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The following press release is from PASS Racing, Inc.
Walt Hammond Finally Takes The Home Track Checkers
(Naples, ME – September 3, 2006) Walt Hammond could walk to Canaan Fair Motorsports Complex in Canaan, NH if he didn’t have to drag a race car along, but his home track has not been good to him. In the first two PASS Central Division Outlaw Late Model Series races he finished 11th and 17th after starting in the front row for both races at Canaan and Riverside Speedway in Groveton, NH, but his brother Allen talked him into going to Canaan Saturday night since it was just around the corner and he was due for a change in luck.
Walt started fifth after taking third in his heat behind 2005 track champion Zig Geno of Canterbury, NH in the #57 and Pistol Pete Fraser of Nottingham, NH in the #37 who was fresh off a feature win last week at Canaan.
However, at the start it was Walt’s business partner Donnie Lashua of Canaan in the #08 showing his home track experience by jumping out to the lead from the outside pole. By lap 7, Fraser had tracked Lashua down and the two battled for the lead until Pete pulled up between turns one and two with motor problems, bringing out the yellow and putting an end to a great week. On the restart, the field scattered as Ben Erskine of Solon, ME in the #29 got shoved up into the marbles off turn one bringing out the second yellow.
It was Mark Patten of Belmont, NH in the #07 on the outside of Lashua for the restart with Hammond now third. Richie Bertone of Lynn, MA in the #56 and Dave Rosenfield of Middleboro, MA in the #44 did a synchronized spin between turns one and two, and on the restart Carey Heath of Essex, MA #12 got booted down the front stretch in her first time out this season and ended up in the grass with a fire under the car. The fire was quickly extinguished and Carey returned to the fray after a trip to the pits to check the exhaust system.
At lap 48, Hammond got under Patten down the backstretch as Mark’s car wobbled off turn two, and Hammond was now second. At halfway, it was Lashua, Hammond, Patten, Joey Porciello of Lee, NH in the #04p, Derek Ramstrom of W. Boylston, MA in the #35 up from 11th on the start, Geno in the #57, Jimmy Renfrew of Candia, NH in the #55, Mikey Fowler of Scarborough, ME in the #66X back to eighth after a lap two trip off turn one, Jamie Swallow of Stark, NH in the #04s, and Jimmy Rosenfield in the #44 tenth after the early spin.
By lap 58, both Porciello and Ramstrom had gotten by a fading Patten, and on lap 60 Mark spun off the backstretch as the tire finally gave up. On the restart, it was Ramstrom’s turn as his right front went down coming to the green. Everyone got by and the #35 went to the pits without bringing out a yellow and came back several laps down.
Hammond made his move on lap 76 as he went to the outside down the backstretch and beat Lashua back to the line for the lead, with Porciello now third, followed by Geno, Renfrew, Fowler, Rosenfield, Swallow, Dave Davis of White River Junction in the #28, and Chris Lyman of W. Hartford, VT in the #21L.
The final yellow came out on lap 86 as the 66X of Fowler spun off turn one, ruining a great run from the back to sixth after an earlier spin. Mikey got it going but the field had already gone by and he was a lap down.
On the restart, Porciello was outside Hammond and the two went side by side for several laps until Hammond took the lead for good. Porciello made one last run at the #97 with two to go, but at the line it was Hammond for his first win in the PASS Outlaw Late Model Series. It’s been a frustrating year for the Hammond bunch, but to finally get that first win on the tour at his home track made it that much sweeter.
Porciello was next with a fine second-place finish, followed by Geno, Renfrew, Rosenfield, Lashua, Davis, Swallow, Mike Thomas of Lewiston, ME in the #25, and Kris Lyman in the #21L tenth in his first time in an Outlaw Late Model.
Next up for the Outlaws is the Unity 100 at Unity Raceway, Unity ME on Saturday night September 9th. And then it’s the big 100 lapper combo event with the North and Central Divisions on Saturday and Sunday September 23rd – 24th as part of the 2nd Annual PASS 400 Weekend at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, ME.
