Charlie Menard of Wisconsin won the ASA Challenge Series 200 lap feature ahead of Eddie Hoffman of Illinois, Michael Annett of Iowa, Travis Dassow of Wisconsin (last car on the lead lap) and Keeton Hanks of Kentucky rounding out the top 5. Pete Vanderwyst of St. Thomas was 7th (1 lap down) with Rob MacDonnell of Allenford 18th (DNF).
Last 100 laps after the halfway break went caution free and Menard was never challenged after taking the lead on lap 126. 24 ASA cars on hand with 23 starting the race.
Pole speed for the ASA crate engine cars was 20.078 second. How does that compare to the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series pole speed in May?
Derrick Tiemersma won the Don Biederman Memorial 75 lap OSCAAR feature over a fast closing Al Shepstone at the finish, after many of the earlier leaders were sidelined with mechanical trouble. I believe there were 21-22 OSCAAR cars on hand.
Junior Hanley paced the field for the OSCAAR race driving Biederman's #43!
Pretty good crowd on hand considering the ticket price. Wish they would repair the lap counter/scoreboard.
My 2007 Race Count: 19
My 2007 Track Count: 12 - New Smyrna (FL), Volusia (FL), Bristol (TN), Toledo (OH), Delaware (ON), Flamboro (ON), Merrittville (ON), Kawartha (ON), Humberstone (ON), Ohsweken (ON), Sauble (ON), Cayuga (ON)
Here are a few more details, UNOFFICIALLY.
I took about 1500?? photos, and will have them on
www.racepulse.com shortly.
Derrick Tiemersma won the OSCAAR Feature.
He was followed by Al Shepstone, Pee Wee Evans,
Rob Clarke, TJ Woolsey, Stu Robinson Jr, Shawn
Chenoweth, Tim Watson and Glenn Watson.
Charlie Menard won the 200 lap ASA Late Model Feature.
2nd was Eddie Hoffman, followed by Michael Annett,
Travis Dassow, Keeton Hanks, Bob Varney, Pete Vanderwyst,
Michael Simko, Kris Stump, Derek Thorn, Butch Miller,
Peter Cozzolino, Greg Stewart, Sean Murphy, Alec Carli,
Jesse Smith, Colt James, Rob NacDonnell, Chris Purdy,
David McManus, Trevor Dassow, Bob Johnson, and Bob
Cumbow.
OSCAAR SUPER LATE MODELS
HEAT 1
Lineup: 90 49 99 20 7t 7 15 03 61 62 51
Finish: 90 49 7 03 61 99 15 62 20 51 7t
HEAT 2
Lineup: 21 16 89 22 27 00 68 24(43) 2 69
Lap 5: 21 22 89 00 21 16 68 27 2 69out
CautionLap7: 21 22 89 24 68 2 27 00crash 16crash
Finish: 21 22 89 24 68 2 27
HEAT 3
Lineup: 61 15 03 7 7t 20 99 49 90 62 51
Lap5: 61 15 03 7 7t 99 90 49 62 20 51
Finish: 61 15 03 7 7t 99 49 90 62 20
HEAT 4
Lineup: 2 24 68 27 22 89 16 21 69
Lap5: 24 68 2 22 16 27 21 69 89
Finish: 68 24 2crash 16?crash 22 69 27 89
FEATURE
Lineup--------: 89 21 2 15 49 90 03 7 61 24 68 22 99 16 27 7t 69 62 20 51 21 00dns
Lap-5--Caution: 03 15 61 49 90 7 68 24 22 16 62 7t 20 99 51 2 69crash 89out
Lap-15?Caution: 61 15 49 7 90 68 22 62 7t 20 03flat 24 16 2 99 51
Lap-20?Caution: 49 7 68 15 90 22 03 7t 24 20 99 2 51 16 61out
Lap-25?Caution: 49 7 68 03 22 90 24 7t 20 99 2 16 51
Lap-?--Caution: 49 7 68 03 22 20 15 24 90 99 7t 2 16crash 51
Lap-?---------: 49 7 03 15 68 90 22 24 20 99 7t lap 2 51out
Lap-?---------: 7 49 03 15 90 68 24 22 20 99 7t lap 2
Lap-?---------: 7 03 15 49 90 68 24 22 20 99 7t lap 2
Lap-?---------: 7 15 90 03 49 24 68 lap 20 99 22 lap 2
Finish--------: 7 15 90 49 24 lap 68 20 99 22 lap 03 2 7t 51 16p 62 89 69 27 21 00dns
ASA LATE MODELS
FEATURE
Finish--------: 13 8 12 89 35 116 92 45 15 5 52 11 40 32 01 81 015 72 51 111 189 2 181
Yep, not a bad night at Cayuga.
Only thing I want to know is how Menard, after spinning to bring out the caution, ends up re-starting in 5th (or so) spot. Maybe the announcer explained it, but we didn't hear it. Good job by Vanderwyst, putting on a pretty good duel with the 8 (Dale Jr. lookalike) car, and later getting up to 4th off a really good restart. Its only too bad that Butch Miller wasn't much of a factor for the evening.
Nice to see Rob Clarke looking good in his SLM...pretty good race by the OSCAAR gang, though Clarke fell off a little at the end, and #61 looking like he was gonna dust everyone before dropping off and pulling it behind the wall.
Heck, I was just tickled to experience Cayuga at night again. Been there lots of times over the years, but the last time I was there under the lights, Earl Ross was still driving the Coke Can car, Bieder had that beat up blue Nova, the Compacts were a feature division, and there was a little oval for mini stocks where pit road now is. (and "The Fonz" was the coolest guy on prime time TV!)
Wanna shout out to DB1 and Bill. Fun hanging with you guys!
And they had the autograph session on the track where it belongs !!! (I find it makes a huge difference when you can sorta put a face to the car)
I was puzzled by Menard's starting position too. He looped it coming out of turn 4 (with most of the field close behind), and they threw the caution immediately. The pace car picked-up the field, then took them down pit road for the mid-way competition caution. As Shadowracer said, on the restart, he was lined-up somewhere around 5th...
Possibly when they were brought down pit lane by the pace car and had their mandatory break, the pit crews also had a say in processing the cars and this is how Menard moved up.Noticed Vanderweyst started 5th and had been running 7th before the break.
All this would have been clarified if the speaker system was working properly...and of course the scoring tower not working.
"COME ON" Cayuga people, you are charging absolute top dollar for your shows, you have to put something back into the track. Yes, the seats were nicely painted,but the fans need to know whats happening on the track.
Hey SHADOWRACER, it was great SEEING you too.