JOSH ST. CLAIR RETURNS TO SPEEDWAY 95 WINNER’S CIRCLE

May 18, 2010 | Speedway 95

JOSH ST. CLAIR RETURNS TO SPEEDWAY 95 WINNER’S CIRCLE

After 2 weeks of sub par performance, Josh St. Clair of Liberty drove a flawless race to lead the Late Model feature from green to checkers Sunday afternoon at Speedway 95. Three times in the first 10 laps, St. Clair beat pole sitter Duane Seekins of Stockton Springs on a restart to keep the No. 33 on the outside for the start and out front for the race. Once out front, St. Clair was never challenged as he continued to increase his lead under green flag conditions. Behind him though, Hermon’s Dale Swoboda was again using the inside groove to move from his 10th place starting spot in to the second place spot he claimed at the finish. Also using the inside groove to move forward was Josh’s grandfather, Dave St. Clair of Liberty, who started third and ended third, passing Seekins for the spot mid way through the event. Seekins ended up in fourth at the finish, followed by Bangor’s Doug Day in fifth. The caution flag first flew on lap 2 when Bruce Coulter lost traction as the outside car in a three wide battle in turn three, landing him in the tire wall in turn four and out of the race. On lap 8, Joey Doyon of Winterport, John Kalel II of Orrington, Brenton Parritt and J.R. Robinson of Steuben all spun and collided going into turn 1. Doyon was the only casualty, as the others drove away while Doyon was towed to the pits.Robinson and Swoboda won the qualifiers, but both had to start near the rear of the feature following their top three finishes last week.

ST. CLAIR BROTHERS TAKE 95 CHECKERS

Apr 27, 2010 | Speedway 95

Josh and Ryan St. Clair both earned victories at Speedway 95 Sunday afternoon, but each took a different path to reach victory lane as a large opening day crowd watched under sunny skies. In the Late Model division, Josh shot past pole sitter Brenton Parritt of Steuben at the drop of the green flag and held the lead all the way to the checkers in the caution free 35 lap feature even. Parritt, who had earned the pole position by winning the qualifying heat, looked at St. Clair’s bumper from about 6 feet away for the entire distance, and finished the race in second place. Hometown racer Dale Swoboda of Hermon brought his Impala home third, with Oakland’s Mike Landry finishing in fourth. Orrington’s John Kalel Jr. finished his first Late Model feature in the fifth spot.

In the Super Streets, Ryan St. Clair drove past Lamoine’s Derek Mingo by using the inside groove in the closing laps to put his car in the second spot at the finish. In the post race inspection, Ryan’s run up the inside proved to be the winning move of the race when first place finisher Steve Moulton of Holden was disqualified for running an illegal spacer plate on his engine. Also disqualified in the post race inspection was third place finisher Doug Sinclair of Hermon, who was found to have illegal shock absorbers installed on his car. This brought the finishing order to 1. Ryan S. Clair, Liberty, 2. Derek Mingo, Lamoine, 3. J.R. Robinson, Steuben, 4. Meghan Allen, Winterport and 5. Mike Overlock, Franklin. Moulton was the winner of the qualifying heat.

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