July 2, 2010 (London, Ontario) 2010 is becoming the season of Sheridan as the division points leader logs another win in the NASCAR Late Model division at Delaware Speedway. It was Whelen night and Emergency Service Personnel and their families were our guests for the evening.
As the race got underway, Rick Emery (14) had lap one but Scott Lindsay (20) grabbed the lead at lap 2 and held on until almost the end but Sheridan’s relentless run for the win and a late-race caution combined to give the #52 yet another trip to Victory Lane. Sheridan has started the race in 11th spot and worked his way up to 4th by half-way.
Andrew Gresel (81) was running second until a connection with Mark Watson (78) at lap 15 causing the race’s first caution and a black flag to Watson. That moved Emery back up to second place. Gresel was also nicked in a multi-car spin-out at lap 18, putting Sharpie’s yellow flag up again. School teacher Doug Stewart was also caught up. During that caution, Watson drove to pit road and exited his car. He hadn’t been involved in that particular incident and his car’s problems were unknown by our deadline.
With 11 laps to go, Scott Lindsay had a half-a-straightaway lead on Ron Sheridan when Marc Jacobs (8) did a solo spin and the caution flag flew again. The track was barely into green when Doug Stewart (2) got clipped and popped his right front tire and an all-too familiar ending to a race for Stewart this year – the end of a Whitworth Towing hook.
The remaining laps saw Ron Sheridan sticking to Lindsay like glue until lap 32 when the 52 took the lead and logged his fourth win of the season.
Steve Robblee did not race tonight because of what we’re told is a sore back after a crash in last Friday night’s Maple City Tire 100.
There was a false start in the Delaware Super Stocks feature as a half-dozen cars connected on turn two, including defending champion Jason Lidster. A complete restart was necessary with all of the cars identified as “accident cars” sent to the back of the pack.
Darrell Lake (77) got the pole for the restart and held on, refusing to give Jared Shields (7) a lane high or low. At lap 17, with Lake still in the lead, Jake Ott (60) finally worked his way around Shields for second place. At lap 20, Kris Lawrence (28) pushed Ott aside and took second and a lap later Scott Nagy (99) took a spin, bringing out a caution.
In the final couple of laps, Lawrence made some aggressive moves to get around Lake but didn’t quite make it happen. Lake took the feature followed by Lawrence and then Ott, Jason Lidster (11) and Stephen Richmond. Nearly everyone who got to the microphone praised Lake for all the work he’s done to get back out, in the past couple of weeks.
Three lead changes early on in the Demar Aggregates Trucks 25-lap feature and once Paul Fothergill -who had been running fourth in the standings - got out front, that’s where he stayed.
Gary Triska had the pole. At lap four, Chad Rijnen took over and Fothergill got it two laps later. With 33 out in a commanding lead, the 00 of Shawn Johns made a surge for second and took it from Rijnen at lap 16. Johns finished second followed by Rijnen. Michelle Korcina (99) was fourth and Gary Adriaensen (55) who had been leading the division, finished fifth.
The next race night is Wednesday July 7th - Delaware’s Summer Showdown presented by APC featuring Kyle Busch, David Reutimann and Jason Leffler. Some tickets remain for this spectacular event pitting some of NASCAR’s biggest stars against our local favourites. All the details are on www.delawarespeedway.com.
Bring your Showdown ticket stub to Delaware on Friday July 9th and get 50% off admission. And we’ve got a special purse for our King of the Hill spectator race – the top 3 finishers will share in a total of $1000 cash!
From Lisa Brandt, Publicity // lisa@delawarespeedway.com
