Okay I'm a little late on the update......We raced on June 23rd.....

 During the week Dan, Jason, and I did some fine tuning to the car in hopes of getting the car closer to "driveable" ....When putting the car onto the trailer Sat. morningI thought I heard a click or clunk...no one else heard it so we said we'd take a gander at the track after its off the trailer....Well while rolling the car off the trailer that noise became a huge clunk when turning to the left...after parking the car we did some searching and found that the shims in the RF contol arm had worked loose and fallen out and the top of the wheel was flopping.....we hussled around to repair that problem and got ready for the Outlaw Pro race in time.....

Once it was time to go racing The car felt pretty good and I was keeping with some of the cars...during the race the A4 of Bill Faford spun in 3 and 4 right in front of me....I came to a stop just before nailing is drivers door...then I could see Orange out my right side door ans Trevor Dyer in the 70 had come to a stop also...as said from My Mom....."It looked like you guys were starting a parking lot"...well I got my self outta that situation and continued on through out the next 15-20 laps I ended up going through the grass to avoid the spinning 7x...did that without any harm....and went on to finish my strongest race to date...I finished 16th for the 5th time in my career in only 15 starts.....

In other action Bruce Clark backed up his first win with a 3rd place finish........Behind Points leader Alby Ovitt and Eddie Laclair.......

John Yagmin got win #2 on the season with a late pass on Adam Skowrya to deny Skowrya his first career victory.....

 S & S racing was in action also.....Jason Spaulding backed up his career best finish of 11th with another 11th place finish in the 4cyl. event.....Dan Stoodley came home with an 11th place finish after a mess in Turn 4 he was involved with during the Full Size event......

 

Next Event for us Full size guys is July 14th.....The little guys will be in action this coming week for the Firecracker 2007 event....

 

Until the next time enjoy the summer!!.....

RBT Motorsports #84

The last week was very crazy......I would first like to Thank both Jason Spaulding and Dan Stoodley for the willingness to bring my car to their shop and fixing my car....It was very much appreciated!!

 We had to Use the pick up truck and pine tree method to get the car back to relatively normal......and put on a new door......along with a lot of other work over the week to get us to the track for saturday....

Once it was time to get to the race track...I drew the # 1 tarting spot.....I elected to start in the back....at the drop of the green I drove passed a couple of cars and got outta town for a little while...til the leader caught me......I trapped my self on the extreme low side and lost a lot of tima and a position at that time...once I got out in open room I was reeling in the 7R as he seemed to be having problems...at one point in the race I actually spun my RR tire all the way from turn 4 all the way down to turn 1...not a good thing....lol

At the end of the race I ended up with my best finish of the season and tying my career record with a 16th place finish....and absolutely no new dents or scratches to the car....a night I can deal with....

Bruce Clark led all laps in his way to his first career Win in the 4Cyl enduros congrats to that whole team......

on the S & S racing side of things...Dan Stoodley was unable to take the green in the Full size race with a Tranny issue...and Jason came home with his Career best finish of 11th in the 4 cyl. enduro race.....

 

We all race again this week ....til then have a good one!!....

Saturday night was very eventful to say the least....before getting to the track I had had a feeling the night might be a little crazy seeing our division had not been on the track in almost a month....

 I started the day by drawing the pole...I elected to start from the rear as I had been having a fuel issue earlier in the day. Once it was race time we got a good start...I stayed on the lead lap for the first 9 laps which is the best I have ever done at the time I got lapped I was also in the process of making a pass. Coming out of turn 2 as I was about to have the pass completed I got knocked hard in the Right Rear quarter panel....That spun me right around where I rode the backstretch wall and the trunk got sheered off once I came to a stop the car stalled aand I was in the middle of tracks. A couples cars missed me but "goofy" Dave Wheeler was unable to miss me he got on the brakes but still got a very hard shot on my Drivers side door. The red flag was thrown after, track official Kevin Askwith ran over to make sure I was okay I said ya let me see if it starts, which it did..I started to move and asked Kevin if all the wheels were fine, they were so I continued on. after that red things went fantastic...continueing to run well til Bucky Sheets blew up going into turn 3I saw it a tried to get slowed down before getting in to the fluid...I was able to back down but cars behind could not and I got slammed from behind and on the side....the red flew for a fire on Bucky's car..I turned the car back around and found that I was unable to turn left anymore....and thats where I ended..close to lap 35 DNF #1 of the 2007 season.....

