2 Races 2
Feature wins.
Borger's
Speedway - The Slingshots took to the track for their
feature with Warren, New Jersey’s Matt Dealaman leading the pack
to the green. Second starting Matt “the Flemington flyer”
Carman wasting no time in getting out front. After a lap
three restart, the field ran twenty seven straight green flag
laps, during these laps Carman stretched his lead out to almost
a three second advantage. At lap twenty eight, Carman had lapped
up to the eighth position and cruised to his second main event
win of the 2007 season. With the win Matt Carman has taken over
the season point championship lead. Carman was followed by Matt
Dealaman, and the always quick Tyler Potts came home in third.
Bridgeport
Speedway - With the special Fathers Day Micro Nationals the
Bridgeport Speedway were sceduled to race. The night started off
well for Matt pulling the lowest pill putting him on the pole
for the heat race. Matt took the heat win by a few car legnths.
With only 4 cars on hand the feature was started the way the
heat was finished putting Matt on the pole. Matt never looked
back and took the feature win for the second night in a row.
Matt gets a ride for the Twin 15's at the
Kutztown Fairgrounds.
Without a engine for his own car Matt showed up at the Kutztown
fairgrounds without a car. Earlier in the week Ryan Smith asked
Matt if he would like to run his car the S&S Speedways #551.
Matt said he would so when they got to the track Matt was fitted
for the car and got suited up. The car seemed to work well in
warm ups but it was hard to tell due to the wet track
conditions. The heat starting line up put Matt in the 6th
position, the car was a little lose and Matt just settled in for
a 6th place finish. The first of two 15 lap features put Matt in
the 12th starting spot. On the start Matt made some bold moves
on the outside to move into the 6th position. As the race went
on Matt was able to grab 5th position where he would finish. For
the second 15 lap feature the top 10 were inverted putting Matt
in the sixth place. On the start Matt moved into 5th but the car
was too lose in a really tight off making it very hard to make a
pass or hold his line. He was passed by three cars putting him
in the 8th position where he would finish.
Matt would like to thank S&S Speedways for letting him race
the #551.
Matt Carman leads 27 of 30 laps.
The word of the
night in the Slingshot main was “Girl Power”. Perkasie, PA’s
Lindsey Rutherford showed the boys that the girls can get it
done too.
Pole sitter “JD” John Drake
held of second starting Ethan Rutherford for the lead on lap
one, Drake held a steady pace over the field while fifth
starting
Matt Carman
moved into second and tracked down Drake. On lap eight
Carman
drove to the
inside of Drake exiting turn four. Drake turned down on
Carman,
the two made contact. Drake’s mount spun and he rejoined the
field in the rear.
Carman
now set the pace with strong running Lindsey Rutherford now in
second. On lap twenty-seven
Carman’s
car experienced engine failure and he was now sidelined for the
evening. This gave the lead to Rutherford who was now pursed by
ninth starting Joel “the Palmerton Pirate” Smith. Rutherford
lead Smith to the checkers followed by Mike Glass.
Slingshots
(30 Laps):
(1) Lindsey
Rutherford (2) Joel Smith (3) Mike Glass (4) T.J. Mayberry
(5) Jordon Henn (6) Stan Friedman (7) Cody Coons (8) Gary
Hieber (9) Tyler Potts (10) Kyle Hieber (11) Ethan
Rutherford (12) Mike Butler
(13) Matt Carman
(14) Bryan Hann (15) Matt Dealaman (16) John Drake (17) Mike
Carman (18) Bob Camps
Matt Carman
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Flemington Flyer Matt Carman grabs top spot @ Borgers
Speedway.
15 Year old sensation Matt
Carman also known as the Flemington Flyer grabbed an impressive
win @ Borger’s Speedway 1/7th mile dirt track with his #2
slingshot, in addition to getting the feature win Matt also made
it a complete sweep by getting a win in his qualifying heat
race. Matt has a bright future ahead of him!
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Borger's Speedway
May 18, 2007
The team decided to run on Friday the 18th knowing that it was going to
rain on the 19th at Borger's Speedway. The night started off
well will Matt coming from 9th(last) to finish 5th in the heat
race. In the feature he started 6th and quickly made his way to
the front, Matt took over the second place position and set his
sights on the leader. The caution came out and on the restart
the car was strong, going into turn one took a look under the
leader to have the car stall, while Matt was trying to get it
started he was passed by 1 car putting him back to 3rd where he
would finish.
May 19th has been cancelled due to rain.
Matt Carman pull's off second career win!!
