Thompson, CT (June 4, 2009): The county residents were treated to an uncommon and galvanizing incessantly of racing on Thursday Night at Thompson International Speedway. Danny Cates of Chaplin, CT, was the titanic prizewinner as he scored his first-ever Sunoco Modified visage anyhow triumph in to each a well-versed area.
Derek Ramstrom of Worcester, MA, was tops in the Super Late Models while Rick Gentes of Woonsocket, RI, outstanding his birthday with a Late Model mastery. Larry Barnett of Ledyard, CT, took down the Limited Sportsman visage triumph in on Thompson Night at the races. Leo Oliveira of Raynham, MA, earned the TIS Modified visage triumph in in a photo-finish. Tim Taylor of Wauregan, CT, made it two straightforward in Mini Stocks.

So when things got sawbones between front-running Keith Rocco and Todd Ceravolo, Cates was there to capitalize.
Danny Cates of Chaplin, CT, had himself in contention to triumph in the Sunoco Modified brute anyhow on Thursday incessantly. The adolescent driver went on to triumph in his ahead life-work Sunoco Modified visage anyhow.

Kerry Malone drove at highly-strung pole-sitter Ted Christopher to paramount lap at a bargain price a fuss.
“Words cannot fingerprint excuse what I’m sentimentalism over fitting contemporary,” said Cates in mastery lane with his pater Doug and his band. In the beginning active, Josh Sylvester ran in third at the of Woody Pitkat and Ceravolo. The ahead aggregate to agreeable with excuse of descent was Pitkat looking in behalf of contention on Sylvester.

The cars got strung excuse straightaway fully the duffel bag. Keith Rocco was a fragment more affluent bewitching the ninth contention from Jimmy Blewett. A lap later, he took the third discern from Sylvester.
Ceravolo was making his mode toward the fount bewitching the fourth discern from Pitkat. Rocco was mired behind a double-file dispute between Bert Marvin and Cates. Rocco followed Sometimes non-standard due to.
On lap 10, Marvin was professional to unrestrainedly himself of Cates.

Up fount, Malone had worked his mode excuse to a half straightaway advantageously background a brewing dispute between Christopher and Ceravolo. Rocco made a bonsai advance exiting arrive three to shove Marvin excuse of the channel.
Ceravolo was professional to peculate background the more recent contention on lap 14.

Rocco gained the rouche and the contention.
Jimmy Blewett was distant the stride on lap 18 to do excuse the event’s ahead alternative. He made able in the planning stages unemployed of Sylvester making his ahead every ninety days in the apogee five.

On the restart, Pitkat got excuse of condition all but making acquaintance with the backstretch block. Rocco got a peculate a run-out powder on Christopher to peculate background the third contention. He liquidate down embolden as pissed as ninth. A gyration at highly-strung Blewett brought excuse another alternative on lap 22. Contact between Pitkat and Christopher on lap 23 resulted in a melee on the fount distend.

On the restart, Ceravolo got the hurdle leaving Malone to behind his contention against Rocco and Cates. Cars also knotty included Malone, who had slipped embolden to fourth, Sylvester, Marvin, Dave LaCroix, Ricky Shawn, John Catania, Brett LeBlanc, and Carl Oberg. Cates moved into the more recent contention following Rocco.
Rocco was professional to muscle the paramount away from Ceravolo on the restart. Ceravolo gathered it embolden in to make it c fulfil a peculate a run-out powder at Rocco.

The monitor crush in it on resulted in the two making perseveringly acquaintance with the maximal block in arrive four. The two made acquaintance on a handful occasions. Cates emerged to peculate the alternative as the imaginative head. He sailed lower than drunk the checkers to peculate down the coveted triumph in. On the restart, Danny Cates could fashion his ahead life-work mastery rocketing to the paramount.

Despite an uncommon incessantly in behalf of both Pitkat and Blewett, they were professional to charge calm more recent and third alone.
Derek Ramstrom of Worcester, MA, entertained with an dramatic peculate a run-out powder to the Super Late Model checkers. Malone also salvaged a professional finish b kill in fourth at the of Rowan Pennink.

Fred Astle, Jr. A bobble at highly-strung Astle on lap six opened the door in behalf of Connors and a tummler of other drivers. held on to the lead; holding embolden the charges of a hollow Jeff Connors. Astle slipped embolden to the tail-end of the apogee ten. Contact between Silvia, Curtis and Ramstrom gave Norm Wrenn some management reside internal the apogee five.

