2nd For Matty D as Reckner Wins Career First at Fonda FONDA, NY – On Saturday evening in celebration of the Independence Day holiday there were fireworks both in the sky and out on the race track at the Fonda Speedway with two of the six feature events decided in the final two laps of the event. Nothing was going to out stage Elmo Reckner’s command performance in the 30-lap Modified feature event however as he took the lead on lap one of the caution free event and went on to his first career Modified feature win at the Track of Champions in the Elmo’s Auto Body, JPM powered Bicknell car. “This is great,” Reckner said in victory lane. “A few weeks ago we had a tire go down on us on Lou Lazzaro Memorial Night and we had a good car that night too so maybe this is just a little redemption for that.” Dave Constantino and Reckner led the field to the green flag with Constantino the early race leader. The yellow flag was out before any laps were completed for a crash in turn two involving Frank Hoard III and C.G. Morey. Both were able to continue at the rear of the field as was Ryan Odasz who ended up spinning his car in turn three in a separate incident. On the restart it was Reckner who was the race leader with Danny Varin in the second position on lap two after starting fifth. Ronnie Johnson was making some great moves through the field coming to the front from his eighth starting spot as he got by two cars on lap three to get into the top five. By lap five Varin had caught the race leader as the duo of Reckner and Varin had a race of their own going with the third place car of Todd Morey a straightaway behind the front two by lap seven. Johnson and Alton Palmer who started the event in the 11th position took turns advancing their positions as they both got by Morey for the third and fourth spots by the halfway point of the 30-lap event. Matt DeLorenzo who started in the 12th position was the man on the move at this point as he flew by both Morey and Palmer into the fourth spot while Johnson was reeling in the top two of Reckner and Varin. With five laps to go it was a four way battle for the lead as things started to get interesting between Johnson and DeLorenzo who were racing hard for the third spot. Coming out of turn four to complete lap 28 DeLorenzo had a run on Johnson on the low side of turn four and coming out of the turn must have thought that he had Johnson cleared and started to move up the track only to have Johnson still alongside of him. The two cars made contact with Johnson climbing the wall with the front end and riding the wall for a short time before the front end made contact with the track again. Somehow Johnson was able to continue on with DeLorenzo the new third place car at that point. Reckner never let the lap cars affect his great run as he got around them all and went on to the popular win over DeLorenzo who got by Varin for the second position on the final lap with Johnson and Palmer completing the top five. “We were struggling with the car so we decided to make a change and buy this new Bicknell car,” Reckner said as he celebrated in victory lane with his son Chris and his crew. “Randy (Williamson from Bicknell Racing Products) told us to set the car up this way and it was something that we had never tried before. To be honest with you I don’t even know what shocks are on the car as Randy marked them all and told us where to put them on the car.” MODIFIED QUALIFYING – 28 total cars – 5 qualify – 4 handicapped HEAT 1 – Ronnie Johnson, Ryan Odasz, Matt DeLorenzo, Todd Morey, Jim Davis HEAT 2 – Darwin Greene, Dave Camara, Dave Constantino, Tony Pepicelli, Bobby Varin HEAT 3 – Danny Varin, Alton Palmer, Mark Kislowski, Elmo Reckner, Craig Hanson MORRIS AUTO GROUP MODIFIED FEATURE – 30-LAPS – ELMO RECKNER, Matt DeLorenzo, Danny Varin, Ronnie Johnson, Alton Palmer, Dave Camara, Bobby Varin, Todd Morey, Jim Davis, Mark Kislowski, Dave Constantino, Craig Hanson, Jeff Trombley, Darwin Greene, Josh Hohenforst, Alan Barker, Robert Perry, Bob Savoie, Todd Ryan, Ken McGuire, C.G. Morey, Josh Flint, Ryan Odasz, A.J. Romano, Marc Johnson, Tony Pepicelli, Dave Lape, Frank Hoard III