Kawartha opened there season on a very hot a humid evening...to a great crowed and a lot of Exciting Racing.
Mini-Stock
Feature:N/A was moved until 2 weeks..due to time constraints.....I think we all figured that would happen
Pro Challenge
Feature:Dennis Thompson
Clean racing threwout the heats...feature was a good one..Thompson led the whole thing..but Kevin Crowhurst was right there..and I think a nother lap or so and he would have passed him.
Thunder Car
Feature:Willy Reyns
Was awesome to see Willy finally win after coming so close so many times! The feature started out messy..right off the initial start...a bunch of guys got into a bumper car effect...ultimately it was Jim Remington getting the worst of it...and then out of anger he spun the car around and hit the wall again..very hard. after a clean up ...and completely re-start was called...to much of the same effect..as this time it was the #30 car getting spun hard into the inside wall, 3rd time was a charm as the field finnaly made it to turn 1 this time..and the feature was clean after that.... Mayhew was on Reyns bumper all race but could not get by.
Ltd Late Model
Feature:Dwight Brown
A small field of LLM made the trip to Kawartha tonight....the feature was all Brown, Parsons was close but burnt up his right rear and just fell back. One of the big surprises was Walters Kawartha car was just JUNK...he retired from the Heat & Semi feature..and all he was..was a back marker in the feature, they got some work to do..but I'm sure they will get the ship righted before to long.
Late Model
Feature:Dan McHattie
WOW-O-WOW! what a field of Late Models at Kawartha this year!
A Huge field of 19 LM's took to the high banks on friday night, both Heats & Semi Feature were competive and the feature was much the same.
Mayhew lead the first few laps until Darragh Moroney got loose and ran over his front end..causing damage to the #60, the crew made repairs and sent him back out..only to have his bad luck contiune as Jackson spun and Mayhew had no where to go and clobbered Jacksons car, amazingly both cars pitted and returned....Mayhew's car looked like it had been in a demo derby...and then to make matters worse he must have had multiple heart attacks being behind Owen Smith as he almost lost the car mutiple times....(what eles is new)
After a late race caution for a spin by Moroney...it was McHattie and Linc Brown starting side-by-side....they both races door to door! for the last 3 laps..as McHattie on the outside! prevailed barely over Brown. IMO McHattie won the race off turn-2 of the final lap...he drove it "straight off" turn 2 and carried a ton of speed down the backstretch...Brown closed the gap in 3-4 but the momentum was to much.
If this is the regualer "crowd" for the LM's this year...my oh my..what a treat...... Brown,McHattie,Mayhew,Moroney,Thring,Jackson,Mercer are all fast! and guys like Watson,Morgan,Kimmerly,Kimball are not much off the pace!
It's going to be one heck of a battle all season long in the LM's I can't wait to see how it unfolds!
OSCAAR
Feature:Glen Watson
A big field of OSCAAR Super Lates showed up for opening night of there season.
Heats went off clean, and then to the voice of our own Spencer Lewis the Feature was underway, quickly you could tell who was class of the field..Watson & Maginnis were in there own zip code it seemed like...as they were running away with it, untill Shane had some sort of technical problem..and it was all Watson from there on. Only 1 real incident happened, was Pee Wee looked to get loose checked up..and Dunford had to do the same and cut to the bottom..causing Spicer to lock it up and spin himself out..unfortunelly it caused him to take a pretty good lick into the backstretch wall ending his night.
The field spread out preety quickly..it seemed, I guess it's expected first night out some guys had all the bugs figured out and a lot didn't...but I suspect it to be another great OSCAAR season.
Aproxx Car Counts:
Pro Challenge:12
Mini-Stocks:19
Thunder Cars:18
Ltd Lates:10
Late Models:19
OSCAAR:19
Was a great night...now it's off to Barrie tomorrow night! ;D
Great report, I'll delete mine.
Here are the cars for LM and SLM.
SLM 19 Bawlby, 03 McGinnis, 49 Clarke, 20 Chenoweth, 7T Dunford, 89 Spicer, 68 Robinson, 54 Beyore, 2 Owen, 16 Bickle, 83 Bourque, 62 Ritchie, 7 Tiemersma, 88 Woolsey, 00 Isaacs, 70 Hanley, 22 Watson, 52 Gordon and 90 Evans.
LM were 81 Mercer, 99 Brown, 10 Morgan, 07 Baker, 29 Smith, 85 Weber, 9 Watson, 84 Jackson, 01 Kimmerly, 71 McHattie, 88 Mitchell, 7 Sinopoli, 16 Kimball, 60 Mayhew, 5 Maroney, 55 Thring, 77 Fernandez and the 72 of ?.
Here are some more UNOFFICIAL RESULTS
(thanks 3-wide and slapdown for the commentary).
I took over 3300 photos, and will post some
here and on www.racepulse.com as soon as i can.
Glenn Watson won the OSCAAR Super Late Model Feature,
followed by Rob Clarke and Jeff Hanley.
