Wall Turkey Derby - Day 2 - Saturday, Nov 26, 2011
 "Off Track Photos"
 All photos from 3Wide
Short track racing fans - Please keep the tradition alive!

Matheny Kid's Christmas Party - Saturday Dec 17th


Everybody loves Turkey Derby...


Ken Wooley Jr's Tour Mod


Mike Tidaback always runs strong in the TQ's at Wall


Part time Tour Runner Andy Walko ran strong all day long.


With only 10 laps of practice, Tommy Carberry hopped in the #28 and timed 4th fastest.


Glad to see Veteran driver Bill Force A-OK after taking a hard impact into the 1st turn wall during TQ qualifying.  Same could not be said for the #26F...


The pits are alive....


Jamie Tomaino is always a favorite


Billy Pauch was on hand... watching.. talking.. enjoying... but not racing.

Short track racing fans - Please keep the tradition alive!

Matheny Kid's Christmas Party - Saturday Dec 17th


Focused.


TQ's get ready to roll out for their feature


Great view of the TQ feature from up in turn 1.


Tour Mods line up prior to the start of their feature.


Doug Coby may have had the fastest Tour car in the field...


Rob Ormsbee's #19


Tour cars line up in front of the packed frontstretch stands....


(and there wasn't any seats in the pit stands either!)


Videographer Big Mike says he's ready to go...


Winner on Saturday, fan on Sunday.  Kevin loves this place...

Short track racing fans - Please keep the tradition alive!

Matheny Kid's Christmas Party - Saturday Dec 17th


Doug Kolby jumps out to an early lead... which would actually become a 1/2 track lead until the first round of pit stops started.


Let's see... a late race tangle with leader Matt Hirschman and 2nd place Les Hinkley..., followed by a few restart attempts with leader Rowan Penyak and Jimmy Blewett alongside,... well, you know the rest!


Jimmy Blewett grabbed the lead on a lap 148 restart and went on for the win in the 150 lapper.  Here, Jimmy runs toward crew members for congratulatory hand shakes and high 5's.


Crowd reaction was definitely mixed...  but as is always the case when "Showtime" is near the front... there was definitely a "reaction!"


...making sure there'd be no "reaction" in the pits...


"Showtime."   (Never has there been a more fitting name in all of sport!)


Anthony Sessely ran a strong, smart race and brought the #16 home 2nd


Les Hinckley was near the top the entire race until a crash with leader Matt Hirschman with only a handful of laps to go took both out of the top spots.


The smooth one... Matt managed his tires for the full 150 laps only to have it all go away in the final laps after an incident with the #06 (above.)


Nothing to smile about in the pits of strong running Rowan Pennick, who had the lead on the final restart on lap 148 of 150.... but who ended up finishing out of the top 10.


Jimmy was grinnin'....


... and here's why.


Mike Iles brings the #711 in after a 2nd place finish in the Dirt Mod event which was won by Stewart Freisen


Now that's one used up Hoosier!

Short track racing fans - Please keep the tradition alive!

Matheny Kid's Christmas Party - Saturday Dec 17th

SK/Wall Mods get the call to begin lining up


Matt Hirschman climbs from his Tour Mod and right into his SK/Wall Mod


Chas Okerson takes his place in line


Chas is ready to go


Roger Coss waits for the signal to roll out


There's Matt again, this time in the #50 Wall/Sk Mod.


Large field of SK/Mods in front of the large Turkey Derby crowd


Getting ready to go green....


...still gettin ready...


Once the field was lined up, the start was further delayed by an oil/coolant lay down... requiring some speedy dry and a few more laps...


Once the green came out, the SK/Mods had a tough time keeping the green lights lit...  This time, a frontstretch accident....


...followed by another frontstretch accident...


With the track cleared, there goin' green the next lap!


...But the green is soon replaced by yellow once again... this time, a multicar accident on the backstretch.


Not sure which car made the impact, but check out the guardrail in the center of the backstretch...


Track crew makes repairs to the backstretch guardrail...  The green would return and when it was all said and done, Jimmy Blewett would make it 2 for 2 on the night!
Turkey Derby 2011 is a wrap....  And we'll be back for Turkey Derby 2012.

Short track racing fans - Please keep the tradition alive!

Matheny Kid's Christmas Party - Saturday Dec 17th
Donations for this year's Matheny Kid's Christmas Party can be sent to:
RJC Charaties
70 Albert Drive
Parlin, NJ, 08859
(Donations sent to the above address can be written off since it is a 501C Charity)

Checks or gift cards (if you do not need the ability to write off the donation) can be mailed to:
Kevin Eyres
144 Mercer Rd
Colts Neck, NJ, 07722

Thank You Short Track Race Fans!

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http://www.wallspeedway.com/

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