Fairfield driver Jeff Burgess won the 30-lap Late Model Sportsman feature last Saturday at Wiscasset, making it 8 different winners in 9 races there this season. Only Chris Thorne of Sidney has won twice in 2007.That says two things, as far as I'm concerned.
For starters, the division has more depth than any of the track's other 5 weekly divisions. Given that 40 percent of the teams have visited victory lane, it's a testament to the quality of one of Maine's most underrated weekly classes.
However, that many different winners suggests that perhaps the handicapping system is too severe. Instead of starting the previous week's top finishers at the back of the top-10 on the grid, they go all the way to the rear of the field.
Repeat winners aren't necessarily a bad thing. Sometimes, repeat winners polarize fans and generate interest in a track's program -- giving the impression not that the racing is equal, but somehow it is rigged so that the best teams can't succeed.
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