Hello Race fans,

The club held their only double header weekend with the 2nd night being topless night for the 500’s. Friday night at Canaan Speedway started the weekend with some great action.

FRIDAY   JUNE 12, 2009    Canaan Speedway

The 500’s with wings took to the track & found it rough going, the green came out & #77 Troy Boissoneau took the early lead hoping he has gotten rid of the gremlins in the their stables. #33 Lacey Hanson & #04 Zach Herbert were not going to make it easy for Troy to win & it did not take more than a few laps for the side by side action started. Troy slipped up in turn 4 Zach got under Troy & dragged raced to the line with Zach getting  the top spot, Lacey watched the move Zach made & made the same move a lap later & gained 2nd from Troy, then went for Zach but fell a little short. Behind those three were #58 Jordan Eldridge, #2 Josh Boissoneau & #57 Drew Eldridge battling hard swapping spots back & forth. #8 Derek Eldridge & #7 Kevin Cantrell were side lined early with mechanical issues. Zach Herbert took home the win over Lacey Hanson 2nd, Troy Boissoneau 3rd, Jordan Eldridge 4th, Josh Boissoneau 5th, Drew Eldridge 6th, Kevin Cantrell 7th, & Derek Eldridge 8th.

The 1st group of 600’s rolled off with the top 4 drivers in the points, #75 Matt Robie, #2 Josh Boissoneau, #11 Terry Reil, #57 Jack Currie. Matt got a great jump up on the high side & got around Josh & Jack to show the way to the checkered flag, leaving the battle between Josh & Terry for 2nd & Jack waiting for a chance to gain another spot. The heat went green to checker very fast. The checkered waived for Matt Robie first then Terry Reil 2nd, Josh Boissoneau 3rd, Jack Currie 4th, & #23 Dan Bowne 5th filling in for Christine Boesch while she heels from a shoulder injury, Get Well Soon. The 2nd heat had #21 Richard Crooker, #37 Dave Morgan & #77 Troy Boissoneau with 2 of this yrs. Rookies #14 John Chesnut & #25 Alan Hill. There was some great driving being done for the top three spots with Dave showing the way but it was not long before Richard. Troy, John & Alan where right there in case the move Richard makes on Dave does not work they would bonus from it, but Richard threaded the needle low under Dave to gain the top spot & grab the checkered flag first followed by Dave Morgan 2nd, Troy Boissoneau 3rd, John Chesnut 4th, & Alan Hill 5th.

500’s did not even get out on the track & they lost #55 Don Collins & #7 Kevin Cantrell due to mechanical woes. The Eldridge family controlled the front row with Derek on the pole & Drew on outside pole. The green fell & a lap later so did Troy’s car into the infield with carberator. Problems but did not mind because the action was great. Zach, Jordan & Lacey were battling for the top spot all within inches of each other; Jordan got the upper hand with the best setup of the night & took home his fist feature win. Zach & Lacey tried everything but could not get around Jordan. Josh, Derek & Drew were scratching & clawing for the next three spots, with Josh in front. In the end it was a very joyous night in the Eldridge stables with Jordan Eldridge 1st, Zach Herbert 2nd, Lacey Hanson 3rd, Josh Boissoneau 4th, Drew Eldridge 5th, Derek Eldridge 6th after mechanical problems ended his night early & Troy Boissoneau 7th after a 1st lap dnf.

