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Aaron's Page HERE
2008 Racing Season
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2009
Pit Shots
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Sat.-Sun. October 10th-11th
The 2009 DAV
Fall Classic
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Two in
Seekonk Victory Lane!
2nd for William, 3rd for Aaron |
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After a 2009 NEMA season filled with
mechanical gremlins and crash damage, the Seekonk Speedway DAV Fall
Classic was a great weekend for Wall Motorsports.
Both Wall brothers made Victory Lane after
the final laps of the 25 lap feature saw the #5 and #55 trying to chase
down the 7ny of Adam Cantor.
From 3rd on the grid (the #30 was a
DNS), William in the #5 battled Nokie Fornoro #4 and then Erica Santos
#44 to take second 10 laps in.
Back in 9th starting spot, Aaron battled up to fourth by the second
yellow for a spun out Chris deRitis in the #99.
Cantor jumped into the lead on the restart while Aaron moved past
Santos. And the chase was on.
Loose off, Cantor said he “tried babying in into three, but when I did
it I could hear Will out there. I had to stay on it.”
“The right rear gave up the last couple of laps,” said Wall. “I couldn’t
keep it on the outside. I needed a little more car.”
The bright smiles of the entire Wall
family in Victory Lane showed how satisfying the race was after all the
long hours and hard work. |
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Saturday, Sept. 5th - Monadnock
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10th for the #5
and 20th for the #55 |
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Saturday, August 15th |
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The Midget portion of the Speedbowl's
open wheel "Wings & Wheels"
special show for 2009 will mainly be remembered for a multi-car heat
wreck after a blown motor oiled the track and for another multi-car
wreck at the start of the feature which was the result of some
excessively aggressive driving. William in the #5 missed both disasters
and once again followed the #4 of Nokie Fornoro to a 4th.
In only 5 starts for 2009, William has now posted 3 fourth place
finishes, already topping one 4th place in 16 starts in 2008. |
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John DaDalt
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Saturday, August 8th |
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William was back at Seekonk in the #5
for the Boston Louie Memorial after the rebuild from the July 15th
Seekonk damage. The #5 seemed in fine shape since William recorded a lap
of 11.216 sec. in the time trials which are a tradition for the Boston
Louie. In groups of six cars running four timed laps, the only
competitor to top William was Jeff Abold in the Seymour #29 who put down
a 10.859. For the Louie the starting grid was determined by an inversion
of the top 16 cars in the time trials. So William had his work cut out
for him starting 15th.
At green the #5 starting picking off cars. The charge continued past
the #45 of Stoehr, the #47 of Cabral, the #7ny of Cantor and up to the
tail of the #4 of Nokie Fornoro for a 4th place finish.
William received the Hard Charger Award for his efforts on a night when
the Midgets were flying around Seekonk. |
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Wednesday, July 15th!
$10K to Win 100 Lap Open Mods
Race
NEMA Midgets - Pro 4 Mods! |
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A tough night for William in the #5
NEMA Midget that lasted only till the third turn on lap one. Starting
from fourth, William was right in the middle of the five-wide pack as
they ran down the back straight after taking the green. Entering turn 3,
the #5 was knocked completely sideways and then turned back forwards
again. The multiple contacts left the #5 damaged and unable to continue. |
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"Fast Friday" -
July 10th |
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A 5th place for William in the
#09 Lite after a thrash to replace a broken rear axle. |
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Friday, June 26th |
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A
7th for William in the Jarret #4,
A Hard Hit for Aaron in the #55 |
The line-up was a little different for
the Friday, June 26th, show at Lee USA Speedway. While Aaron was
in the Wall Motorsports #55, William took over the Mike Jarret
Motorsports #4 after usual driver
Nokie Fornoro called from PA to report he was down with the flu.
Although there was rain, some of it
severe, all over New England, Lee managed to get the practices, heats,
and features in for both the NEMA Lites and Midgets.
A lap one blown engine in the first Lites heat and next to no sweeping
of the track surface, left speedy dry down low around most of the track
for all the NEMA heats. Both Aaron and William posted mid-pack finishes
in Heat #1.
Starting from 6th (William) and 10th (Aaron), the Walls fell into
battles with groups of well-matched cars. William got around some of
those starting in the front rows and then was passed those headed for
the top four. The #4 scored a 7th place finish.
