“SNEEKY PETE” BACK ON TOP IN MEADVILLE

 

Joe Giulitto was back in the winner’s circle again for  2011 and for the second straight year at the Crawford County Fair in Meadville, Pennsylvana.  Giulitto took the measure of all of his rivals to get his third win of 2011 “Sneeky Pete”.  Giulitto’s beautiful yellow Peterbilt is powered by a 3406 CAT engine that was operating a peak efficiency to put down a pass of nearly 340’.  The wins put “Sneeky Pete” into a tie for the point lead in the Big Rigs Series for 2011.  Giulitto is a former driver for the Fred Sanders’ Pulling Team from Ravenna, Ohio and built his own Big Rig truck just last year for competition.

“Sneeky Pete” has also beena force on the Ohio State Pullers circuit of late and has posted two successive wins in the single charger bracket – at Mansfield and at the Portage County Fair in his home county.

Finishing second at Meadville was the ‘thorn in his side’ of Joe Giulitto – Richard Scott and “Silver Bullet I” from Palmyra, Ohio.  That huge silver Mack V-8 from the powerful Fred Sanders’ stable in Ravenna was just a few feet back at Meadville now shares the point lead in the knotted Big Rigs point series.

Third place at Meadville went to “Sticks and Stones” for Bill (not Joe!!) Christ of Galion, Ohio with his KT-600 powered Kenworth.  Bill Christ had been the  winner at America’s Fair in Hamburg, New York last week-end to grab the most impressive win of the young man’s career, but the results posted failed to identify the driver by his proper name.  “Say it ain’t so – Joe!!”

The Big Rigs Series will only have a week off before the most important two-days in modified semi truck pulling in the east comes to Canfield and Burton, Ohio.  On Saturday, September 3rd the Big Rigs Series will be joined by the NTPA Super Semis at the Canfield Grand Nationals at the famed Canfield Fairgrounds near Youngstown, Ohio.  And then on Sunday evening, September 4th the Big Rigs travel to the oldest fair in Ohio – The Great Geauga County Fair – for their next-to-the-last hook of the 2011 season.