(Oxford ME) It had been a long time.
Three-and-a-half months.
But Saturday night Nate Barth got that elusive second Mad Bombers victory after nine unsuccessful tries.
“We had a good car,” Nate said afterwards. “The thing has been pretty fast all year and finally we had some good luck and pulled it off.”
That “good luck” part had to do with avoiding accidents and gaining ground when they happened….and there were several of them.
Nate started 13th in the twenty-lap feature.
“I was running 7th or 8th for the first half of the race,” he recalled. “There was a wreck on Turn #3 that I avoided and pulled off some spots and got to 5th. On the next restart, I got the lead and hung on through a couple of wild restarts for the win.”
Corey Morgan came in second. Corey has won four times and has been in the hunt on almost all of the Mad Bombers eleven features this season.
I continue to find the Mad Bombers very entertaining to watch. You put twenty race cars on a small track and require them to sort things out in just twenty laps you’re almost certain to see a good show.
There will be contact. Accidents will happen. Three wide is normal. Hard feelings can be stirred.
“There certainly is a lot of beating and banging in this division,” said Nate. “It’s an entry level division. Everyone is just trying to get their feet wet so that they can move forward.”
Today’s race did end in controversy. Nate thought he had won and then found out that he hadn’t.
“We went from the highest of highs to the lowest of lows,” recalled Nate. Apparently, there was a problem during one of the cautions. But that was resolved, and Nate was reinstalled as the winner.
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