Shadow's report - APC/Canusa Labor Day 300

[slowel]

Does anybody know if any Delaware car are going to be racing at Flam octoberfest or Pete Fall Classic?

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[slowel]

Sorry I forgot to mention great updating of DEL website as results are already up great job.Maybe other tracks could take notice.

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[mike32]

look for Pearn and Vanderwyst at Holland NY's rescheduled MAARA Bud 100 Sept 16. Unfortunately, this will be running against Oswego's ROC LM race and the ROC promoter is offering the highest finishing MAARA regular a $2000 bonus.
 Too bad Holland couldn't have rescheduled to the 9th and moved their demo/school bus races weekend back a week instead.
 I think you might look for Vanderwyst and Pearn also at Lancaster's US Open weekend which again has a MAARA series race. (sept 23-24).
 Both tracks are an easy half hour from downtown Buffalo.

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[joeyw]

All in all it was entertaining if you did not get wrecked, l felt bad for Kennedy the first time l have ever seen him competative, but Ron Sheridan, was involved in a bunch of  bunch of cautions,, just an impatient idiot, should know better at his home track. It seemed like every caution he was a part of it from the start ,a real shame he had a very good car , but too much car not enough driver. Idiot of the race award  to Ron and  Dupuis.

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[sumguy]

All in all I thought it was a pretty decent show, but I think you have to feel for Delaware management. They put up an unheard of amount of money for this area and only 31 cars turned out and a couple of them were actually LLMs; personally I was expecting more than that. Undoubtedly the fact that Alstar was running the same day hurt the car count, but I was very surprised that only one LM from Kawartha showed up and only three from Flamboro. I can't help but wonder if the rules differences played a part as the Delaware cars do seem stronger than the Alstar cars; maybe some guys felt it was better to have a legitmate shot at $5000 than an outside shot at $10000.
                        There were a couple of things I didn't like however : the 100 lap qualifiers and counting caution laps. With only 15 - 16 cars in each race 100 laps was about 75 too many in my opinion. And counting caution laps in the final race seemed absolutely unneccesary - there was no curfew concern, no time constraints, so I don't see any reason to count caution laps. There were quite a few laps run off under caution in the final 100, I would have liked to see 100 green flag laps.
                            Overall though, it was a good show for it's first time. I hope Delaware sticks with this event, I think it has potential to be a very big annual event.

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[DWfan4ever]

Well after the beating and banging that took place on Friday night at Kawartha that might explain why only 1 from there made it.  But its just the same as there was so much talk of the Delware cars travelling to Kawartha for the Summer Sizzler and only like 2 showed up due to such poor weather in the area.  Owen Smith #29 from Kawartha was severly wrecked after his throttle stuck and went head first in the wall for turn 1 and hit it twice.  #81 Bryan Mercer was caught up in another wreck which finished his season due to only 1 more event  at Kawartha (heard that directly from his mom in an email).  #53 Kyle Donaldson wrecked up his car which actually caused Bryan's car to be wrecked.  Oh yeah and #10B Kelly Balson blew a rear end out, so that's the reason for only 1 from Kawartha showing up.

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[Mobil1fan]

I'd be more in favour of scrapping the head-to-head races and putting that money into the 300 purse, sweeten the pot a little more for everyone. I'd also like to see it move to a 100-100-200 format, to entice more guys who show up for longer races, yet not puttting it out of reach for the weekly guys. Next year should be better, I'd definately assume there'll be mroe co-operation between tracks as far as scheduling goes...

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[LMFAN]

I find this entertaining Kennedy has done his fair share of wrecking people!!!
All of a sudden he is a choir boy and everyone else is a prick whats up with that?
How do any of you know that Dupuis didn't just get sideways off the corner? I think you might find out that is what happened Dupuis does not normally drive like that so i would tend to think it was a racing accident.

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[Shadowracer]

 All of a sudden he is a choir boy and everyone else is a prick whats up with that?

I disagree.  Aint no choirboys in the top 10.   :wink:

But there's guys a lot higher on the prick-o-meter than Kennedy.

As for Depuis...I can't, and won't, make a judgement...I wasn't in the car with him. (He was some mad about the blag flag though.)

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[LMFAN]

Agreed just sounded like he has never touched anyone.
Dupuis is a real calm guy so when he was that pissed i would think it in no way was intentional.

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[guest99]

How do any of you know that Dupuis didn't just get sideways off the corner? I think you might find out that is what happened Dupuis does not normally drive like that so i would tend to think it was a racing accident.

I agree, Dupuis wasn't the only car getting loose of the corner. A lot of drivers were complaining the sealer was coming off the track. It was like driving on marbles on the outside.
You could see a cloud of debris come off any car that went to the 2nd lane and every car that drove in deep and rode up couldn't get back on the throttle. I think that's why there were so many cars spinning off 2. I looked a a lot of cars after the show and the rads were full of something other than rubber and oil dry.

Of cousre Dupuis could have been running 4" of stagger.

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[Mobil1fan]

Will Cole Pearn be in his Delaware car for the last 2 MAARA races, or will he have an ASA-spec car like Pete Vanderwyst?

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[turn4fan]

I agree the sealer may have contributed. However, the incident involving Kennedy and Dupuis happened on the straightway, and not coming out of the corner.  Ron Sheridans first lap spin was out of the corner and may have been sealer related. Sean Dupuis usually is calm and a clean driver, but their usually isn't $10,000 on the line.  I dont believe Kennedy, nor Dupius had anything for Pearn, Vanderwyst, or Hanley, but again these guys were racing for the 4th spot. which likley had a difference of $5 dollars in payout.

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[Shadowracer]

I can't help but notice that over on the Inside Track News Blog, there's 10 different PR releases about the Cayuga race, a report about ALSTAR, but not a mention of Delaware. Nothing in the Free Press either.

Did we do something to push these guys away?

(tried to comment over there but it wouldn't recognize my password...don't need the hassle)

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[Dster]

I don't know about the Free Press except that maybe they didn't consider this event to be as significant as the Cascar version of the Delaware Labour Day race, but Inside Track usually relies on the tracks to send in their event press releases. There are a bunch of releases on the IT blog because they are mostly team releases. Teams submit them and Greg posts them accordingly and I'm guessing that he was at Cayuga rather than Delaware himself.
At any rate, this version of the "Great Canadian 300" (which was not truly a "300" just like Cascar's traditional Delaware Labour Day "500" wasn't really a "500", but I digress...) may not have been considered quite the "event" that the Cascar weekend had become. From Shadowracer's excellent race reports and the other comments in the thread I get the impression that it was really more of an expanded Delaware Friday night type of thing than anything else, not that that's a bad thing by any means beyond the possibility that maybe expectations were a little hyped.
I am curious though, what was the audience count like? I know the Cascar draw had slipped in the last two or three years, but was still well in excess of 5,000, if not closer to 10,000 (and I was part of a few of the 12,000 to 14,000 strong crowds that Cascar pulled at Delaware on LD not so long ago), but did the attendence on this past Sunday rival those numbers? I didn't make it to either race so I can't comment on details, but I would love to get a reasonably accurate estimate of the fan turnout at both events. After all, a big part of this game is showbiz and how many bums a show puts in the seats counts for more than a little. The "Big Picture" and all that, ya know?!  :wink:

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