The night didn't start off well with the car not working at all
in the warm-ups. The team made a few changes to the car for the
heat race where Matt started on the pole. The car was a little
better but needed more adjusting, Matt kept the car as low as he
could get it picking up the heat win. Winning the 1st heat race
put Matt on the pole for the feature. With the race barely
getting started (due to cautions) Matt took the early lead but
was challenged by Cody Coons the whole race, Matt lost the lead
at one point in the race but regained it the next corner. The
win wasn't given too him as the car had a really bad push
leaving the bottom lane open. Matt led all but 1 out of the 30
laps to win his second career feature win. Matt would like to
thank his sponsors for all there support and a very special
thanks to Dad, Mom, Kim, Mike, Mary, Kelly, and Daniel without
them I wouldn't be able to do it.
Heat win, Dash win, Feature
DNF
The night started off well with Matt starting
3rd in the 1st heat race, Matt quickly took the lead in turn 1
and never looked back, winning his first heat race of 2007. With
the top 2 qualifiers going to the Dash for a Pass Matt started
on the pole and once again never looking back. For the feature
Matt started on the pole. He got off to a good start taking the
lead and leading a few laps, the car started to get lose on Matt
so he dropped back to 2nd. When the caution flag flew on lap 10
Matt's left rear tire looked a little low on air. On the restart
the tire blew off the bead sending Matt pit side for a
disappointing 17th place finish.
Fast Times
Heat :: 14.597
Dash :: 14.720
Feature :: 14.605
Bridgeport Speedway
With 24 cars entered
for the 1st tour race of the 2007 season Matt wanted to try his
luck at the fast 1.4 mile. Matt started in 7th postion in his
heat race and made a hard charge to the front to finish 2nd. The
teams made a few changes to the car to hopefully make it better
for the next heat race. But the changes didn't help, they made
the car have a push. Matt started in the 4th spot and dropped
back to the 6th position. The yellow flag fell with only a few
laps to go bunching up the field. On the restart Matt dove to
the bottom of the 5th place car to finish 5th. After the invert
Matt was to start in the 7th position. The car was working well
and he started passing cars. He was catching the 4th place car
with 5 laps to go when the caution flag was thrown. The car
didn's restart like Matt would've liked it and the leaders pull
away a little bit. Matt caught and passed the 4th place car on
the last lap to finish 4th.
"The action was fast and furious as
Housworth,Ryan Smith,Michael Glass,Intravaia and Joel Smith were
being challenged by
Matt
Carman
and Kevin Albert."
.Atlantic City's"Battle on the Boardwalk" winner
Ryan Smith settled for 2nd with Michael Glass keeping the
open-roofed # 46 in third as
Matt
Carman
used a bold turn 3 move to get by Intravaia for a blanket finish
4th.
Borger's Speedway
Matt Carman started the
feature in 7th place the car worked well and Matt made his way
to the 5th position he stayed in 5th for most of the race, but
with only a few laps to go Matt started to catch 4th. The race
came down the the last lap as Matt got under and drag raced to
the line to pull off another 4th place finish.
Matt Carman makes
hard charge to the front
to have muffler fall off with less then 10 laps to go.
4-7-07
Matt started 6th out of 8 cars in the heat
race, the car had a very bad push and Matt dropped back to last
where he finished. The team made drastic changes for the feature
where they started in the 17th position. On the start Matt made
up a few positions when about 5 laps in there was a red flag due
to a flip. After the field restarted Matt headed to the front,
by lap 20 of 40 laps Matt was up to third. While challenging for
2nd Matt's muffler came lose and he was forced to pull off the
track.
2007 Racing Season kicks off
with Lid-Lifter 40!
Matt Carman ran the practice day last weekend at the
Borger's Speedway, the team shook down the car and got the feel
of the track again. This weekend will be a 40 lapper at Borger's
to kick off the season. (Weather Permitting)
Although the weather doesn't look good the track will try there
best to race this weekend.
New Sponsor For Carman
Motorsports
Carman Motorsports & Car-Part.com have team
up to be
marketing partners for the 2007 Racing Season.
Dave Nale Photo
Matt Carman Finishes 2nd in the 2007 Gamblers Classic.
The weekend started off well with the car working quite well in
the Thursday practice sessions , The team made some minor
adjustments to get the car working very well. On Friday Matt
started 9th in the 12 lap heat race and moved up three spots to
finish 6th. ( Top 7 went straight to A-Main ) Saturdays event
started with Matt in the 17th starting position. It wasn't long
before Matt found himself in the 7th spot. As the race went on
Matt Carman made his way from 17th to 2nd by lap 22 of 25 where
he finished.
The team
was very excited to start the season off this way and get a
great finish in one of the biggest races of the year.
Pictures
have been posted in the album.
December 17, 2006: The
car has a new body on and is currently down at JD3 Graphics getting
lettered. The team will be picking the car up sometime next week and
start putting it back together. The motor is being sent out to Speedway
Entertainment to get a new crank shaft put in. Pictures of the car will
be posted when the car gets back to the shop.
