Hello all! Well, you do have my apologies for the delay this week. Unfortunately sometimes life gets in the way and this week I just couldn't manage to get the hour or 2 together to put the report together until now. I'd say it won't happen again, but I really can't make those kinds of promises. I'll post a Fri night update when I get home from the races, but full blown same-night reports are a thing of the past while I'm on the shift I currently have to work. I'll do my best to have em' up Sat or Sun though.

So, the Shadow Report, Thursday edition:

Demar Aggregates Trucks

Heat 1
99-Koricina, 7-Clark, 4-Thompson, 9-Thompson

Heat 2
33-Rijnen, 88-Fothergill, 00-Johns

Feature
The race starts with 11 Kirchener on the pole with 4-Thompson alongside, then 9-Thompson and 99-Koricina. Kirchner's one of the slower machines on the speedway tonight and is promptly passed by Koricina. Right off the bat, 88-Fothergill is antsy to get up front, and works his way along the outside to 4th place.

Now the 33-Rijnen has a tire going down and has to pull it in early for a change. A couple of laps in, and Fothergill is up to 2nd spot, right on Koricina's bumper. The two leaders begin to open up a lead on the rest of the field, and the second pack consits of 56-Showler, 00-Johns, 82-Demelo and 4-Thompson.

Fothergill is not wasting any time tonight and by the 5th circuit, he's on the outside of Koricina, drag racing her for 1st and completing the pass. Now Showler is up to the leaders and goes to work on Koricina. The two main battles on the speedway now are Koricina/Showler for 2nd and Johns/Demelo for 4th. Order is 88, 99, 56, 00, 82.

On the 10th lap, Showler manages to muscle past Koricina to take 2nd. Now Johns is past Koricina as well and knocking on Showler's door. In the closing laps, Johns makes it a drag race between him and Showler, making the pass with only 5 to go.

Fothergill has first place well in hand, and now one of the best battle shapes up for the race, and that's a great 3 way dance for 2nd place between Showler, Johns and Demelo that lasts until the end of the race.

At the checkers, its 1st to Fothergill, 2nd to Johns, 3rd to Showler, 4th to Demelo and 5th to 01-Bloemendal.    

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Super Stock

Heat 1
5-Mairs, 48-McColl, 04-Humphreys

Heat 2
24-Richmond, 51-Rabideau, 3-Perkins
After the race, Richmond parks the 24 car on pit road, jumps out, does his victory interview while climbing into the 24 modified for the next race.

Feature
The race starts with 5-Mairs on point with 48-McColl alongside, followed by 04-Humphreys and 28-Lawrence. Early off, Mairs jumps out in front while 5th place starter 84-Smith barrels past Humphreys and Lawrence to take 2nd. The lead pack forms up with Mairs, Smith and McColl opening up a little room while the rest of the pack shakes itself out.

On the 6th lap, caution flies a when 7-Shields and 66-Peters get together coming out of 4 to bring out, amazingly enough, the first caution flag of the evening in any division. Now there's a sloppy restart that sees cars all over the place. Mairs continues in the lead, while 67-Hewitt goes too wide and causes the pack to scatter. No caution however, and rookie Smith is now tucking in behind Mairs. Smith is an experienced endurance racer and knows how to make it stick well on the outside. On the 9th lap, Smith makes the pass for the lead.

At the crossed flags its Smith, Mairs, 11-Lidster, McColl and Humphreys.

Meanwhile, back in the field, there's a great battle shaping up between 77-Lake and 51-Rabideau as the two fight tooth and nail for the spot, this lasts most of the race, at several points it goes 3 wide and in one instance getting frightfully close to taking out 60-Ott.

Up front, Mairs isn't rolling over easy, and continues to push Smith hard to try and get the lead back. But then disaster strikes with another caution, when, back in the field, Hewiit cuts down on 3-Perkins coming out of turn 2, sending Perkins nose first into the inside retaining wall. Huge, huge damage for the 3 car. No black flag apparently. (and I understand there was no apology later either...musta slipped his mind.)