Now it was time to see if the 600’s could put on a show that would keep the fans on the edge of their seats like the 500’s did. The 600’s defiantly did that with quick moves in & out, fast speeds & some unbelievable side by side action. Jack & Troy brought the field to the green, were Jack got a good jump & Troy pulled up to the wall to let the field go under him because his carburetors loaded up on the start. Coming out of turn 2 Dave made a move on Jack & it stuck like glue to get by & take the led while Richard, Matt, & Terry coming throw the field. Dave enjoyed a quite 2 or 3 laps then the pressure was on by Richard & Matt with John & Troy chasing Terry. Dan & Jack were having their own privet battle every lap. Richard made his move on Dave with going deep into the corner to take the rain, but Dave was not ready to let go so quick. They battled for a few laps high & low with Matt waiting to make his move but the opportunity never came. Late in the race John lost his chain & collected Troy while battling for 4th spot, the left front side of the front axle broke off taking both cars out. When the dust settled #21 Richard Crooker was the king of the hill followed by #37 Dave Morgan 2nd, #75 Matt Robie 3rd, #11 Terry Reil 4th, #23 Dan Bowne 5th, #57 Jack Currie 6th, #77 Troy Boissoneau 7th  dnf,  #14 John Chesnut 8th  dnf. #2 Josh Boissoneau & #25 Alan Hill could not make the feature because of racing gremlins.

After a tough night everybody is loading up & heading to stop #2 Rattle Snake Motordrome were the 500’s are running top less.

SATURDAY    JUNE 13, 2009     Rattle Snake Motordrome

The 500’s took to the track topless for the 1st time in a long time, the club use to do one race a yr. many yrs. Ago & are trying to revive it. Everybody back then enjoyed it so why not & after the races everybody said they would do it again. Troy & Josh made up the front row & getting itchy to see who was going to beat the other to turn one. The green dropped & Troy got the upper hand going into turn 1 & never looked back, Josh stayed with Troy for a couple of laps but developed carburetor problems. Jordan & Derek tried to get by Troy after they got by Josh but the laps ran out. #77 Troy Boissoneau took the top spot with #8 Derek Eldridge 2nd, #58 Jordan Eldridge 3rd, #04 Zach Herbert 4th, #57 Drew Eldridge 5th & #2 Josh Boissoneau in 6th.

The 600’s came out (with wings) with Jack Currie & Josh Boissoneau on the front row but after the green dropped it did not take long  for Matt Robie & Terry Reil to get caught up to the battle for led. Josh was able to get in front of Jack to lead for a couple laps then Matt passed Jack & Josh for the top spot. The real battle was between Josh, Terry & rookie John Chesnut for the 2nd spot & it took all of the heat & 7 or 8 changes to find out who would be 2nd, 3rd, 4th. When the checkered waived it was #75 Matt Robie 1st, #14 John Chesnut 2nd, #2 Josh Boissoneau 3rd, #11 Terry Reil 4th, #25 Alan Hill 5th, #23 Dan Bowne 6th & #57 Jack Currie 7th.

The 500 feature came out with action between Jordan, Derek & Zach for the led while Troy, Josh & Drew struggle to keep pace because of changes Troy did to his car & carburetor problems for Josh & Drew. Zach took advantage of an early yellow caused by Troy & Drew’s spin in turn 2 by getting a great jump on the restart to take the led & that left the back & forth battle between Jordan & Derek for 2nd place. They kept passing each other till the end & on the last lap Jordan tried one more time to get Derek but fell short. In the end Zach Herbert was very excited to come home with the win & looking for more in the future. He was followed by Derek Eldridge 2nd, Jordan Eldridge 3rd, Troy Boissoneau 4th, Drew Eldridge 5th, and Josh Boissoneau 6th.

The 600’s came out to play & saw Josh jump out to an early leed & held off Matt for 12 laps. On lap 13 matt found a hole under Josh & he made a move to get by Josh but it took until turn 3 for Matt to clear Josh & run it till the end. When races go green to checker it is hard for anybody to catch up because they were flying. Josh made a few attempts to get under Matt but Matt got some good bites off turn 2 to keep Josh at bay. The feature did not take long to run & in the end Matt Robie took the win with Josh Boissoneau in 2nd, Terry Reil 3rd, Jack Currie 4th, Alan Hill 5th & Dan Bowne 6th.

Next race for the club will be at Rattle Snake Motordrome on June 27th & it will be Top less night for the 600’s.

Thank You

Troy B.