Buffalino rebounds for New Egypt victory

NEW EGYPT - Dominick Buffalino, of South River, bounced back from his heartbreaking misfortune last week to capture the 30-lap DIRTcar Modified feature event on Saturday night at New Egypt Speedway.

After watching a sure win slip away last week when his battery cable came off on the final lap, Buffalino used a lap-25 restart this week to make the winning move on race-long leader Tom Carberry and take home the $3,000 top prize.

"We should have had one last week," stated a jubilant Buffalino. "I told the crew on the way to the track tonight that with the bad luck we had last week, something good is due to happen to us. That yellow really helped us; fortunately, I was able to take advantage of it."

Carberry led at the start of the 30-lap feature followed by Buffalino and Tad Cox. Carberry opened up a comfortable lead in the early going. As the laps clicked by, Carberry and Cox, along with last week's winner Jimmy Horton, began to slowly close in on Carberry.

The first yellow of the event waved on lap 25 when rookie Rick Wegner spun in turn 2. Buffalino wasted no time on the restart as he blasted under Carberry in turn 2 and raced to his first win of 2007. Tad Cox drove a superb race to finish a career-best second, followed by last week's winner, Horton. Ryan Godown ran a steady race to come home fourth with Carberry holding on to finish fifth.

Rocco Infante of Robbinsville won his second career Sportman feature, his first in eight years. John McClelland finished second followed by Rich Scagliotta, Glenn Pyatt and Mike Krachun.

Billy Bauer of Flemington won the 18th feature event of his career in the 20-lap Super Stock feature to take sole possession of first place on the all-time win list. It was Bauer's first win in a year and a half. Mick Search finished second, trailed by Jason Bubeck, Todd Cray and George Marrero. In the make-up feature from April 14, Kory Fleming of Easton, Pa., captured his second win of the season. He was chased across the line by George Quinlan, Bauer, Bill Liedtka and Al Cheney.

In the fifth race of the Advantage Financial/Cradle Rock Developers Rookie Sportsman series, Danny Bouc of Plumsteadville, Pa., won for the fourth time, his third in a row. Dan Waisempacher was second over Eddie Prentice Jr., Matt Holzbaur and Bobby Butler.

This Friday night NES will be in action as the first event of its every-other-Friday series begins, featuring the Super Late Models doing battle for $2500 to win. SS Sprints, Outlaw Stocks, Crate 1 Sportsman and Legend Cars will also be in action, with gates opening at 4:30 p.m. and racing getting under way at 7 p.m. Adult admission is $16, children 7-12 are $5.50, and kids 6 and under are free.

Saturday night it will be Mother's Day Bouquet Night at New Egypt Speedway sponsored by Perlmart ShopRite. The racing will feature a full card of big-block Modifieds, Sportsman, Super Stocks and the Advantage Financial/Cradle Rock Developers Rookies. Gates open at 3:30 p.m. with first green at 5:30 p.m. Adult admission is $16, children 7-12 are $5.50, and kids 6 and under are always free. For more information, call the speedway office at (609) 758-1900 or log on to www.newegyptspeedway.net.