I took our Quaker State Late Model to church Sunday, in Port Perry. There were about 100 people, a great barbecue with many kids getting their pictures taken with me and in the car.
Thanks to the great people of Victory Christian Centre for their love and hospitality.
Category Archives: Late Model History
David Wins Late Model Feature Leads Flamboro Points
Very proud of my son David for the season he is having running his Quaker State Late Model at Flamboro Speedway. David is off the next 5 weeks, no Late Models and will return mid August to concentrate on winning his 8th career Championship.
Congrats to David and his team on another excellent season.
Thanks to Derek Smith of Race Pulse for this picture
Modified Not Happy At Delaware Speedway Friday July 10th
Our team took a hit in the points with our worst run in the Modifieds since joining the series. We could not get the handling for the big half mile track. We thought we were going the right way after the first set of hot laps when our car was tight in the middle, but with changes to help make it turn, we went from one symptom to the total opposite, and getting worse each time out. Our 14th place finish was discouraging, especially after coming off a second at Full Throttle Motor Speedway.
We will get it right for Sauble Speedway on July 25th, our next OSCAAR Modified race. Thanks to Scott Wiley for trying to guide us through texts.
The full story of our Friday and Saturday night race will be completed on Diary of a Season 2015 by Tuesday night.
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……Special thanks to Ashley McCubbin for this photo.
Delaware Feature Win In 2013….We Want To Do It Again This Week In The OSCAAR Mod
Double header weekend coming up. Race #4 in the OSCAAR Mod tour will be Friday at Delware Speedway, then we head to Sauble Speedway Saturday for their Mid Season LLM Invitational.
Last year we struggled at Delaware finishing 4th in our heat and 8th in the feature. Our team is hoping to improve this year. Delaware holds an advantage for built and 604 Crates, the bigger track allows the higher horse power engines to use more of their 400 plus HP. Our car has been running strong and we hope to be competitve as we look for our first Modified win……………….PS……been very hectic for me right now, so I will update my Diary of a Season after this weekend. I have been making at least one trip a week to Owen Sound to work on my cars and it’s catching up to me. It’s the way things are and I appreciate so much that Jason Legge has given me a home for my race program and museum, although that is not completely up yet………I am also in the planning stages of running an Outlaw Pro 4 Modified again, possibly twice in July………..The picture posted here, with Matt Smith, Don Mierawinski and Cheryl Smith, was significant for a few reasons, with a lot of firsts.
* our first time at Delaware in this car July 26th 2013
* our first in 5 years to the exact date
* our first ever feature win at Delaware Speedway
We hope to do it again this week in the OSCAAR Modidied. We hope to see our friends and fans at either track.
Fan Appreciation Sauble Speedway
One of my favorite times at a race event is being part of the Fan Appreciaton autograph session. It’s a fun time, we get to meet so many great fans and sign one of our autograph cards for them. All 3 classes came on the track for this one, the CVM, Thunder Cars and Late Models. Buttons joined me but hasn’t learned yet how to “paw” a card.
Thanks to our newest crew member Lloyd for supplying this picture, and many others.
Late Model Has Best Night Yet At Full Throttle Speedway
We didn’t win any races yet at Full Throttle Motor Speedway, but we had our best run this past weekend. Lloyd got his spotters initiation because there was no one else in our crew at the races. Lloyd was a huge help getting our pits prepared and the car ready for practice.
There were only 6 cars, some were missing, otherwise there should have been around 10. We finished 3rd and 4th in both features. We are still under powered with our 602 to race against these Late Models but we try harder each week and tonight we did run better than in the past.
Lloyd got better in the 2nd feature with his debut as a spotter. It’s not an easy job to do, but he learned fast.
Note:
The Thunder Car class have been cancelled from the remaining 2015 schedule.
There will be no more Thunder Car races at Full Throttle this year. Car count was the issue. They had 5 the first night, then 3. So at this point I have lost 3 race nights on my schedule and I will see if there are any places I can race to make those up.
Quaker State Late Model At John Bear GMC
We had our Quaker State Impala on display for 3 days at John Bear GMC Chevrolet in St. Catharines from June 17th to 19th. This was a cusotomer appreciation event and was very successful. Our next show is this Saturday, June 27th, at MacMaster Buick GMC in Orangeville.
This week we have our Quaker State Late Model at John Bear Chevrolet Buick in St. Catharines. I pick it up Friday and head north to Full Throttle Motor Speedway to first race the Thunder car for Jason Legge, and then go further north to Sauble Speedway to race our Quaker State Late Model. Hope to see many of our fans and friends at the Full Throttle and Sauble.
Sun Sets Below Quaker State Chevy
Had some computer issues this past few days and wasn’t able to get up dated as quickly as I wanted. Please bare with me, I am in chaos right now for a short time, moving and finding a good place to keep my Mod. The Late Model is at Jason Legges and the Modified is outside with a tarp over it. Hmmmm, not what I expected but things will get better….I know it.
We raced the Late Model Friday night. Marty, Paul, Glenn, Scoob and Lloyd made up our Quaker State pit crew. We did succeed in being much better by the 2nd feature than we were in the first, although we finished 5th in each. A few more changes and we will be little closer to the Outlaw Late Models that are dominating right now. We have to make a big leap to close the gap, and then a few bigger ones to run with these unlimited Late Models.
Here is a great picture by TW Robarts. You would think I would have felt that blast of heat under the car, but as bright and big as it looks, it was out in a split second….oh yes, and that’s a good thing……I will be updating our site every day now for the rest of the week. A lot happened last weekend and another big weekend coming. Watch for the full story on Diary of a Season 2015.
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Thunder Car A Fun Ride At Full Throttle
May 29th Full Throttle Speedway. The 1988 Monte Carlo was fun to drive, it just needs a few tweeks to get it better. This night was just a shake down, and we learned a lot. This car had been parked for two years, and then Jason had it rebuilt. Once the car is finished, we will be looking forward to the next outing on June 19th at Full Throttle Speedwat and possibly a new Quaker State paint scheme.
This Friday we will be at Full Throttle racing our Late Model and racing again on Saturday at Sunset Speedway with OSCAAR in our Quaker State Lincoln Welders Modified. Can’t wait for either race. We have made some changes in the Late Model as well and hope to be much more competitive this time at the short fast high banked oval.
More to come on Diary of a Season 2015 soon. You can find Diary of a Season 2015 by going through our Message Board, and then General Chat………… Thank you for visiting our site.