Former Series Champion Dominates With Sweep
Written by Jerry O'Brien for the Superior Daily Telegram
Thunder Bay Ontario's Joel Cryderman served notice that he wants to take his second AMSOIL Late Model Series championship with a dominating performance on the 3/8ths mile Hibbing Raceway Tuesday June 5th. Cryderman lined up in the first heat on the inside of row three and wasted little time racing to the front to take the win.
The realignment system played into Cryderman's hands as he started the 25 car 35 lap feature on the pole flanked by John Massingill. 2005 and defending series champion Pat Doar was positioned directly behind Cryderman poised to make a run for the win. After the traditional four wide pace lap salute to the fans the 25 car field was set to get down to business. At the green flag, Cryderman quickly grabbed a three car length lead with Jeff Provinzino and Massingill moving past Doar to second and third. The first of only two caution flags would appear when a mob of cars all tried to enter turn one at the same time squeezing Jeff Lien off the track. At the restart Cryderman again pulled away from Provinzino while Tom Waseleski, Sr was on the move from his sixth starting slot and got by Massingill and Doar to the third spot.
Cryderman soon began eying the back of the field as he would quickly begin to lap cars. It appeared that Cryderman had hit the setup perfectly as he was able to put the number 51 anywhere he wanted which made passing lapped traffic appear to be easy. Cryderman was dominant throughout leading all 35 circuits for the win and the early AMSOIL Series point lead. Waseleski Sr., Provinzino, Tom Nesbitt and Darrell Nelson finished in the top five.
"I had a really good starting spot, which really helped" Cryderman said in the Victory Circle interview. "It went perfect".
Second place finisher Tom Waseleski, Sr said "If I would have had an opportunity to pass Cryderman, I would have taken it, but I wasn't going to do anything dumb. I was happy with the way it went, it was our first time out" Waseleski was driving the car usually driven by son Mike as the engine for his own car was not yet complete.
The next AMSOIL race is scheduled for Friday, July 27 at the ABC Raceway in Ashland, Wis.
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