Speedway 95 8/21/10 – Allen Fletcher Memorial Duel 23’s
Speedway 95 remembered a fallen friend Saturday night, August 21st with the running of the Allen Fletcher Memorial Duel 23’s.
In the first Dysart’s Late Model 23-lap shoot out there were two cautions. The first came at lap six, when three cars spun out, Dave St. Clair of Liberty, Doug Day, Sr. of Glenburn, and Bobby Seger, Jr. of Frankfort. The second caution flag flew at lap twenty, when Joey Doyon of Winterport lost control in turn-four. When the race resumed, Josh St. Clair of Liberty, and Ryan Deane of Winterport traded the top spot until lap 14 when St. Clair pulled away, and held the lead for the remainder of the race. Deane finished second, with Mike Hopkins of Hermon in Third.
In the second 23-lap shoot out, the caution flag only flew once, when Doug Day lost control in lap 15. Josh St. Clair remained strong throughout the night and pulling the lead away from Hermon’s Dale Swoboda after the caution came out, and earned the win in the second shootout as well, his sixth win in a row. “Dale looked like he was getting tight in the center,” said St. Clair in victory lane, “…and I was getting pretty good off the corner, and that crate motor don’t spin much, so it worked out.” Steuben’s Brenton Parritt took the second spot with Swoboda crossing the line for third.
Hermon’s Andrew Crosby led the entire distance of the 20 lap Little Enduro feature event at Speedway 95 Wednesday night, but only by inches most of the way. David Ogden of Old Town was either right on Crosby’s bumper or right beside him all the way from the green to the checker, but was unable to make the pass that would put him in first place. Ogden finished a close second, followed by last year’s champion Paul Higgins of Newburgh. Chris Carroll of Green bush finished fourth, with Hampden’s Travis Beale in fifth. Twenty-one cars attempted to start the event, but a red flag fell before all the cars crossed the start-finish line. David Ogden got spun on the start, and did a 360 in front of the pack, but recovered to put on a great show dueling for the lead. Only A.J. Jordan of Hermon could not continue following the first lap melee.
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PARRITT WIRES 95 LATE MODEL FEATURE AT SPEEDWAY 95
Brenton Parritt of Steuben took off from the outside pole position in the 35 lap Dysart’s Late Model feature at Speedway 95 Sunday afternoon and held the lead through two restarts to post his first win of the young season. Parritt was challenged by Duane Seekins of Stockton Springs in the early going and on the restarts, but Seekins eventually settled into the second spot, where he finished. It wasn’t an easy second place finish for Seekins, though, as he faced tough competition from both Josh St. Clair of Liberty and Dale Swoboda of Hermon. Both St. Clair and Swoboda were using the inside groove to move past traffic as they both started near the rear of the field due to their top three finishes last week. Swoboda and St. Clair had passed Seekins and were battling for the second spot , Swoboda on the outside and St. Clair on the inside, when they came together on the front stretch on lap 25, eliminating both cars for the remainder of the event. Seekins then regained the second spot and held it to the end. Bangor’s Doug Day finished the race in third, followed by John Kalel II of Orrington in fourth and Nick Kinney of Danforth in fifth. Seekins won the day’s 15 lap qualifier.
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.