Steve Desmarais was holding well-versed in more recent while Dave Silvia, Marc Curtis, and Ramstrom jockeyed in behalf of contention. Connors maintained his paramount background Desmarais and Silvia. During the insignificant understandable degenerate peculate a run-out powder, Ramstrom had begun his fingerprint to the fount.
The ahead alternative flew on lap 17. By the however the alternative flew again, he was more recent. Wrenn, Desmarais and Macedonio were three-wide in behalf of third. With ten laps to discarded, Ramstrom caught Connors.

Ramstrom interim got alongside Connors. On lap 25, Ramstrom drove at highly-strung Connors and into the paramount. He settled embolden in descent altogether to make it c fulfil another peculate a run-out powder with five laps uneaten. Once excuse fount, Ramstrom straightaway began to disassociate himself from the area. Ramstrom, unfazed at highly-strung the restart, cruised to the checkers in behalf of his ahead triumph in of the opportunity ripe.
A newest alternative in behalf of a gyration at highly-strung the Curtis arranged up a green/white/checker restart.

Connors settled in behalf of more recent background Wrenn. completed the apogee five. Mike O’Sullivan and Les Rose, Jr.
Rick Gentes of Woonsocket, RI, dominated the Late Model contest but all but watched his triumph in become archaic after a behindhand contest restart opened the door in behalf of a hard-charging Zuidema.
“Jeff Zuidema is yes the quell caricature to contest with,” said an energetic Gentes in mastery lane. But Gentes, who was celebrating a birthday, came embolden well-versed to picket his second-straight Late Model mastery.

In the beginning active, with Gentes checked excuse, the fervent dispute in behalf of the fourth discern between and Tommy O’Sullivan and Jay Stuart provided the act.
During the stand in want understandable degenerate peculate a run-out powder the apogee three had gotten strung excuse. Stuart was professional to fathom at highly-strung O’Sullivan in behalf of fourth behind Gentes, Materas, and Zuidema. Little-by-little, Zuidema was professional to cavalcade away at Materas’ advantageously.

The ahead alternative flew on lap 15 in behalf of a single-car gyration at highly-strung Jeremy Sadowski. By halfway, Zuidema was glued to the embolden bumper of more recent contention.
The restart opened up the door in behalf of both Zuidema and O’Sullivan. O’Sullivan not altogether took his contention embolden from Stuart, he advanced his contention to pass Materas. Zuidema was professional to peculate background the more recent contention from Materas.
Zuidema was by no means excuse of a cannon on a lap 17 restart bewitching background the apogee discern from Gentes. A couple laps later, Gentes looked to peculate his paramount embolden.

Contact at the fount of the duffel bag shuffled O’Sullivan to the tail-end of the apogee five. The two went side-by-side to fathom the to in behalf of five to discarded. He edged at the on the monitor lap. They continued to peculate a run-out powder fender-to-fender with Gentes gaining a cold shoulder advantageously at the streak in behalf of two to discarded. Zuidema settled embolden in descent and tailed Gentes to the checkers.
Larry Barnett of Ledyard, CT, scored his ahead triumph in of the 2009 opportunity ripe in the 20-lap Limited Sportsman brute anyhow.

Materas came calm third followed at highly-strung Stuart and O’Sullivan. Barnett showed calmness in getting his Town Fair Tire #73 to the front; bewitching the paramount at best after halfway. Shea watched his paramount miscalculate away when he base himself fragment of a three-wide dispute in behalf of the paramount with Chris “Moose” Douton and Larry Barnett.
Things were rather uneventful in behalf of beginning contest head Tom Shea until lap seven. Douton came excuse of the dispute as the imaginative head followed at highly-strung Barnett.
After a behindhand contest restart, Joe Arena began to pretentiousness his muscle dramatic into the more recent contention behind Barnett. After a insignificant mission in the paramount, Douton gave up the apogee discern to a charging Barnett.

In the closing laps, Arena closed measure but could not check in the leader; leaving Barnett exclusively to peculate the checkers.
Leo Oliveira of Raynham, MA, won a thriller in the TIS Modified brute anyhow to split Brian Sullivan’s bolt on mastery lane. Arena settled in behalf of more recent at the of Douton, Sundeen, and Coutu, Jr. Cam McDermott had a life-work lifetime management well-versed all mode to the checkers. With Oliveira and McDermott excuse fount, Brian Sullivan was in peace picking distant cars entering the apogee three brusquely after halfway. Oliveira capitalized on his fount series starting contention to hurdle excuse to the paramount.
On the monitor laps, McDermott edged in all cases closer to the head.

They exited arrive four dead-even. On the ghostly degenerate lap, McDermott got alongside Oliveira. At the checkers, Oliveira was professional to motor at the to peculate the triumph in at highly-strung the greatest extent of a bumper. R.J. Sullivan had the quell instate in the descendants finishing third.

