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Hats off to Pat Cannon ("the future of 410 racing' - buzzkill, 2006) and the local Highlands Team who romped the Grove BOMBERS last night for his first career 410 win. In only his second night of 410 racing, Pat took a commanding lead in his heat race and won it going away to earn a front row start in the A Main beside veteran PA Posse / WoO racer Tim Shaffer. At the green, Pat took off like he was shot out of a cannon, leading the field with a 5 car lengths coming out of turn 2.

Pat lead the race flag to flag in spite of several yellows which erased his margin over the chase group. Excellent racing in the closing laps as the top 4 cars - Cannon, Shaffer, Bolke and Montieth ran under a blanket in traffic at the historic half mile.

During the pre-race commentary, several points were brought to light by the VIP Brain Trust. Only 21 cars scheduled to start the race had ever won a 410 race...Cannon was one of the 3 non- winners who were eyeing the rite of passage. Only 14 of the cars scheduled to start had ever won an A main at a "best of the rest" event (WoO / NST / King's Royal / Slick 50).

Sprint Car Feature - 25 laps - 1. Pat Cannon, 2. Tim Shaffer, 3.
Ryan Bohlke, 4. Brian Montieth, 5. Fred Rahmer, 6. Brian Paulus, 7.
Don Kreitz, Jr., 8. Lance Dewease, 9. Chad Layton, 10. Greg Hodnett,
11. Alan Krimes, 12. Brian Leppo, 13. Mike Erdley, 14. T. J. Stutts,
15. Mark Smith, 16. Tony Bruce, Jr., 17. Todd Shaffer, 18. Michael
Carber, 19. Craig Keel, 20. Niki Young, 21. John Rudisill, 22. Lucas
Wolfe, 23. Rick Lafferty, 24. Jeff Shepard

DNS - Doug Esh /Cody Darrah - got together on the FS in the warm up laps for the A Main.

So my question to dirtracer84 and his dirt motorsports fan club...

1) How much time do you need to point out the BOMBERS in the field above, whom you spoke so much about in your recent rash of posts?

2) Did the "best 410 racers in the country" rent a DVD last night last night, like a contract performer on a circus night off?

Thank you to all local and traveling RACERS who supported our local promoter's "silly" and "risky" early races. The hardcore fans appreciate the efforts you put fort...while others, stuck in parts unknown...denegrate your efforts like trolls...chained to the underside of the sewer cover they call home.

and as always...thanks for playing and have a nice day, the corn can be planted any day now...

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

ONLY 21 of 24 cars starting the feature have ever won a race??? Those stats are just friggin staggering! I guess now next week it will be a scant 22 of 24.

Savage

Pat Cannon is a guy that fans outside of PA will be hearing about in the future. He came out of the Super Sportsman class at Silver Spring (Pa.) Speedway and became champion of the 358s at the Grove. He is definitely ready to go full-time 410 and run up front in PA.

One of the many past Posse vs. the world threads on this board was a thread ripping the PA teams for not going to last year's 360 races in Florida -- even though central PA does not have a 360 class. Anyway, Cannon was even in the top 10 in Florida last year in the race that spawned a thread ripping the Posse for not sending any teams to the race. LOL

sorry about the double post...the page burped when i was typing - i was adding the PAINT BY NUMBERS COLORS for the kiddies.

Lincoln 1845 ft/.35 mile T1=118MPH 
Eldora 2287 ft/.43mile T3=135MPH
Port 2716 ft/.51 mile T3=TBD
Grove 2792 ft/.53 mile T3=135MPH
Selinsgrove 2847 ft/.54 mile T1=136MPH
"I didn't move to PA from El Paso in search of better 
weather." Van May

.......................the price at the gate is right also!! Props to the Highlands team, you beat some stout competition last night. Just another race day today.......................hohum.

Buzzkill = visionary

"The Outlaws have people out here that don’t know 
anything about racing. I don’t understand how they 
come up with some of the calls they do. It makes me 
think that they just might be that stupid. It’s 
scary."     -Steve Kinser

Every first win is big, sounds like this might finally be a FOAW in reality..

Now about these front row or pole starting wins, sheesh. How about a statsman givin' up some details about this observation to date this year in Posseville. The 410's must be way above 50%, how 'bout it? Take It Easy.....

PS Kevin?????

Is it true Tim Shaffer only has ONE career A Feature win at the Grove?

Not sure myself, but some simple research finds that single win and I find that unbelieveable. Would certainly think he may have had a couple more or so.

This is true. Not sure why you are suprised by that. He ran central PA weekly in the Apple No. 12 for one full season and never won a race anywhere in Cen. PA the year he raced here weekly.