<VV> Dakota Modified Tour Results-HUH ?????

[Louis C. Armer, Jr.]

And what kind of races might these be??? Don't keep us in suspense like 
this !!!
DEMO DERBY ??? <GGG> laps in heat races ........laps in in con-c races Whatever
that is???..................surfaces of tracks raced on..............makes 
of cars and engines..
aside from that ..........you told us everything !!! <GGG>

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At 03:07 PM 7/16/05 -0700, you wrote:
>VairHeads,
>Got back this morning from the Dakota Modified Tour, which consisted of 
>races every night from 7-9-05 thru 7-15-05.  We raced in Jamestown, ND, 
>Minot, ND, Estevan,SK (Canada), Williston, ND (2 nights), Dickinson, ND 
>and last night in Mandan, ND.
>   The boys from Iowa were really tough, and came with their game on.  In 
> fact Dean Mallstadt (clear Lake Iowa) won every one of the features 
> except one night in Williston where he won his heat, but fried some rear 
> outer wheel hub bearings (actually broke the bearing races) which dumped 
> all of the gear oil, and fried his pinion gear on one of the 8 sets of 
> gears he brought with.
>   The team that I'm on did OK, we ended up winning 5 heat races.   We 
> ended up not making the "show" 2 different nights, because of people 
> running into us and taking us out.
>The worst of the crashes occurred in the heat race at Dickinson.  We were 
>in 2nd place at a restart, leading down the straight and turn one.  The 
>2nd place driver hit Don (our driver/owner) and caused him to spin at the 
>entry of 2.  The last car in the field  T-boned us on the right side at 
>full throttle!  That caused theright side of the frame behind the 
>"dog-leg" to get pretty bent up, although there did not seem to hurt the 
>right front suspension at all.  It almost ended our tour, but Wilhelm GMC 
>in Bismark, ND graciously "loaned" us their frame machine and we were able 
>to get the car reasonably straight for the race in Mandan later that 
>night.  Don got a close 4th in his first heat, but since only the first 3 
>cars make the main, we were relegated to the con-c race heat which we 
>handily won.
>Unfortunately, our starting position was inside second to last row for the 
>feature.  Dean Mallstadt was outside first row and (typically) led from 
>the first turn all the way to the end, and was never even 
>challenged.  Dean Mallstadt lapped the last 4 cars and was closing in on 
>Don by the end of the race.  Don ended up 16th.
>All in all, in was a fun week, we learned allot, and the car came back 
>(basicly) in one piece, although  the bodywork looks like it's been 
>"raced", the car is no worse for the wear.
>
>
>
>Scott Cable
>Jamestown, ND
>s2cable1 at yahoo.com
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