July 24 results and pics thread...No Shadow Report - but great Maudsley Report

[Shadowracer]

Well looks like I was just a wee bit hasty. Life got in the way and I was unable to actually see any races. Managed to get away a little while later; the races were long over but I decided to take a jaunt out and see if I could get some results any way. So here's a partial....mostly its been covered already.

Unfortunately, this is all I've got so it won't be updated. We'll have to hope the Delaware/CRO faithful can fill in the blanks.

15-Matthews won the time trials.

Super Stock
1st to 9-O'Connor (driving the DJ Dejesus car) 2nd to 77-Lake, 3rd to 84-Smith, 4th to 67-Hewitt, and 5th to 24-Richmond. (2nd 5th in a row for him)

Demar Aggregates Trucks
1st to Showler, 2nd to Hosang, 3rd to Adrienssen. 4th to 33-McDonald and 5th to 77-Zagarodny

1st APC LM
1st to Sheridan, 2nd to Robblee, 3rd to Hooker, 4th to Lindsay and 5th to Urlin

All I know of the second one was that 15 Matthews won it. The results for the 2nd LM race were't yet up on the board when I came thru the garage to check.

Sounded like a rough night in the LM ranks...heard there were some fireworks between Watson and Sheridan, and I also saw Jesse's 10 car up on a flat bed looking in pretty rough shape. Be interesting to hear all that happened.

Spoke to Mr Hooker briefly, and it sounded like he had a pretty good night. Nice to meet ya Kirk!

Also had the chance to finally meet Gary Elliott. (known here as Gary36) Gary and I have had some message board contact, but our paths just haven't crossed yet at the track. (Whenever I'm coming by his trailer, he's always in the tech garage etc) So good to meet you too Gary. Gary seems confident that, although not running with the top dogs yet, they're definitely coming along nicely and improving little by little very week. Good job to the 9 team.

[crazylady]

Richmond row missed you tonight.

Can't help much with results though. 

[Shadowracer]

Initial post updated.

And thanks CrazyLady...I missed you guys too.  

[crazylady]

Stephen raced rather unexpectedly in the #10 Enduro car tonight too.  He started last and ended up 13th.  It was a fun race to watch, tons of interesting moves and lots of passing.  The 64 of Steve Book won the race.  I am not sure how many cars started but think it was around 29. 

[spindoctor]

Shadow, one other result of tonight was some poor guy got stuck in the mud ...glad to see you made it out..

and I'd like to thank all of those who helped us out when an axle broke during the heat race.....their help enabled us to fix the car and race the feature to finish in 9th....

[Dougy109]

29 cars in the enduro, I was last LOL... Fuel pump pressure problems >.< Still a fun night.

[jmaudsley]

Battles on the Track and in the Pits

It was a four division night at Delaware Speedway Friday July 24th, with the Late Models headlining the show, and the Enduro class in action for one of their All-Star events.

Qualifying was much more meaningful, as the field started straight up from where they qualified in the first 25-lap segment.  Steve Mathews was able to put his # 15 on the pole, with Ron Sheridan qualifying in the number two slot.

Mathews spoke about his pole winning run, “We really struggled with the brakes here last time and hopefully this means we have them fixed.”

The first feature would start off with a bang, as a lap three incident heading down the front straight would damage the cars of Mark Watson, Jamie Ramsay, David Elliott, and Rick Emery, while eliminating Jesse Kennedy from the event.

Mathews, who had tucked into line on the start behind Sheridan, would still have to overcome brake problems, as he started to lock up the left front wheel getting into the turns and then skating high, while dropping back in the field.

Steve Robblee, who qualified fifth, picked his way by Kurt Hooker, and then Mathews, before setting his sights on Sheridan just after the halfway mark.  

Sheridan was able to open a up a lead of a few car lengths, but as the 12.5 mile sprint neared its’ end,  He reeled in Ron, but it was a case of countless Robblee / Sheridan duels from throughout the years.  When one is able to get out front, the other has no choice but to wait for a mistake that rarely happens.  Robblee clearly had the faster car, but wasn’t able to mount enough of a charge and wound up second, as Sheridan took the checkers in his # 52.

Sheridan spoke about the late race battle with Robblee as he captured his third feature win of the season, “Just the same as a few weeks ago when I was faster than Steve and I couldn’t get him, this week, he was faster, but not fast enough.  You know that Steve will drive you hard, but he will drive you clean.  It was a pretty good race for us.”

Following Sheridan and Robblee to the line were Kurt Hooker, Scott Lindsay, and Jon Unlin.

The cars still running at the finish were inverted for the second half of the twin bill, putting Marc Jacobs and Doug Stewart on the front row.

Absent from the event was Kennedy, who had suffered too much damage from his accident in the first event, and would fail to take the green, all but eliminating the 2007 champ from contention for the season title.


