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APC Weekend - Night 2 LOSC (short vid link added Sept 9)

Shadowracer · 2009-09-06T00:51:25Z

Sept 9 Update: A little bit of video from the event, thanks to the Trevellin Motorsports Blog HERELet's just say it was a really wild night. But the weather once again was great, and a killer crowd was on hand to experience it. No one went home disappointed, except maybe the Chaos Car fans. Unfortunately the Chaos race was scrapped due to curfew. By the time races were over it was past 1130.And yes John, the notebook filled up quite a bit tonight!As of this writing the final tally for the Truck champoinship points is not complete.It was the return of the Lucas Oil Sportsman Cup series, formerly the OSS, and even more formerly, the Delaware CASCAR style Friday night LM division before the switch to the underslung style Late Models. Reports were the count was at 26 cars through the gate, but 23 of them made time trials, including our own Racer43 aka Jay Doerr, driving Scott Lindsay's old number 20. Jay didn't seem to confident when I spoke to him before the races, but it sure as heck didn't show when they hit the track for the first 50 lapper.But first, the Demar Aggregates Trucks. I'll leave it up to everyone else to talk about points, because frankly I lost track.Demar Agreggates TrucksHeat 1 saw the return of 16-Hosang driving her new truck, the former Throne Kings 91. Hosang was battling some troubles all night, starting off with tranny problems that didn't seem to get better as the night progressed. 8-Porter took and early lead, but was outmuscled on the last lap by 00-Johns. 1st to Johns, 2nd to Porter, 3rd to 55-Adriensen.Heat 2 Was all the top points runners. 88-Fothergill brought it home in 1st, 56-Showler 2nd, 01-Bloemendal 3rd.Feature Starts with a couple of failed first laps. One incident saw Porter and 4-Thompson around in 3-4 and another saw a big schmozzle on the backstretch that sent trucks flying everywhere and sent 99-Koricina spinning around.Once a couple of laps were on the board, it had shaken out to Johns in front, followed by Adreinsen, Fothergill, and Showler as your lead pack. Other than the start issues, the first part of the race was mostly uneventful, the top 4 running away while the rest of the field battled. Then things began to come unhinged. Its starts off with 33-McDonald going flying in the backstretch entrance with some kind of problem. I beleive there may have been a speeding issue, because he went flying thru there pretty quick. He came out of pit road of the pace, and stayed high going down the backstretch right in front of the leaders. Showler, being on the outside, was the one that stood to get slowed up by McDonald, but he scrambled around anyway.So now 88 manages to make the move on Adriensen for 2nd place. Going into 3-4, Points leader Fothergill starts spewing sparks. Flat tire. Managed to keep it straight though. Well, straight up to the point that Showler got beside him on the outside, then the 88 started veering toward the wall...riding Showler in there with him. Now both the points leaders are damaged and coming into the pits for repairs. Now the question is, can the two points leaders get back out on the track before the green flies? Showler with heavy front end damage and Fothergill with a bad tire. SHowlers guys are beating the front end into something raceable, and Fothergills guys are changing a tire. They get the tire back on Fothergills truck, they drop it off the jack, and Fothergill drives away. Then one of his front tires falls before he even gets 20 feet, doing even more dmage to the 88 truck. The green flag flies with both still in the pits.Johns still has things in hand up front, and he's now followed by 7-Clark and Demelo. Another caution when Porter and the 97-? go around in turn 3, buying 88 and 56 a little more time. After the restart, Demelo moves Clark out of the way to take 2nd.Now on lap 22, the crowd is on their feet, because limping down the frontstretch is the 56 truck, front end nothing but a bare engine block between 2 tires, desperately trying to avoid a DNF. If he can make it out, based on the number of trucks out of the race already, he could take the points title. But wait....the dude with the stop sign at the end of pit road is not.frigging.letting.him.go. Well fine, maybe its a speeding penalty. Now its lap 23, and they're still not letting him go (thought speeding was a 1 lap penalty), now lap 24 and he's still sitting there. Fothergill is nowhere in sight.When they come down to the checkers, its Johns with the win, Demelo 2nd, Bloemndal 3rd, Clark 4th and 31-Howard in 5th.Now they let Showler go.And why Showler didn't just leave his truck parked on the frontstretch in disgust and went home, I have NO idea. Lucas Oil Sportsman CupThis race was a homecoming of sorts for a lot of drivers, and it was obvious that quite a number of them wanted to win quite badly.The First 50 - The Finish of the YearThe race starts with 10-Brown on the pole with Doerr alongside, then 82-Connelly and 42...

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Sep 11, 2009 3:31 pm

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Ok...just wanted to make sure my race addled brain wasn't just making stuff up.

So when was the actual winner announced?

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Sep 11, 2009 6:06 pm

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I'm not sure, I was to busy trying to track down our bumper when we got pile driven from behind on the track

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Thats wierd because I remember it differently. We were standing at the start finish line pit road side waiting to get accross the track. We couldnt tell who won from there. When Dan and Steve pulled up to victory lane we headed up the hill. I could swear John did his poll the audience thing while they checked the vid. Then he announced Steve as the winner, the crowd basically boo'd and I remember turning around to see the look on Dan's face. I felt for him... he been running really well this year and has worked his tail off. Not to say Steve hasnt.... but you know enough is enough.

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At the conclusion of the race, the winner was not immediately clear and a video replay was called. Both cars were called to victory lane. To my knowledge, no winner was declared at this time.

The video was reviewed a number of times by the official in charge. We were able to freeze frame it on the moment the drivers crossed the line. The video was conclusive, and the screen capture is available on delawarespeedway.com as part of the recap article. With information provided by the CheckeredFlagMedia.com camera, the official was able to declare Robblee the winner.

I returned to the booth where we conducted a crowd poll, prior to revealing the already determined winner - - Steve Robblee.

While a heartbreaker for Dan Prudhomme, especially with so many supporters in house - - it was truly an excellent finish, and will likely stand as the closest of the year, something both drivers should be very proud of. We only went to video replay twice this year, the other was to determine the winner of a Chaos Car event.

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Well then, I offer my humble apologies to everyone, including Steve Robblee and his fans.

I screwed up.

The change has been made to the initial post.

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