BILLY DECKER FINISHES SECOND SUNDAY NIGHT AT CORNWALL;SLIGHTLY INCREASES BIG BLOCK MODIFED SERIES POINT LEAD
Posted Jul 12, 2010 by David

PHOENIX, NY - July 11, 2010 - Billy Decker (Gypsum Wholesalers No.91) led the first 67 laps of the 100 lap Modified Super DIRTcar Series race Sunday night at Cornwall, Ontario Speedway. Decker ended up in the runner-up spot to Brett Hearn. Ryan Phelps (Big Red Towing No.99) kept the leaders in sight all race long finishing sixth. Pat O'Brien (Gypsum Logistics No.6) finished just outside the top-ten in eleventh.
Securing an eighth straight top-five tally in as many Series shows this season, opening round Hagerstown (Md.) Speedway winner Decker settled for second-place for the fourth time in 2010.
“The car was real close, just hate to waste a front row starting spot like that,” said the disappointed driver after leading the first two-thirds of the race only to fall short in his own bid for a fourth tour triumph at Cornwall. “So far we’ve been fortunate to get some real good starts in the Super DIRTcar Series.
“We were really good, probably obviously too good early to be that good later on. The track slowed, it gave up a half-second, we gave up around 7/10-sec. and just got poorer and poorer after that. Brett was driving away looking pretty good. If we had a late-race caution not sure if we had anything for him but I would’ve been up there on the wheel trying to figure something out. Everybody’s working real hard, we’re gonna get ‘em pretty soon,” declared Decker, 45, who stands third all-time with 54 Series wins, including four at the Syracuse Mile on the New York state Fairgrounds.
Decker slightly increased his series point to 41 over Matt Sheppard heading into this Thursday July, 15th Series race at Brewerton Speedway, followed by the next two nights at Cayuga County Fair Speedway.
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