NOVEMBER 20TH
White's
of Westport - Westport, MA
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Appreciation
Awards |
Push Truck
Appreciation
Awards |
10th to 15th NEMA
Drivers & Owners |
First Time NEMA Winner
Chris Leonard |
LITES
Perfect
Attendance
Awards |
NEMA Perfect
Attendance
Awards |
Evans/Thrall
Top Owner/Driver:
Greg Stoehr |
Youngest Drivers
Carl
Medeiros &
Joey Mucciacciaro |
9th to 16th LITES
Owners & Drivers |
1st to
8th LITES
Owners & Drivers |
First Time
LITES
Winners |
5th to 9th NEMA
Drivers & Owners |
Shane Hammond Sportsmanship
Anthony Nocella &
Jim Miller |
Ralph Miller Outstanding
and Continuing Perseverance
Jim Miller |
Johnny Thomson Memorial
Mike Scrivani
Jr |
Johnny Thomson Memorial
Mike Scrivani
Jr |
Johnny Thomson Memorial
Mike Scrivani
Jr |
Hard Luck Awards
David Moniz & Kevin
Park |
Ed Clothier
Rookie of the Year
Lanson Fornoro |
Associate
Never Say Die Award
Laura Kibbe |
Bell Helmets for the
Champions
From Bell & The Race
Depot
ISMA Champ: Russ Wood Sr.
NEMA Champ: Russ
Stoehr |
Wild Child Design
Top Guns Crews of the Month |
Angelillo Memorial Award
Cyndy Hogan |
Pat Thibodeau Youth and
Determination Awards
Scott Law & Todd Bertrand |
NEMA Raffle |
Mechanic of the Year
John Andruk |
Joe Csiki
Most Improved Driver
& 4th NEMA Driver/Owner
Chris deRitis
(accepted by Todd Bertrand) |
Wen Kelley Award
Shaun Torrey |
Ray Roberts
Memorial Award
Brian Cleveland
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LITES
Most Improved Driver:
Anthony “Bug” Marvuglio |
NEMA Raffle |
3rd NEMA Driver/Owner
Greg Stoehr |
2nd NEMA Owner/Driver
Tim Bertrand & Randy Cabal |
2nd NEMA Driver
Randy Cabal |
Leather Jackets for the
Dumo's Desire
Championship Team |
2010 NEMA Champions
Russ Stoehr &
Laura Kibbe’s Dumo’s Desire #45 |
Remembering the Championships of
Dumo's
Desire #45 |
Best Appearing LITE: #1
Charles Gunther/Bathany Viets |
Best Appearing NEMA:
#93x
Mike Horn |
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Dumo’s Desire, Russ Stoehr
Top NEMA’s Award Winners
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Westpot, MA – “Devine
Intervention” was the underlining element as Laura
Kibbe’s Dumo’s Desire 45 and driver Russ Stoehr
celebrated their championships Saturday night at the
Northeastern Midget Association’s 2010 Awards Banquet at
Whites of Westport. Following her dad Gene Angelillo’s
death in March, Kibbe drew the forces together and went
on to capture the team’s 15th championship (and Stoehr’s
sixth) but only after a down-to-wire battle with the
Bertrand Motorsports #47 and Randy Cabral.
Gene and Marilyn
Angelillo were never far away from the goings on
throughout the year.
Announcer Pete Falcone
presided over a busy program that in addition to
honoring the top owners and drivers in both NEMA and the
Lites, included the usual host of trophies, many
honoring the top names from NEMA’s 58-year history.
The coveted Johnny Thomson Memorial, presented for
the 50th time, went to club president Mike Scrivani Jr.
John Andruk is the Mechanic of the Year. “His motors are
all over the place,” said Stoehr of Andruk, who has
played a major role in the development of the Mazda
engine.
The driving awards went to Chris deRitis
(Joe Csiki Most Improved), Lanson Fornoro (Ed Clothier
Rookie of the Year) and Greg Stoehr (Evan/Thrall
Owner/Driver).
