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Another beautiful day and great racing was had at Constantine as we celebrated our 60th year in a row there. As the day before we had a very safe day of exciting racing again.
K-Pro
The distaff side of racing was well represented in K-Pro as McKenzie Hellsten was able to take all four heats of K-Pro in style and will be a force to recon with next week at Depue. Emily Hutchison drove all the way up from Winter Haven, not too far from McKenzie’s Orlando to run 2nd with Brianna Payn, a strong 3rd. Great driving by Maxine Pulsipher in her first racing as well.
125R
A fantastic drive by JJ Walls put him out front by less than a half of a boat length right at the finish line over Parker Thirlby, both of them driving their hearts out for the 4 laps as they went side by side for all four, with Parker holding the inside line and JJ having tot take the long way around. The fans erupted in a nice round of applause for them both, as they high fived one another on the beach. Great clean racing from both.
JJ Walls
Parker Thirlby
Brandon Mills
250H
Chris Hellsten took two heats and finished 2nd to Kurtis Nydahl in the other to top the 250H folks. Kurtis had a tremendous run going side by side going into the bottom corner, only to have the plug wire come loose as he sat in the corner watching Chris take home a heat. Nick Shakeshaft put everyone on notice this weekend he is here to race as he had great runs in the 350H and today in the 250H class as well. Going to be a fun 250H class at Depue
700R
Does anyone have anything for Andrew Thirlby in the 500 and 700R? Andrew took both heats in 700R, starting in one heat in the 7th spot, but slowly but surely reeled them all in. Derek Gesler in his own build boat, was very fast as well, but just could not catch Andrew. The venerable Pete Voss was not going to let all the youngsters have fun as he finished on the podium as well.
Andrew
Derek
Pete
175H
What tumble the 175H’s had today. In the last heat of the class, only one driver was able to keep from jumping the gun and you know what that means for him. Brent Simmons was the recipient of all the others coming to the line early and took the title. Jon Wienandt looks strong as he took home one heat with Charley Bradley taking a heat. Charley ran into loading up issues in the 2nd heat and as all but Brent, ended up jumping the gun in the 3rd
Brent Simmons
Jon Wienadnt
Charley Bradley
350R
Tim Small took a third in the first heat as Mike Krier led them up for the start, but a tad too early and jumped the gun, while Brian Payn, showing great speed, came away with the win. In the 2nd and 3rd heats, it was all Tim as he won overall with Brian showing strong for 2nd in both heats. Rich Krier finished in the 3rd spot for the podium.
1100H
Can you say super fast about Amy Nydahl, well yes you can, but the wily veteran David Hooten was side by side with her in the first two laps until as has been said before, “it just done blowed up.” Wow what a great couple of laps between them. Yvonne Koenig over from Germany drove the M-4 to the second spot with Ike Yoder doing a nice job for third.
Amy
Yvonne
Ike
Thanks to the drivers, the legion, and our USTS crew for a great weekend of racing. Looking forward now to the USTS Nationals next weekend.
Ray
K-Pro
The distaff side of racing was well represented in K-Pro as McKenzie Hellsten was able to take all four heats of K-Pro in style and will be a force to recon with next week at Depue. Emily Hutchison drove all the way up from Winter Haven, not too far from McKenzie’s Orlando to run 2nd with Brianna Payn, a strong 3rd. Great driving by Maxine Pulsipher in her first racing as well.
125R
A fantastic drive by JJ Walls put him out front by less than a half of a boat length right at the finish line over Parker Thirlby, both of them driving their hearts out for the 4 laps as they went side by side for all four, with Parker holding the inside line and JJ having tot take the long way around. The fans erupted in a nice round of applause for them both, as they high fived one another on the beach. Great clean racing from both.
JJ Walls
Parker Thirlby
Brandon Mills
250H
Chris Hellsten took two heats and finished 2nd to Kurtis Nydahl in the other to top the 250H folks. Kurtis had a tremendous run going side by side going into the bottom corner, only to have the plug wire come loose as he sat in the corner watching Chris take home a heat. Nick Shakeshaft put everyone on notice this weekend he is here to race as he had great runs in the 350H and today in the 250H class as well. Going to be a fun 250H class at Depue
700R
Does anyone have anything for Andrew Thirlby in the 500 and 700R? Andrew took both heats in 700R, starting in one heat in the 7th spot, but slowly but surely reeled them all in. Derek Gesler in his own build boat, was very fast as well, but just could not catch Andrew. The venerable Pete Voss was not going to let all the youngsters have fun as he finished on the podium as well.
Andrew
Derek
Pete
175H
What tumble the 175H’s had today. In the last heat of the class, only one driver was able to keep from jumping the gun and you know what that means for him. Brent Simmons was the recipient of all the others coming to the line early and took the title. Jon Wienandt looks strong as he took home one heat with Charley Bradley taking a heat. Charley ran into loading up issues in the 2nd heat and as all but Brent, ended up jumping the gun in the 3rd
Brent Simmons
Jon Wienadnt
Charley Bradley
350R
Tim Small took a third in the first heat as Mike Krier led them up for the start, but a tad too early and jumped the gun, while Brian Payn, showing great speed, came away with the win. In the 2nd and 3rd heats, it was all Tim as he won overall with Brian showing strong for 2nd in both heats. Rich Krier finished in the 3rd spot for the podium.
1100H
Can you say super fast about Amy Nydahl, well yes you can, but the wily veteran David Hooten was side by side with her in the first two laps until as has been said before, “it just done blowed up.” Wow what a great couple of laps between them. Yvonne Koenig over from Germany drove the M-4 to the second spot with Ike Yoder doing a nice job for third.
Amy
Yvonne
Ike
Thanks to the drivers, the legion, and our USTS crew for a great weekend of racing. Looking forward now to the USTS Nationals next weekend.
Ray
