Wells Bounty is Over NEMST has a new Winner, Glen Thomas

Posted by Wayne G. Barber

Under the hot sunny summer skies of Southern Massachusetts 29 Texas Roadhouse Mini Stocks rolled into the pit area of Seekonk Speedway for the first race of the 2015 Thirty Racewear Triple Crown and the 7^th event for the season points championship. Toby Wells has won the previous 6 events in 2015 in dominating fashion.
Of the 29 mini stocks in the pit area there was a mix of NEMST veterans, rookies, and Seekonk regulars coming to show their hand in the 40 lap main event to be held later in the evening. The heats races went smooth with Glen Thomas, Derek Robbie, and Darryl Church taking home their respective wins and rolling into the feature with incredible momentum.
The feature kicked off to a blazing pace with Church, Zakarite, and Thomas breaking away from the quick pack early on. Thomas would move to the lead early and begin to space out a commanding lead. Wells quickly moved up from his 11^th place starting spot and by lap 11 rolled into the second position. A hard crash on lap 19 slowed the pace at Justin Faford made hard contact with the front stretch retaining wall and reset the field for a much anticipated restart.
Thomas was fast on the gas and pulled Wells on the restart and into the first set of corners. 3 laps later the stalled car of Mitch Bombard slowed the pace once again as he required a caution and push truck to be removed from the track. Wells would line up to the outside of Thomas once more. Thomas again pulled the restart and Wells would suck in behind the rear bumper of the red, white, and blue Nissan.
Finally on lap 30 the final caution came out as the 21 and 43 spun in turn 2 in front of the lead pack. Wells, after being beat on the two previous restarts, would line up to the right of Thomas one last time. A jump by Thomas resulted in a lazy green and the front row drivers were warned to follow NEMST restart procedures on the ensuing restart. The next time around the drivers pulled forward together and battled side by side into turn 1. Wells pulled ahead slightly down the back straight but lost ground entering turn 3 on the high side. He would stay to the outside of Thomas for the following lap but losing slight ground to his rear wheel drive competitor.
Thomas would gain a little more ground as Wells fell in behind but made a strong run nearly touching the rear bumper of Thomas the entire way around the track. In the end it was enough as Wells fell back two car length and had to settle for second place. His first non-win of the 2015 NEMST season. For Thomas it was his first win on the touring series and also erased the bounty placed on Wells earlier in the season. Surviving a tough battle Tim Collins held onto third at his first visit to Seekonk with Thompson Speedway regular Joe Baxter, Pascoag, R.I. and local driver Darryl Church ,who regularly wheels in the Seekonk Sports Trucks with a 4 cylinder completing the top 5.
Source: Press Release NEMST Tour & Photo

North East Mini Stock Tour – Feature
Finish	Car No	Driver	Hometown
1	53	Glen Thomas	New London, CT
2	2NH	Toby Wells	Dublin, NH
3	18X	Tim Collins	Windsor, ME
4	24	Joe Baxter	Pascoag, RI
5	4	Darryl Church	brockton, ma
6	85	Michael Viens	Seekonk, MA
7	6MA	Derek Robbie	bellingham , ma
8	O7	Pete Zakarite	Niantic, CT
9	88	Jacob Rheaume	Rochester, NH
10	10RI	Richard Sprague Jr	warwick, ri
11	90	Desmond Skillings 12  Loren Smith Jr. Bow, NH	Antrim, NH
			13 84 William Schoeler Warwick, ME 14 7 Eric Pelletier dayville, ct 15 11RI Emily Sprague warawick, ri 16 19RI Dylan Cabral Richmond, RI 17 43 Dana Shepard Putney, VT 18 55 Nicholas Anderson Oxford, MA 19 21 William Potter cventry, ri 20 1 Chuck Mcdonald Grotom, CT 21 22 Shaun Waites Sr Raymond, NH 22 10CT Mitchell Bombard Willimantic, CT 23 O4 Justin Faford westminster, ma 24 69 Louis Maher North Brookfield, MA 25 54 Eric Finkbine Jr Columbia, CT 26 81 David Banville somerset, ma DNS 27 66 Devin Miranda Taunton, Ma DNS 28 33 Matt Sonnhalter E. Thetford, VT DNS 29 25 Nic Skillings Hillsboro, NH DNS