Thursday, November 24, 2011

Penney Steals the Show @ Barrie!

Barrie, ON -- The CASCOR Winter Late Model series returned to action last week at the Barrie Speedway in Barrie, ON Canada for the first of two stops north of the the American border.


The night would get underway with Heat #1 as Will Wolf and Brent Sweet led the field down to the green flag.

Sweet would take the early lead on the high side, but was short lived as three laps later spun out by himself in turn 2, but didn't bring out the caution. Not too much later that lap a wreck in turns 3 and 4 brought out the caution for the first time of the night.

Matt Riley and Will Goshen led the field back to green with 7 laps to go. But the caution flew again for a spinning Will Goshen in turn 2.

Riley and Brent Sweet would lead the field back to green once again with 7 laps to go. The field would complete one lap before the caution came out again for a spinning Brent Sweet in turn 4.

This time Riley and Goshen led the field back to green with 6 laps to go. Riley would get a good restart as the race went green the rest of the way and held on to win his 2nd heat race of the season. Justin Collison finishes 2nd, Will Goshen 3rd, Austin Penney 4th and Brent Sweet rounded out the top 5. Johnny Williams came home 6th, Will Wolf 7th and Robert Hill rounded out the finishing order in 8th.


Heat #2 got underway with Thomas Mohl Jr. starting on the pole in his first appearance of the season and started alongside Bertus De Jong to bring the field down to the green flag.

Mohl Jr. would lead the first two laps before slipping up the track in turn 2, allowing Wesley Hoag to take over the lead. But a wreck in turn two would slow the action on lap 2, involving Mike Husby, Bertus De Jong and Brandon Hauck.

Wesley Hoag and Charli Brown led the field back to the green flag with 8 laps to go. But the caution flew 3 more times in the race, as the final restart came with 3 laps to go.

Brandon Hauck and Wesley Hoag led the field back to green with Hauck getting a good restart. Mike Husby would do everything to catch Hauck in the closing laps, but Hauck would hold on to win Heat #2. Husby finishes 2nd, Wesley Hoag 3rd, Thomas Mohl Jr. 4th and Shawn Breitzman rounded out the top 5. Charli Brown finished 6th and Bertus De Jong rounded out the finishing order in 7th.


After two pretty exciting heat races, it was time for the A Feature. By virtue of the random qualifying draw, Will Goshen and Shawn Breitzman started on the front row and led the field down to the green flag.

The caution flew right away for a spin by Johnny Williams in turn 3. Several cautions slowed the first half of the race and CASCOR officials decided it was best to go to single file restarts for the rest of the race.

Caution flew for the second to last time of the night with 11 laps to go, for a wreck in turn four involving Brandon Hauck and Charli Brown.

This would set up a 6 lap dash for the win on the restart. Wesley Hoag led Mike Husby, Austin Penney, Will Goshen and Brent Sweet the top 5 down to the restart.

Hoag and Husby pulled away from the field on the restart as the rest of the drivers duked it out behind them. But with three laps to go, Husby turned race leader, Hoag around in turn 1. As a result, Husby would have to go to the tail of the lead lap cars and Austin Penney in his first start, took home the feature win.

Penney wins, Will Goshen finishes 2nd, Justin Collison 3rd, Matt Riley 4th and Brent Sweet rounded out the top 5. Charli Brown brought his car home 6th, Bertus De Jong 7th, Wesley Hoag 8th, Thomas Mohl Jr. 9th and Brandon Hauck rounded out the top 10.

The Winter Late Model series took Thanksgiving week off, and will return to action at the famed Wall Township Speedway on November 29th for the Turkey Derby 75!