Mike Tidaback Wins ATQMRA Feature at Wall for the Fifteenth Consecutive Year

Chris "Tyro" Deritis Wins ATQMRA Wall Township Track Championship

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Mike Tidaback of Little Falls NJ won the Keenan Motors ATQMRA Feature at Wall Township Speedway Saturday august 25th.   Chris "Tyro" Deritis secured the ATQMRA Wall Township Track points title for 2007 in driving the Team Risqué Keenan Motors 66 by virtue of his sixth place finish.

Several things were on the line for this nights racing events.  Mike Tidaback had a fourteen year streak of winning a race at Wall on the line.  This was his last opportunity to keep that streak alive and used a last lap pass to take the win by 0.063 seconds over Matt Janisch in Blu Metz'  Valley Extrusion 46.  Tidaback extended his streak to fifteen consecutive years with a feature win at Wall Township Speedway.

Also on the line was the ATQMRA Wall track points championship for 2007.  In the final tally it came down to a tight race between the top three in points Deritis, Bob Watkins Jr. and Robin Johnston.  By virtue of his sixth place finish Deritis was able to do just enough to secure the track title for 07 over Watkins and Johnston.  The margin was a slim four points or one position over the five races that comprised the series within a series.

At the drop of the Green Deritis jumped out to the lead in the risqué 66 and held the lead until the fourth lap when Janisch completed his charge from his fourth starting position to take the lead.  Janisch and Tim Buckwalter had a torrid battle from their 4th and 5th starting positions to arrive at the front of the pack on the fifth lap.  The excitement in the 25 lap headliner only intensified with the two young lions at the point.  Buckwalter mounted several challenges to Janisch's lead only to be thwarted. 

Meanwhile Mike Tidaback made an aggressive charge from his 11th starting position to join the battle at the front by lap 7.  Tidaback moved past Buckwalter on lap 22 and set his sights on race long leader Janisch.  With time to extend his streak to fifteen years on the line and time running out in the race Tidaback saw his opening on the last lap in the last turn to make the move to secure the victory by 0.063 seconds or about two feet for one of the closest finishes of the season for the traveling TQ midgets.

Janisch's second place effort was taken away in tech following the race for a tread width violation on the Metz owned machine moving Buckwalter to second and Ryan Tidman to third advancing the rest of the field one position in the rundown.

The next event for the TQ midgets is the Pinebrook Reunion event at the Teterboro Airport "Wings and Wheels" show Saturday September 14 and Sunday September 15th from 9:00 Am to 4:00 PM.  The show takes place at the Aviation Hall of Fame of New Jersey at the Teterboro Airport.  The show will feature Vintage Aircraft and Auto Show featuring B-17 "Yankee Lady" along with C-47 Dakota, C-54 Skymaster and much more!  Everyone is invited to come out and meet and greet with the cars and stars of the ATQMRA.  Contact Ron Dennis for details at 914-497-2069 or check out their  website  http://www.njahof.org/    .

The Final race of the ATQMRA season is at Mountain Speedway for the King of the Mountain race weekend on September 29th where the overall Keenan Motors ATQMRA and Mountain City Transportation/Lobitz catering Mountain speedway Championship will be decided