Original Message

Sorry John, you're right!  They ran on July 3rd.  Ryan Godown won the modified 40 lapper.  $5000 to win, but Godown put up the $250 gambler's fee, which doubled Godown's winnings ($10,000!).  Apparently this was an idea of the late Danny Serrano.  He was Bridgeport's track manager up until his passing.  They announced that Danny never had the chance to implement his gamblers fee idea and that promotor Doug Rose felt this was a great race to try it out.  The super late models had a late race restart that saw 2nd place Rick Eckert and the leader (#11, can't recall the drivers name) collide with Eckert rolling over on his roof.  The 11 was done for the night and, after getting righted, Eckert continued.  Eckert started last with 6 or 7 cars left.  In the remaining 6 laps, Eckert showed that being on his top didn't hurt the performance of # 0.  I recall that he took the lead with either 2 to go, or on the last lap.  Again, a short field, but they put on a great show.  "The Kids Kid" won the speedster feature with a last lap pass after a late caution flag.  Scott Ely  

P.S.  At least I got the month right!