15 late models.... a couple of spins and one red flag wreck involving 3 cars...
89 shawn chenoweth took the win, 36 gary elliott second and 03 shane maginnis third...
13 thundercars....some great battles upfront and thru the pack..a couple of cautions...
73 nick troback held off the charge of second placer 2 rick burbridge and third place 27 kevin albers
22 minis...lots of 3 and 4 wide racing...heats saw a number of top cars knocked out of the nites racing with engine problems...
22 wade watson mustang took the feature win, second was 71 russ aicken cavalier, thrid 66 sheldon bossom nissan.
next week kids ride nite
13 thunders? Was this not a 20+ car class last year? What happened?
How many cars ran at Barrie Thane ?? Was weather maybe a factor ??
i dont know...we were off....it could have been though....just found it odd, i was always under the assuption Flammy was one of if not the healthiest thunder class in the province...
13 thunders? Was this not a 20+ car class last year? What happened?
Hamilton is steel town. (January '10 - the unemployment rate was 8.9%) It has taken the hardest hit over the last 2 years. Nearby St. Catherine's lost the GM Transmission plant. Lots of machines shops closed. Also nearby Maple Leaf foods in Burlington laid off, along with Stoney Creek Dairy.
I'd say there's three healthy tracks with respects to car counts: Delaware, Sunset and Kawartha, with Flammy not too far behind, everyone else is hurting in various divisions. There's tracks we don't hear much news about such as Laird, perhaps Mike Hearty can tell us.
Ontario car counts will rebound, it's a question of when the economic indicators give sufficient reason to racers to feel confident they can spend money on doing so. If I had to hazard a guess, that will happen in 2011. Car counts will be erratic for the rest of the season, except at the three tracks I mentioned as being healthy. There's also the summer - family - holiday factor to always consider. The wife and kids want to do other things (sometimes) other than be at the race track 🙂