Rocco passes Yuhas at the stripe

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Keith Rocco executed a thrilling final corner, last lap pass to score victory in the 35-lap SK Modified® main event on the Speedbowl’s season opening Saturday night race program. Ron Yuhas Jr. led the SK Mod field from his pole starting position at the drop of the green. Yuhas, Rob Janovic Jr. and Keith Rocco began to pull away under green flag conditions while Diego Monahan, Tyler Chadwick and Dennis Gada battled for fourth place behind. The event continued caution free as positions swapped throughout the field. Rocco began to apply pressure to Janovic for second position, while Gada pressured Chadwick for fourth. Shortly after halfway, Gada executed an outside pass on Chadwick to move into fourth looking to reel in the lead trio. Rocco maneuvered around the outside of Janovic with 14 laps remaining and set his sights on Yuhas, who had built some breathing room. With Rocco closing on Yuhas as the leaders approached heavier lapped traffic, Jeffrey Paul’s night ended prematurely when he erupted into smoke on the backstretch laying down fluid that necessitated the event’s only caution with 9 laps remaining. Yuhas resumed control on the restart with Rocco, Janovic, and Gada in pursuit. As the laps narrowed down, Rocco began to look both high and low. As the pair came through turns 3 and 4 for the final time, Rocco jumped to the outside groove and drag raced Yuhas to the stripe, edging him by a bumper in a classic Speedbowl finish. Rocco’s margin of victory was .013 seconds. Janovic, Gada, and Chadwick completed the top-five. photo courtesy Race Dog Photography

Apr 18th, 2009 Pos Driver 1 Keith Rocco 2 Ron Yuhas Jr. 3 Rob Janovic Jr. 4 Dennis Gada 5 Tyler Chadwick 6 Diego Monahan 7 Jeff Pearl 8 Frank Mucciacciaro 9 Don Fowler 10 Justin Gaydosh 11 Corey Hutchings 12 Wayne Arute 13 Wendell Dailey 14 Joe Perry 15 Rich Hammann 16 Dennis Charette 17 Mike Sweeney 18 Joey Gada 19 Jeffrey Paul 35 Laps

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