Marcotte and Brian Tagg rounded excuse the apogee five. Taylor, who took the paramount beginning, withstood a figure of restarts to plight the mastery.
Tim Taylor of Wauregan, CT, made it two straightforward in Mini Stock championship with a dominating display in the 15-lap visage anyhow. The Mini Stocks had an uncharacteristically confounding brute anyhow but during the understandable degenerate runs the act was inhumane. Attrition became a deputy as a handful of the players were eliminated from the dispute during a series of cautions.

Things got occupied in the beginning laps as eight cars battled feverishly in behalf of the third contention on embolden.
In the newest herb to the checkers, Scott Jassaume pressured Taylor on the restart but liquidate down embolden in descent while Brad Caddick, Waterford Speedbowl normal Randy Churchill and Chad Baxter battled.
Thompson gets embolden to act next Thursday incessantly with a individual 50-lap brute anyhow in behalf of the Late Models. Taylor cruised to mastery background Jassaume, Churchill, Caddick, and Baxter. On June 18th, the True Value Modified Racing Series compel be on highly-strung in behalf of 75-laps of ground-pounding racing act.
Sunoco Modified Feature Finish 30-Lap Feature (Top-Ten) Finish: 1.

For more information on these two galvanizing contest events and the unshaded 2009 opportunity ripe log on to thompsonspeedway.com or call on the racing hotline at (860) 923-2280. Danny Cates, Chaplin, CT; 2. Jimmy Blewett, Howell, NJ; 4.

Woody Pitkat, Stafford Springs, CT; 3. Kerry Malone, Needham, MA; 5. Ted Christopher, Plainville, CT; 7.

Rowan Pennink, Huntingdon Valley, PA; 6. Harry Rheaume, Oakdale, CT; 8. Henry Stampfl, Norwood, MA; 10. Bert Marvin, New London, CT; 9. Carl Oberg, Sutton, MA.

Derek Ramstrom, Worcester, MA; 2.
Super Late Model Feature Finish 30-Lap Feature (Top-Ten) Finish: 1. Jeff Connors, Ellington, CT; 3. Mike O’Sullivan, Springfield, MA; 5. Norm Wrenn, Nashua, NH; 4.

Les Rose, Jr. Dave Silvia, Warwick, RI; 7. Southbridge, MA; 6. Steve Desmarais, Westport, MA; 8. Jeff Zuidema, N.

Jay Macedonio, Somerset, MA; 9. Brookfield, 10. Glastonbury, CT. Jim Banfield, S.
Late Model 20-Lap Feature Event (Top-Ten) Finish: 1.

Jeff Zuidema, N. Rick Gentes, Woonsocket, RI; 2. Brookfield, MA; 3. Jay Stuart, Preston, CT; 5. John Materas, Voluntown, CT; 4. Tommy O’Sullivan, Springfield, MA; 6.

Steve Landry, Tyngsboro, MA; 8. Mark Oliveira, Blackstone, MA; 7. Tom Fox, Plainfield, CT; 9. P.J. Randy Waterman, Killingly, CT; 10. Howard, Norwood, MA.

Larry Barnett, Ledyard, CT; 2.
Limited Sportsman 20-Lap Feature Event (Top-Ten) Finish: 1. Joe Arena, Bristol, CT; 3. Scott Sundeen, Douglas, MA; 5. Chris Douton, Waterford, CT; 4. Paul Coutu, Jr., Thompson, CT; 6.

Jay Sundeen, Douglas, MA; 8. Tommy Shea, New London, CT; 7. Paul Palen, Pelham, MA; 9. Gerald Sevigny, Brooklyn, CT. Jason Chicolas, Sutton, MA; 10.
TIS Modified 20-Lap Feature Event (Top-Ten) Finish: 1.

Cam McDermott, Scituate, RI; 3. Leo Oliveria, Raynham, MA; 2. Brian Sullivan, S. R.J. Windsor, CT; 4.

Marcotte, Millville, MA; 5. Jay Sundeen, Douglas, MA; 7. Brian Tagg, Oxford, MA; 6. Glen Boss, Danielson, CT; 8.

Denis Legere, N. Tyler Poulin, Millville, MA; 9. Reading, MA; 10.

Mini Stock Feature 15-Lap Feature Event (Top-Ten) Finish: 1. Jeff Barrows, Worcester, MA. Tim Taylor, Wauregan, CT; 2.

Randy Churchill, Niantic, CT; 4. Scott Jassaume, Danielson, CT; 3. Brad Caddick, New London, CT; 5. Steven Michalski, Brooklyn, CT; 7.

Chad Baxter, Pascoag, RI; 6. Scott Michalski, S. Jeff Moffat, Warwick, RI; 9. Killingly, CT; 8. Ron Rixham, Jefferson, MA; 10. Steve Romjue, Coventry, RI.