What a great evening for our first race of 2011. Finally the rain stayed away and gave us some good weather to start the rescheduled Opening Night. It was nice to see some new faces, some old drivers back with us, and some new drivers as well. It was a special treat for all of us to see Brian "Motor Mouth" Goudge back behind the microphone for 2011. Brian recieved a nice round of applause from all of the drivers at the drivers meeting. It took no time at all for Motor Mouth to get back in the swing of things and do what he does best. It was if he had not left at all. Brian provided us with great play by play action all night long.
The first heat winners were Brooke Cordick in the Four for Fun Class, Kyle Baker in the Mini Stock Class, Greg Ogilvie in the Thunder Class, Kevin Foisy in the Legends and Steve Munro in the Late Model Class.
The second heat winners were Brooke Cordick in the Four for Fun Class, Jen May in the Mini Stock Class, Todd Musker in the Thunder Class, Kevin Foisy in the Legends and Steve Munro in the Late Model Class.
The Feature winners were Malcolm MacDonald in the Four for Fun Class, Casey Cavanaugh in the Mini Stock Class, Todd Musker in the Thunder Class, a sweep for Kevin Foisy in the Legends and a sweep for Steve Munro in the Late Model Class.
The changes to the Mini Stock rules this year seemed to tighten things up in the class this year as we saw some tight racing in the field.
The Thunder Class saw even tighter racing between Greg Ogilvie and Mike Hennick as these two raced hard all night long and got into some banging in the feature, which continued even after the race and down the exit lane of the track.
Kevin Foisy was the dominant car in the Legends class last night as his winter racing schedule kept him rust free, and rewarded him with three wins last night. The #7 of Matt Haufe
Steve Munro held off a hard charging Justin Holtom in the second heat and in the fetaure to take the triple crown last night. A great start for Steve in a lighter field of Late Models with only 7 cars turning out for Opening Night. A nasty spill in the feature took out the #88 and # 08 which sent them both to the pits for the night. Both cars are expected back next week with others coming out as well.
There was a good turnout of Enduro cars who ended up with a shortened night due to time constraints.
The Nostalgia Room was opened to fans for the first time, and will be updated weekly, as we continue to get in new memorabilia.
Last but not least was the introduction of Thunder Cat, Capital City Speedway's new mascot for 2011. Thunder cat was introduced at intermission to the muisc of ACDC's Thunderstruck and flames out of our new flame projection system. Thunder Cat even tried to get into a race with the Legend Cars before he was black flagged by Todd Gow, the new Operator of CCS and Tim Dorning, the new Race Director.
What a great way to start the 50th Anniversary Season and we expect things to get better and better each week. Thanks to all of the fans who came out and shared our entertaining night of racing.
See you next week at the races.
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