LAST RACE:

JULY 30TH, 2010 - 1st Place 

COMING EVENTS:

JULY 31ST, 2010 

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2009 ACCOMPLISHMENTS

MR. DIRTcar Champion

DIRTcar Northeast Champion

Can Am Champion

Thunder Alley Champion

MR. DIRTcar POINTS

FINAL POINTS

   1.  Chris Raabe--------------1651

   2.  Ryan Susice---------------1606

   3.  Jipp Ortiz--------------------1494

   4.  Justin Wright-------------- 1434

   5.  Dan Wiesner-------------- 1318

   6.  BJ. Willard------------------1282

   7.  Adam Turner---------------1249

   8.  Greg Panunte--------------1243

   9.  Mark Chiddy----------------1156

 10.  Sammy Reakes IV-------1096

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RAABE GETS WIN #20 ON FRIDAY NIGHT AT MOHAWK RACEWAY

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Raabe Goes Three for Three

Harvey Hubb - July 7, 2010

A couple of weeks ago, the 01 Chris Raabe race team had to rebound from a bad racing weekend where they ended up with two DNF (Did Not Finish) out of three runs. Like I said last time, instead of hanging their heads and giving up on themselves, they headed to the race shop with a new drive. Talk about turnaround… since that week of putting together an almost new racecar, they have yet of finish out of the winner’s circle.

The team has now won their last 5 races in a row including all three of their races this past weekend at Mohawk Friday night, Brockville Saturday and Cornwall on Sunday. In all, that makes 17 wins so far this year and there is still 4 months of racing to go. July and August will be the end of the “local” track point runs, but September and October will be the Mr. DIRTcar points run every weekend with the moody mile at Syracuse and culminating at Brockville speedway in late October.

Chris is ecstatic about the recent success of the team, “We have adjusted the car every night to get better as the night goes on this year. Dad and Greg have been making all the right calls for me and it just seems the car can go wherever I want it to in those vital last few laps of the feature races. What a team…they are making me look good out there, but I tell you, without a great handling car, you are not going to win, the competition is really good this summer”.

The weather was almost perfect this past weekend with all three tracks coming up dry and slick in the heat. Friday night at Mohawk the 01 car started sixth and moved to the lead by lap six. Raabe couldn’t pull away from Dylan Evoy as the 83 car was right on the bumper of Raabe for the remaining 15 laps and twice during the run got up beside the 01 but just couldn’t get by.

“Dylan had a good car Friday night and I saw him out of the corner of my eye twice and thought he was going to get me, but we held on for the win” said Chris after the race.

On Saturday night, Chris started the 01 car 12^th and fought his way to the front before several yellow flags allowed the Teenage Tornado to keep the leaders close. Kenny Polite and Chris Herbison made it very difficult for Raabe to get to the lead but finally with just four laps to go, Raabe went to the top of the track and the 01 stuck like glue and allowed Chris to move by Polite and Herbison for the fifth win of the year at the BOS.

On Sunday night, again it was tough slugging for the 01 car as Chris had to overcome some great racing from Randy Earl and Chris Herbison. Wolfe Island ’s Dillon Sallows lead most of the race until the top three local modified sportsman drivers put the pressure on with just a handful of laps to go. Chris got by Earl late in the race to win the Cornwall feature and his third feature win of the weekend.

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Raabe Rebounds From Bad Weekend

Harvey Hubb - June 21, 2010

Grandfather Hubb used to tell me all the time, “Harvey, show me a person who can get up off the mat, and I’ll show you a winner”. Of course he was referring to someone who had been down on their luck or had a run of bad things happen to them, but they don’t give up and keep going, working hard to turn things around and get things heading in the right direction again.  They would eventually regain all they lost… at least according to Gramps.

Well, I guess one could easily say that about the recent happenings with the Raabe 01 race team. Last weekend it all started with a mechanical failure at Mohawk International speedway on Friday night, causing a DNF (did not finish). Then on Saturday night they borrowed a car from Dillon Sallows, started deep in the field and got up to fourth place before getting a flat tire and had to start at the back again running back up to fourth at the end. 

Then on Sunday night at Cornwall for the second Mr. DIRTcar series race of the year, Chris was running up front getting ready to do battle for the lead when an encounter with Randy Earl put the 01 car in the wall and all but ended the evening for Raabe with a final finish of 20^th.

That kind of weekend would make any team head to the barn with their tails between their legs and put them into a downward spiral after such a great start to the 2010 season… but not this team! I am so proud to say how strong they have come back this past week. On Tuesday night at Can Am, it was the SUNY Canton Series race and the Raabe 01 team dominated the race from the pole to win their 11^th feature of the year. Then it was back to Mohawk International on Friday night and a second place finish to good friend and fellow competitor, Dylan Evoy and then on Saturday night it was back to Brockville with his own car and won handily from a 14^th place start picking up win number 12 after just 21 feature starts in 2010.

Chris had his take on the last two weeks for the team, “I can’t remember having a weekend of racing quite as bad as that one last weekend. We don’t have many mechanical problems and we were working on the car Saturday afternoon and it was raining so we thought it would be a rainout for last Saturday night so we didn’t hurry to get the repairs done and then when we realized we were gong to race in Brockville, we had the car all apart and I called Dillon Sallows who said he would lend me his car. If it wasn’t for the flat tire I think we could have won that race and then Sunday, we had a great car at Cornwall and I was just taking my time when we got taken out. On Tuesday at Can Am the car was probably the best I have ever had there, I could run anywhere and it turned on a dime, the guys really gave me a great car for the SUNY Canton win.

Raabe leads the Northeast dirt points and will continue to do so right to the end of the season because they only count your 12 best runs and with 12 wins, you just can’t beat perfect.

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