Freedom 7-21-06

[Remy Babineaux]

Its been a pretty tough season so far for Timex Morgan, but he drove his way to victory lane Friday night at the Freedom Raceway (Delevan, NY). Timex (#2) won his first NYMM Race of 2006 over series point leader Scott Kreutter (#52) who finished in 2nd place. Both Kreutter and Morgan won their heat races with Kevin Pimm (#3) winning heat 1 and drew the feature poll position. Pimm and Morgan lead the 18 car field to the start line followed by 17 straight caution free laps. Morgan took the early lead, as Kreutter and Dan Miller (17) tried to challenge Morgan, but just could not catch up. Lap 17 saw the #94 of Evan Drinkwater fall out due to motor problems giving us the first caution/restart of the evening. This set up for a very exciting finish, and exciting it was. The restart saw the top 5 cars (Morgan, Kreutter, Miller, #7 Zack Morgan, and Pimm) all clear free of the past lap traffic. On the restart Timex Morgan got a quick jump but Kreutter closed in going side-by-side into turns 1 & 2. But Morgan was just too much pulling away and winning by a 1/2 of a straight away. Zack Morgan gave Miller all he could handle, but Miller was able to squeak out the third place finish. Pimm finished in the top 5 for the second straight race. Things came to a complete halt as the #74 of Jeb Walworth and the #F14 of Jeremy Frankowski got tangled in turns 3 & 4 seeing Walworth flip end over end. Both drivers were fine walking away under their own power; the same can't be said for their cars. Great show once again from the NYMM Drivers. The track came in nice and made for a great night of racing.

Heat 1: 1st-Kevin Pimm (3), 2nd-Ron Gamble (27), 3rd-Amy Scott (9), 4th-Nick Cooper (15n), DNS: Ben Kysor (40), Joe Zanho (1)
Heat 2: 1st-Timex Morgan (2), 2nd-Jeremy Frankowski(F14), 3rd-Dan Miller (17), 4th-Chuck Smallidge (93), 5th-Ed Wilberg (55w), 6th-Kirsten Dombroski (17k)
Heat 3: 1st-Scott Kreutter (52), 2nd-Jeb Walworth (74), 3rd-Zack Morgan (7), 4th-Evan Drinkwater (94), 5th-Parker Evans (61), 6th-Greg Kysor(43)

Feature:1st Timex Morgan(2), 2nd Scott Kreutter(52), 3rd Dan Miller(17), 4th Zack Morgan(7), 5th Kevin Pimm(3), 6th Ron Gamble(27), 7th Amy Scott(9), 8th Jeremy Frankowski(F14), 9th Jeb Walworth(74), 10th Kirsten Dombroski(17k), 11th Nick Cooper(15n), 12th Parker Evans(61), 13th Greg Kysor(43), 14th Chuck Smallidge(93), 15th Ed Wilberg(55w), 16th Ben Kysor(40), 17th Evan Drinkwater(94), 18th Joe Zanho(1)