Dan McHattie beat Linc Brown by a slim margin to
win the Late Model feature, followed by Darren Thring.
Dwight Brown won the Limited Late Model Feature,
2nd was Vic Parsons, and 3rd was Todd Delisle.
Dennis Thomson won the Pro Challenge feature.
OSCAAR SUPER LATE MODELS
HEAT 1
Lineup:70 62 52 83 88(TJ) 22 7 19 20 2
caution(5):70 7 52 88 22 62 83 20 2 19
caution(8):70 7 22 52 88 62 20 19 83spun 2
Finish:70 7 22 88 52 83 20 2 62 19
HEAT 2
Lineup:54 90 49 03 00 89 68 16 7t
lap 6: 90 03 54 49 89 00 7t 68 16
Finish:90 9 49 54 89 7t 68 00 16
FEATURE
Lineup--------: 22 54 88 53 03 90 49 7 89 70 83 7t 68 20 00 2 16 19 62
Lap-3--Caution: 22 03 54 88 49 90 7 70 52 89 7t 83 68 20 19 16 62 00spun 2
Lap-9--Caution: 03 22 88 90 70 49 54 7 7t 68 59 83 52 2 00 16 62 19blew
Lap-15--------: 03 22 70 88 90 49 7 54 7t 89 68 83 00 20 2 52 16 62
Lap-25?-------: 03 22 70 49 7 90 88 7t 89 68 2 83 00 54 20 52 16 62
Lap-3x?-------: 22 03 70 49 7 90 7t 89 88 68 2 83 20 00 52 54 16 lap 62
Lap-3x?-------: 22 03 70 49 7 90 7t 89 88 68 2 83 20 lap 00 16 62 52out54out
Lap-40?Caution: 22 70 49 7 7t 88 68 2 83 20 03spun lap 00 16 62
Lap-45--------: 22 49 70 7 7t 68 2 88 83 20 lap 16 62 00out
Lap-48--------: 22 49 70 7 7t 68 2 88 83 20 lap 16 62
Finish--------: 22 49 70 7 7t 68 2 83 20 88 lap 16 62
LATE MODELS
HEAT 1
Halfway:84 71 83 99 60 9 85 77
Finish:84 71 83 99 60 9 85 77
HEAT 2
Lineup: 10 29 16 01 55 88 5 07 7 72
caution:10 55 16 01 29 07 7 88 5 72
Finish: 10 01 16 55 5 07 7 29 88 72
SEMI
Lineup: 60 5 55 81 99 16 71 01 84 10
halfway:60 99 84 71 5 81 55 10 01 16
Finish: 60 99 84 71 5 81 10 55 16 01
FEATURE
Lineup--------:5 60 55 99 16 81 01 71 10 84 9 07 85 7 77 29 88 72
Lap-1--Caution:5 99 55 16 81 01 71 10 84 9 85 7 07 77 29 88 60 72
Lap-3--Caution:99 55 71 5 16 81 01 10 9 85 7 88 77 07 29 72 84 60
Lap-10--------:99 71 55 81 5 10 16 9 01 85 7 84 88 77 29 60 72 07
Lap-15--------:99 71 81 55 10 9 5 84 16 01 7 85 77 88 60 72 29 lap 07
Lap-20--------:99 71 55 81 10 9 54 5 16 01 7 8577 88 60 29 lap 07 72out
Lap-22-Caution:99 71 55 81 10 84 9 16 01 7 85 77 88 60 29 5spun 07
Lap-24--------:71 99 55 10 81 84...
Finish--------:71 99 55 10 84 81 ? ... ? 9 01 16 7 85 77 60 88 5 29 07
(not sure of finish - was watching 71 / 99 battle ...
LIMITED LATE MODELS
HEAT 1
Lineup:22 86 98 47
Finish:22 98 86 47out
HEAT 2
Lineup:1 93 14 88 44 20
Finish:1 14 20 93
SEMI
Lineup:86 44 98 93 22 44 20 1 47
lap4: 98 86 22 20 14 1 47 93 44
Finish: 22 20 1 98 14 86 93 44 47out
FEATURE
Lineup-:47 20 86 14 1 98 22 93 44
Lap-5?-:20 1 14 22 86 98 93 47 44
Lap-10?:20 1 22 14 98 86 47 93 44
Finish-:20 1 22 14 98 86 47 93 44
PRO CHALLENGE
HEAT 1
Caution:53 71 99 02 88 04 66 5 97 85 38 21out
Finish: 53 71 02 99 66 ? 97 5 ...
FEATURE
Lap-5?---------:02 53 71 66 99 21 04 85 5 97 38
caution (2togo):02 53 71 99 66 21 5 85 04 97 38spun
Finish---------:02 53 71 99 21 5 66 85 97 04
THUNDER CAR
FEATURE
Finish: 87 14 77 93 ... ? (sorry was taking pics).
MINI FEATURE
called - curfew.
Great report, I'll delete mine.
sorry about that...I was typing mine as you posted yours, thanks for the car list though...I was not going to remember all the cars..lol