The mini trucks did a great race not much straight speed but man do they go through the corners. I dont think there were enough trucks to have any more laps than there was. Question they do put on a descent show how many trucks do they usually have?? A full field could make for some very interesting racing. Pinecrest this is probably the best post you have ever done there was positive in it cudos to you. The only thing wrong with your post is that the thunders that stopped on the track for a caution were blackflagged, hopefully this will stop the trend and keep the races going because that was crap holding up the races like that. 

All very good points Statsman . Keith was a rocket last night and was another of the fast cars that was trapped in crate motor gridlock. A couple things I missed that I should mention , since I extolled the virtues of the Sr Bakers great move keeping it off the wall when he spun let me also mention the Jr Baker . In the first Thunder car heat Lil Baker ran into the #44 of Doucette about 6 times by my count before Doucette stuffed him . Hey Lil Baker I know you are still learning to race but you have to pick one lane and stay in it , you had to know he was going to park you when you ran into him twice going through 1 and 2 after you had already hit him 3 or 4 times.

  In the class less move of the night when they had finally cut out part of Walters roll cage to untangle the cars and were towing  Walters badly wrecked car back through the pits past Dave Lewis's car someone remarked "look at the mess of that car " to which one of Lewis's crew (the older guy with the grey hair and beard)" Like we care" and laughed . Dude your driver just single handedly caused one of the biggist wrecks in the history of the speedway and caused thousands of dollars of damage to over a dozen race cars . Your very lucky Walters and his crew were not with in ear shot because I have no doubt one of them would have laid you out .

  I don't know what penalty will be assessed against Lewis but it should be a very stiff one

Last year we had between 17-21 trucks at every race. With Grand Bend being repaved and resized, many trucks are staying there this year. When we go to Grand Bend and race with the home series, there are about 20 trucks. The trucks only have about 17 horsepower, so they don't go down the straights very fast, but they do fly through the corners, because we rarely brake.

Thanks for all the kind words everyone.  We had a great day, but we were a little let down when we realized that the feature was cut so short.  If you think about it this way, my team and I put 19 hours into yesterday's event.  4 hours driving each way, and about 11 hours at the track.  We got quite a bit of practice time, which was nice, but not needed.  We had two 8 lap heats, one caution between the two.  16 seconds a lap x 8 = about 2 1/4 minutes each heat race, plus an extra 2-3 mins for that one caution.  Our feature was 15 laps, no cautions.  15 x 16 = 4 minutes.  So, in total, that's 8 1/2 mins of racing + 2-3 mins of caution laps.  Less than 10 minutes for a 19 hour day.. ??  An extra 10 laps, which the guys including myself who started at the back needed in order to win the race, would've taken an extra 3 mins.  This is what we race.  We usually put on a great show, and you'd think that we might deserve a little more respect from the track officials.

We stuck around to watch the feature races after ours.  They must have taken over an hour each.  And to finish the night off, all but 3 Late models wreck near the end of their feature.  Looks good on the Barrie Speedway for the way they treated us.

To answer you question about truck counts, our counts have dropped this season, because most of the guys just want to race at Grand Bend now that it's the nicest track in Ontario (believe me, I loved Barrie last year, but I gained a lot more respect for the new Grand Bend Speedway yesterday).  The GBS mini truck home series has at least 20 truck each race.  Makes sense tho, why travel 4 hours to a track that treats you like crap when you can race locally (for most of us), and get treated right.  I personally love going to different tracks, more of a challenge to set the truck up each week, and it's nice to race in front of different crowds, but come on people.  Have some respect.  You don't hear anyone complaining about our race, but there are plenty complaining about your regular show.

Sorry to go off on a big rant here.  I'm not really mad, because we our day did go very smoothly, but I'm just a little disappointed with Barrie Speedway.

 Pinecrest NOTHING will happen to Lewis .His crew are a mirror of him they represent him well, as usual it will be some one elses fault "as if we care ",the guy should quit he does not have a clue and his so called crew could not  set up a car if they tried ,he is always loose and really an embarrasement, you are right about the Vortec but the good drivers still come through the pack,but have to put up with idiots like Lewis blocking and wrecking them every week  also  the Barrie handicapping system is a joke.But its the best and most exciting place to be on Saturday if you are a fan, because when the racing sucks the side show  led by side show Bob Morin is  Always awesome.