Ok time for the 20 min rundown.. I'll start off with the story of the night in the Thunder Car division as CRO's own #12 Jim "Polish Prince" Belesky would score a hat trick in his beautifully prepared Malibu, winning both his heat races as well as the 30 lap main. Belesky would move to the lead after the first several laps side by side with the #9 of Chris Burrage, who went on to finish 2nd. #3 Ken Denhollander ran a solid 3rd the entire race,after an earlier heat win of his own. That trio would open up a 3 or 4 car length advantage by the time the checkered would fall on the hotly contested duel between #24 Robin Jongen (subbing for Leonard Johnston) and #14 Thayne Hallyburton who finished 4th and 5th respectively..
The other Thunder heat went to the 9 of Burrage, and there were 15 cars competing on this evening. Congrats JIMMY on your first ever "hat trick". Really clean race with only one caution for #01 Tim Tremblay who smacked the turn 4 wall just a couple laps in..
In the Late Models, the first of the twin 30 lap features was an excellent race with #8 Dave Lewis capturing the win after a great battle for the latter half of the race with #69 Al Inglis. The pair would briefly touch coming out of 4 on the last lap, allowing #57 Ron Quesnelle to stick a nose inside Inglis and nip him at the line for 2nd. The top 3 would come across the finish line in 3 wide fashion with no more than a foot separating 1st through 3rd. Defending track champ #10 Gord Shepherd and #5 Steve Quesnelle would round out the top 5.
In the 2nd 30, it was Inglis gaining a measure of revenge as he would charge from his 5th place starting spot to notch the win. Inglis would move to the lead on lap 9, with an inside pass of Steve Quesnelle racing out of corner two. This was after Quesnelle would make a brillant inside pass of early race leader #22 Rob Inglis racing into corner 3 just a few laps earlier. Lewis would cap off his earlier feature win with a 2nd place showing in the 2nd feature. Ron Quesnelle would finish 3rd, with brother Steve and the 10 of Shepherd completing the top 5. Only a disappointing 9 Lates in attendance, but the racing was stellar amongst the top 7 cars.
Pure Stocks it was pole sitter #39 Travis Hallyburton capturing his first ever BSW feature win after a intense race long battle with #91 Kyle Lethbridge and #90 Jim MacDonald who would finish 2nd and 3rd respectively. #51 William Davies and #19 Tim Foster would round out the fast five. 11 Pure Stocks in attendance but only 8 would start the feature after a few would encounter troubles of the mechanical variety in earlier heat races.
Heat wins went to Hallyburton and Lethbridge.
Sorry for the shotty report tonight I'm kinda pressed for time before my next job begins, but thought I'd at least get the gist of the results up and comment a bit more on some of the nights events a bit later.. There you have it FROM THE CHEAP SEATS
nice to have your reports back! 🙂
Good job Davey, nice run down!
My little bro did awesome last night, very proud, considering we busted ass all week til 2 and 3 in the morning, even finishing the paint Saturday morning....
My night was horrible, but what can yah do? Had shock issues all night on the left front and didnt find the problem until 5 mins to feature time... threw in a spring rubber but.had to run what we brung at that point...was great racing with Robin, fantastic driver...had fun learning a different line from him in the feature.....dude can wheel and but wouldnt give me the bottom off 2, but for one lap where I couldnt take advantage.....great job buddy!
seems like we all had our issues. We were having battery issues all night long. Still had alot of fun. Don't think I did too bad for my first Thundercar feature finishing 7th. Took awhile to get around Donny, Maybe if there was a late caution I may have had something for another car or 2, all in all it was a decent night. The atmosphere at the track seems to be really good this year.
You did AWESOME I thought STEEVE-O.. That was quite the battle you and Donny had goin, and same for Thayne and Robin.. Actually there were several newcomers that impressed me.. I will mention a bit more about those folks a bit later on when I wake up more here. All in all the night went smoothly not many major incidents other than Tremblay hitting the turn 4 wall pretty hard and then Geoff Smith catching fire after the Thunder feature was over.. Does anyone know if hes alright?? I would assume so but that was pretty scary there for a moment.
I really thought Darryl St.Onge did an awesome job in his first night as race director.. If its not clear to you drivers make one thing certain: THERE WILL BE NO FAVORTISM for anyone this season, as evidenced by Gordie being sent to the rear of the field once in each feature for aggressive driving