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Autumn Colours Report - Saturday October 11th

Guest · 2008-10-12T00:28:37Z

First, sorry about the late report but watched the end up the Cup race.Todays racing was quite a bit more exciting than yesterday with some wild action in the last chance races for Thunder and mini-stock. First let me congratulate bake82 and barrie97ps for making it through the last chance races for tomorrows features.I'll start with the supers. Hanley looks to be the quickest out there by far. I will be a hell of a race for second though with 4 or 5 cars fast enough to be the runner up. The track may change but my money is on Hanley. Heat wins went to 70 of Hanley, 2 of Owen ( way to go John ), 7 of Tiemersma and the 34 of long time SLM runner Al Thompson. The late models had a couple new arrivals with 14 Tyler Liscum and 99 of Mike Bentley showing up today. Unfortunately the 97 of Cassidy loaded this morning after sustaining damage Friday night. The 06 of Simon Wild was changing a transmission tonight. The heat races were won by the two cars I like to see win the most, 81 of Mercer ( must have been the spotting LOL ) and the 10 of Balson. The first race was a bit of a mess with the 77 of Fernandez taking the 70 of Morgan to the wall out of 4 on the start, almost wrecking the field. Great ration by Dave saved the day for many. Fernandez didn't stop there taking the 95 of Simone high every time he tried to pass on the outside, finally causing a big wreck out of two. Only cosmetic damage and everyone continued. Fernandez got an ear full from Morgan, Simone and the 16 of Kimball after the race. All of it well deserved.I only saw bits and pieces of the rest of the classes but the LLM heats were like last night, fairly uneventful. Sauble's Jason Parker won one but sorry, can't remember the other two. They do have a last chance tomorrow at 12:45 pm. I really didn't see any Thunder heats but the B feature was won by the 21 of Barrie's Luke Gignac. The min-stock B features were fairly entertaining as well and they were won by the 45 of Barrie's Derek Sererus and the 24 of ?? . They said he flew in from Alberta early Friday morning for the event. I take it he runs here but was on business. The crew seemed pretty happy with the win.The modifieds had a great increase in the car counts. Think there were 14 of 15 in todays heat race. I did see at least one new car from Delaware and one from Brighton. Not sure on the rest. They did have a big incident in that heat involving the 1 of Patterson, the 8 of Maclean and the 12 of McLellan. I think all three will be back tomorrow.One final note the Hurricane midget heats and feature were won by my buddies son Cale Bailey. Cale also wrapped up the Peterborough Speedway Copier Cup as well as the overall season championship for the class. I can't end it off with out complimenting the staff, scorers and cleanup crew for the last two days. I usually am typing about stuff that's ticked me off at Autumn Colours but this year they seem to be doing a bang up job. A few minor things like only one person at the pit ticket window Friday had me wondering but I think the three day format is working out well. The races aren't all crammed in and we are done at a decent hour. The weather is sure helping as well. And I would be remiss if I didn't mention the extremely professional job that Spencer and Glen Butt are doing with the announcing. Great play-by-play and alot of knowledge about current and past events in Ontario short track racing. The Speedway staff also has it so they know who EVERY driver is. Even with all the Xs, Ps, Bs ( you get the picture ) after all the numbers.If you aren't going tomorrow but aren't doing anything else you are not a race fan. The best field of cars you are going to see this season. Really looking forward to tomorrow.

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wyatt

Oct 12, 2008 12:46 am

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no we finished 6th in the B just outside the cutoff. but awe well we were in a borrowed car anyway

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Thayne

Oct 12, 2008 1:00 am

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show up tomo Wyatt, someone may drop out...

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DWfan4ever

Oct 12, 2008 1:51 am

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Awesome news there Slapdown, especially to hear that Mercer won his heat race. Probably will sit down with the team tomorrow as long as I can convince the rest of my group to join.LOL I'll be there for sure snapping as many pics as I possibly can since it will be the last racing I get to see live this year. :'(

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Statsman

Oct 12, 2008 3:35 am

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Slapdown: Thanks for the update!

Thayne: Great to hear you made the field, I'm sure you will get things sorted out before the feature.

Hope to hear some more details about the LLM field and results. I know Dwayne Baker went to watch the big boys at Charlotte this weekend and my brother is going to be at my place for a big family thanksgiving (the nerve with me an ocean away!), would like to know more about the field though.

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Dusty

Oct 12, 2008 6:44 am

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Slapdown & Thayne
Thanks. I guess we will be working this winter. I Hope Toad will do good.

Thayne, Fix her up and take little blue to the front. Good luck.
Thanks Guy's......Gerry

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