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AUGUST 1, 2011 ----- Kimball Wins Wild One In Sportsman Mods at Monadnock Speedway ----- Sportsman Modified hot shoe Bill Kimball crossed the line backwards when he took the checkered flag Saturday, July 30, at Monadnock Speedway. It made little difference, like his previous three wins this summer, the Bennington Bullet added to his points lead with the victory, aiding his pursuit of back-to-back open wheeled championships at the high banked quarter-mile.
Other repeat winners on the night included John Lavoie, winning his fifth feature event of the season to, like Kimball, add to his points lead; Eric Dejackome, padding his own championship hopes with win number three, and Young Gun JT Cloutier, capturing his fifth win of the season.
Lightning Stock flyer Gordon Farnham ran away and hid for his second win in the 50-lap show closer, and Nick Haddon scored his first-ever Monadnock feature win in the New England Champ Karts event.
Kyle Poodiack took the opening lead in the Sportsman Modified main event, holding the point for 18 laps, as Kimball and Nick Boivin charged to the front. Speedway strongman Russ Hersey was in second when he looped exiting turn two on the eighth lap – the first of several maladies that would see Hersey watch the end of the event from the pits.
Tyler Jarvenpaa lined up second on the restart, but watched Kimball quickly fly past him, with Boivin quickly dropping him back too, bringing rookie Joey Kendall forward with him.
The next caution waved on lap 23, when Poodiack spun in the same place Hersey had earlier. Brandon Warren, running a strong fourth, survived a scary meeting with the frontstretch wall on lap 27, and the stage was set for Kimball and Boivin to duke it out in a three-lap dash.
While Boivin may have had the fastest car on the night, Kimball had the preferred spot. As the two exited the final turn, Boivin made contact with Kimball which sent them both spinning, as they hit the stripe, with Kendall able to avoid the melee in front of him to claim his first open-wheel trophy taking second. Dave Knight took the checkers fourth, just ahead of Jarvenpaa.
Stuart Wheelden took the opening lead in the Super Stock main, with Josh King glued to his bumper. John Lavoie, going immediately to work from the top of the track, was gobbling up cars, but losing ground to Wheelden, whose ability to run in the open allowed him to pull away.
A two-car jingle on lap 15, though, was all Lavoie needed. Lining up beside the leader on the restart, he quickly seized control. The race was far from over, though, as Eddie Brehio III, making his first run of the season, and Joe Bates were hot in Lavoie’s shadow and ready to pounce.
Wheelden’s strong run would end on lap 20, when he went around. On the restart, Brehio and Bates tangled heavily, moving Dave Striebel up to second, where he would finish the race. Kevin Russell, Jason Lafleur, and Kenny Springer rounded out the top five.
Eric Dejackome edged past Rob Thompson on lap three of the Mini Stock feature and, with only one caution slowing the event, left the field in his dust to win by a straightaway. But while Dejackome made it look easy, the competition behind him was fierce.
Rookie Julia Raymond, coming off her first career win a week earlier, grabbed second on the fourth lap, but then had four-time winner Beth Adams draped all over. Raymond wasn’t budging, though, and when Adams began to fade, the rookie easily outdistanced the rest of the field to claim the deuce spot.Chris Davis, second to Dejackome in the points parade, was steady all night to come home third, just ahead of Thompson.
In the Young Guns 15-lapper, JT Cloutier, who had struggled in recent weeks after scoring four wins early in the season, left no doubt that his bad luck was now behind him.
Charging from row three, Cloutier took the lead from DJ Lazelle on lap seven and then left the field in his dust to score win number five of his sophomore season. Lazelle was strong all race to nail down second, with Hillary Renaud coming from scratch on the field to claim third.
In the final event of the evening, hometown hot shoe Gordon Farnum, two positions shy of victory in an epic three-car Lightning Stock battle a week earlier, left little doubt who had the fastest car Saturday. Charging from row five, Farnum took the lead from CJ Johnson on lap 26 and then turned on the afterburners to win by half a lap.
But while Farnum dominated the event, his gain on points leader Dick Houle was minimal, as the Brattleboro, VT veteran ran a steady race to come home second. Tim Paquette, who led three laps early in the event, took the checkers in third.
This Saturday, August 6, New England’s fastest quarter-mile oval will host another full card of NASCAR racing, highlighted by the Tour Type Modifieds, as Kirk Alexander, Jim Boniface, and Todd Patnode lead the sizzling pack in the night’s main event.
Also on the August 6 card will be the Super Stocks, Mini Stocks, and Thunder Stocks, as well as the visiting Allison Legacy and New England Truck Series. Post time at Monadnock Speedway is 6 p.m.
For more information, call the speedway’s office at (603) 239-4067 or log onto www.monadnockspeedway.com.
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