Firstly, the results are here They had em' up before I even got home.

An apology of sorts here for the incomplete report. We got the first LM feature in and the Trucks, then we got rained on. At that point my train was leaving and I had to be on it. We guessed the races wouldn't continue but it looks like we were mistaken.

An excellent crowd on hand tonight and a pit, once again, really chocked full of race cars, as we had APC LM, Powerade Mod, Demar Trucks, and Transmission Direct Enduros as well. They needed a shoehorn to get everyone in there.

In the APC late Model ranks we had a few special guests. In addition to the regular LM gang, we saw Drew Spicer back after a bit of an absence, Jason Shaw from Flamboro, Shawn McGlynn...there just for practice and a time trial, and the new/old number 79 LM driven by Dave Silverthorn Jr. (Word around the pits was that the 97 was the old HB Beal car.)

Also in attendance tonight was Earl Ross. I'm gonna assume he needs no introduction here. Earl was here to address the drivers meeting as well as meeting and greeting up top to raise awareness of Parkinson's Disease. Parkinson Society Canada was running the 50/50 draw tonight, and they had a table of old trophies, a model of the original 13 car, and some scrapbooks of old news clippings etc.

Heats-Trucks

When we got to the racing, the Trucks were up first. First heat was taken by 55-Adriensen, with 8-Porter and 81-Hilborn rounding out the top 3.

Second heat was won by 99-Koricina, 2nd to 75-Dupuis, 3rd to 88-Fothergill.

Heats - Modifieds
Heat 1 was taken by 38-Hendricks, 2nd to 70-Saunders, 3rd to 57-Brooks. (This week, the 57 Modified was brought to you by the color blue.)

Heat 2 taken by 24-Richmond (the kid's on fire I tell ya.) 2nd to 39-McCullough, 3rd to 1-Newman

APC Late Model

APC Late Model Time Trials saw Jon Urlin take the top spot with a time of 18.808 that was good enough for the pole.

APC LM Feature 1

Your polesitter is 4-Urlin with 52-Sheridan alongside. The two of them drag race for top spot for a couple of laps and its looking like Urlin is slightly faster. Disaster strikes early on lap 2 with 02-Watson going up in a plume of smoke around 3 and 4. He gets it pulled in but there's enough fluid to warrant a caution.

After the restart, your lead pack is are Urlin, Sheridan and 38-Hooker. A few lengths back, the second pack is 20-Lindsay, 28-Robblee and 10-Kennedy. For a few laps this is where the race is. Kennedy's just throwing it in there trying to get around Robblee, but no go. Soon Robblee shoots past Lindsay and by lap 8 Robblee's reeling in the leaders.

Robblee soon goes to work on Hooker and the two race side by side for a few laps until Hooker gets out of line and drops back a couple spots. At the crossed flags its Urlin, Sheridan, Robblee, Kennedy, Lindsay, Hooker, Verhoeven, Shaw and 37-Elliott.

There's a mishap around lap 16 when 72-Thompson goes around on his own coming out of 2 to bring out the caution. No real damage there.

The closing laps see Urlin build up a lead of a few car lengths, and the real race is for 2nd. Sheridan, Robblee and Kennedy (your 3 points leaders) are all running nose-tail. Robblee is pushing Sheridan hard, ducking high and low, but no dice.

At the checkers its Urlin, Sheridan, Robblee Kennedy and Hooker.  

APC Late Model Feature 2
I was not in attendance but congrats to Verhoeven on his first checkers this year. By my own rough calculation, I think the combination of 3rd and 2nd for Robblee vs 2nd and 5th for Sheridan puts Robblee out in front for the championship with only 2 features to go.

Updated video added - perhaps best LM finish all year.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Npkc-E-Hugg&feature=channel_page#normal ]APC Late Models August 21, 2009[/url]

Top 5
1 77 Dion Verhoven Kerwood
2 28 Steve Robblee Dorchester
3 4 Jonathan Urlin London
4 20 Scott Lindsay St. Marys
5 52 Ron Sheridan Mt. Brydges

Demar Aggregates Truck Feature

Well for starters the Truck feature tonight had to be the craziest one we've seen thus far, and with the most bizarre ending I've ever seen.

At the green flag, your polesitter is 9-Thompson with 55-Adriensen alongside, followed by 81-Hillborn and 4-Thompson. 9-Thompson takes the early lead with Adriensen and Hillborn right on his bumper. Back in the pack, everyone's already into each other, with 56-Showler getting almost sideways on the backstretch after contact with 82-Demelo. (I heard here I think that Rijnen was in the 82 for tonight, but the announcers were calling it as Demelo.)

Adreinsen makes the pass for 1st and is soon followed by 75-Dupuis.

Now with the top 2 pulling ahead, the main part of the pack is racing like a pack of wild dogs going after a pork chop - 3 wide, with lots of beating and banging all the way through the field. In the fray was 77-Zagarodny, 88-Fothergill, 7-Clark, 8-Porter, 01-Bloemendal, 99-Koricina and Showler all fighting to get free while the top 3 pull away.

At the halfway marker, caution flies when Bloemendal gets a little too frisky and turns Koricina in turn 4. Bloemendal is sent to the back for his efforts.

At the restart, Dupuis is looming large behind Adriensen, and by lap 16, Dupuis finally manhandles Adriensen out of the way to take 1st. Meanwhile Fothergill seems to be experiencing trouble as he starts falling backward through the field.

Another caution flies when Demelo spins in turn 2 and limps it back into the pits, as does Fothergill. Bit of a comedy of errors as Demelo opts to do a tire change on pit road...except that pit road is full of Late Models, plus the lined up grid of Powerade Mod feature. Demelo is doing his tire change in the only lane that anyone can get through on. As the field is coming to get the green, Fothergill wants to get down pit lane but is blocked by Demelo, his teammate.

The field takes green but the caution flies again so they can get pit road sorted out. Fothergill fiannly makes it out, only to find whatever problem he's having is still there. All that to get out of pit lane just to end up heading it in anyway.

Green flag. Dupuis is still leading with Adriensen behind him, the Zagarodny, Hillborn and 97-Brooks. Caution flies again as Koricina, Bloemendal and Showler bounce off of each other coming off turn 2. Bloemendal and Showler remain together, ultimately spinning themselves out on the backstretch. Bloemendal drives away but Showler goes back to the pits on the hook.  

After the green flag restart, the pack is heading down the backstretch and 9-Thompson goes sliding sideways on the track behind the tech shed, and ends up barely missing the fire/safety crew, and coming to a stop only after sliding down the backstretch pit entrance. He drives it through the pit and out the front, all with no caution flag. Unfortunately the yellow does come out for 4-Thompson after he and 33-McDonald get together in turn 3.

Its at this point that we notice 16-Hosang has worked her way up to 5th, and Koricina is about 2/3rds of the way through the pack, even after starting at the back only a few laps before.

So now the capper is on lap 23. After a couple green flag laps, the rain starts to fall in Turn 3. Dupuis gets through, but Adreinsen goes around in the wet. Then another truck piles in, kee-runch. Then another, and another, then a bunch of them at once....until literally 2/3rds of the field have gone piling into the wall in turn 3, and making the whole thing look like a demolition derby. Some of those guys went in hard too.

With that kind of lengthy damage cleanup in the offing, plus rain, Sharpie calls it at 23 laps. Jordan Dupuis is the winner of his first Truck feature.  

They were interviewing him when we got out of the rain and into the truck for the trip home.

I'd presume they went back to the last full lap to decide the final result, because they have 2nd as Adriensen.

75 Jordan Dupuis Lasalle
2 55 Gary Adriaenson London
3 77 Tom Zagorodny Dorchester Â
4 33 Sid MacDonald London
5 82 Justin Demello

Late Add - Youtube vid of the big one, courtesy of Checker Flag Media - drop by the souvenir stand and buy a DVD willya?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zMtS5YOAKW4#normal ]Delaware Speedway Demar Aggregates Truck Rain Wreck[/url]

Powerade Mods

Sorry, I wasn't there for it, but it looks like Shippy's back to the top of the pile for tonight. I have no idea what happened to the 24 car.

From the results page:
1 88 Paul Shipway Alsia Graig
2 3 Jamie Cox Dorchester
3 1 Barry Newman Springfield
4 38 Tyler Hendricks Pain Court Â
5 19 Dean Scott London
6 54 Darrell Limon Watford
7 39 David McCullough Glencoe Â
8 70 John Saunders London Â
9 57 Gary Brooks London
DNF 24 Stephen Richmond Appin
11 59 Tyler Finlay