posted May 9, 2010, 7:49 PM by Admin RMLRA
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updated May 11, 2010, 2:26 PM
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Chris Eggleston starting
third row inside battled Kyle Clegg for the lead after the green flag flew to
start the twenty five lap feature last night. The car knows its way to the
front and within a few laps pulled to the front. After a couple of caution
flags and restarts, Eggleston took home his second checkered flag of the CNS
season. Kyle Clegg drove hard but could not catch Chris in the last three laps
of the race on the restart. Former RMLRA champ and CNS champion Terry Plummer
drove the number seventeen car to a third place finish. Wayne Barlock who was
involved in an accident in his heat race started in the next to last row of the
feature finally made it to fourth place late in the race, with a great effort.
The number three car looked good as it made its way towards the front. The
current RMLRA point’s leader Darrell Stewart stayed in contention all through the
race and finished fifth.
Heat races were won by
Chris Eggleston and Kyle Clegg.
Heat # 1 Eggleston, Faatz, Plummer, Canada, McCartney, J. Stewart, Webber,
B. Seip, Hunter, Cooper, Ellison, Barlock, Rusk.
Heat # 2 Clegg, C. Seip, D. Stewart,
Bandstra, Peconi, Scott, Duncan, D. Kopp, G. Kopp, Hondel, Ray, Stedman,
Coughlin.
Feature results, (unofficial)
1. Eggleston 2. Clegg 3. Plummer 4. Barlock 5. D. Stewart 6. Peconi 7. C. Seip 8. McCartney 9. Scott 10. Faatz 11. Bandstra 12. J. Stewart 13. Webber 14. D. Kopp 15. Coughlin 16. G. Kopp 17. Canada 18. Stedman 19. Duncan 20. B. Seip 21. Ray 22. Hondel 23. Hunter 24. Cooper 25. Ellison 26. Rusk
# 10 Garrett Park did not
start last night but was on hand. He blew an engine in hot laps.
A very good turnout of
twenty seven Legend cars were on hand last night at Colorado National Speedway
as the Legends racing was very good. On hand last night was former champion
Terry Plummer who has taken over the # 17 car of Bill Yeros. Terry will drive
mainly at CNS and Big Country Speedways. For the first time in the car, he kept
the car up front all night.
A new driver on hand last
night driving a Legend for the first time was the # 58 of Kyle Ray. Making his
debut last night did not come as well as expected. His new car backed into the
wall in practice and was running strong in the feature and was involved with
several cars on the front straightaway as the checkered flag flew. His car was
damaged, and the crew will spend many hours repairing the car. Alan Duncan
offered his services to help in the repairs. Kyle also showed a lot of
experience on the track while racing. Give him some seat time in the Legend, and
he will be moving to the front.
Jim Ellison driving the #
11 also made his Legends debut. Jim drove his car throughout the races getting
some valuable seat time, and was lapped several times during the races, but
kept his car down and out of the way as racers drove by. Jim did a good job and
will soon be up to speed in a short time.
To our other first year
rookies, all of them did a good job and for most of them it was their third
race in a Legend and learning what it is all about. Ethan Hunter # 37 celebrated
his fourteenth birthday yesterday and that made him eligible to race at CNS.
David Hondel, # 47 had his car moving toward the front early last night but
developed problems with his front brakes and that caused him to slow down and
drop back.
Everyone enjoy the next
weekend off and I will see you in the Pits on May 22nd at Colorado
National Speedway which is our next scheduled race.
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