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2/12/2010


THE WEEK OF CONTROVERSY AND WINS WITH RONNIE SILK
by Denise DuPont


   Mod Tour Type Win – Monday February 8, 2010

On Monday, February 8, 2010, Ron Silk took the checkers to win the second Mod Tour event of Speed Week. This year Silk is driving both an SK and Tour Mod for the TS Haulers team. “The car has been really good. I was able to start it up front with the redraw.”

“I was able to catch Ted with some time to work with him. A lapped car slowed him down (Ted Christopher) and let me get to him. He just lifted up a little bit in turn two and I was able to get a run and he was right with me the rest of the race. I just tried to stay on the bottom and protect the lead and it was enough to hold him off.”

Mod Tour Type Second Place to Last – Wednesday February 9, 2010

The third Tour Mod Race was won by Ted Christopher in the #00 car. Silk held on and completed the race in second. “TC was just better than we were last night. We were just too tight the whole time and the car stayed tight the whole time. We thought that it would free up if it was a little bit longer race and it didn’t. He had the car to beat and he won. We changed some stuff around for today and we are going to go him tonight.

After post race inspection on Wednesday, February 9th, the #6 Tour Mod was disqualified for having changed the Cam in a Spec Engine.
Ron Silk’s thoughts: “I do not know what is in the motor. I try to be involved but I just drive the thing. If they say we are illegal what are you going to do? You can go and fight with them (officials). If you do you might as well bounce your head off the wall. It is what it is. I guess we do not have to worry about the points we will just try to win.”

Were changes done to the motor for today’s Tour Mod race? “Yes there were. They are letting us run to night so obviously they did. Which is fine, we will go out race and try to win tonight.”

After the SK race and altercations, do you think that Keith Rocco had an objective? “Absolutely, there is trouble where ever he goes. I caught the kid from about a half a straight away behind. I pulled out underneath him and he just kept turning left until he broke something in the left front. Then as I was driving around under caution he throws a block of wood at he car. Then he comes back out driving all around like a maniac. You know under yellow he was going by the field. At some point someone has to take control, he should not be out there. But nothing happened. On the restart he was suppose to start last and he started third. We had a problem that the motor was skipping. It skipped for about a half a lap, so he (Keith Rocco) was able to get by. Once my motor started running fine, I ran him down, got to him, was working him over, went to the outside of him. He tried driving me into the wall on the front stretch. So I turned left on him and hooked him into the fence. He got what he deserved.”

Ron Silk’s thoughts on driving with a new team for 2010? “I think that I am in a really good situation. With the tour races that I ran for them last year at Loudon and Martinsville, we won Loudon and we got the pole at Martinsville and finished fourth. These are the same guys when I ran the 19. Eddie Partridge gives us great equipment to work with. The SK is a missile so I think it is going to be a good year. I am looking forward to it. We are going to run Thompson weekly with the SK mod. I do not think that we are going to run Stafford. We are going to run the Tour, the open Tour type races that they have at Thompson, they will be with us there any way. I do not know we may run some of the True Value (Modified Racing Series) stuff. We will pick and choose what we do.

Mod Tour Type First Place Finish – Thursday February 9, 2010

Ron Silk was a man on a mission as he competed on Thursday night in the Mod Tour feature event. Everyone had their eyes on him as he raced. When he took over the lead, everyone then questioned whether the car was legal or not. Since the car had been disqualified on Wednesday night, officials had the #6 team add 100 pounds of weight to the car to compensate for the non spec Cam found in the Spec Engine. There were rumors that they were going to require more weight be added before race time, but that ended up being only a rumor.

When we left the race track at midnight Thursday evening, officials still had the #6 car in tech waiting for the engine to cool so they could pump it. Once tech was completed, officials’ would determine the outcome. Checking the track points for the Tour Mods Silk has gone from seventeenth in points to ninth place. If I were to wager a guess it appears that Ron Silk maintained his first place finish and is the winner of the fourth Tour Mod race and has a second win for the week.

We have contacted a track official and were told that the Thursday night Tour Type Mod results were official. Silk was the winner.

Source: Denise DuPont / TheChromeHorn.com
Posted: February 12, 2010

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