Kawartha Report

Fraserville, On; To say John Fletcher and his Team JNE Consulting dominated the OSCAAR Outlaw Super Late Model twin 35 lap features Friday August 11 may be a bold statementbut, the evening’s event starts with eighteen of Ontario’s top racers preparing to challenge the twin 35-lap feature format. John started his only qualifying race in the seventh position of the 9 car race with the likes of Rob Clarke, Drew Spicer, T.J. Woosley and Gary Passer, with 10 laps and only the top four guaranteed a spot in OSCAAR inversion for the feature line up it would be hard to achieve that. John raced his way to finish in the forth spot. The fast Kerr Cadillac backed Shane Maginnis drew pole for the third time this season and Team JNE Consulting crew chief Scott Fletcher drew the ninth spot for John. The team felt it may be tough going to get through the very strong field of supers, but as the race began to unfold it was obvious the Team JNE Consulting car looked like it was running on HYPE Energy in for fuel instead of the CITGO Racing Gas of Barrie Performance. John picked his way through the field and run down race leader Drew Spicer and his Spicer’s Towing Chevrolet, as the half way marker was approaching John rocketed to the outside of 89 of Spicer to comfortably take the win over the Race2way 22 of Glen Watson, Spicer, Rob Clarke and the 2 of John Owen. Hats of to Watson, Spicer, Owen and the sixth place of ASA Alloys/Fox Canada’s Phil Bullen for their night’s results.

The second 35 lap starts as a complete invert of the finish order of the first 5-lap feature. This would put John starting the lighting quick 61 car with additional support of Wix Filters, Hype Energy Drink and B&B Decals back in the fourteenth spot on the grid as sixteen of the eighteen cars where stilling running after the first 35 laps. John commented before the race “We did what we needed to do in the first 35, now it is big picture racing”. John was referring to the overall points in OSCAAR as John padded his lead some more and the plan to stay out of trouble in this race. The green flag flew in front of the jammed pack house and quickly John powered his Cunningham Racing Engine Team JNE Consulting 61 car to the fifth spot in a mere five laps, after a restart for a caution John moved to third and reeled in the 52 of Jenco Equipment piloted by Gary Passer, John continued to pressure Gary as the two started to reel in race leader Steve Lyons. With Gary running strong John moved to the outside on over took the spot for second and two laps later removed the 93 of Lyons from the lead and drove to the win in easy fashion to take both OSCAAR features and in doing so also picked the “Power On The Go” hard charger award for passing the most cars. John picked the win up over Phil Bullen, Steve Lyons, Glenn Watson and the 7T of 2005 Canada’s The combined points of the event had Fletcher as top point getter with second going to the 22 of Watson, 67 of Bullen, 49 of Clarke and rounding out the top five the red deuce of John Owen. The relevance of mentioning in depth the 22,67,2 and 89 cars are all John Fletcher’s customers or receive full support from John’s Chassis Shop, Fletch-Air Body’s or John’s Shock Program. The result of the night increased Team JNE Consultings lead in the OSCAAR point chase to just under 200 points over the London Mechanical/JBM Leasing 49 of Rob Clarke.

Team JNE Consulting would like to acknowledge that Keith and Chuck Barton of B&B Decals, Fred and Tammy of APX Racewear where on hand to watch one of the teams strongest performance of 2006. Team JNE Consulting wish to thank the thousands of fans in attendance, Derek and the staff of Kawartha Downs and OSCAAR for the great nigh of racing. The team is back in action with the rest of the stars of OSCAAR Saturday August 19 at the ½ Mile Mosport Speedway.