Other winners of NEMA’s
traditional prizes went to Shaun Torrey
(Wen Kelley
Memorial), Brian Cleveland (Ray Roberts Memorial), Laura
Kibbe (Associate Member Never Say Die), Scott Law and
Todd Bertrand (Pat Thibodeau Youth & Determination) and
Jim Miller (Ralph Miller Outstanding and Continuing
Perseverance and The NEMA Shane Hammond Sportsmanship).
Anthony “Bug” Marvuglio is the Most Improved Lites
driver. Other Lites recipients are David Moniz (Hard
Luck), Kevin Park (Hard Luck), and Anthony Nocella (The
LITES Shane Hammond Sportsmanship).
The renamed
Angelillo Memorial Award (formally Woman Behind the Man)
went to Cyndy Hogan.
The Wild Child Design Best
Appearing Cars are the #93x of Mike Horn (NEMA) and the
#1 of Charles Gunther (Lites). Top Guns Cew of the Month
are Chris Leonard (March), Cantor Racing (June),
Bertrand Motor Sports (July), the Scally #4 Lite
(August), Demo’s Desire (September), and the Stoehr #25
(October).
Car owners with perfect attendance
were Laura Kibbe, Tim Bertrand, Greg Stoehr, Dan
deRitis, Allan Cantor, Paul Scally and Lee Bundy in NEMA
and Bobby Seymour and Paul Luggelle in the Lites.
Stoeher and ISMA champion Russ Wood Sr. took home
Bell helmets.
Wood was one of four new Lites
winners in ’10 joining Ed LeClerc Jr., Jim Santa Maria
and Bethany Views. Chirs Leonard and Chris deRitis were
first-time NEMA winners.
Appreciation Awards
went to Robyn Bennett, Tim Bennett, Deb Marvuglio, Linda
Cleveland, Ellen Pernesiglio, Bob Blanchette, Cyndy
Hogan, Norm Marx, John Dadalt, Pete Falconi, Lanson
Fornoro, Doug Cleveland, Shaun Torrey and Pete Zanardi.
Also recognized were push truck drivers Pete
Pernesiglio Sr., Steven Cleveland, Glen Cabral, Jack
Giannini, Kurt Kiermont, Dave Shore, Paul Luggelle and
Mike Luggelle.
Top 15 NEMA Drivers:
1. Russ Stoehr, 1723 (3 Wins);
2. Randy Cabral, 1695 (4);
3. Greg Stoehr, 1477;
4. Chris deRitis, 1390 (1); 5.
Adam Cantor, 1290 (1);
6. Jim Miller, 1088; 7. John Zych
Jr., 997;
8. Erica Santos, 994; 9. Lee Bundy, 905;
10. Paul Scally, 903;
11. Mike Horn, 900; 12. Chris
Leonard, 742 (1); 13. Jeff Abold, 726 (1)14. Jeff Horn,
593; 15. Matt O’Brien, 541.
Other Winners: Lou
Cicconi Jr., Keith Botelho.
Top 15 NEMA Owners: 1.
Dumo’s Desire #45, 1723 (3 Wins);
2. Tim Bertrand #47,
1695 (4); 3. Greg Stoehr #26b, 1477;
4.
Cicconi/deRitis #75, 1390 (1); 5. Adam Cantor #7ny, 1290
(1);
6. Jim Miller #3m, 1088; 7. Ed Breault, #44,
1076;
8. John Zych Sr. #9, 997; 9. Lee Bundy #2,
905;
10. Paul Scally #30, 903; 11. Jeff Horn #93x,
900;
12. Dave Leonard, 738 (1); 13. Tim Bertrand
#39, 718;
14. Bobby Seymour #4, 692 (2); 15. Jeff
Abold #29, 636.
Other Winners: Russ Stoehr #25s
Top 16 LITES: (Car # -
owner/driver)
#29 - Matt Seymour/Anthony Nocella
#4 - Paul Scally/Randy Cabral
#28 - Paul
Luggelle/Paul Luggelle
#12 - Ed LeClerc/Ed LeClerc
#48 - Bertrand Motorsports/Todd Bertrand
#99 - Susan
Santa Maria/James Santa Maria
#51 - Russ Wood Sr./
Russ Wood Jr.
