Spring Series - Tillsonburg Outlaws Wraps up.
Tuesday June 28 2011 was the conclusion of several things. By nights end, race 8 was finished as was the Spring Series. It also marked the completion of the School year for most of the drivers. Several interpretations can come out of that. While for the kids it is a time of celebration, it is a sign that they have completed an endeavour (hopefully successfully) but also they are soon to go on to new challenges, whether that be a new grade, a new division or maybe even into the work force. While some fear change, others run towards it. My moto is with every change there is always a chance for something even better. Next up comes the Summer Series 2011.
This week the Beginner tie was broke for first place as # 55 Jack Tipper/Scotland put enough points on the board to edge out # 01 Jamie Hall/Wilsonville by a mere 2 points. Speedster for the night was # 66 Colby Bennett/Port Dover who managed 1,3,1 for the night. He was followed by Tipper and Hall in that order. Even at this young age, this group is showing some personalities. Young Mr Rayce Meyer finally got his Introduction this week as Holly Porter filled in for the Absent Devin Jarvis. Rayce made sure that Holly pointed out that his initials were RPM and that meant he was always going to be revving motors. Later on in the night, Jamie Hall comes rolling into the building whistling the Dukes of Hazard "REBEL" song which totally goes with her Paint scheme, the General Lee. Luckily for mom, we don't allow wearing polka dot tops and Daisy Duke shorts in the kart. Isn't there a song about that? (yes, Jamie is a girl).
Beginner standings
The Juniors also have some characters in the group. # 0 Cole McDonald found out that if you let your seat belt tail hang down in your chain, the seat belt gets VERY tight in a hurry. That revolution had all the parents checking out their drivers belts in a hurry. Lesson learned. # 48 Andrew Marshall/Dorchester managed to put the fastest lap in Junior for the night plus run on the very edge of spinning out almost every lap. This week he got away with it most of the time and was able to win with a 3,1,2. # 52 Jacob Sheridan/Mt Brydges, who has been mister consistent this year took 2nd with a 5-2-1 but wrapped up the spring series in the lead. MacDonald finished third for the night despite the seat belt incident. Marshall took 2nd in the Series with # 55 Scott Hall/ Wilsonville claiming 3rd in the series. Pretty darn good considering it was his first series in the Juniors.
Junior standings
In the Seniors if you weren't female, you were racing for 3rd. Multiple drivers took a run at the championship, and all had their nights but none were able to put in the consistent results that # 79 Bea Courtnage/Harley was able to, week in and week out. Benefitting from some front row starts, Bea was able to put in a perfect night to take the final race win and the championship. Although that sounds easy, Bea showed good composure as she managed to stay out of trouble when she eventually caught up with and passed lapped traffic. A couple slides by lappers almost caught her but she was able to avoid problems. Seeing how her younger sister did it, # 39 Kate Courtnage/ Harley put together a decent night to finish in 2nd but more importantly took 2nd in the series as well. The next part is indicative of how close this class is. Only 1 point behind second, third place was a three way tie. # 87 Brad Perrott/Strathroy, # 10 Blake Westman/Aylmer and # 92 Austin Giles were all threats over the series and had equivalent results this week. Coming in third for the series was # 10 Blake Westman. Noticeably absent this week was # 20 DJ McRae. Rumour has it DJ is not having fun and is looking for a break. Time will tell if the fun comes back for this team.
Senior Standings
The Experts were shy a couple teams this week but that did not slow down the lap times any. This years lap record fell with a 7.649 time on lap 10 of the sprint by # 34 Scott Chesterman. With the smaller group Chesterman was able to put together a perfect night both in time trials, the sprint and the main. Racing for possibly the last time with a 250, # 19 Cody Coburn/Mt Brydges took a pair of seconds in the races and a 4th in the time trials for 2nd on the night but that was 1 point shy of second in the series standings. Cody finished the series in 3rd behind # 1 Holly Porter/Dorchester and # 34 Chesterman and says the new 500 is going to push him to the top this summer. He may be right. Finishing the night in 3rd was # 75 Dylan Chesterman who has adjusted to the Expert speed this series and figures in to be a threat this summer to be top 3. There are a couple of other drivers that could be there too so this summer may see a lot of paint trading going on. I think pretty soon we are going to see some surprises in this group as the students start to pass the masters. Stay tuned grasshopper....
Expert Standings
The standings are in the record books. Everyone goes back to zero and we start the summer series. Each team will be dropping one score from their July or August races. All september races count.
Remember the July 1st 4-50's race in Ohsweken
No racing on July 5th
1st race of the Summer Series is July 12
Experts have the Wonderland race July 8
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