ON SITE: It's deja vu for Johnny Clark

It was only a week ago, while running in weekly competition at Wiscasset Raceway, that Johnny Clark used a dominant race car to hold off Travis Benjamin on a late-race restart for his 4th win in 5 starts at the track.

Sunday afternoon's PASS North Series event had that old familiar feeling again.

Clark once again held off a late charge from Benjamin, but this time it was for a much larger paycheck as he went on to win the Ray Haskell Ford 125. Clark led every lap.

"You never know if you're going ot mess up, and he was just so good it was scary," Clark said of seeing Benjamin closing in 2 laps from the end. "He was just so good."

The 9th and final restart of the event came with 24 laps remaining, but Benjamin -- better over longer runs -- bided his time before closing in on lap 124. He stuck his nose under Clark heading down the backstretch but was unable to pull off the pass.

Ben Rowe finished a distant 3rd, with Cassius Clark and Adam Bates rounding out the top-5.

"It's a totally different car (from last week)," Benjamin said. "That's the biggest thing we tried... I lost power steering with 40 to go. I got into the back of him a couple of times, and if I'd really given it to him, neither one of us would have been able to save it because I wouldn't have been able to correct it.

"I'm not going to drive like that."

Despite so many restarts in the caution-marred event, Clark was able to remain consistent at the front of the field.

"I ran exceptionally well after we got going," said Clark, who won the 1st heat of the afternoon after being fastest in the final morning practice. "You just try to keep doing the same things over and over (on restarts) without making a mistake."

Comments

[Penny P]

That was a PASS race? I thought I was at a Hooters Pro Cup *wink