2010 Year End Review
January 9th, 2011Pittsburgh, PA……The 2010 racing season would mark the fifth together for Dunn-Olivieri Racing and along the way would see driver Russ Dunn share time in the Dunn-Olivieri # 47 E-Mod and the # *222 E-Mod Deuces Wild Motorsports of car owner Jim Clinger.
As in 2009 Russ Dunn and the Dunn-Olivieri Racing team would field their own E- Mod to run selected races during the 2010 season but the major change would see Dunn driving the Clinger Built *222 on a full time basis Friday nights at Raceway 7 and running for the tracks E-Mod point championship.
The 2010 campaign saw the team selling their Shaw Chassis car from 2009 and bringing out of retirement the Rocket Chassis car that has been a workhorse for the team. Racing the car mainly at Sharon Speedway and one trip to Eriez Speedway saw Dunn collect one win on May 14th at Sharon Speedway and (3) top fives and (5) top tens and (2) dnf in the seven races. The team had an opportunity to sell the car and the car was sold early in July.
The other part of 2010 had Dunn driving the Clinger * 222 and all Russ Dunn did was drive it to the 2010 Track Championship at Raceway 7. Championships are most often won with consistency and not who has the most wins. And Dunn would prove that to be a fact as Dunn and the Deuces Wild Team were able to finish every lap run in the heat races and the feature events in the twelve races that were held. Along the way Dunn also put up some impressive numbers with one win on July 16th (4) seconds (2) fourths (3) fifths (1) sixth and (1) seventh his worst finish of the year. Raceway 7 puts a great emphasis on heat race points. so what did Dunn do he went out an collected (7) heat race wins. During the trophy presentation at the Raceway 7 banquet, track announcer Jim Balentine Jr announced that he had a new nick name for Dunn ” Mr. Consistency” after the year Russ had in 2010 it seems only fitting.
To prove that point in the 30 races run by Russ Dunn in 2010 here are the numbers (2) wins Sharon Speedway and Raceway 7 (11) heat race wins top fives (17) top tens (8) top 15 (1) and (4) DNF. The track championship is Dunn’s fifth (2) Sharon Speedway(1) Mercer Raceway Park (1) Hickory Speedway and (1) Raceway 7
