Race #9 DIRT 150 Roling Wheels Speedway, Rookie Wins, W9 in for Rough Week

ROOKIE LADY WINS AND ITS GONNA BE A LONG WEEK FOR W9 DESJARDINS

SNRA Race #9 DIRT 150 Rolling Wheels Speedway, 5/8 Mile banked Clay OvalElbridge New York, July 28, 2012

Michelle, "Mickee," "Mrs. D." Desjardins, won a pole already this year on the SNRA Super Late Model Circuit. When she landed on the outside of the front row, second only to Sarah Kelley's scorching Pole winning lap, it was beginning to appear that she was building towards something big, and tonight, at the big Rolling Wheels clay oval it happened as she scored a convincing win in the SNRA DIRT 150.
Mrs. Mickee D. outdoes her son Wreckers 9!

As the green flew Sarah Kelley jumped into the lead off the pole and led the first 5 laps of the event. There was no question though who the boss of the evening was going to be as Mickee rode the cushion around Sarah and was never headed for the remaining 145 laps, a rarity in SNRA competition. For a while, Lee Spud Loggins dogged her along with Tim Freeman in his Taurus, in the races first half and Tim hung in the top 5 all day in a fine run, but he was never close to the lead after this, and eventually finished second about 5 car lengths back at the Checkers. Dannyboy Lynch, the famous and fabulous French Canadian driver did run on fellow Canadian Mrs. D's bumper near the races midway point and Sarah Kelley who hung around the front all day, passed DAnny on the 80th lap and even got alongside Mrs. D a few laps later but could not pull off the pass. It wasn't likely she could have held out for long even in her best race of the year as Jr. Hanley flexed his dirt track knowledge, not known to many, but part of his history, in the perfect set up on the Desjardins mom's car. She still finished well in 6th, dropping back slightly near the end having spent her tires in several challenges to Mrs. D over the race.

As noted, Tim Freeman, ran a very steady race and may have even been closing slightly at the end, but was too far off in the time left to come close and he took second. In some of the other truly fine drives of the day, rookie Paul Wogger ran his best race to finish 3rd a few car lengths back from Freeman. Kevin Sassman was displaying his dirt track prowess in a closing 4th at the line, followed by Chargin Charlie, who started 25th after a horrible qualifying lap but thanks to Brutus moved up all day.
Kevin Sassman
That closed the top 5 out. Sarah Kelley as mentioned took 6th just ahead of Dannyboy who also used up his tires but was a fast car in 7th.
The Rev. John Lutes brought his fast F150 pickup along with Dave B, to take 8th, Cayli Niemann scored another fine finish for the Freeman clan in 9th place and Clifton Marcis continued to run strong in his Thunderbird to finish 10th.
Those crippled but various problems in the race were Tom Enlow who suffered a puncture, Madd Mikey the same, JLog Loggins who carried a miss throughout the race, Dave Barron who appeared to have gotten a bad load of fuel and was suffering excessive detonation throughout the race, and Chip Sears who was fast but almost vibrated himself to death with what turned out to be warped rear end carrier. Canzady Loggins was a dnf after burning a piston, Gavin Evitt turned in his first DNF of the year with a hole in the radiator, likely caused by debris from a minor accident between Tony Matthews, Leadfoot Pulley and hard luck Martin Hytla, who were nonetheless unable to continue, but suffered no injuries.
Hard Luck but smooth driver, Martin Hytla
Mark Desjardins W9 came from 27th to 15th and needn't hang his head and was glad for his mom in victory lane, but probably rightly declared, I'll never hear the end of it! LOL

