The holiday race-week continued on Tuesday night, as Ransomville and Grandview had races on their schedules. Ransomville was able to get their show in, while Grandview had to pull the plug early in the afternoon.
Ransomville Speedway saw Phil Vigneri take an early lead from pole-sitter Tommy Flannigan and never look back, as a dominating performance gave his him first victory of 2013. Here's how the top 5 ended up...
Ransomville Speedway
1st 44v Phil Vigneri
2nd 93 Rich Vinson
3rd 72 Tommy Flannigan
4th 38 Ryan Susice
5th 25 Erick Rudolph
Only 2 invaders took advantage of the extra track time, as 358 DIRTcar Series regular Daniel Nadeau, and Stewart Friesen (making his first start of the year in Jeff Daley's #44) both qualified for the night's feature event.
Tonight, the action continues as 3 tracks have mid-week events planned. Ransomville Speedway will host the 358 DIRTcar Series for the "Battle for the Border" 75-lap $5,000 to win feature event. Bridgeport Speedway will host hand #3 of the Poker Series with the "Tom Hager Memorial" which will pay $4,000 to the winner of the night's 43-lap feature. Finally, Airborne Speedway will host a weekly show to make up for their string of recent rainouts.
Speaking of the 358 DIRTcar Series, Matt Sheppard has won both 358 DIRTcar Series events raced thus far in 2013, but he will not head to Ransomville as the points leader. Following his win on Monday at Cornwall Motor Speedway, Sheppard' JB Motorsports 9s was found with illegal modifications to the 358 spec cylinder head, resulting in a $4,000 fine and a 100-point deduction.
Tony Steiner left the dirt-modified world following the 2012 season to take to the asphalt to join Oswego's super modified division. However, Steiner will be making his return to the big-block division this October to attempt to qualify for the SEF 200 at Super DIRT Week.
Here's a brief look at some "silly season" occurances that have happened during my "break" from the blog...
Steve Paine will return to weekly competition at Autodrome Granby piloting the Bruno Lepage #99 entry. Paine had success at the Quebec track in the 90s as a weekly competitor.
Following a strong start to the season, Duane Howard was released from the Eastern Rigging Racing #11 small block team. The team will finish out the year running a handful of modified races with their sportman driver, Jarrad Umbenhauer.
The biggest news was the split between Danny Johnson and Mike Payne Racing. Following a championship at the DIRTcar Nationals at Volusia, the team struggled and the pairing went their seperate ways. Johnson has paired with Jeff Brown and Lee Shultz to split time between Georgetown and Accord on Fridays for the rest of the year, while he has partnered with Tyler Siri to finish out the year on the Super DIRTcar Series as well as weekly competition at Canandaigua.
Mike Payne has hired a pair of driver's to replace Johnson. Sportsman star David Marcucilli will run the car weekly at Canandaigua, while Dale Planck will take over driving duties for the rest of the season at Humberstone Speedway while following the rest of the Super DIRTcar Series.
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