Shadow Report (Pics added) - June 6 NASCAR CTS 200 + Super Stock 50.

Shadowracer · 2009-06-07T00:23:04Z

Crowds shoulder to shoulder in the grandstands. Concession lineups you had to elbow your way through just to get down the concourse to the bathroom. Cars parked on the road halfway back to Komoka. And a thrilling yet controversial race finish. Yeah...Delaware is officially BACK on the grid!Delaware Super Stock 50 lap feature.The race starts 24 cars with 3-Perkins on the pole, with 77-Lake alongside. Next is 76-Reid, 2-Prudhomme, 11-Lidster, 98-Morneau, 52-Clark and 99-Nagy. Perkins jumps out to an early lead with Reid and Lidster right behind. The three form up a lead pack and begin to break away. At this point, the field seems to be playing it reasonably safe, so not too much jostling in the early going. Reid looks like he's got something for Perkins and tucks in behind waiting to make a move.Now we're getting close to the halfway point and the leaders are beginning to come onto lapped traffic - lapped traffic that doesn't want to heed the blue/yellow stripe flag. Perkins is stopped by back markers running side by side, and in the melee, Reid gets by for 1st. At one point the 3 car gets caught in the high lane and gets passed by Lidster and Lake. At the halfway yellow/checker, its Reid in front, Lidster 2nd, Lake 3rd, Perkins 4th and 52-Clark 5th.Now a the restart, Reid, Lidster and Lake begin to put a little distance in from everyone else. They're beginning to pull away when 7 Shelds backs it into the turn 2 wall. Caution. Now there's a series of cautions, most minor. When the race gets going, the top 3 are still the top 3, Clark and 51-Rabideau are drag racing and battling each other for most of the race. (Clark won the Time trials and was the fastest car out there...so it looked good on Rabideau to be able to stay on the outside with him.) Next in line is another drag race between Perkins and 24-Richmond, which Richmond would eventually win. All this, entertaining as it was, was just allowing Reid, Lidster and Lake to get away.So now on lap 36 we have our only major caution, as Sheilds and 9-Dejesus get together on the frontstretch, with DeJesus hitting the front wall hard, and collecting 48-Louie McColl in the process. Now a little bit of drama as an irate DeJesus gets out of his wrecked car and goes after Shelds (also out of the car) to give him a talking to. An animated discussion takes place on the front straightaway. Interviewed on mic shortly after, DeJesus was just exasperated because Sheilds had been involved in a couple spins up to this point and, according to DeJesus, didn't seem to know when to recognize he was in over his head and when he should back out.So after the restart, the order is the same, with Rabideau and Clark still dueling for 4th. At lap 41, Lidster finally makes the pass on Reid for 1st, leaving Lake and Reid to battle side by side for 2nd, and Lake eventually prevails. This sets up the closing laps, with Lake perma-glued to Lidsters bumper. In the end, Lake can't do it cleanly and ends up a hard fought 2nd.Final - 1st to Lidster, 2nd to Lake, 3rd to Clark, 4th to Reid, and 5th to Richmond.All in all it was a good showing for the Super Stock guys. Not too much rough stuff which was nice, and all in all, Richmond Row and the CRO denizens had a pretty respectable showing. Jake Ott, son of JWOracing, looked good out there today keeping a good line and keeping his nose clean. Look for good stuff coming from the 60 team in the future. Richmond looked good and steady, and Perkins also looked good after some pretty crummy "start of season" luck. Lake was fast and could have easily stunk up the show by dumping Lidster at the end, but chose not to. Kudos to the Lake team!NASCAR Canadian Tire Super Series.Now...a blow by blow account of a 200 lap race is beyond my capabilites, and in the interest of getting to bed before 6am, I'm just going to hit some of the highs and lows.Note - JR Fitzpatrick was in attendance tonight, but not as a driver. He was actually spotting for DJ. In an interview after, JR said he was more nervous as a spotter than he'd ever been as a driver. So then...9-Dilley starts on the pole with 22-Steckly alongside, followed by 17-Kennington and 4-Thompson, then 3-Hathaway and 60-Beauchamp. Dilley takes the early lead with Kennington right on his bumper, followed by Thompson. Kennington makes the pass on lap 12 and begins to put in some distance. In the early going, not too much rough stuff and the field gets strung out a litte bit. Kennington is a rocket and soon has the lead well in hand.Theres a moment when Kennington slows up a bit and Thompson gets by, but soon Kennington's back out front.Lap 46 sees Delaware alumni 19 Brad Graham in the pits for a flat tire, but ends up staying there for a good portion of the race, putting him out of contention. At the 50 lap mark, the order is Kennington, Dilley, Beauchamp, Hathaway, Steckly, 12-Gaunt, and 27-Ranger.39-Whitlock seems to be having a tough go and on lap 5...

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choirguy

Jun 08, 2009 10:55 pm

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No water no power

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crazylady

Jun 08, 2009 10:56 pm

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Thinking no power, no water. I do believe they put some johnny on the spots out there, but that's about it. Pretty much roughing it.

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Jun 08, 2009 11:41 pm

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What does unserviced camping mean no power outlets?

That's right...its just a field. But who knows, maybe thats on the agenda as well. Probably wouldn't be free then however.

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jworacing

Jun 09, 2009 4:18 pm

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I for one would like to thank Delaware for providing free camping and leaving the infield lights on so long. At Flammy lights are off 15 mins after the race so yoare loading in the dark! Your ass needs to be off the property by midnight. My family loved the camping and the time we spent with friends and the new friends we made during the weekend. If thats roughing it I'll take it!! ;D

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