Carl Renezeder Ready to Rock the Quarry
- Jul 18, 2008
"The Quarry has been good to us in past races," commented Renezeder. "We're hoping that's the case again next weekend." The facility was brand new for the 2007 season and Renezeder found success there on both weekends of competition, winning eight of the 12 races.
In 2008, Renezeder opened the season in Pomona, California with two wins in the Pro-4 division and followed that up with another win in Pro-4 at the series' second visit to the same facility in June. He has been on the podium in the Pro-2 division as well, but has yet to bring it home first this season in CORR. In the WSORR series, Carl swept rounds one and two in both trucks, adding four career wins to the books at the series' opener in Wheatland, Missouri. Heading into this fourth weekend of racing for CORR, Renezeder finds himself well within striking distance of the points leaders in both divisions; he's 12 points behind in third place in Pro-4 and 49 points behind in fifth place in Pro-2.
"It's going to be a tight points race all season, but I'm focused on winning races," explained Renezeder. "If we concentrate on one race at a time, the points should fall into place." Renezeder is familiar with winning races and winning championships. He's won 72 short course races since he began in 1999 and is a four-time CORR series champion: Pro-4 in 2003 and 2007, and Pro-2 in 2005 and 2006. But he knows that history doesn't win races, and the best win is always the next one.
Andrew Pinker took second place at the New England Forest Rally--the fifth round of the 2008 Rally America Series. Despite continuing mechanical gremlins that have seemed to follow Pinker all season, he took second spot on the podium behind 2004 Production World Rally Champion Niall McShea. Pinker and McShea swapped the lead over the stages, but a broken gear shift lever on Stage 4 put him behind for most of the rally. Pinker looked set to wrestle the lead off of McShea on the final stage but then he blew his rear differential and had to limp home for a second place finish-his best this year.
Tanner Foust did not compete at the New England event as it conflicted with a Formula Drift race in Las Vegas. While Tanner, unusually finished out of the Top 8, he still leads the 2008 Formula Drift championship.
Steve Poirier had two things that helped him feel comfortable on Friday night. First, he was at Ohsweken Speedway, a three-eighths mile dirt track, where he's won the last two Canadian Sprint Car Nationals. Secondly, he went back to the Eagle Chassis that he used to win the big race last September.
Justin Barger, out of Montrose, N.Y., was able to get up as far as second but in the end he was unable to hold of Poirier and Yonge, forcing him to settle for third.
ESS/Ohsweken Notes: A near record field of cars as 42 jammed the pit area as ESS shared the card with the World of Outlaw Late Models which were rained out the night before...A tremendous amount of support from the Ohsweken weekly Corr-Pak sprint car series and also from the Southern Ontario Sprints....Good to have Dain Naida and Louie Carufel from the Sprints on Dirt circuit as both made the A-Main...The 25 lap A-Main was the second in row that went non-stop, Mike Stelter was the only driver of the 25 starters that didn't see the checkered flag. Stelter by the way was running Jay Pietz's #71Jr as he is still awaiting motor parts for his own mount and if it was for the Kris Root team loaning a rear end, he wouldn't have made the event...Lee Ladouceur took full advantage of his provisional as he started 25th, finished 6th and took home an extra $50 from Lane's Yamaha...The stars and cars from the Lucas Oil Sponsored Series will be back at Ohsweken on Sept. 12 and 13 as a part of the Arrow Express Canadian Sprint Car Nationals...42 cars entered the event.
