Shadow Report Wrapup, June 8

Howdy all and what a great great night of racing indeed. Huge crowd on hand...full parking lot, snack lines down to the souvenir stand, and oodles of cars on the track. The pits were completely full tonight of Late Models, Super Stocks, Trucks, and Enduros.

Hopefully you were following along a bit on Twitter/Facebook. If you weren't, then "friend" me (Trevor Van Leeuwen) or "follow" me @ShadowracerDel. That's gonna be the way the Shadow Report goes now, with a brief writeup when I get home. The way I used to do it is pretty much redundant now, as results are posted now before I even make it home, and you guys don't need me to tell you who won.

Race results are, as always, Here

Late Model Notes

Great field tonight. 25 cars, with Trevor Monaghan debuting his 7 car, and Barry Newman doing the honors in Urlin's 99. No sign of Sheridan, and Kennedy was up in the stands.

Bit of a wonky start to that one. Jay Doerr had the pole with Kirk Hooker alongside. One or 2 laps in, it looked like Doerr on the inside just lost it in the new stuff in turn 3-4 and it checked everyone up. Robblee, 8-Jacobs, 96-Prudhomme were involved. Prudhomme seemed to get the worst of it.

Great battle with Hooker and Gresel for the lead. Hooker ran with it for a while, then Gresel pulled alongside and they raced side by side. Gresel got the best in a restart after Quarrie and 83-Holland go around in 3, but Hooker stayed right with him and the two battled side by side again with 37-Elliott and 72-Thompson tucked in behind them. For most of the race the top 4 ran nose-tail, then 3-Watson was up into the fray in 5th.

In the later laps, Watson was pushing hard, something happened (didn't see it) and next thing you know Robblee is back up into third and Watson and Thompson are falling back.

In the end, Hooker couldn't muster quite enough to get around, so Gresel wins with Hooker, Robblee, Thompson and Pritiko rounding out the top 5.

Super Stock notes.

Well, anyone who thought that Super Stock would suck this year got an eye opener. (Said Shadow a little sheepishly) 20 cars answered the call, and it was a pretty good show.

Fothergill just had crappy luck all night. He crashed it in turn 1 during practice. They went home, got the backup, did OK in a heat, then got black flagged for fuel leakage in the feature, fixed that, then lost a tire in turn 3 under green.

DeJesus started on the pole and had a pretty good hold on top spot till he was black flagged for some sort of leakage too...and he was none too happy about it either, tweeting theat there was no leak.

The story in this race was the 77 car of Darrel Lake. He started from the back and given a few more alps might have had something for the leader, but he had to settle for 2nd. 84 Smith was the man to beat this night, not getting too much in the way of challengers once he got out front. The real race was back for 3rd between Showler, 28-Lawrence and 51-Robblee, and there was some real slicing and dicing back there till Lake came through and Robblee went with him. Lake and Robblee swapped spots a couple of times, but in the end it was Smith, Lake, Robblee Showler and Lawrence.

78-Jo Lawrence had a tough night hitting the wall at the top of Delaware hill straight on and at a pretty good clip.

Truck Notes

Wow, they started the features off with a bang, with a 12 lap duel between Adriaensen and 39-Smith. High, low, bumping, grinding, chopping. Smith was making his truck as wide as possible and Adriaensen was having a devil of a time getting by him. It was a battle for sure, and the fans go their moneys worth on this one. Gary A finally took the lead for good and didn't look back, as Smith had some setbacks with other cars that kept him from the front. 33-McDonald was a solid 2nd, followed by Smith, then Zagarodny and Powell. 

Notably absent from the festivities was the 01 of Devon Bloemendal, although I understand he may be getting a LOSC ride ready for next week.

Sign Off - Kudos - End Note

So there you go. Thanks for the guys following live tonight. And kudos to Delaware for what looked like a wildly successful, though long, night of racing.

Extra HUGE Kudos to the track for doing the LM driver intro the way they did. That was AWESOME. And it was only a first run. That will get even better the more ya's do it. (For those that missed it, they had the guys come down the frontstretch one by one for an individual intro as they came across the line and formed up in turn 1. Lots of cheering and hooting from the fans.)

The races were still going on when I had to leave, and I apologize to the enduro guys for getting the shaft again.

So there you have it. The new Shadow Report is now a combination of Tweeting and Message Board posting. Unfortunately the message-board-only thing wasn't doing the job anymore with so many people using Facebook to chat now instead of coming here. The Shadow Report, as it was, was always intended as a message board conversation starter, and for whatever reason, the chatter has died....or is, at least, on life support.

So hopefully using social media will invigorate things a bit. I sure know it did for me. 🙂

And if you were following along, and had a tip or suggestion, by all means let me know here. CRO is still the home base. 🙂

See ya all next week!

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