After the green, Smith and Mairs continue in 1st and 2nd, while Lawrence now challenges Lidster for 3rd, and heat winner 24-Richmond is up to 5th. Another disaster as Lake and Rabidaeu tangle in turn 3, (while trying to get around another competitor who apparently can't hold a line, they told me later) leaving the 77 car missing a good portion of his right side sheetmetal. No caution this time though.

Now the battle is for 3rd between Lidster, Lawrence and Richmond, and Lawrence comes out on top of that one.

Final
1st to Smith, 2nd to Mairs, 3rd to Lawrence, 4th to Lidster, 5th to Richmond.

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Powerade Modifieds

Heat 1
57-Brooks, 70-Saunders, 38-Hendricks

Heat 2:
39-McCullough, 54-Limon, 1-Newman

Feature
This one starts off as a drag race between front row starters 57-Brooks and 24-Richmond, Brooks takes the lead while Richmond goes wide, allowing 39-McCullough and 88-Shipway to slip by. Doesn't take long before McCullough and Shippy are past Brooks and into the top 2 spots.  

The order is 39, 88, 57, 3, and 1 at the first caution when 8-Naclerio goes around in turn 3.

Afete rthe restart, on lap 8, its trouble for 70-Saunders as the car begins to sputter and throw up a lot of flames, forcing him to slow up and bring it in. Now its McCullogh, Shipway and 1-Newman forming a tight lead pack. There's a little contact between McCullogh and Shipway, (perhaps rekindling a little tension from earlier in the season?) Shipway goes low and slips past to take 1st. One lap later, McCullough spins out in 3 to bring out another caution.

Now at the restart, 54-Limon is up to the leadars for the fianl laps. There's one more caution as Naclerio goes around again in turn 3.

Final 1st to Shipway, 2nd to Newman, 3rd to Cox, 4th to Limon, and McCullough makes it back towards the front to bring home 5th.

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Night of Destruction

Ulimate Sandblasting Chaos Cars
Snot-Rod won against Red Baron, Bush Bomb and Blue Thunder.  

Snot Rod rushed the fence to greet his adoring fans, and proclaimed later that the race had been a "Slobberknocker"  ;D

Strongman Len Elliott

Capping the show was a feat-of-strength show by strongman, and diabetic, Len Elliott. This was all in the name of raising awareness of the Canadian Diabetes association's clothes drive. If you have old clothes that are still good, as well as books and other such items, the Diabetes association will arrange to have a truck sent to you home to pick the stuff up. They in turn sell the stuff to places like Value Villiage etc to raise funds for Diabetes research. Its a great cause...so check it out. (I have some near and dear people that have the disease, so pardon the commercial - if you have stuff to donate, just call  (519) 858-3443 in London or 1-800-505-5525 anywhere else. Also check out the Diabetes associations website HERE)

Len first performed some weightlifting, at one point jerking about 760 lbs. Then he grabbed a big rope and proceeded to pull 2 chained together (20 foot?) cube vans down the frontstretch.  

Ramp Jump of Destruction

And then for the final event: Kevin Overholt capped off the show by making the jump with his Crown Vic up a ramp and through two old camper/trailers. Probably hit the ramp doing about 70mph, and utterly destroyed the campers. He still managed to land on all 4 tires, leaving an unrecognizable pile of debris behind where the 2 campers used to be.

Usually I'm pretty blase about that kind of stuff, but this was actually pretty impressive!

A couple pics by JWORacing

BEFORE

AFTER

See ya's all next week for round 2 of the JBM Autoleasing 50 for APC Late Models, as well as Mods, Trucks, Powder Puff Madness race, and the ever popular Throne Kings King of the Hill Spectators race.

(OK, actually its tomorrow night as of this writing.)