It was Charter Communications Night last night at Thunder Road and it felt good to be back at the track. My sister has been Guest Blogger for a few weeks now, but I’m back. The weather during the day looked a little iffy but it cleared off perfectly for the Races and was a beautiful night. Some may have even had to put their Sweatshirts on like me, but it was nice.

The Napa Flying Tigers started off the evenings Qualifying events. Though there wasn’t much excitement during the 3 Qualifying rounds or B Feature, the excitement came in their Feature race. With 3 major wrecks causing cautions within the first 2 Laps, Tom Curly stopped the race to bring them in the Pits for a chat allowing the Junk Yard Warriors to begin their Feature. After the Junk Yard feature, they came back out to Complete their 30 Lap Feature where the Top 3 were (18)Lance Allen, (58)James, Hebert, and (36)Joel Hodgdon.

During all the Allen Lumber Street Stock events there was quite a bit of action on the Track. During the Qualifying rounds a lot of drivers were nudged and spun out losing their spots to the rear. The Street Stock Feature carried more Action than any other race last night. The cars were making their turn around Turn 4, all the sudden on the front stretch, the 82 of Josh LaCourse Hit Steve Mandigo in the the37. Mandigo’s car jumped the Widow Maker which caused it to flip several time before coming to a stop on its roof. A Red Flag was dropped and thankfully, Mandigo was left unharmed! The same wreck also caused the 75 of Joe Fecteau to be sent 20 Feet into the air over the Turn 1 Bank. Fecteau also was unharmed during this wreck. The Race came to an end at 25 laps with The Top 3 of (73)Vern Woodard, (30)Lloyd Blakely and (11)David Allen.

The Power Shift Online Junk Yard Warriors started the night with an interesting twist. The Qualifying was an unconventional Qualifying event. I never did hear the exact Set up but it allowed only the Top cars after so many laps to race for Points. The first part of the Junk Yard Warrior Feature went pretty well until Lap 9 when the 90 of Alex MacLean spun around between Turn 3 & 4 causing the Yellow Flag to drop. A few laps later the 24 of Justin Gay spun out another driver on the track which resulted in a Black Flag for him and wasn’t allowed to return to the race. The 19 of Neal Foster who took 1st was Disqualified during Tech, leaving the Top 3 (04)Scott Weston, (1)Chad Brown, (66)Travis Hull. Points Leader Jamie Davis came from Dead last to 7th which was pretty impressive!

Now comes the event most people go to the Road to watch, the ACT Late Models. There was a lot of Battles for places during the Qualifying events as well as the 50 lap Feature. In Heat 1 14 and 68 battled it out for 1st and 2nd and the Points Leader Williams(7) passed his way to the 3rd position. In Heat 2, there was another Battle for 1st and 2nd the entire race between Rookie Matt White(42 and the 75 of Pete Fecteau. Becker took 3rd trying to push the 42 up for 2nd but Fecteau got it by a hair at the finish. During the Semi things were heated as racers tried for more points. Another Battle goes on as the 7 of Williams takes to the outside for 4th. Here, Fecteau and Williams battled for 3rd and 4th but Williams gets the 3rd place spot in the end. Now it’s on the Charter Communications 50 Lap Feature. As the 7 of Williams and 6 of Michaud battle for Point leads there were 22 cars to start the Race, with no Cautions the entire race, the entire 22 were able to finish. The 6 of Michaud bumped a couple cars to move up in position. As the 26 car got loose, it gave Willaims(7) a chance to sneak up 3 positions. This was a really clean run race with No cautions. The front end had to work around Lapped Traffic and the final race ended with Rookie, Matt White(42) Claiming his first Late Model Victory, 31 of Shawn Fleury and 86 of Dennis Demers. It was there on Victory Lane that the 86 of Demers announced his Retirement.