Finish of DIRT 150

1. Mickee Mrs. D Desjardins MC 92
2. Tim Freeman Taurus 62
3. Paul Wogger MC 8
4. Kevin Sassman MC 50
5. Dave CC Bayer Avenger 25
6. Sarah Kelley MC 29
7. Fabulous Dannyboy Lynch MC 15
8. John the Rev. Lutes F150 7
9. Cayli Niemann Silverado 11
10. Clifton Marcis Tbird 36
11. Spud Loggins Charger 96
12. Racin Jason Hunter MC 5J
13. Charmaine Niemann Silverado 7C
14. Wisdonm Mueller Taurus 10
15. Mark W9 Desjardins 52
16. Presley Loggins Intrepid 2
17. Chad Caroll Tbird 93
18. Bill Hytla Ram 5
19. Signmike Maheu Taurus 01
20. Tom Enlow Taurus 73
21. Madd Mikey Small Avenger 95
22. JLog Loggins Charger 24
23. Dave Bayouman Barron MC 71
24. Chip Sears MC 14
25. Canzady Loggins Intrepid 22
26. Gavin Evitt Holdiac 8K
27. Tony Matthews MC 79
28. Leadfoot Patsy Pulley MC 1L
29. Martin Hytla Silverado 17

On to Canada! Congrats to Mickee D. and better luck to the rest or our fine teams.

....................now for the fun part of telling mom

Seriously, I do feel bad for my teammate Mark having to report this news.

its all good

Congrats to Mickee on her win it was well deserved.
Now we will thrash to repair the damage and get the engine replaced and try to make it up north to Canada.

You'll make it Tony. If you want, we had a clean week pretty much, you can stop at our AMB Racing shops on your way, early, and Brutus, me and the crew will hlp you get her buttoned all back up. It's pretty close to your way on up.

we have some extra parts at the AMB HQ in canada if you need some

Congrats to Mrs. D and all the other teams on the great race! Ma cher', when I get back to da Bayoustate tonight, I'm gonna bring da res' o' dat fuel back to da race fuel place and give dat guy a piece of my mind! I shoulda knowd sumtin was wrong when he says to me, "Man, Big D, I can sell dis can o' fuel to you REAL cheap, if you will by dem four cans in da corner over ther!!" And, also too, he toll me dat day was movin to a new location on da utter side of town dis weekend - uhoh, I mighta got took - what chall tink? Well, we gonna change out dat engine tomorrow, and change our setup for the next race, then start headin North again! Long week, but us country boys will survive!!!

See ya dis weekend, and watch out, we gonna have a new engine and a new attitude dis week!!

Dave B2 - Bayouman

Congrats Mrs. D....to you and the team on a big win. A very impressive driving performance, we were all chasing the yellow rookie stripe in the end.

And hats off to Dave and Brutus on the points lead, much deserved after fighting back from some early season set-backs. Hints the Chargin piece of the name......

We must have mixed up quick change rear ends last week while back at the shop, as Chip suffered the same kind of mechanical failure in this weekend's Dirt 150 as I did the weekend before....hope that we did not mix my quick change with his as a result of too many brews, yikes!?!

Speaking of which, looking forward to not only being in the land of the greats such as Jr. Hanley, but also excited to taste a cold frosty Molsen after the race.

Time to mix it up Canadian style.......eh!

Safe journeys to all traveling north.

See ya at the track.

Jason

Thanks Dave for offering to help us out. Will be honered to have some help from a team that is experianced. We will feed you all good and have some refreshments also.
Wreckers9 thank you buddy I believe we have everything we need. But as we all know there is always something that hides when it is needed to be used.
Anyone that needs to do some work we have plenty of space for other teams to pop in.

Congrat Mikee for your win!!!!!!


Dannyboy

Congrats Mickee, a well deserved win!

Congrats ''Mrs D '' on winning the race Saturday night.I just messed up a corner and you had the pedal to the metal to get away great race .Cayli did a great job posting another top 10 and Chad missed the setup or gear to finish down the order . Charmaine is having a ball with a second 13th place finish this week and getting very important track time .
Great race report Dave and to all the other team congrats on a great race.I know everyone will get their rides all repaired and setup for next weeks race at MOSPORT.Don't worry Jason the team well have lots of MOLSON on ice next week and Sheila is working on a menu for a BBQ ,so everyone feel free to stop by and help your-self to food & beer .
Have a safe week and i will see you all at the track.

Tim

Sounds great! I can hardly wait. We'll get ya all fixed up Tony, no problem, see ya soon. Maybe some good Wisconsin Brats and some Schlitz during your stay at the shop.

Will fix you up plus will have some tender BBQ ribs as well.