Aaron was running on a high line
when the immediately car ahead slipped sideways, and Aaron went over
it's rear wheel. The #55 went flew up the track for a hard hit into the
wall between turns 1 and 2. Aaron got right out as the safety crew came
to his aid. Inspection of the #55 back in the pits revealed extensive
damage to the frame, both axles, wheels and suspension pieces, the
headers, and possibly the right side engine head. The #55 recorded a DNF
in 15th place. |
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"Fast Friday" -
June 19th |
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A WIN for
William at the
NEMA Lites Seekonk Opener |
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At the Seekonk "Fast Friday" opener for
the NEMA Lites, William hopped into the #9 Hawk/Focus of Ron and
Stephanie Doty to give it a sort out since they couldn't attend the
race. After a clean of the injector nozzles, the #09 came to life and
Will got some practice in during the Heat race. 19 Lites were on hand
for the event. From a
second row starting spot, William moved into the lead and then into a
battle with the #12 of Ed LeClerc Jr. A couple of yellows slowed the
first part of the race, but after the pack settled down, the rest of the
race flew by with some great close racing. Will moved by LeClerc when he
suffered a tire problem a couple of laps from the checkers. A nice run
for the #09 Lite. |
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Sat. May 23rd
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3rd
& 4th for
WALL
MOTORSPORTS
at the NEMA Season Opener!
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The Wall Motorsports Hawke/Autocrafts
were flying at Monadnock for the NEMA 2009 season opener! What a way to
start the race year! Aaron in the #55 placed 3rd with the #5 for William
in 4th. William had won
the first heat and started on the outside pole while
Aaron started in the 10th spot. William jumped into the lead at the
green and paced the field for 17 laps and a couple of restarts.
The race winner Randy Cabral, in the
Bertrand #47, was sitting third when William and Russ Stoehr (Angelillo
45), battling for the lead, tangled coming out of two, Stoehr winding up
in the wall with heavy damage. The incident, which Cabral called “a
racing accident” was “the turning point” of the race.
On the following restart Cabral
swept by William into the lead. Mike Keeler in the #63 and Aaron in the
blue numbered #55 battled by
William in the closing laps.
FULL NEMA RACE REPORT HERE |
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5
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55
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2009 |
For the
2009 racing season, Wall Motorsports will be campaigning two Hawk/Autocraft
winged midgets in NEMA competition.
William will again pilot the #5 while Aaron will race the #55.
The team has a couple of test runs under their belts, the latest
being a run with both cars at Waterford Speedbowl on May 20th.
William has also had a chance to run Mike Jarret's #4 NEMA Midget at
both Thompson Intl. Speedway and Seekonk Speedway. |
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William Wall Among
NEMA’s Young Stars |
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Brockton, MA - Racing
wise, things have always fallen into place nicely for William Wall. The
2008 Rookie of the Year, the 17-year old is one of the Northeastern
Midget Association’s brightest young stars.
So, when he says he’ll “take things as they come” in 2009, it’s best to
pay attention. NEMA opens its 17-race season Saturday night, May 23 at
Monadnock Speedway.
“We’re going to make as many races as we can,” says Wall. “We’ll run the
tracks we believe we can do well at.” The team, headed up by
father/owner Steve and including older brother Aaron, runs
Autocraft-powered Hawk chassis. Aaron, three years older, is a student
at the University of Connecticut.
The team is “anxious to try some new stuff we’ve thought about over the
winter.”
He was “a little bit surprised” with his first-ever experience in a
midget. Coming from Whip City Speedway – he was the 270 Micro Sprint
Champion in 2007 – it was a learning process. His three top-fives came
later in the season.
He and his dad wound up seventh in the respective standings. He had a
very impressive fifth-place run at Seekonk’s DAV.
“The hardest things was learning how to communicate back to the car
owner,” says Wall, a junior at Assabet Valley Technical High School near
his Shrewsbury, MA home. “The Midgets are so technical, so tricky.”
Driver Adam Cantor, “was a real big help all year “ as was car owner
Mike Jarret “who knows the right questions to ask a driver.” Cantor was
part of the great young movement in 2001 that turned NEMA around. Engine
builder Mike Seymour was also a big factor.
William followed Aaron into racing. “Aaron wanted a go-kart but somebody
suggested Quarter Midgets and that’s the way it went,” he says. The
family raced as far away as Indianapolis and Georgia but was basically
mostly at Thompson’s “Little T” facility.
He moved to Whip City, spending a season in the 250 sprints before
winning 270 Rookie honors two year ago. Still, he credits the Quarter
Midget experience with helping make the transition to asphalt. “Quarter
Midgets are suspension cars and I could relate that to the full
Midgets,” he explains.
It took a couple races to control the higher speeds (“Thompson is where
you really feel it”) that have become NEMA’s trademark.
Studying welding, William “hopes to advance” as a race driver but would
also find satisfaction in a career working on racecars. |
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Previous 2008 Racing Season Events HERE |
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William -
2007 CHAMPION
in the 270 Micro Sprints at Whip City Raceway |
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Hawk Autocraft NEMA Midget |
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Hawk Ford Focus USAC Midget |
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