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[sledman]

Stock Cars on the Royal – 9/8/26

 

Stock Cars on the American Royal was the featured race in this week’s edition of  the MVH Tuesday Night Retro Series. Nine racers ran in the 4-on/5-off format, hitting the outside four lanes first then heading to the inside four, all over eighteen heats.

 

Nine Stock Cars in Tech:

 

Ray Lee had the fastest car on the track with Rob Hayes fractionally slower and the pair easily pulled away from the rest of the field. By the move to the inside lanes, Rob had a two-lap lead on Ray with Woody Hazelwood running in third, six laps in arrears at 168 laps. Dave Panich and Cody Pare’ were four laps behind Woody and tied for fourth. Rick Pare’ was fifth with 153 laps while John Mills led Richard Payne by two, 149 to 147. Steven Sacchetti closed out the field with 144 laps.

 

The race to the checkered flag saw Rob drive to victory over Ray by just under two laps.  Woody hung on to third, thirteen laps out of second while the tie between Cody and Dave went Dave’s way. The rest of the field finished in the same order as at the halfway point, with the closest finish between John and Richard who were also separated by less than two laps.

 

Ray posted the fastest lap of the night; a blistering 3.790 on the blue lane. Both he and Rob set lap times well below the existing NERR record of 3.855. Though not records, Woody and Cody also posted sub 4-second laps. The blue lane was the fast way around the Royal, as six of the nine racers set their fastest lap on blue.

 

In addition, though not official, Rob and Ray also broke Ray’s existing NERR record for total laps (346/1).

 

Driver, laps completed, best lap time and lane:

1. Rob Hayes                   350/26       3.821      BL
2. Ray Lee                       349/9         3.790      BL
3. Woody Hazelwood       336/5         3.971      BL
4. Dave Panich                 333/25       4.045      YL
5. Cody Pare’                   321/10       3.933      BL
6. Rick Pare’                    311/15       4.123      BL
7. John Mills                     294/17      4.314      GN
8. Richard Payne             293/6         4.436      BL
9. Steven Sacchetti          207 DNF   4.317      OR

     

         Race Winner Rob "Pedro Podium" Hayes

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

 

        MVH Tuesday Night Retro Schedule for the rest of September:

              Sept 15      Can-Am on the Figure 8

              Sept 22      Coupes on the Aristocrat

              Sept 29      F-1 on the King                    

       

        NERR Race No. 2 will be held at PJ Raceway in Ronkonkoma, NY on September 19, 2026.

        This event will be a joint event with Retro East and will feature:

              Can-Am on the Hillclimb  

              F-1 on the Hillclimb

                                             

Podium: (L to R):

2nd Place – Ray Lee, 1^st Place – Rob Hayes, 3rd Place – Bob Hazelwood

 

Rob’s 1st Place Chassis:

 

Ray’s 2nd Place Chassis:

 

Woody’s 3rd Place Chassis:

[raisin27]

Congrats Rob!

[NSwanberg]

426 calories?

[Bridgehampton66]

Thank you, Raisin.  We go back.  You are amazin'.

 

Our Tuesday night Retro racing buddy, Roland Lapierre, is known to crave him some

DQ on his trips north to Modelville, from his native Rhode Island.

 

And the idea of replacing the NASCAR hood cubic inches with calories came to me

in a dream. The paint scheme was executed through the singular talents of one John Weaver.

 

Roland has a Charger twin, also by John.  Because Rollie loves DQ so much.

 

And, thanks here to Joe, and Bob, who so often convey Rollie to the Tuesday night races.