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Howe Racing /Robbie Pyle to be regulars at Delaware ?

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Pyle racing under Howe banner called great exposureTue, September 8, 2009By JIM CRESSMANDELAWARE -- "The drive here is harder than the drive to get here."The pre-race words of Delaware Speedway race director Jeff Wilcox were prophetic for Robbie Pyle.The 41-year-old, who had made the 6 1/2-hour drive from Chicago, saw his Sunday end just six laps into the Total APC 200.His car was on the trailer after a pileup, but he'll be back (next season) as a Friday night regular."I've done worse trips than this to race," said Pyle, a top runner in the U.S.-based ASA Late Model Series who'd driven once at Delaware, July 10, which was also his first racing north of the border.Pyle drives for Howe Racing Enterprises of Beaverton, Mich., a chassis and parts manufacturer that's big into late models and making inroads into Canada.When he's not in Chicago at his commercial sign business, Pyle is racing somewhere."I just run where they want me to run and they wanted to build a car for here around these rules," he said."I've run all over the (U.S.). I like travelling. I like this track. It's the rules that are so different and once we get that figured out we'll have more fun here."Wilcox said Pyle is a welcome addition."He's raced a lot of big races down in the States. He's run a lot of long races. Howe is a little frustrated that they weren't a little bit quicker, but Robbie said the only way you're going to get better here is to run here."You've got to get the laps under your belt to get it figured out because the people that are good here have thousands and thousands of laps and they know their way around this place."Wilcox said Pyle racing here under the Howe banner is great exposure for the track."When he's running other big races, just to have it on his resume that he's ran the Total APC 300 at Delaware and he's campaigned weekly here, to get that recognition and the fact he could be in contention for the points championship next year, it's really putting the speedway out there."Wilcox said he wouldn't be surprised to see more Americans in 2010."This year was kind of a struggle with the border issues, but for people that have (crossed) a number of times, it's really not that big a deal. "

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mike32

Sep 08, 2009 10:40 pm

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and Doug, I think Jay Doerr and I noted in another post ACT legal cars use a GM 609 which I think is a ZZ4 with aluminum heads so there's another component to add to the equation.
Did Todd Barlass from Michigan run any shows at Delaware this season???? Was the driver you were thinking of in previous years Glenn Gault Jr. from Ohio by any chance?
Appears he ran Lake Erie's finale Saturday night.

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Sep 08, 2009 11:00 pm

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Mike,

I honestly can't remember the teams from the U.S. that showed up at Delaware (and in the old days, Cayuga) on a reqular basis. Times have changed over the years and one of them is my memory. But didn't a lot of teams in Michigan and other parts of the Northeast show up often ? Like 3, 4 or 5 teams?

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mike32

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it depends how far you want to go back Doug-guess I go back to the 70s at Cayuga-when half the field for lm specials would be Americans, (there were still a lot of late models in NY state then) but everyone pretty well ran the same rules. It's interesting see a Howe car at Delaware again (after watching Ed Howe and Tommy Meier run as Team Howe years ago) and it makes me wonder if Chas Howe wants to take a crack at the Cdn. market again. McColl beware??? Howe Racing Enterprises have a nice web site with prices so maybe someone could advise how the prices compare to the McColl cars.
I do miss the days though of when you could expect Tracey Leslie, Art Sommers, Jay Sommers, Chuck Roumell to enter the big shows. The Cascar days (and a very low Cdn dollar at the time) pretty well killed American interest in the track except for a couple of drivers.

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Did Todd Barlass from Michigan run any shows at Delaware this season????

Yes he did actually. Barlass has been semi regular here for quite some time. I always suspected his car was actually pretty fast, but he either had it set up all wrong or needed a different driver, because he was typically all over the place. Caused quite a few bent up cars, most recently the 10 car. (and it wasn't that he was a dirty driver...he just seemed to not be able to handle the car)

As far as other American competitors at Delaware, no there haven't been any that I recall in recent years. Barlass has been the only one with the exception of Pyle. (unless you count Lloyd Rawlings...and I think he's listed as an Ontario driver now)

Any invaders we ever got were mainly from either Flamboro, Kawartha, or ex ALSTAR machines. I've been maintaining all along that if Ontario tracks could get cool with each other on tire rules etc, we wouldn't have to worry about attracting from the States. But...well you know how that goes.

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Billy Leslie ran a few shows here 3 or 4 years ago, and Scott Menlin ran a few early last season.

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