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1996 Niagara Speedway Race Results
July 13, 1996 Niagara Speedway
By Kim Gregory
This was Welland's second event of the season, and was the last night the riders had to prepare for the two National Championships to be
held here in the next two weeks. Two fast new riders with laydown bikes ( Biff Waczynski and a rider from Slovenia,
Tomaz Drnac #7 ) appeared, adding to the uncertainty of the final event. John Kehoe, the winner from last week had a fall in practice, his heat
results were marginal, and had to qualify for the final in a run-off race. Biff was involved in an incident with Andy after the first heat, where Andy
had thought Biff had knocked him off the track. This added to Biff's problems (new track, new laydown), and he did not perform as well this night as
he had in Sweden. The final was: 1st John Kehoe, 2nd Chris Hesmer, 3rd #7, 4th Jeff Orosz, 5th Patrick Ahlund. In Division Two, Joanne Edwards had
the gate and corner one each race, but Greg Comstock from Wisconsin had the race after that.
Heats
Division One
Points Rider # Heats 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 Points Run-off Final
14 Thomaz Drnac # 7 4 4 4 12 +2
13 John Kehoe # 1 3 4 2 9 1st +4
12 Jeff Orosz #31 4 4 3 11 +1
12 Chris Hesmer #11 3 3 3 9 2nd +3
10 Patrick Ahlund #66 4 2 4 10 +0
9 Fred Legault #68 2 3 4 9 3rd
7 Gary Hesmer #37 3 2 2 7
5 Glen Brown # 9 1 2 2 5
4 Kim Gregory #97 2 1 1 4
4 Sobec Muszynski #15 1 3 DNF 4
3 Biff Waczynski #17 2 1 DNS 3
3 Andy Harris #19 DNF 0 3 3
2 John Busler #16 1 0 1 2
1 Bogdan Muszynski #18 DNF 1 DNF DNF 1
0 Al Chisholm # 8 0 0 0 0
Division Two
Points Rider # Heats 1 2 3 Points Final
16 Greg Comstock #75 4 4 4 12 +4
10 Mark Engel #69 3 3 2 8 +2
8 Joanne Edwards #62 2 DNF 3 5 +3
4 Ian March #47 1 2 0 3 +1
1 Ian Boyd #21 0 1 1 +0
600cc Expert
John Parker had held second for most of the race and fell ( was bumped off ?) on the front straight while being passed by #44. 1st #90, 2nd #44, 3rd #41 Todd Sharpless, 4th #67 Scott Sehi, 5th #50 Doug Caswell, 6th #65 Dave Art, 7th #25 Mark Nafziger, 8th #88 Jeremy Thompson, 9th #39 Bob Soburing, 10th #21 Kurt Biegger.
600cc Intermediate
1st #39 Ken Shaffer, 2nd #711, 3rd #27 Hank Roslocki, 4th #34, 5th #43 Chad Heidemen, 6th #52 Jeff Berdan, 7th #94 Hank Roslocki, 8th #49 Bill Harrett, 9th #50 Doug Caswell, 10th #98 Graham Hill.
600cc Novice
1st #95 Jeff Seguin, 2nd #34 Jason Spearin, 3rd #43 Dave Taylor, 4th #28, , 5th #5 Marin Wingate, 6th #65
250 Int / Expert
1st #88 Jeremy Thompson, 2nd #98 Greg Hall, 3rd #19 Glen Brown, 4th #40, 5th #21 Kurt Biegger, 6th #39 Ken Shaffer
250 Novice
1st #20 Rob Rainville, 2nd #34 Jason Spearin, 3rd #84, 4th #54 Joshua Edwards
ATV Expert
1st #1 Dave Little, 2nd #84 Jim Goertz, 3rd #32, 4th #117 Steve Boone, 5th #41 Shawn Langis, 6th #45 Darren Verhart, 7th #11 Cedric Dixon, 8th #121 Dave Davies
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