Modified driver Danny Bouc went winless all season. Then, he earned three wins in the span of six days. This past weekend, Bouc (pictured with his father, Gary) won Camp Barnes Benefit Stock Car Race and topped that off with a small-block modified feature win. The victories at Georgetown Speedway in Delaware earned him $10,500.
Bouc started his hot streak five days earlier at New Egypt Speedway in New Jersey. In total, he won three races within a six-day span.
“I went winless all year, and brushed it off as ‘one of those seasons,’” Bouc, of Pipersville, Pennsylvania, said. “I had 23 top-five finishes in modifieds, but I was convinced I wasn’t going to win a race. We had a fast car all year, but I couldn’t catch a break.”
The New Egypt Speedway win changed his attitude as he hauled to Georgetown Speedway. He still has reservations about his chances, though.
“I seemed to have engine problems or crashes every trip to Georgetown — just bad luck caused by stupid things happening,” said Bouc. “Six or seven times we broke down, even though we had finished second 10 times with the same car and engine. This time, for the Camp Barnes race, we had a new engine, and we decided to go with a softer compound tire, while most of the other drivers went for a harder compound tire.”
His plan worked well, for the most part.
“We made the right calls the first two nights, but not so on Saturday night,” Bouc said. “We went back to a harder compound tire on the modified after judging track conditions. That, and the fact we got shuffled off the track, causing someone to run into us, changed our luck.”
Nevertheless, Danny Bouc still said there’s a reason to celebrate after the weekend.
“We are septic cleaners — we pump shit for a living,” Bouc said. “So, nothing is better than racing and winning a feature.”
Mike Adaskaveg has written hundreds of stories since the website’s inception. This year marks his 54th year of covering auto racing. Adaskaveg got his start working for track photographer Lloyd Burnham at Connecticut’s Stafford Motor Speedway in 1970. Since then, he’s been a columnist, writer, and photographer, in racing and in mainstream media, for several outlets, including the Journal Inquirer, Boston Herald, Stock Car Racing, and Speedway Illustrated. Among Adaskaveg’s many awards are the 1992 Eastern Motorsport Press Association (EMPA) Ace Lane Photographer of the Year and the 2019 National Motorsports Press Association (NMPA) George Cunningham Writer of the Year.