Stewart would lead early, but it didn’t take Mathews, who started third, long to get to the front and start showing the way.


In the second 25-lapper at Delaware Friday for the Late Models, Mark Watson found his way to Steven Mathews’ bumper and it was a battle of freshman and sophomore, each looking for their first Late Model win.  While this action was doing on for the lead, Sheridan was passing two cars a turn on some laps as he came to join the scrum with the halfway point coming.
 
Mathews, who spent last year winning features in the Lucas Oil Sportsman Series as an 18-year old – versus Watson, former Micro Sprint, Hurricane Midget, and Delaware Speedway champion - versus Sheridan former APC 300 champ and perennial championship contender Ron Sheridan.

Watson and Sheridan made contact while coming down the coming out of turn four and onto the front stretch on lap 12, with Sheridan’s Chevy winding up on the business end of the hook.  

Watson limped his # 02 to his trailer, and Sheridan and his crew arrived shortly after to greet Watson to ‘discuss’ their argument over the events of the evening, while Watson was still strapped in.  By the time he was able to climb from the car, officials had separated the pair

Sheridan was then interviewed by the track announcer and cut a promo that would have made Vince McMahon proud.

While he was working hard to hold off those two, his next challenge would be keeping Robblee behind him.  Many a young driver has fell victim to Steve on Friday nights at Delaware, but this night would not be the case.  With just a couple of laps to go, Robblee tried on the inside coming out of turn two.  His car got loose, snapped around, and Steve couldn’t keep up with the steering as he spun the car.

He would finish 15th.

Hooker rose to second, but couldn’t match the raw speed of Mathews, who won his first Delaware feature.

Steve spoke about the win, after having brake troubles in race number one, “The brake pistons were stuck on.  We took some of the fluid out and then during the race I dialled in a little more read brake.”

Mathews also talked about racing Steve at the end, “Steve and I raced before in the Sportsman Series, and he tried me off turn two and got into me.  I had the car sideways and saved it, and he went around.  We’ve finished second this year, and we needed this.”

Mathews also spoke about making a NASCAR Canadian Tire Series start at Mosport in early August.  

Hooker wound up second, with Scott Lindsay, Jamie Ramsay, and Jon Urlin rounding out the top-five.

Street Stocks

Scott O’Conner was behind the wheel of the #9 machine and jumped out to an early lead before Darrell Lake broke traffic.  Lake spent the second half of the race reeling in O’Conner and got there before the final lap.  The pair would race clean, but hard, making contact twice in the closing laps, and bringing the huge crowd to their feet.  Steve Smith finished a distant third and fading, but the rookie continues to outrun his Friday night experience.

Trucks

Jeff Showler took the lead early and left the field in his dust, as Katherine Hosang finished a career best second.

[jmaudsley]

PHOTOS viewable at www.maudsleymotorsports.com




Photo Legend

001-024 – Truck
025-035 – Super Stock
037-102 – Late Model 1st 50
-   048-067 – Watson / Kennedy / Ramsay / Elliott wreck
-   086-098 – Mathews brake troubles
103-130 - Truck
131-155 – Super Stock
156-208 – Late Model 2nd 50
-   186-188 – Sheridan and Watson ‘discuss the front stretch incident’.
-   198-200 – Robblee just before he gets into Mathews and spin.
-   202-208 – victory lane
-   210-287 – Enduro

[Shadowracer]

heh...you know Jamie, at first I read that and thought sheepishly "wow...that report is way better than mine are. I thought I was the Delaware reporter dude"

My second thought was "its about time."

 

Great job, and best of luck with the new website.

Trev

[SS3]

[Shadowracer]

Great pic Doug.

HERE'S the Delaware quick results.

What happened to Lidster?

[jworacing]

Trev You missed a good night for old "Juice Box". He was complaining about his brakes over stopping the car so we ran over to McColls and got a new set of pads. In the heat we were breaking in new pads so Jake's running her easy and wouldn't you know we brake an axle!
Well with the help of some of the other teams including enduro guys we got it bake into shape. Jake decided to start the feature scratch "Just in Case" and see what the car could do after our cobbled up repairs. Well if he doesn't start cutting through the field! Worked his way up to fourth running the outside groove many times to pass his competitors. Last lap I beleive in turn 1 he over drove it   and open the door for the train in a cloud of dust and debris. Finished 9th But you know that kid was so friggin happy he about peed his pants. That was definitely a sweet Top 10 LOL

[LMFAN]

Robblee broke an axle that is why he spun he was not behind in the steering.

[mike32]

Lidster had a mechanical problem (causing a bad miss from my perspective) that they worked on all night and couldn't fix. Looks like they cured it for the feature and it started missing again coming down pit road.