{"id":334,"date":"2009-06-11T22:47:59","date_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:47:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=9076"},"modified":"2009-06-11T22:47:59","modified_gmt":"2009-06-12T03:47:59","slug":"norm-wrenn-and-larry-barnett-scored-wins-before-mother-nature-won-the-remainder-of-the-evening","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/norm-wrenn-and-larry-barnett-scored-wins-before-mother-nature-won-the-remainder-of-the-evening\/","title":{"rendered":"Norm Wrenn and Larry Barnett Scored Wins Before Mother Nature Won the Remainder of the Evening"},"content":{"rendered":"

Norm Wrenn and Larry Barnett Scored Wins Before Mother Nature Won the Remainder of the Evening<\/strong><\/p>\n

Thompson, CT (June 11, 2009)\u00a0 Norm Wrenn brought home the checkers in the Super Late Model race on Thursday Night at Thompson International Speedway.\u00a0 Larry Barnett won the Limited Sportsman feature just days after undergoing arthroscopic surgery.\u00a0 Ten laps into the 50-Lap Late Model race, Mother Nature took over, the rain started and the race program was brought to a halt.\u00a0 The race will be rescheduled and will begin at lap 10 in the order they were in when the rains came.\u00a0 The Sunoco Modifieds, TIS Modifieds and Mini Stock races will also be rescheduled.\u00a0 Check back on www.thompsonspeedway.com<\/a> for the make-up dates.<\/p>\n

The night started out with a special event.\u00a0 Derek Ramstrom driver of the #35 Super Late\u00a0 Model has been racing here at Thompson since before he was licensed to drive on the street.\u00a0 He is a junior at West Boylston High School in West Boylston, MA.\u00a0 Many of his friends have never seen him race; tonight they got the chance.\u00a0 To make it extra special there was a drawing held at the school and the winner was Jared Peterson.\u00a0 By winning the drawing, he got lucky enough to get a ride-along in a modified provided by the Ken Bouchard Driving School with Derek driving.\u00a0 When track announcer Russ Dowd asked what Jared thought he said,\u201d it was a pretty amazing ride.\u201d\u00a0 He said he wasn\u2019t nervous but anxious while waiting to get out on the track- \u201cit was awesome I can\u2019t even describe it.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Super Late Models had a hard time getting started as there was a multi-car wreck going into turn 2 on the first lap.\u00a0 Involved were George Bessette, Jay Macedonio, and Derek Ramstrom just to name a few.\u00a0 Marc Curtis took the worst of it as his car was towed off the track.\u00a0 Larry Gelinas was the new driver of the Rolly Lindblad #48; he was also collected in the crash but continued on.<\/p>\n

Jim Banfield led the field down to the green on the restart with Steve Desmarais outside him.\u00a0 Desmarais took the lead to complete lap 1.\u00a0 George Bessette came along for the ride into third with Norm Wrenn and Jeff Zuidema rounding out the top five.<\/p>\n

Mike O\u2019Sullivan was putting pressure on Zuidema in fifth looking low lap after lap.\u00a0 Ramstrom was also on a mission picking off cars on his charge back towards the front.\u00a0 The leader, Desmarais, was being shown the black flag for leaking fluids giving the lead to Banfield.\u00a0 The yellow flew on lap 15 as Mike Rivard hit the wall on the front stretch.<\/p>\n

Banfield and Bessette brought the field back to the green with Bessette taking the lead.\u00a0 Norm Wrenn and Jeff Zuidema were battling for third.\u00a0 O\u2019Sullivan and Dave Silvia were also looking to make some moves.\u00a0 O\u2019Sullivan got past Zuidema on lap 18.\u00a0 Ramstrom got by 2 cars on lap 19 to bring him into the top 5.<\/p>\n

The yellow flew again for an incident with Les Rose and Jeff Hartwell.\u00a0 Zuidema brought his car onto pit road for some attention by his crew during this yellow.\u00a0 Gelinas pulled his car behind the wall in his debut in the 48 car.<\/p>\n

On the restart George Bessette had to battle with Wrenn for the lead.\u00a0 Wrenn got into Bessette sending him around.\u00a0 Ramstrom was once again involved as well as Jay Macedonio.\u00a0 Wrenn again brought the field to the green.\u00a0 Banfield was holding strong in second.\u00a0 Rick Fuller was in third.\u00a0 The yellow flew again on lap 21 for a spin by Mike O\u2019Sullivan<\/p>\n

