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Thompson Winner: Johnny
Clark |
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Johnny
Clark Comes Out on Top
at Thompson
National |
Clark claims win number
four after a tough night at the
races for many |
Thompson CT (7/21)
Johnny Clark snatched the lead away
from Cassius Clark on a lap 60
restart to capture his fourth PASS
North win of 2011 in a wild 100 lap
Pro All Stars Series (PASS) National
Championship event at Thompson (CT)
International Speedway. Cassius
Clark crossed the stripe in second
and Travis Benjamin completed the
podium
Round three of the
National Championship was marred by
wrecks at the front of the field.
Nine cars wound up in a cluster atop
the turn one banking on the initial
green when contact bewtween third
place starter Preston Peltier and
pole sitter Scott Chubbuck sent the
field scattering. Jay Fogleman and
Steve Legendre received the worst of
it; Fogleman was atop the PASS
National standings heading into the
event but his 19th place finish did
little to help his championship
chances. All those involved
eventually got back on track despite
varyinjg amounts of damage, and
several were still able to challenge
for the win.
Mike Rowe, Bill
Penfold, Lonnie Sommerville and Ben
Rowe were up front after the turn
one melee and Mike Rowe kept
Ramstrom behind him until lap 25
when the multi time Thompson track
Champion looked low in turn three
and the pair got together and wound
up in the concrete, sweeping Lonnie
Sommerville up in the process.. All
three were done for the night.
Ben Rowe inherited the point and
he had to contend with Cassius
Clark, Johnny Clark and Travis
Benjamin. Meanwhile Peltier was
rumbling back through the field with
zero aero from his lap one
altercation but plenty of horsepower
to carry him down Thompson's long
straightaways. A the half way mark
it was Rowe, Clark and Peltier under
a blanket but a lap 51 caution gave
Cassius Clark a shot at Rowe and he
took advantage, taking away the top
spot with Johnny Clark racing up to
third.
It was clear that Ben
Rowe had issues as he slid back
through the pack, eventually
spinning on lap 60 and losing a lap
to the leaders. The caution waved
and Rowe pitted for a new right rear
to replace his flat one.
The
two Clarks lined up side by side on
the restart and it was J. Clark
making the race winning move on the
outside with Peltier charging up to
second, shuffling Cassius back to
third.
Peltier mounted a
challenge and nosed out in front on
lap 82 but the 26 and 54 touched and
Peltier smacked the outside wall,
sending him for a 150 mile per hour
ride into the infield and back on
track. It was a great save, but the
damage was too much for the 2011
National Champ's ride and he would
eventually finish twelfth.
The final caution waved for Alan
Tardiff's trip into the front
stretch wall and that put Ben Rowe
back on the lead lap via the Lucky
Dog rule. Rowe turned down pit road
for a right front tire change, but
PASS Officials determined that
Rowe's right front wasn't flat and
the change wasn't a permissable one
under series rules, handing Rowe a
two lap penalty.
Cassius
tried to mount a challenge on the
night's finall restart but he didn't
have enough for the defending PASS
North Champion and Johnny rolled on
for his fourth win of 2011.
The margin of victory was .455
seconds. Six cars completed all 100
green flag laps. Ramstrom and J.
Clark scored heat race wins.
There's a quick turn around for the
traveling super late model
superstars; they'll be back in
action Saturday night July 23rd at
Oxford Plains Speedway on Brackett
Mechanical/RB Performance night for
150 green flag laps at the famed
Maine oval.
Oxford Plains
Speedway can be found at
www.oxfordplains.com. |
SLM Results: Thompson on Thurs., July
21st |
1)
#54 - Johnny Clark - 100 Laps
2) #8 - Cassius Clark - 100
3) #17 - Travis Benjamin -
100
4) #27qc - Alex Gingras -
100
5) #0 - Billy Penfold - 100
6) #17a - Scott Alexander -
100
7) #2 - Matt Matheson - 99
8) #4 - Ben Rowe - 98
9) #12 - John Dabrowski - 98
10) #88 - Kyle Desouza - 96 |
11)
#88t - Alan Tardiff - 86
12) #26 - Preston Peltier -
85
13) #20 - Steve Legendre -
60
14) #77 - Scott Chubbuck -
49
15) #92 - Bill Brady - 39
16) #48 - Lonnie Sommerville
- 26
17) #2x - Mike Rowe - 24
18) #35 - Derek Ramstrom -
24
19) #4s - Jay Fogleman - 6 |