Once I got home and looked at the car I found that the LF upper control arm got real bent and was rubbing on Steering shaft which is what caused me to not be able to turn left....

In the second wreck I heard a pop in my arm That has been check and been deemed I have a strained muscle in my shoulder....

Bruce Clark unofficially finished 7th in his 4cyl event also on Saturday night....

I would like to say godspeed to a great leader in the build of Nascar. Bill France Jr. Passed away earlier today

 The team will know in a week or so whether the season is over or not for RBT Motorsports.....til later Have a good one folks....

So..after a week off for rain...monadnock got back to some racing...they welcomed in the True Value Modified Racing Series in which Les Hinckley won..holding off stern charges by Kirk Alexander and Dwight Jarvis....

 

Mini stock winner was first time winner Brandon Warren with Geoff Rollins with flames from out the hood for second and Kevin Ouelette third.....worst wreck of the night was by Beth Adams who was running 2nd at the time hits some fluid dumped by the 27 in turn 4 and went hard into the wall..in which the car as been destroyed...

 

Super Stocks was a fairly quick race where Ken Springer took down the victory....Nick Auffrey took is first trophy in second and Lance Cote rounded out the top three....but not without a whole lotta pressure from Dana Shepard who ended up 5th place

 

Keith Carzello Took the checkers after a perfect restart with 8 or so laps to go in Late model action....Scott Zilinski took down Second and Nick Gasperini rangled in Third...

 

Russ Hersey, Barry Gray, and Bryon Baker were the tope 3 in the outlaw pro race...Rookie Brandon Ovitt led a fair share of the first half of the race and then Hersey took over and Barry Gray had a few chances but could not get  the pass complete and takes his second straight second place finish.....

 

I started the race in the 24th place and had my best handling car yet ...I stayed with the back of the pack longer than normal.....I did have a couple spin outs..both self prevoked...My first spin was in turn three I did a complete 360 and went back doen the track..luckily all cars missed me....got goin a gain...and just a few laps later a few cars started to tangle on the front stretch...right beside me...I turned the wheels left and just barely cleared that wreck....then on the last lap I was trying to complete a pass I do believe that was for position..and Looped it in turn one....after the race I took a look at the car and no damage after that..and got a 20th place outta the deal...car ran much better....we just keep getting closer and closer...we wont be a winning car...but might be more competitive.....

 

Next week Clark Racing returns to the track......May 19th both RBT Motorsports and Clark Racing will be racing.....til...next week.....stay outta the hot sun.......

2007 season

The 2007 season has begun....This season I will try to give an overview of the nights events every week.......

Monadnock Speedway opened their season last Saturday and it was a busy day right from the very beginning...we got there at 9:30am with the car.....Before practice begun tech came around and discovered that we along with quite a few other cars still had anti-freeze in the car....so prior to being allowed on the track we had to flush out the car and put water back in....once we were cleared...it was time to get one practice run in.....I went out there to get a little rhythm and try a couple different driving styles and found one I liked and would use come feature time.....

The Mini Stock feature was a fairly clean race.....Geoff Rollins got out front and never had a serious challange again......Beth Adams got the black flag for oil leaking and she wound up with a 19th place finish.....Kevin Oullette Jr and John O'dea where having a battle for second while Emerson Cayer was working thru the field......Rollins took the win convincely and Cayer just hours off of his honeymoon came in second and Oullette held on for third.....

 Strictlys winner was Mark Smith he got the lead on the Green Flag and never got a real challange til the last couple laps Mike Roy had a few good looks but couldnt get it done......Ken Springer and Greg Williams had a little post-race activity over in turn 3 after an accident in the last handful of laps......

 The Late Model race went caution free and Ed Lofland got his first win in a long time...he narrowly held on to the victory from a hard charging defending champion Keith Carzello who ended up second and John lavoie had a strong run to pick up the third place trophy...The move of the night came during the Late model feature...a few cars got slowed up coming out of turn 2..Adam Gray saw a hole in between 2 cars and went right up the gut to gain 2 spots towards the finish....