#81 - Bobby Seymour/Andy Barows
#1
- Charlie Gunther/Bethany Viets
#18 - David
Moniz/David Moniz
#00 - Paul Luggelle/Lanson Fornoro
#93 - Ted Smith/Jake Smith
#13 - Randy Bigelow/Ryan
Bigelow
#52 - Kevin Park/Kevin Park
#31 - Randy
Bigelow/Paul Bigelow
#45 - Frank Mucciacciaro/Joey
Mucciacciaro
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NEMA’s
Top Rivalry
To Continue in 2011 |
Brockton, MA – Per usual,
the 2010 Northeastern Midget Association championship
battles went to the final checker. Eventual champions
#45 Dumo’s Desire Racing (owner) and Russ Stoehr
(driver) stopped a #47 Bertrand Motorsports and Randy
Cabral streak at two but couldn’t celebrate until
finishing third, behind winner Cabral, at Thompson
Speedway’s World Series.
The best news out of
NEMA’s annual Awards Banquet Saturday, which celebrated
the championship, was the rivalry will continue. “Yes,
we will be racing in 2011,” Dumo’s Desire owner Laura
Kibbe told the gathering at NEMA’s 2010 Awards Banquet
at Whites of Westfield (MA).
“We look forward to
racing against them and everybody else next year,”
offered Tim Bertrand of Bertrand Motorsports.
The
acceptance speeches of both owner Laura Kibbe, who
rescued the most successful team in NEMA’s history after
her father Gene Angelillo’s passing in March, and Stoehr
were testimony to the evening’s emotion. “This was meant
to be,” Kibbe said. Although the championship was not
the primary objective, Kibbe none-the-less suggested
“divine intervention” may have been a factor in what is
the 15th championship for the team Gene and Marilyn
Angelillo formed in 1980. Marilyn, who passed away in
2007, named it after Gene’s father “Dumo.”
“I
just felt the #45 belonged on the track,” Kibbe
continued, claiming she entertained no championship
hopes until the team’s win at the Angelillo Memorial at
Waterford Speedbowl in September.
Pointing out he
has “never been a particularly religious person,” Stoehr
nevertheless told his crew that he can envision a place
where “Gene is with Marilyn and they are so proud of
what you did.” En route to his sixth championship, four
of them with Dumo’s Desire, Stoehr had three wins among
nine top fives, 11 top 10s and no dnfs.
“I had
the best season of my life and finished second,” said
Cabral, who led the club with four wins among 10 top
fives. “That shows you what [the Dumo’s Desire crew] is
made of.” In the final reckoning, it was his only DNF
that was costly.
Bertrand also bought into the
divine intervention theory. “People read on the website
what went on and they understand,” offered Bertrand who
frequently campaigned two cars in 2010. “We had a great
time running against Dumo’s Desire and we’ll be ready
for 2011.”
Banquet master of ceremonies Pete
Falcone pointed out it was a season filled with
excitement including first-time wins for Chris Leonard
and Chris deRitis in NEMA and Bethany Viets, Russ Wood
Sr. and Jim Santa Maria in the Lites. There were, in
total, 17 winners – Cabral, Stoehr, deRitis, Leonard,
Adam Cantor, Jeff Abold, Lou Cicconi Jr. and Keith
Botelho in NEMA, Anthony Nocella, Cabral, Paul Luggelle,
Ed LeClerc Jr., Todd Bertrand and Jesse State joining
Viets, Wood and Santa Maria in the Lites.
Among
the banquet’s individual winners were president Mike
Scrivani Jr. (Johnny Thompson Memorial), Lanson Fornoro
(Rookie of the Year), Shawn Torrey (Wen Kelley
Memorial). Brian Cleveland (Ray Roberts Memorial) and
Jim Miller (Ralph Miller and Shane Hammond Memorials).
NEMA’s awards reflect the romance it has for its
history.
“There are lots of individual victories
out there every race,” summed up Stoehr who suggested
“everybody should keep that in mind next year.” |
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| NEMA’s 58th Season |
Brockton, MA – The
Northeastern Midget Association will put the final
touches on the 2010 season – the 58th in the club’s
history – at the annual banquet Saturday night, Nov. 20
at Whites of Westport in Westport, MA. The top-15
drivers and owners, led by champion driver Russ Stoehr
and the Dumo’s Desire #45 team, will be recognized.
