January 4th 2020: The Skidmark 500

Well the first Outlaws race of the new year saw 21 racers congregate at F B Raceway in East Hartford for the first race of the 2020 season. After a couple hours of tweaking and tuning  we kicked off the event with our usual drivers meeting which ended with Dave Lockwood being presented with a couple of awesome birthday gifts  ( a framed pit towel and event flyer from the Halloween Havoc) from Flash and Greg W. nicely done guys.

Then it was time to go racing, since we had 21 racers, we split them into two groups. group 1 started with Hobby Stock on the Doval, while group 2 started with Limited SS, on the Pat Dube Memorial road course, then we switched tracks to complete the first two classes after which we broke for lunch (awsome as always! – PR), we concluded lunch with a Birthday cake (thanks Greg W) and a rousing round of “Happy Birthday” for Dave Lockwood .

  We finished off the racing with the dash powered Ford J  I.R.O.C.  cars. This was the first outing for these IROC cars and they did not disappoint, I was quite pleased with the handling and performance, which led to some very close racing (These cars were fantastic! -PR). When the dust settled there was some very close racing in all classes. Below are the top 5 finishers from the three classes. The complete finish place listings will be posted with the race photos.

HOBBY STOCK- Doval                         

 1) Flash – 205, 2) Steve – 198, 3) Rick H – 193, 4) Paul R – 193, 5) Greg W -192

LIMITED  SS – Pat Dube Memorial Raceway

1)Flash – 111 , 2) Dave L – 108,  3) Paul R – 106, 4) Rick M – 105, 5) Rick H – 103

I.R.O.C.  – Pat Dube Memorial Raceway

1)Greg W – 109, 2)Flash – 109, 3)Paul R – 106, 4)Rick M  – 104, 5)Dave L  – 103

     THANKS EVERYONE FOR COMING AND HOPE ALL HAD FUN, 

Rick “The Rock” M