Beautiful Saturday night for short track racing in New England after all the rain this week.
The Late/ Model drew a decent amount of race teams (22) tonight so the track held three very good qualifying heat races. John Paiva #21 won his heat race from green to checkers by holding off every contender. The second heat had last weeks feature winner Vinnie Arrendegardo #17 maintaining his speed again this week for a on-challenged heat race also. Green to checkered flag also.
The third race had two heavy weights in it and Dylan Estrella #46 and Austin Blais #16 had the crowd on the edge of their bleacher seat for 8 laps of side by side racing for a heat win. The last lap Blais got 3 inches on the grass for the win instead of taking the sure second place finish for a chance on a victory and lost it and the next six race cars passed him. Earnhardt would have done the same thing for a chance at a win at any level. Austin Blais is a pure racer !
The race was very tight early and the race cars were leaning on each other in every corner till Gerry Degasparre #71 left the track on lap 20 and the young guns smelled a chance of a victory in the air. On lap 24 of the 30 lap feature Dylan Estrella #46 and Mike Mitchell #44 tangelled in turn two and Jeramie Lille sustained race ending damage and then stalked Estrella before the exit shoot to give him a real good smash mouth to his chariot to return a favor before leaving. Something will come down later for his action I am sure. Only six laps remain and the young guns are at the point on the restart. Jake Johnson #15 who may not have a Massachusetts driving license and Austin Blais and very young but already has 18 victories under his belt put on the show of the night for the die hard race fans. Blais told me on the Race Chatter two weeks ago that he is not afraid to use the outside lane at Seekonk and then he proved it with a very clean pass on a restart. Third place Mike Benevides said he had sweaters older than these two young pups and he did not mention young Branden Dion #04 who finished a hard fourth after a re-start when the car behind him lifted both his rear wheels off the track and spun him for a 360 spin.
The future was on display again tonight in the competitive Late/ Model division and was alone worth the low price of admission Top five pending tech are Austin Blais, Jake Johnson, Mike Benevides, Branden Dion, Anthony Flannery. More info on this and the other three races tomorrow on this site.Wayne
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