July 1st
Leo Defevers picked up where he left off last week and scored back to back wins! The win is his third in six races which means he's won half of the races so far! Unfortunately an ignition failure in the 4th race resulted in a last place finish so he's 48 points behind reigning champ Scott Michalski. That's a pretty big hole but there's more than half the season still ahead. Uncle Buck's #33 APE
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Gada Graphics Ford finished 2nd followed by a trio of Michalski's (Scott, Fred and Steve respectively.)
Deeper back Joe Baxter followed up his first top ten with another for tenth and Brent Gleason's got to be happy with his 11th place finish.
July 8th
If you count his son and I think you should, Lloyd Anderson has won with four different drivers behind the wheel of his cars. The latest is two time Waterford Street Stock champ Dwayne Dorr. As Anderson's new driver Dorr has struggled with things largely out of his control: a persistent oil leak, a mechanical failure causing a DNF, two DQ's, and (for good measure) two wrecks. As a result the team now sits in 17th position 182 points back, a very deep hole indeed. However as mentioned above, there's still a bit more than half of the season left.
A rookie mistake...
When I saw the results for last week's race I thought to myself, "Hmmmn... Joe Baxter really seems to have found his rhythm." Then I suddenly remembered he was a rookie! I checked my notes and for some reason I had stopped scoring him as a rookie in the fourth race. Ironically that was the first time he was the top finishing rookie. I can't really say why it slipped my mind that he was a rookie but it may have something to to with him being on his brothers team for so long. I think that's what made him not register as "new" when I was looking over the results each week. Also having the Baxter name on the roster for some time now had the same effect. Add to that, that I'm not "in the game" so to speak and that's how you get in the position I'm in now. So let's set things right shall we? Not only has Joe Baxter been the top finishing rookie for the last four races but he's also head and shoulders above his next closest rival Tim Armstrong by 40 points! Sorry about the mistake Joe!
This week: Twin updates (again!)