoter at Genesee Speedway the last three
years through a lease arrangement with the
Genesee County Fair Board, is in the process
of purchasing AIR and will move over to
promote that speedway as soon as the paperwork
is completed.
Lauterborn also is changing the facility's
name from AIR to
SOUTH ARCADE SPEEDWAY
Lauterborn made a down payment in mid-November
to buy the track from racer Eldon King III.
Lauterborn announced last summer that he would
not renew his lease at Genesee, which expires
Dec. 31.
In 2007, AIR, known then as Freedom Raceway,
was owned and promoted by Dan Hoffmann, who
had been at the helm there for 20 years.
After Hoffmann ran into financial woes, the
track did not open for the 2008 season. King
bought the property and leased the track to
business partners Carl Drum and Shane Wolfer
for the 2009 campaign. The track was then
renamed Arcade International Speedway.
Drum left after just a few months, leaving
Wolfer to operate AIR by himself. Lauterborn
recently decided that he wanted to stay in the
promoter's game by purchasing AIR.
As he will now be the owner, Lauterborn can
make his own decisions. He feels that he is in
a much better position at AIR than at Genesee
as he no longer has to gain approval from a
fair board to make changes.
"I now know that when I put a board up and put
a nail in it that it's my wood and my nails
and it's part of an investment," Lauterborn
said. "I can set my own race dates and make
all decisions here, and I only have to answer
to myself. I got the track for a reasonable
price and have a three-year plan for growth.
As long as things turn out financially
profitable I can reinvest every dime I make
back in to the facility."
Lauterborn is already making moves at South
Arcade, seeking a DIRTcar Northeast
sanction. He will have the Crate Late Models,
E-Mods,
Open Sprint Cars,
Street Stocks and 4-Cylinders as his weekly
divisions while hosting specials for the 360
Late Models and 1000cc Mini Sprints.
John Kurban, Ron McLaud,
Ken Hangauer Jr., Mike Paz, Mike Fisher, Amie
Fox and John and Bonnie Veach are track
officials already selected by Lauterborn to
work at South Arcade.
No one has stepped
forward to run Genesee and the track is in
jeopardy of not racing next year.
lawrence_o_14075@yahoo.com
Buffalo News Sports
SEPTEMBER 19
2009 photos
DIRTcar SPORTSMAN:
’09 Genesee
Speedway champion
Brian Sage (8 wins) topped the
Western Region points chart.
Talented
teenager Chris Raabe remained at the top of
his game as the defending overall Mr. DIRTcar
Sportsman titlist posted a division-best total
of 19 wins and collected track crowns at
Can-Am Motorsports Park and Thunder Alley
Speedpark to earn Northern Region accolades.
Canandaigua/Cayuga County mainstay Steve Gray
racked up six wins in the Central area while
’09 Genesee Speedway champion Brian Sage (8
wins) topped the Western Region points chart.
An East Region was added to the mix this
season with 4-time Glen Ridge Motorsports Park
race winner Munson racking up the most points.
2009 MR. DIRTcar PRO STOCK CHAMPIONSHIP
PETE STEFANSKI
The newest
overall Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr.
DIRTcar Pro Stock titlist to be crowned is the
driver that accumulated the most points in the
9 extra-distance Championship Series events
run as well as bonus points issued from
DIRTcar Weekly Racing Series shows held during
the regular season. This individual continued
to raise the bar as his degree of dominance
carried him to the top of the standings for an
unmatched fourth consecutive year!
2009 marked
the 15th season that DIRTcar Racing
offered an overall Mr. DIRTcar title for the
premier Pro Stockers yet it produced an ending
the same as the past three. And for the fourth
straight season it was
PETE STEFANSKI
reigning supreme as he captured the 9th
tour title in the past 10 years for Western
New York travelers. The return of Lebanon
Valley Speedway to the full-fender fold along
with the first-ever tour stop at Brockville
Ontario Speedway added up to 9 championship
events, providing plenty for Stefanski to get
the job done although not quite enough for
runner-up JOEY LADOUCEUR to garner high point
honors for a second time even after leading
flag-to-flag in the season-finale.
Despite
splitting the majority of his weekend activity
between Saturday night hangouts Canandaigua
and Genesee speedways, Stefanski still
remained on course to grab 7 checkered flags
in the ‘Terrell’s Drivin’ Route 5’ mini-series
and earn valuable bonus points toward his
record-setting Mr. DIRT car title. The veteran
from Wheatfield, N.Y. was just as successful
in series competition aboard the
no. 2 Sunrise Racing-SanTer Sewing-PJ NFB Auto
Sales/Chevrolet Monte Carlo EMS entry,
opening the
tour with a last-lap victory at Genesee before
winning with two to go at Mohawk Int’l Raceway
then leading all 25 laps to add his first
career triumph at the Syracuse Mile during
Super DIRT Week.
While
Stefanski started and finished the points
trail on top, the title was never out of reach
for his biggest rival Ladouceur who went on to
score a tour best five victories and set fast
time in 6 of the 8 events qualifying under the
clocks. Ladouceur’s 3rd straight
series win at Autodrome Edelweiss in September
sliced the deficit to 9 points while a
runner-up finish behind DON CARLSON the next
night at Lebanon Valley provided the
second-generation driver from Alexandria,
Ontario with his first lead albeit just a
single marker with 3 events still left to
determine the final outcome.
Ladouceur
extended his advantage to 11 points with a win
over Carlson and Stefanski at Rolling Wheels
Raceway Park to close out the month, yet even
with a command performance in the first-ever
trip to Brockville Ontario Speedway for the
season-finale, Stefanski led from start to
finish at Syracuse in October to regain his
top spot as Ladouceur rallied for 15th
following a early flat tire.
Our 2009
Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Pro
Stock Champion ended the season with a total
of 10 feature wins which ranked second only to
Ladouceur who reached victory lane 15 times.
Stefanski retained his position as DIRTcar
Racing Northeast’s all-time career win leader
with 88, with those three tour victories
increasing his all-time Mr. DIRTcar Pro Stock
Series count to 23 first-place trophies. This
year the top-12 share in the point fund in
excess of $7,000, with Stefanski taking home
the lion’s share of $2 grand for an
unprecedented fourth straight autumn!
MORE PICTURES FROM GENESEE SPEEDWAY....
REWARD FOR GETTING MY STUFF BACK
GENESEE
SPEEDWAY
I WOULD LIKE TO THANK THE SCUMBAGS THAT STOLE
THE LEFT SIDE DOOR OFF MY 580L CASE BACKHOE AND BROKE INTO THE WELDING
TRAILER THAN STOLE A BUNCH OF TOOLS. ML
NOTE:
NEW DOOR WITH GLASS FROM
CASE ......$4050.00
ALSO
STOLEN....2009
A TOOL BOX WAS STOLEN FROM
BIG RON'S PICKUP IN THE PITS.
IN IT WAS A BUNCH OF TECH
TOOLS.
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