Shadow Report - August : Friday the 13th - Delaware (VID LINKS added Aug 18)

Shadowracer · 2010-08-14T00:31:08Z

Shadow Report - August : Friday the 13th Jack Sharpe TributeWell, we started the evening on somewhat of a sad note. As has been reported already, we lost Jack Sharpe a day or so ago. For long time fans, Jack Sharpe and his famous "Lobo 1" car were synonymous with supermodified racing here in the 60's. I was only sad that, as a long time fan myself, I had no stories for John Houghton when he contacted me. Of course I was familiar with the name and the Lobo1...but unfortunately that whole era was before my time and I had nothing first hand to share, other than my parents spoke fondly of the days watching him and Lennox and Trepanier go at it. I want to commend John on the piece he wrote for the handout program and of course the awesome pics he included along with it. (great work on such short notice.) There was a newspaper foldout featuring Jack on display by the souvenir booth, circa early 70s going by the Freeps typeset. Great find. And I know they don't usually do this, but I wonder if I could implore John, if he would, to share the piece he wrote for the program with us here. For those that don't know the legacy.Now in the course of the opening ceremonies, we did have a tribute to Jack. Paul Houghton did a little speech and then Barry Newman in his number 1 modified took a slow last lap in honor of Jack Sharpe. With a number of Jack's family in attendance they brought the checkers down one last time in what I thought was a very fitting tribute.Way to go Delaware guys. It was a class act. Barry Newman takes checkers in honor of Jack "Lobo 1" Sharpe while the crowd stands silent in tribute.---------------------------------------------------------------------HeatsWe started off with the Demar Aggregates Trucks, and misfortune struck early in heat 1 for Blue Thunder Triska. 16-Rijnen got out to an early lead but a lap or 2 in, Triska spun going into 1, trucks went everywhere and most missed but 1-Thompson spun to avoid and ended up backing hard into the 57. Bad damage on the 57 truck. 1st to Rijnen, 2nd to 77-Zagarodny, 3rd to 17-BrydgesTruck Heat 2 was another physical affair that saw the 99 slow down and 33-Fothergill and 75-Dupuis both spun. Fothergill went into the turn 2 wall hard enough to cast some doubt on the rest of his evening. 1st to Showler, 2nd to 01-Bloemendal and 3rd to 55-Adraeinsen.MRA/Powerade Mod 1 82-Demelo led from top to bottom. 1st to Demelo, 2nd to 38-Hendricks, 3rd to 39-McCullough. Mod 2 - Was a rerun of last weeks feature as 1-Newman and 3-Cox run away from the field. 1st to Newman, 2nd to Cox and 3rd to 24-Smiling Stephen.Late Model 1 saw its share of mishap as a 3 wide affair ended with 14-Emery sideways in 2 and 52-Sheridan going up over his hood and up nose first into the turn 2 wall. This was another one where the rest of the evening was in doubt, this time for Sheridan. But fans of the Rocket from Mt Brydges had no worry. Ron was back out for the feature. 28-Robblee got tagged in the same mess. Don't remember what happened with him exactly but it was the last we saw of him for the evening. The rest of the race was a killer battle with the Double-Ought, Jamie Cox out front and 81-Greisel right on his bumper. There was contact and Greisel actually got Cox out of shape but backed out and let him collect it. 1st to Cox, 2nd to Greisel, 3rd to 27-BoxLate Model 2 saw the return of Jesse Kennedy. Great run where Jesse did everything he could to get around 21-Pritiko but no dice. 1st Pritiko, 2nd Kennedy, 3rd to 22-RamsayDemar Aggregates Truck FeatureRijnen started pole with Brydges alongside, followed by Zagarodny and 3-Gemmel. Rijnen takes the lead with Zagarodny and Brydges in tow. The three of them create a little bit of distance, but it wasn't going to last long as Showler, Fothergill and Adraeinsen hooked up near the back and began to freight-train through the field. By lap 8, Rijnen and Zagarodny are out in front, followed by 99-Koricina, but now Showler and Fothergill are coming on hard in 4th and 5th. By lap 10 they're all in a line. Koricina has dropped back and now the order is Rijnen, Zagarodny, Showler, Fothergill, Koricina, Brydges and Adraeinsen.Showler is the most aggressive at this point, putting the boots to Zagarodny to try and take 2nd, at one point getting Zag loose coming out of 4 and taking the spot from him. Not sure what happened next, but Zag might have got a little payback on the backchute that sent Showler scrubbing the wall hard. Unfortunately some innocent bystanders gor caught in the mess with 3-Gemmel going around and 82-McCaw going up into the fence and grating up against it all the way into turn 3. Caution.At the restart, Rijnen maintains his lead with Fothergill right on his backdoor. Fothergill's pushing hard but the race comes to a stop when Zagarodny loses a tire coming off of 4 with an impressive spark show. Doesn't look like the 77 is hurt too bad but thats it for his evening as h...

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Aug 14, 2010 7:17 pm

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I'm still kicking and will see y'all next week for the Hobbies and leg 2 of the Triple Crown.
Don

Don: You will be seeing the 3rd and final leg of the Triple Crown.

See....That's what old age get's you !!

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Some great video of the LM feature. If you dig a little, the whole race is there I think.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C9L6ULnfkTg&feature=related#normal ]Last part of the race, including Shepherd ending up in the wall...but not the monkey business that led up to it.[/url]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AZS3ZX-v6G0&feature=related#normal ]The last 5 laps[/url]

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