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Feature - Thompson World Series - Sun. Oct. 19th |
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Pos. |
# |
Driver |
Hometown |
Owner |
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1 |
47 |
Randy
Cabral |
Plymouth, MA |
Tim
Bertrand |
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2 |
4 |
Nokie
Fornoro |
Stroudsburg, PA |
Mike
Jarret |
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3 |
26b |
Greg
Stoehr |
Bridgewater, MA |
Greg
Stoehr |
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4 |
7ny |
Adam
Cantor |
Dix
Hills, NY |
Cantor
Racing |
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5 |
P30 |
Mike
Horn |
Ashland, MA |
Mike
Horn |
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6 |
5 |
William
Wall |
Shrewsbury, MA |
Wall
Motorsports LLC |
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7 |
87 |
Doug Cleveland |
Sudbury, MA |
Doug
Cleveland |
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8 |
30 |
Paul
Scally |
Raynham,
MA |
Paul
Scally |
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9 |
2 |
Lee
Bundy |
Kennebunkport, ME |
Lee
Bundy |
10
DNF |
44 |
Erica
Santos |
Franklin, MA |
Ed
Breault |
11
DNF |
28 |
Paul
Luggelle |
Holbrook, MA |
Paul
Luggelle |
12
DNF |
45 |
Joey
Payne |
Fairlawn,
NJ |
Gene
Angelillo |
13
DNF |
99 |
Keith Botelho |
- |
Power
Point
Race Cars |
14
DNF |
98s |
Bobby Santos III |
Franklin, MA |
Robert
Santos Jr. |
15
DNF |
9 |
John Zych
Jr. |
Mendon,
MA |
John Zych |
16
DNF |
11 |
Ronnie
Yuhas Jr. |
Waterford, CT |
Charles Camosse |
17
DNF |
39 |
Jeremy
Frankoski |
Huntington, NY |
Tim
Bertrand |
18
DNF |
78 |
Brian Cleveland |
Billerica, MA |
Linda
Cleveland |
19
DNF |
77m |
Mike
Luggelle |
Hull,
MA |
Mike Luggelle |
20
DNS |
77 |
Shawn
Torrey |
Marshfield, MA |
Mike Luggelle |
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Cabral & Bertrand
Clinch NEMA Titles
with World Series Win |
Thompson, CT – Randy Cabral
clinched the driving championship for himself and the owner’s
title for Tim Bertrand Sunday with a victory in the 25-lap
Northeastern Midget Association feature at Thompson Speedway’s
World Series. It was the third straight and the eight win of the
season for the #47 team.
“A perfect way to cap it off, victory in the World Series,” said
Bertrand, calling the season-long effort “the perfect package.”
Starting eighth, Cabral took the lead from Joey Payne (Angelillo
#45) down the front straight away heading into lap four. Four
cautions slowed the action as Cabral moved under the checkered a
half-straightaway ahead of Nokie Fornoro, the latter coming from
last in the Jarret #4.
Both Cabral and Bertrand were concerned when Fornoro, who had
almost no practice and fell out on lap one of his qualifying
heat on Saturday, lined up second on a lap 12 restart. Bobby
Santos, running second, brought out the yellow spinning off turn
four into the infield, collecting John Zych with him (Zych #9).
Cabral “caught a look” at the leader board. He told himself
“Nokie just came from last to second, I’m done.” Bertrand was
equally pessimistic. “On the restart, Nokie was right there and
I said ‘he’s playing with us,’” offered Bertrand. “Than Randy
started to pull away and I realized ‘hey, we are pretty good
today.’”
Cabral got away on three more restarts leaving Fornoro to battle
eventual third place finisher Greg Stoehr (Stoehr 26b). “If we
didn’t have those cautions he was going to have a hard time,”
said Fornoro. “He started getting loose and I was getting
tighter. It would have been interesting in traffic.”
Adam Cantor (Cantor #7ny) and Mike Horn (Horn #P30) filled out
the top five.
Coming from sixth, Payne grabbed the lead following a first lap
yellow. Cabral followed him past early leader Erica Santos (Breault
#44) with Bobby Santos III (Santos #98s) third.
“It looked the 45 was having motor problems,” said Cabral who
had planned on taking his time going to the front. “The 45 was a
lot faster in our heat (won by Payne) on Saturday. I saw the
problem and decided to try and take advantage.”
Mechanical woes did in both Payne and Erica Santos.
NEMA will end its season at Twin State Speedway’s Open Wheel
Sunday in Claremont, NH this weekend. |
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Elusive 3rd Straight
Win
World Series Possibility |
Sunday’s feature at Thompson
Speedway’s World Series will be the 12th time over the past 15
seasons that a Northeastern Midget Association driver goes after
a third straight feature win. It will be the third time this
season Randy Cabral gives it a shot.
Not since Jeff Horn put together wins at Seekonk, Star and
Waterford in 1993 has a driver won three straight. Over the past
215 features, there have been back-to-back winners only 11
times.
“I’m not going to get greedy,” has become Cabral’s standard
reply to challenges. He has been “unbelievably lucky” this year
especially in two-day events. The Bertrand Racing Team has made
recovering from a tough Saturday almost commonplace.
Cabral comes to the World Series off wins at Waterford’s Finale
and Seekonk’s DAV Memorial, both two day events. The World
Series is as well, NEMA qualifying on Saturday. Cabral has six
career Thompson wins including this year’s July race.
“The team spends a lot of time working on the cars and we show
up with high expectations,” says Cabral, who has seven
checkereds and this year’s driving title all but won. “We take
nothing for granted though. Every race is something different.”
Thompson is very different. “When you think about what can
happen it’s already happened at Thompson,” says Cabral. There
have been 69 NEMA events at Thompson starting with Dutch
Schaefer’s win on April 24, 1960.
Tim Bertrand has 73 points on Bob Santos Jr. atop the owners
standings. While 247 separate Cabral and Joey Payne in the
driver standings, there’s only 50 between third and sixth –
Bobby Santos III, Adam Cantor, Greg Stoehr and Erica Santos.
Since 1994, Cabral and Russ Stoehr have gone after a third
straight four times. The list also includes Mike Seymour, Joey
Coy, Howie Bumpus and Ben Seitz – an impressive group.
When Cabral missed a third straight back in ’06, Bobby Santos
III was the winner at Stafford. This year Payne and Stoehr were
the winners, both times a Monadnock. Santos, Stoehr and Payne
have all made history at Thompson. Stoehr beat brother Russ in a
barnburner way back in 1993. Payne gave car owner Gene Angelillo
his 100th win in 2000, beating teammate Drew Fornoro in the
process.
Coming off an impressive run from the back at the DAV, Nokie
Fornoro is another with long whiskers at Thompson. He has four
Thompson wins, the last in ’05.
The World Series traditionally draws a strong NEMA field. |
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