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LI NEED FOR SPEED - MORE FROM THE
ARCHIVES
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NEW PIT GATE OPENING AND START
TIMES IN 2010
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ARTIE TAPPEN PASSES AWAY On Monday, March 1, Long Island Racing lost one of its legends, Artie Tappen. Tappen made famous the red No. 14 modifieds, which he raced all over Long Island and beyond. Visitation will be at Moloney's Holbrook Funeral Home on 825 Main St. during the times of Wednesday, March 3 7-9 p.m. and Thursday, March 4 2-4 & 7-9 p.m. |
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GLENN DIXON WINS A LEGENDS CAR Pure luck catapulted Long Islander Glenn Dixon from being the holder of a 1-in-200 chance in a raffle drawing to being the owner of the 2010 Legends car raffled off by Bethel Motor Speedway this past weekend. His name was drawn by Greg Moldt, a designer from Shangri-La II Speedway (NY), who was recruited from a nearby booth at the Oakdale Mall Show in Johnson City, NY, to draw the winning ticket at 3 p.m. on Sunday, just minutes after the final ticket had been sold. |
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PEPITONE PLEDGES SUPPORT TO
BUTTNER CAUSE
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This
week on LI Need For Speed, Kevin Bacik and Ricky Miller
present more 1980s Riverhead Raceway, with interviews with Tom
Baldwin, Richie Evans, and Jerry Cook. LI Need For Speed airs on
Woodbury Cablevision Channel 115, Sundays at 12 noon. Starting on
April 4, LI Need for Speed moves to channel 20. For more
information call Kevin Bacik at 631-592-2995 or e-mail him at
During
the recent Riverhead Raceway Competitors' Winter Meetings teams that
participate in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at Barbara &
Jim Cromarty's quarter mile facility were notified of new pit gate
opening and start times for 2010. Riverhead will open for its 61st
year of stock car racing with a doubleheader weekend May 1st and May
2nd.
Riverhead
Raceway Blunderbust racer Matt Pepitone, the self-professed Clown
Prince of Racing, plans to pledge his 2010 winnings to six-year-old
Julianna Buttner who has a rare form of leukemia and needs a bone
marrow transplant. In addition, Pepitone, a stand-up comedian, will
be a part of Comedy for a Cause: Hope for Julianna at Ladakins on
Mill Pond in Moriches on Weds. Feb. 24 and Mar. 3, where 100% of the
admission collected will go toward Buttner's transplant.