Wrenn again took the lead on the restart.\u00a0 Silvia was now moving up taking fourth and looking under Fuller. Les Rose was trying to muscle his way past Silvia.\u00a0 He settled back in line and now had pressure from behind from Bessette.\u00a0 Ramstrom now was battling past Bessette and set his sights on Rose.\u00a0 He took the spot on lap 26.<\/p>\n

Coming down to get the white flag Fuller and Silvia were battling hard for the lead.\u00a0 Fuller spun giving the spot to Silvia.\u00a0 Norm Wrenn took down his third win of the season.\u00a0 Banfield held on to finish second followed by Silvia, Ramstrom and Rose.<\/p>\n

Tommy O\u2019Sullivan led the Late Model division to the green flag to start their 50 lap feature.\u00a0 Right away they went 3 wide fighting for fourth.\u00a0 Luckily everyone settled into position without any incidents.\u00a0 Jay Stuart got into John Materas and gave Materas some cosmetic alterations to his car.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Sullivan pulled out to a hefty lead with Stuart, Tom Fox, Mark Oliveira and Jeff Zuidema rounding out the top 5.\u00a0 Stuart moved into second.\u00a0 The yellow flew for a spin by Frank Mirabito.\u00a0 Rick Gentes had pulled into the pits just before the yellow flew.<\/p>\n

The red flag came out during this yellow as it started to drizzle. Unfortunately, the drizzle became rain and the race was called.<\/p>\n

Fred Bates brought the Limited Sportsman division down to take the first green flag of the night.\u00a0 Larry Barnett had arthroscopic surgery on Monday but he was in the car tonight and running in the top five and on the move.\u00a0 Jay Sundeen took the lead on lap 5.\u00a0 Barnett moved into second and looked for the lead.\u00a0 He took over the lead coming out of turn 4 on lap 6.<\/p>\n

The caution flew on lap 7 for a three car wreck in turn two.\u00a0 Joe Campbell, Tom Shea and Paul Palen were all involved.\u00a0 Palen was the only one able to continue on.<\/p>\n

Barnett led the charge to the restart.\u00a0 Jay Sundeen and Scott Sundeen kept it all in the family for second and third.\u00a0 Joe Arena and \u201cMoose\u201d Douton rounded out the top 5 at half-way.\u00a0 And that is the way they took the checkers.\u00a0 Barnett earned himself an extra $100 from Town Fair Tire for his victory.<\/p>\n

Super Late Model 30-Lap Feature Finish (Top Ten):1. Norm Wrenn, Nashua, NH; 2. Jim Banfield, S. Glastonbury, CT; 3. Dave Silvia, Warwick, RI; 4. Derek Ramstrom, Worcester, MA; 5. Les Rose, Jr., Southbridge, MA; 6. George Bessette, Danbury, CT;7. Jay Macedonio, Somerset, MA; 8. Jeff Zuidema, North Brookfield, MA; 9. Mike O\u2019Sullivan, Springfield, MA, 10. Kraig Coffin, Uxbridge, MA<\/p>\n

Limited Sportsman 20-Lap Feature Finish (Top Ten):1. Larry Barnett, Moosup, CT; 2. Jay Sundeen, Douglas, MA; 3. Scott Sundeen, Douglas, MA; 4. Joe Arena, Bristol, CT; 5. Moose Douton, Waterford, CT; 6. Paul Coutu, Jr., Thompson, CT; 7. Fred Bates, N. Grosvenordale, CT; 8. Joe Coates, Eastford, CT; 9. Jason Chicolas, Sutton, MA; 10. Kevin Bowe, Pawtucket, RI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Norm Wrenn and Larry Barnett Scored Wins Before Mother Nature Won the Remainder of the Evening Thompson, CT (June 11, 2009)\u00a0 Norm Wrenn brought home the checkers in the Super Late Model race on Thursday Night at Thompson International Speedway.\u00a0 Larry Barnett won the Limited Sportsman feature just days after undergoing arthroscopic surgery.\u00a0 Ten laps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-334","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=334"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/334\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=334"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=334"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=334"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}