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Center Conway NH’s D.J. Shaw admitted in Victory
Lane that he wasn’t looking forward to the Pro All Stars Series
returning to The Action Track of the East. “I didn’t like the track,
we just never seem to run well here.” is what the winning driver had
to say. But that perception has all changed now, as the post-race
victory photos were taken.
Three time Seekonk winner Ryan Vanasse and former PASS Champion Ben
Rowe brought the 27 car field down with Vanasse setting the pace for
the first several laps before six time Seekonk Champion Fred Astle
took over after a lap 11 restart. Astle led for several laps before
Derek Ramstrom took over the lead. As the race reached the
mid-point, it was apparent that there would not be a Seekonk Pro
Stock regular carrying the checkers, as the only regular remaining
in the top five was pole sitter Ryan Vanasse, who was sitting in the
fifth position.
Travis Benjamin was working his way forward, and the Morrill Maine
driver took over the lead and opened up a sizeable advantage over
Ramstrom and the rest of the pack. But as the laps wound down, Shaw
found his rhythm and used the outside lane to move past Benjamin and
took over. Ben Rowe was also coming through the pack after pitting
about one-third of the way through, and challenged Benjamin for
second, but fell slightly short, having to settle for third. Johnny
Clark and Lonnie Somerville rounded out the top five.
Gerry DeGasparre Jr picked up his fourth win of the season, holding
off Bobby Pelland III in the 30 lap Late Model event. Bill Bernard
jumped out front from him outside pole position, and set the pace
over Ron Barboza Jr. Gerry moved into second by lap seven, with
Pelland right behind, moving into third with ten laps to go, when
Barboza spun.
As Bernard led the field off turn four on lap 18, he back end came
out from underneath, and he spun out of the lead, with Gerry
inheriting the top position. Pelland lined up alongside, but was not
able to mount a serious challenge. Gerry held on and picked up the
win, with Pelland second, Dylan Estrella coming through the pack for
third, Jeramee Lillie fourth and Scott Dion returning to the LM
ranks and finishing fifth.
Ryan Lineham moved past Scott Serydynski with seven laps remaining
and picked up his third win of the season in the Sam’s Club Street
Stocks. Bobby Bettencourt Jr and Gerard Berthelette swapped the lead
a few times over the first ten laps, and while leading, something
seemed to break on Berthelette’s machine, and he pulled out of the
event, giving the lead to Bettencourt. As the field jammed up,
several cars started playing bumper tag, and Tony Oliviera, who was
running second and Manny Dias, who was running fourth, got together
and ended up sliding into the wall.
Just after the restart, Crystal Serydynski and Bettencourt got
locked together while racing for the lead, handing the lead over to
last week’s winner Scott Serydynski. His lead lasted a few laps
before Lineham took over and brought the field down to the checkered
flag. The Sam’s Club Street Stock point leader Paul Lallier followed
through and held on for second. Sparky Arsenault also moved past
Serydynski for third, with Scott and Rey Lovelace rounding out the
top five.
In the 25 lap Sport Truck feature, Barry Shaw Jr of Holbrook picked
up his first Sport Truck win in the most exciting race of the
evening. Nick Uhrig and Daryl Church raced wheel to wheel for the
twenty laps, swapping the lead back and forth several times between
them. Officially, Church, who was racing the outside lane, led 17 of
the twenty laps, but with an average of .250 seconds over that time,
while Uhrig was making the winless driver work for every inch he
could find. Uhrig, the leading Rookie candidate in the Sport Truck
was giving as good as he was getting, keeping a pack of trucks
behind them.
It all started to come apart when Uhrig was tagged from behind by
John Paiva, and spun in front of the field. Paiva was penalized for
the contact, moving Rick Martin and Mike Cavallaro to chase Church
to the green. Cavallaro used a three wide move on the bottom and
took over the lead, with Martin following behind. On lap 23, with
Martin moving underneath Cavallaro, Martin chased up the track,
taking Cavallaro out of his groove, and opened the bottom lane,
where Barry Shaw saw daylight and moved under the pair, picking up
the lead with less than 2 laps remaining. Lenny Guy, Church, Scott
Dion and Uhrig all slid past Cavallaro and Martin, and crossed the
stripe in that order.
PASS Top Ten: 1 DJ Shaw, 2 Travis Benjamin, 3 Ben Rowe, 4 Johnny
Clark, 5 Lonnie Somerville, 6, Austin Theriault, 7 Rick Martin, 8
Cassius Clark, 9 Derek Ramstrom, 10 Craig Weinstein
LM Top Ten: 1 Gerry DeGasparre Jr 2 Bobby Pelland III, 3 Dylan
Estrella, 4 Jeramee Lillie, 5 Scott Dion, 6 Dave Hutchens Jr, 7
Tyler Thompson, 8 Danny Thibeault, 9 Greg Cotter, 10 Bill Bernard
Sam’s Club SS Top Ten:1 Ryan Lineham, 2 Paul Lallier, 3 Sparky
Arsenault, 4 Scott Serydynski, 5 Rey Lovelace, 6 Manny Dias, 7 Chris
DeMoura, 8 Joe Kohler, 9 Charles Beal, 10 Roland Wheeler
Sport Truck Top Ten:1 Barry Shaw Jr, 2 Lenny Guy, 3 Darryl Church, 4
Scott Dion, 5 Nick Uhrig, 6 Mike Cavallaro, 7 Rick Martin, 8 John
Paiva, 9 Anna Gregoire, 10 Jim Hawkins |