There were eight different winners in the 13 races, the
championship battles again going to the final event.
The very successful NEMA Lites competitors will
be recognized as well. Led by Anthony Nocella, who had
three, there were nine Lites winners as the division
continued to grow.
Celebrating its history, NEMA will hand out a
host of awards honoring standouts of the past. While the
Johnny Thomson Award tops the list, the Wen Kelley,
Ralph Miller, Joe Csiki, Ray Roberts, Ed Clothier, Ron
Evans/Len Thrall and Pat Thibodeau prizes are no less
coveted. The Mechanic of the Year, Women behind the Man,
Lifetime Membership and the Associate Member Never Say
Die Awards will also be presented. “First, the names are
special,” says NEMA President Mike Scrivani Jr. “Second,
most of the awards go back a long time so each winner
joins a very impressive list of former winners. It’s
serious stuff.”
It was an emotional ending for Stoehr and the
Dumo’s Desire team. Daughter Laura Kibbe decided the
team would continue following Gene Angelillo’s death in
early March. Stoehr won three times and didn’t clinch
until the finale at Thompson.
While he didn’t extend a
championship streak to three, runners-up Randy Cabral
and Bertrand Racing had reason to celebrate. They did
top the win list with four, Cabral putting himself
clearly among the club’s best ever statistically. The
win list including youngsters Chris Leonard and Chris
deRitis, both winning for the first time, and grizzled
veterans Lou Cicconi Jr. and Keith Botelho, the latter
scoring for the first time in a decade.
The busy Cabral was also a fulltime Lites
competitor and, if points were counted, would have
probably won that championship as well. He had two
victories among eight top-five Lites finishes. The Lites
win list showed much the same gap as teenagers like
Nocella and veterans like Paul Luggelle appear among a
fraternity that also includes Eddie LeClerc Jr., Todd
Bertrand, Jim Santa Maria, Jesse State, Bethany Viets
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Laura Kibbe Continues
Angelillo NEMA Dynasty |
Brockton, MA - The
Dumo’s Desire team will “definitely be in monkey suits”
at the Northeastern Midget Association Awards Banquet
Saturday night, Nov. 20 at Whites of Westport in
Westport, MA. “My mother would have insisted on it,”
reports Owner champion Laura Kibbe. It is the final step
in a championship effort for team and driver Russ Stoehr
dedicated to Laura’s folks, long-time NEMA stalwarts
Gene and Marilyn Angelillo.
It is almost poetic that Stoehr and the team
took the point lead for good at the Angelillo Memorial,
a race Kibbe sponsored in her parents memory at
Waterford Speedbowl in September. They left The ‘Bowl
with a 22-point lead. “I realized then the championship
was possible,” she recalls. “I said to myself, ‘Wow,
this could really happen.”
Stoehr, who now has six titles, four in
Angelillo equipment, put a bow on it with a third at
Thompson’s World Series.
When Kibbe gathered the
gang together on the day of her father’s funeral (he
died on March 1), she was not thinking about
championships. She had been part of every one of the 14
NEMA titles Gene and Marilyn (who died Sept. 4, 2007)
acquired. “I wanted being part of the NEMA family to
continue,” she says. “I felt the No. 45 had to be at
every NEMA show.” There was commitment from Stoehr and
long-time Angelillo friend Joe Fiori, the latter
insuring race headquarters would remain at Angelillo’s
garage in Oxford, CT.
“I’ll always remember the emotional experience
of watching the car take the green in the season opener
at Waterford so soon after Gene died,” says Kibbe, a
very successful attorney with an incredible
international agenda. “Honestly, I wasn’t concerned
about championships, even feature wins. I was concerned
with keeping the car on the track.”
But things came together. Scottie Law, for
instance, stepped up to take on tire responsibilities,
something he had never done before. Jack Giannini and
Kurt Kiermont, also longtime Angelillo associates,
contributed as did Brian Wynn, Paul Liphardt and Nick
Rinaldi.
In the final reckoning, Stoehr had three wins
among nine top threes and 11 top fives and no DNFs.
