The night started out mild...but it was hot hot by nights end with protests and unknown finishes.....
What we do kno...
36 mini stocks took the track...heats won by #88 Mustang Ken Spira, #31 Mustang Dave Bailey, #26 Volvo Willis Mahood....consi #5 Mustang Ken Stenhouse.
30 cars took the green in the feature, with plenty of 3 wide passing. Bailey and the #37 VW Rob Hoskins made contact on lap 7 sending Bailey too the pits for repairs during the caution. On the restart he was passing high and low to make his way back too the front, where the #15 Honda of Matt Dean and the #66 Beemer of Tony Darmon were battling for second as the Volvo of Mahood lead the way. Problems for Mahood and Darmon would give way for Dean to take the lead and the checkers, with the #36 Dodge of Jamie Watson second, Bailey finishing 3rd, #02 Toyota of Make Taylor 4th and the #01 Grandam of Mark DaSilva 5th.
25 Thundercars...heat winners #17 Nick Roth, #66 Jake Ott, #72 Randy Rusnell.
Consi??? sorry.
Feature was crazy....3 wide passing....just crazy excitement.
Highlight was the #31 Kevin Gallant and #72 Rocket Rusnell got hooked or something, I didnt really see it myself, while they were up front and the caution flew sending them tail....some say they got free from each other and there was no need for caution...i didnt see it....but last lap both and a couple of other cars crashed in corners 3 and 4 doing quite bit of damage...the #27 of Kevin Albers took the win, followed by #9 David Silverthorn and #67 Roy Robinson 3rd. This class has so many guys that could win any night, a great show.
21 Latemodels showedup and alot went home with lots of damage and alot of questions.
Heats won by #37 Dave Elliott, #3 Chris Bochsler and the consi #27 Mark Burbridge.
Now the fun....It was a crash fest from lap one. Lots of wrecks....but too the closing highlight....Dave Elliott was leading the last part of the feature with #82 Jason Shaw on his tail...then in the closing laps coming out of turn 4 it looked like Shaw nudged Elliott enough to spin him and take the lead but then they thru the caution out....as they came around under caution they black flagged Shaw, curfewed the race and awarded the win to the 3rd place #56 Jeff Stewart, making #86 Ken Forth second and #52 Scott Lyons third....But WAIT..lol
While Stewart is sitting at the flagstand waiting for his checker flag pic and interview...they announce that since they were curfewing the race at the same time the caution was coming out, and that Dave Elliott was leading then...he is the winner....so does that mean Jason Shaw gets 2nd back or is he still black flagged for spinning Elliott although the caution was coming out for the curfew? Left alot of people scratching their heads....Last I heard there were a few protests and some pretty upset drivers with no decision when I left at 11 pm.
More people in the stand than last time, but less than 500.
Sounds like a lot of favourtism towards Elliott. He should be at the tail end and Shaw black flagged and the third place finisher the winner. Who does the scoring...Elliott pits? The curfew should be applyed after the cauition.
the curfew in that situation sounds like a joke.........they should use some common sense when it comes to that....
The entire night was a joke. $30 to get in the pits is just crazy. But for an involved car to be given the win is nuts. Here is how the rule book reads.
"In the event a race must be stopped due to a serious problem, it can be called complete
at the official's direction. A race may be called complete at any time after the halfway mark.
On all restarts, the line-up will be taken from the last completed lap with accident cars
assuming scratch position. A lap is considered complete when the lead car crosses the
start/finish line."
I think that sums it up.
On top of the higher admission, I heard some food prices were bumped up too.
If you look at the schedule, there could be alot of $30 nights this year.
And the go cart club people are suppose to be upset too.
Story going around I heard, the go cart club paid for track, they rent track, they pay insurance...but arent allowed to use bathrooms, garbage cans or canteen...and that Flamboro may charge them all an admission everyweek on top now.