Limited Sportsman Results from Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park 7-29-15

#75 Ryan Waterman Blown Motor, missed feature

Moose returned the borrowed#12 and drove his familiar blue Ford #39 to stay in the Hunt !

Weekly improvements on the @51 Joshua Wood race team

Got my Nat's power plant back !

Hutchings was a great guest on our Race Chatter radio program.

Scott Sundeen came in to todays event with the points lead

Posted by Wayne G. Barber and all photos from the Wayne G. Barber Collection

#4ri Scott Quinn 5 Victories in 2015 !

  The Vintage Outlaws race group completed their exhibition with a ten lap feature that saw the fifth win of the season for Smithfield, Rhode Island’s Scott Quinn. After starting in the back of the field of seven cars Quinn moved his way through the field quickly, taking the lead into turn one at the start of the third lap of the event. He never looked back and took home the hardware.

“I’d like to just thank my brother, crew chief Rob Quinn, Jr.) for all the work he does and my sponsors,” he said. “We’re winning because we go home every week and we pull the car apart and we just build it right back to new and come back to race - The car is really good and my brother made a good call with a gear change because he knew the track would be slippery tonight so we were able to try something different and it worked.” Thank You, Scott for coming up to the press box on a very hot July evening
and then the Late Models laid down some fresh rubber for the Limited Sportsman to start their 20 lap feature.
 Starting up front would be 01 Brent Gleason, Griswold, Conn. and the #45 of Tommy Shea, New London, Conn. The points leaders #36 Sundeen, #73 Barnett and #38 Hutchings,#39 Douton were mid pack at 8,9,10,11
  The heat races produced some great speeds with Cory Hutchings showing the best time of 23.974
 an 93.852 mph and showing that the last race victory was no fluke. Barnett with the new Nat's racing engine installed turned a awesome time of 24.083 and 93.427 and Douton 24.199 returned to action in his familiar blue #39 with his new Ford power plant and the return of the #12 to the Waterford race team who enabled Moose to stay in the championship hunt in 2015. #36 Sundeen came pre-pared and turned a lap in the heats of 24.072 and the car count was 18 to start the heats. The biggest improvement since the season started has been the #51 Joshua Wood race team and a remarkable time of 24.321
 Yes 7:00 pm and the third feature of the night, the Xtramart Limited Sportsman Series, was full of action as the 20-lap feature saw an intense battle for the lead through much of the race. The biggest battle of the race saw eventual winner Jesse Gleason and runner-up Larry Barnett side by side or nose to tail for much of the race and a battle for second in the first five laps became a battle for the lead after early leader Joshua Wood lost control coming out of turn four. Gleason inherited the lead with Barnett close behind.
 Gleason would go on to claim victory and talked about his run to the win in victory lane.
 “It was a long day and it’s just really really hot out,” he said. “When you’ve got Larry Barnett, Cory Hutchings and Scott Sundeen, a three time track champion behind you then you know you’re in good hands. Barnett and I have raced for almost ten years and we rarely trade paint so I know that he’s a good old school racer like myself.”
 Gleason, who calls Lisbon,Connecticut home had just enough fuel to get to the finish and win the 20-lap Limited Sportsman feature Wednesday at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park.
  Gleason’s car ran out of fuel before he could get to victory lane at the track.



#81 Jesse Gleason cooling down in the press box.

“I asked my brother to put some fuel in the car before we went out but it must have slipped his mind,” Gleason said. “So we had just enough to finish.”
“She was a handful,” Gleason said. “She was a little tight and loose. I was just trying to save the tires. I could see other guys were burning them off about lap 11 or 12. So I would try to get a little distance on Barnett and every time I did I’d get a little wiggly loose. If I could just keep it straight in line it seemed like it would do everything by itself. Thank god there was no cautions.”
Barnett held on for a second place finish while Scott Sundeen and Corey Hutchins finished third and fourth. Wood recovered from his early spin for a fifth place finish.
  Finish:
 Jesse Gleason, Larry Barnett ,Scott  Sundeen, Corey Hutchins, Joshua Wood, Moose Douton , Diego Monahan,  Matt Lowinski-Loh ,Brent Gleason ,Frank LeToile Jr , Mike Palin , Tommy Shea Sr. Tyler Cinamella , Hank Stott,  James Bendiak,  Mike Malbaurn,  DNS Ryan Waterman , DNS Todd Dean, DNS Troy Waterman