While the bad luck of defending champions Randy Cabral
and Bertrand Racing can’t be dismissed, it was the
Dumo’s Desire crew that prevailed. Stoehr, who insists
“You can’t do it without a good car and those guys did
the car,” was, at least unofficially, the crew chief.
“My father was like a tiebreaker,” explains
Kibbe. “People on the crew would disagree about an
approach to take and he would end it saying ‘do it this
way.’ We didn’t have that anymore. So, I announced Russ
is the tiebreaker because he has to be comfortable with
equipment under him.” She “checked” with Russ after
every race, learning “things were better each time we
ran.”
“We never had a conversation about doing it for
Gene and Marilyn,” says Stoehr who won three straight
titles with Angelillo before retiring in 2002. He
returned to driving and Angelillo in 2009. “We wanted to
get the job done.”
In the end, Kibbe insists, it was “putting egos
aside and everybody coming together. We all had
important jobs to do and had we not done that, we would
have failed miserably.”
And missed an opportunity to put on those
tuxedos. |
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Completes 58th Season |
BY PETE ZANARDI
Brockton, MA - The Northeastern Midget Association
finished its 58th racing season at Thompson Speedway’s
World Series, Randy Cabral the 25-lap feature winner
while third-place finisher Russ Stoehr claimed
championships for himself and the Dumo’s Desire #45. The
championship battle clearly turned at
Seekonk
Speedway’s D.Anthony Venditti Memorial, the admittedly
over-aggressive Cabral winding up 21st after an early
confrontation.
The “official” ending comes with
the usual host of presentations at the annual Awards
Banquet Saturday night, Nov 20 at White’s of Westport in
Westport, MA.
The championships were a fitting a
tribute to Angelillo’s daughter Laura Kibbe who decided
to carry on in honor of her mother Marilyn and father.
Angelillo died on March 1. It was the sixth title for
Stoehr, the 15th for the Angelillo team.
While
the championship streak ended at two for Cabral and car
owner Tim Bertrand, it was a noteworthy season for the
Plymouth, MA competitor. It was the 11th straight season
he has won, a mark surpassed only by the legendary Dave
Humphrey. He moved into sixth place on NEMA’s all-time
win list with 30, just three behind Bill Eldridge. The
World Series triumph upped his Thompson total to nine.
Perhaps fittingly, Stoehr took the point lead
winning the Angelillo Memorial at Waterford Speedbowl,
the most emotional of his three wins. Stoehr now has 43
career wins, two behind third-place Nokie Fornoro.
NEMA’s top-two winners – Drew Fornoro (85) and Humphrey
(73) appear out of reach.
Stoehr and Cabral
shared the podium five times. They were one-two twice:
after losing to Cabral at Thompson’s Marvin Rifchin
Trophy race by inches, Stoehr prevailed at Monadnock.
There were seven winners including first-timers
Chris Leonard and Chris deRitis, both turning the trick
at Waterford, a charter-member of NEMA that now shows 45
winners going back to 1953. Other winners included Jeff
Abold, Lou Cicconi Jr., Adam Cantor and Keith Botelho.
Cicconi and Abold each drove the Seymour #4 in Seekonk’s
Open Wheel Wednesday and Boston Louie respectively.
Cicconi’s win could well be the most dominating
performance of the campaign.
Botelho’s success at
the DAV, his first win in 12 years, ranks as the upset
of 2010. The car is owned by Russ Stoehr, powered by a
20-plus year old Gaerte engine and crewed by
father-and-son Carl and Curt
Kibbe. Carl Kibbe, a
two-time NEMA owner champion with 18 NEMA wins, was a
winning crew chief for the first time since 1991 with
driver Joey Coy at Hudson Speedway.
Forty drivers
scored points, with Russ and Greg Stoehr, Cabral,
Cantor, deRitis, Bundy, and Scally at all 13 events.
A
foursome of youngsters – Todd Bertrand, Lanson Fornoro,
Anthony Marvuglio and Anthony Nocella – were all
impressive in limited runs. All were active in NEMA
Lites action as well. |
NEMA TRACK
HISTORIES
with
2010 updates
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NEMA STATS
with 2010 updates
PDF HERE |
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