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Retro Stock Cars on the Figure 8 – 5/9/17

 

A relatively large field of eleven Retro Stock Cars took to the Figure 8 for this week’s Tuesday night retro-race at MVH.  It has been a few months since the Stock Car class has been on the “8” as we’ve tried this class on the Royal once and a couple of times on the King in the interim. There was talk this evening about maybe trying stockers on the Sovereign some time soon, which seemed to be enthusiastically received! Even with 11 racers, we were still one marshal shy of running all 8 lanes, so the race was run on the middle 6. 

 

Cars in Tech:

 

Dom Luongo and Larry Labounty both made rare Tuesday night appearances as they were meeting to prepare for the upcoming NERR finale on the King at MVH this weekend and took the opportunity to race stock cars. 

 

With five track calls during the first ninety seconds of the race, it was clearly going to be an interesting evening. Stock car lap times have dropped into the low-to-mid 3 second range so staying in the slot can have a big impact on the outcome. Peter Lentros is well aware of this as he saw his relatively fast car struggle to keep pace due to multiple ambushes from other racer(s). Dom and Ricky Pratt avoided much of the chaos and pulled out a significant lead on the rest of the field with Dom ultimately taking the win by 4 laps over Ricky while the third step on the podium was being contested by a group of five mid-pack racers trailing by almost a dozen laps.  Dick Griffin and Ray Lee were in a close battle for 6^th place (2 lap gap at the end) and Rich Girvin and Peter Lentros were in a similarly close race for 4^th (also finishing with a 2 lap gap). Dave Panich managed to avoid much of mayhem on his way to the bottom step of the podium by a slightly wider margin. (6 laps). 

 

Although somewhat off the pace the three-way battle for 8^th was the closest race of the evening as Larry edged out Doug Uhlman by 4 track sections while Richard Payne trailed by just one lap. Though posting the 6^th fastest best-lap time, Dan Savage couldn’t stay in his lane and ended up rounding out the field in 11^th place.    

 

Driver, laps completed, best lap time/lane:

      1)    Dom Luongo             302         3.398   PU

      2)    Ricky Pratt                 298         3.460   BL

      3)    Dave Panich              287         3.507   PU

      4)    Peter Lentros            281         3.563   GN

      5)    Rich Girvin                279         3.304   BL (rider)

      6)    Ray Lee                    276         3.569   YL

      7)    Dick Griffin                274         3.679   YL

      8)    Larry Labounty         265/10    3.726   WT

      9)    Doug Uhlman           265/6      3.679   OR

    10)    Richard Payne          264         3.678   YL

    11)    Dan Savage              259         3.632   WT

 

Upcoming Events:

                    

     MVH Tuesday Night Retro-Racing Schedule for the remainder of May:

            5/16/17   Coupes on the Royal

            5/23/17   Can-Am on the Sovereign

            5/30/17   F-1 on the King

 

     Final 2016/2017 NERR Race:

            05/13/17    Modelville Hobby in Ashland, MA

                              Formula 1 on the King followed by the NERR Annual Banquet

 

Cars on the Podium (L to R): 2^nd Place –Ricky Pratt, 1^st Place – Dom Luongo, 3^rd Place – Dave Panich

 

Dom’s 1st Place Chassis:

         

 

Ricky’s 2nd Place Chassis:

         

 

Dave’s 3rd Place Chassis: