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Shadow Report - Jun 5 Sprints, Trucks, Modifieds (pic links added)

Shadowracer · 2009-06-06T01:04:48Z

Caveat-these reports are a fan-in-the-stands eye view of the nights events, and are in no way to be construed as official. Sometimes I get it wrong, and the names are the names I get off the roster. If I've made a mistake, please feel free to correct me. If something is REALLY glaring, please write it down on a 20 dollar bill and send it in. My complaints department will get back to you...eventually. ;)Shadow Report - Auto Value/Bumper to Bumper Sprints, Demar Aggregates Trucks and Powerade Modifieds. June 5 2009Well, had our good luck charm, 9 year old Em, with us tonight. (The nights when I've brought her with me have been the only nights thus far with no rain.) So...there wasn't a cloud in the sky. Richmond Row was full. And on the racetrack, well....lets just say there was a close-to-full moon, and it certainly showed through in the racing!The crowd was good, and because of the NCTS race tomorrow night, the campground was full too. The place was bustling, NASCAR tractor trailers all over the place, and it was good to see the place in full special event mode!.We began the nights events with time trials for all divisions. Trials were earlier and I missed most of that, being unaware they were going to do it that way, but I did catch some of the AVSS trials. Ryan Litt set a new track record at a blistering 15.62. Gonna be a while before they top that I think.Demar Aggregates Truck Feature Number 1Started with 81-Hilborn and 16-Hosang on the point. On the first curcuit, they fell into line with Hosang out in front with 01-Bloemendal a close second. Bloemendal makes the pass and 56-Showler and and 88-Fothergill go with him, relegating Hosang to 4th. Again they fall into line, and the real battle takes place for 5th between 77-Zagorodny, 00-Johns, 82-Demelo and 33-Rijnen, all 4 of them running in a tight bunch. Up front, Fothergill makes the pass on Bloemendal and begins to run.At the halfway, Fothergill's got the lead firmly in hand, and the battle is now for 2nd between Bloemendal and Showler. Showler's trying everything, even laying a bumper on occasion but can't get past the 01. This gives Demelo the chance to work up and make it a 3 way battle for 2nd. Disaster strikes on lap 23, when Showler and Demelo tangle and spin in 3-4 to bring out the caution. Both go to the back. Demelo has a fender rubbing and smoking the tire pretty badly as they come around on the caution laps, and as they come down turn 4 to get the white flag, there's a loud pop as Demelo's tire lets go.So now on the restart with 3 laps to go, Rijnen is in the hunt and sitting in 3rd. Now he's all over Bloemendal for 2nd but cant quite make the pass. At the checkers its Fothergill in 1st, Bloemendal in 2nd, Rijnen in 3rd, 75-Dupuis in 4th and Showler in 5th.Powerade Modified Feature Number 1Starts with 38-Hendricks on the point with 57-Brooks alongside. Its a good drag race between the front two for the first couple of laps, with 72-Thompson tucked right in behind them, but by lap 3, the order is Hendricks, Thompson, 39-McCullough, Brooks and 1-Newman. Caution flies on lap 7 when 72 bobbles and slows, which causes McCullough to bounce off the backstretch wall, and lets Newman slip past him into 3rd. No big damage at this point and all cars are still running. On the restart, the order is Hendricks, Thompson, Newman, McCullough and 3-Cox.After the restart, Newman gets past Hendricks and brings Cox and McCullough with him. Lap 14, and Thompson appears to be having some trouble, putting up a fair bit of smoke and slowing down, while 88-Shipway jumps into 4th and 54-Limon into 5th. Theres a bad moment when Shipway, trying desparately to get around McCullough, gets squirrelly coming out of 4 and almost hits the frontstretch wall.On the 20th circiut, Newman has it well in hand, and there's trouble in the back half of the field when 24-Richmond gets around in turn 1-2 with a little help from 59-Finlay. Caution.Now on the restart with 5 to go, Newman has to contend with Cox on his bumper, while Shipway does his damndest to get around McCullough. Cox is trying everything short of dumping Newman to get around, and just can't manage it. At the checker, its Newman for the win, 2nd to Cox, 3rd to McCullough, 4th to Shipway, and 5th to Limon. Auto Value/Bumper to Bumper SprintsNow its time for some Auto Value/Bumper to Bumper Sprint car action. Now the field for these guys was pretty slim, with 12 cars in attendance. There was word of some passport problems that kept a number of teams home. Essentially the story I heard was that while these guys weren't going to have any trouble coming into Canada, the lack of passports was going to keep them from getting back into the US, so quite a few stayed home. Regardless, the ones that came showed up large, loud and extremely fast!Heat 1 saw 26-Bloom jump into an early lead with 07-Litt tucked in behind. Looks like Litt is toying with hi...

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Shadowracer

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Jun 08, 2009 11:48 am

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Shadow, if possible, could we have a picture of the hat that roams around the pits?

Ah yes...the "you must be that Shadow-guy from the internet" hat.

(the one my girlfriend seems to think is sorta funny looking, and not at all sexy.)

😉

Don't think I actually do have a pic though. See what I can find.

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Jun 08, 2009 11:54 am

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It was a great show and by seeing all the fans at the track and the parking lot full and cars parking on the road to get into the track and online ticket sales were over 1000+.
Also tons of campers.

I think they felt they got their moneys worth. There was stuff for them to do and a lot of free stuff given out. I didn't hear anyone complaining about the price they paid.

If the place was empty I would say there would be a problem. Food prices were great you got a Big Plump Hot Dog + Good size fries + Bottle of pop for under 9.00

How long can Delaware get away with charging $24.00 for that kind of show?
For example, last night Ohsweken had 25 360 sprints, 25 Thunder stocks, 20 minis for $10.00 admission (and fans got a free pair of tickets to a Brantford Red Sox intercounty baseball game to boot).
I think last year's AVSS count was only 16 cars so the 11 or 12 really came as no surprise. Guess when you're a bit on an island like Delaware, you charge what you think you can get away with.

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BTW TommySalami, went doen to Ryan's pit looking for you but they said you were in Ohsweken. Was hoping to hook up. Let me know whenever you're gonna join us.

I am one of the announcers and PR people at Ohsweken...Our regular race night is Friday. I'm also the media officer for the Southern Ontario Sprints...between those two groups I keep pretty busy...The only Delaware dates I would really consider going to are AVSS and ISMA anyway, but all those dates conflict...unless we get a freak rainout and Delaware is dry, I won't be there at all for the rest of the year.

I was at Delaware for the rainout on opening night before my "work" season got started though. My brother works for McColl's part time, so I was there hanging out...

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Well, maybe I'll have to give those Delaware jabronies the day off one of these Fridays, and come down and say howdy.

Never done a Shadow Report from the O.

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The parking deal on Saturday didn't really need to be the way it was. I think they are going to have to mark the field out for the kids that do the parking there as there were acres between some of the rows.

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