 The 50 lap Outlaw Pro triple crown event was dominated by Jeff Zuidema who earlier in the night won the Pro-4 Modified feature.....Barry Gray finished second and Bryon Baker took third.....only 6 cars finished on the lead lap.....Rob Williams had a "loose" condition all night and battled through to get a 8th place result.....

I started my feature 25th and ended up 21st when all was said and done....may not have had the most ideal finish...but it was my best driving race I have had yet....I used it as mostly a test session..and have learned a lot for the next few races and hopefully can start moving forward...I did have one altercation with the front stretch wall with about 5 laps to go....but all is okay with the machine and am ready to go on May 5th......

Crew Member and unofficial teammate Bruce Clark had a tremendous run and finished 5th or 7th in the 4cyl enduro

 Next Monadnock race is this weekend April 28th.....the Next Time RBT Motorsports hits the track is May 5th.......til..then  enjoy the weather......

 

 

The 2006 season has ended.... although I did not race as much as would have been liked...This year was probably the most fun I have had in a long time. I would like to thank Everyone from Racersbored.com for everythjing that you all did for me this year.

I teamed up with Rob Williams, 71 Outlaw Pro, this year and It was a real huge learning experience and I can't wait til Next year as we are gaining on his car!

 I will keep all posted on the ins and outs of the upcoming season, til then......stay out of the hot sun!

Well the night started out fun with the open track party, signed lots of autographs!! I even added my racersbored stickers.  Then came the race Started 14th of 24 and I was staying with the pack into turn 2 when I got back in the throttle and looped her around in front of most of the field and unfortunately I collected Paul Smith hope his car will be okay. That resulted in a flat LF we got that fixed got back on the track and ran some decent laps then out of turn2 again I got loose this time I saved it until the leader Randy Rameau got me in the ass end which sent me into the wall. I ran a few more laps and got black flagged which finally ended my night. End result was 22nd. with a puntured gas tank, possible bloen radiator and a hell of alot body damage, guess its back to the drawing board!!   Till next time!!!

 

Rob Thompson

2005 in the rear view and a look towards 2006
2005 was my first year racing after being a part of it my whole life. It was definately a learning year but overall we did as expected. My car is nowhere close to being set-up to be doing circles but we did our best. My best finish was 16th in our final race of the year, it was our second 100 lap race and 33 cars started the race. We completed 82 of the laps which for us was real good. In the final points we finished 24th after racing only 7 of the 12 events. There is a lot of people I would like to thank for making 2005 possible. Paul Barnard got me the car which enabled mme to even race plus all the help he has given us back at home, I also would like to thank my crew cheif Shauna for all her help and support at the track and behind the scenes. Also I have to thank our cheif mechanic Kenny Mills for getting the car to the track when I had no other option, and Austin Towle for putting a deal together at the last minute to get me to the last race of the year. Other people part of the crew i would like to thank is Shane Parker, Sara Taylor, Bruce Clark, and also my Mom for being there all the time and for getting me it to this money grabbing hobby we call racing. I have to also thank all of my sponsors we carried on the car, without them we might not have meade the full season. First we have to mention Barnard Race Cars for the support, also we have T&J Disposal out of Orange, thanks Tom. Mount Tully Kennel's help out this year, and Steve taught us some new stuff, thanks. Also thanks to Charlie's Auto Parts from Orange and Clark Auto Wrecking from Shutesbury. Thanks to the competitors you guys help a bunch, especially "Goofy" Dave Wheeler, Mark Rosenblatt, and Adam Gray of the Strictly Stock division. To the rest of the Full Size crew thanks for the respect on and off the track.
RBT Motorsports will be back in full force (hopefully) for the 2006 campain. The plan is for alot of changes including paint scheme, not much though. The driver has a little more experience now and so does the whole crew. Last season Driver and crew cheif were the only weekly part of the team but we do welcome home one crew member Shane Parker as he will be a fresh face back with the team. Plan is to be ready for the test and tune session, Hope to see everyone at Race-A-Rama, and Motorsports Madness, til then keep warm and enjoy the 500.