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July 25, 2005
Dale Wolbrink
Caisse Earns Career Best
at Waterford
Waterford, CT: The
accolades just keeping rolling in for
Sean Caisse. The young driver from
Pelham, NH scored a career best Busch
North Series finish with a sixth-place
in the Town Fair Tire 150 at the
Waterford Speedbowl on Saturday night.
With it came his fourth Sunoco Race
Fuels Rookie-of-the-Race honor and the
Featherlite Most Improved Driver Award.
It was a career-best for car owner and
mentor Barney McRae as well.
" Our
team just gets better and better with
every week," said Caisse. "Today we
proved to ourselves what kind of team we
are. We faced some adversities in the
pits when we first got to Waterford but
we stuck together, worked everything out
and came home with our best finish yet."
For the first time since
joining the Busch North Series, Caisse
was able to compete at a racetrack where
he had actually run on a number of
occasions. Caisse had raced
competitively at the Waterford Speedbowl
in the Northeastern Midget Association
as well as the Whelen Modified Tour.
" We
have done well at first time race tracks
this season," said Caisse "but being at
Waterford gave me a higher comfort level
in the car right from the beginning."
Caisse qualified the Trik
Custom Sleds Chevrolet in the thirteenth
position during Bud Pole qualifying. It
did not take long for the young driver
to move into the top-ten, where he
stayed for the remainder of the race.
Highlights of the event included
spirited battles with the likes of Mike
Johnson, Joey McCarthy, Dale Shaw and
Dave Dion.
Having adapted very well
to longer-distance racing of the NASCAR
Touring divisions, Caisse had become
astute at tire management.
" We
did not pit during the race so saving
the tires was very important," continued
Caisse. "We ran pretty conservatively
for the first 80-laps before we did any
really hard racing."
Throughout the season
Caisse has displayed patience throughout
the race only to come on stronger in the
late stages. It was much of the same at
Waterford. Caisse moved into the sixth
position behind Mike Stefanik inside
fifteen laps to go. A string of
cautions in the late stages of the event
slowed any additional progress that
Caisse may have made.
" The
car was real good at the end of the
race. We actually turned faster laps
during the last half of the race."
" We
had a bunch of cautions late in the race
and I think that really hurt us,"
continued Caisse. "Our car needed about
five laps to really come in after a
caution. I think we might have had
something for Stefanik if we had a few
more laps."
All the action from the
Town Fair Tire 150 will air this Friday
night, July 29, 2005 on Speed Channel at
7:30 PM.
" I
am so proud of this team and what we
have accomplished together," said
Caisse. "Early in the season we
concentrated on finishing races, then we
were shooting for top-tens. I think it
is fair to say that the top five is a
realistic goal for us now."
Next up for the Busch
North Series is the Edge Hotel 150 from
Adirondack International Speedway in
Beaver Falls, NY. For more
information log on to
www.nascartouring.com.
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