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| This Saturday Western Speedway will host the Canada 200, the granddaddy of late model sportsman races. An expected field of 30 plus cars ranging from the Lower Mainland and Okanagan will join the Vancouver Island contingent. Late model sportsman drivers consider the "200" as their Daytona 500 which is what makes this the event of the year and one that absolutely cannot be missed. With the addition of the Katana Sportsman cars, this legendary event is reaching new heights. This is the one race where the purse is not priority; the name of the game here is to get your name etched onto the prestigious Canada 200 trophy alongside the likes of Roy Smith, Roy Haslam, Ross Surgenor and George Stuart. |
MARK MADRYGA DRIVES #21 IN DOUBLE DOG DARE CHALLENGE
Submitted by Jason White
| Mark Madryga, TV Meteorologist and Kamloops' Home Town Boy, takes the "Double Dog Dare" challenge. Thanks to all the people who voted for Mark to drive Jason White's #21 A&W race car!! Click on the race car video and watch Mark go! |
WHITE USES NAPA 100 TO BREAK OUT OF SLUMP
Submitted by Jason White
| Montreal Q.C. - The 2010 Nascar Canadian Tire season has not been a good one for Jason White and his A&W racing team, plagued with mechanical issues and just plain bad luck. Frustration would be an understatement for the team, but the pure determination of the entire crew would put their spirits back in high gear in the NAPA 100. |
| The 10th stop on the gruelling summer tour was held at the legendary "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve," 34 cars took to the track and put on a show for the Quebec fans that they will not soon forget. |
When the green flag dropped on a very determined field of racers, the 30 degree temperature outside the cars was no comparison to the battles that heated up on the track. The legendary "Circuit Gilles Villeneuve" road course is one of the most demanding tracks in the world, for both drivers and equipment. The A&W Impala wasted no time advancing into the top 20, and even with a drive through penalty on lap 12, Jason piloted his A&W machine into the top 15. "The car really came to me as I dialled in more rear brake, so it got better as the race went on" said White. With the race closing in on the checkered flag, a lot of drivers patience went out the window and carnage was happening all around the 2.7 mile circuit. "I knew the finish was going to be aggressive, so I tried to stay focused on being smooth" White continued. But that theory went out the window when a caution came out with 4 to go and forced a green white checkered finish. " It was every man for himself," mused White "My focus went from smooth, to survive and gain as many positions as possible, at all costs."
As the checkered flag flew on the final road race of the year, Jason had aggressively charged his way to 11th spot and posted the teams best finish of the season. "It felt like I won the race," White said with a smile. " We really have had a tough season so this was a big weekend for our confidence, now we just need keep the ball rolling for the last three oval races of the year."
The next stop on the Nascar Canadian Tire series is in 2 weeks at the 1/3 mile Barrie Speedway. The A&W racing team is looking forward to advancing their points position and trying to crack the top ten before the season finale at Kawartha Downs in Peterborugh Ontario.
A&W Food Services Of Canada, is Canada's original hamburger quick service restaurant chain, and today is one of its fastest growing. On your way to the next NASCAR CANADIAN TIRE SERIES race, be sure to "CRUISE" into an A&W near you!! See you at the Races!!
Posted: 08/31/10
JASON TARASENKO WINS HOT AUGUST NIGHTS FINAL!
| In a 13 car field, Hot August Nights round one winner #12 Kalvin Loudoun, set fast time of 18.693, with #21 Jason Tarasenko emerging as the winner for the night. #56 Steve Lengert and #74 Dan Ursel secured second and third respectively. Jason would like to thank all the guys at Harding Motorsports Supply for reclipping and rebuilding his car from last weekends race at Agassiz Speedway. The #21 handled as though it was on rails and had the speed of a runaway locomotive. Official race recap on the WCSS website. |
VAN DYKE AND STEEN WIN FEATURES
Langford, B.C., August 28, 2010
Submitted by Ken Keating
| Four thousand plus fans packed Western Speedway last night to watch Demo Cars, Demo Trucks, Figure 8s, and the Bombers racing in Trophy Dashes, Heat races, and Feature events. |
      
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Terrell Schmidt was first up and got the tires smoking with a lot of donuts and streaking down the frontstretch leaving a trail of smoke behind him.
Peter Van Dyk done the same thing standing on the accelerator of the big Peterbuilt truck and also laying down some pretty big clouds. Glen Creed, not to be
outdone, brought his own gravel truck to the line and quickly got the smoke going showing he can do the donuts while smoking the tires as well. Fans gave the
win to the local hero but did appreciate all of the contestants even though air quality was somewhat diminished for a short period. Fifteen Figure 8s lined up to take the green flag for twenty laps of racing led by Dakota Hanson and Richard Carey. Carey jumped to the lead with the drop of the flag and led the first six laps with a lot of jostling for position behind him including J.J. Taylor, Brandon Young, and Dan Dougan. Young moved to the second spot on lap six with several drivers still in tough behind him. On lap twelve the yellow came out as several cars were disabled and the track resembled a junk yard from all the hard hits. Concern for some drivers brought out the red flag as officials and medics checked out these drivers particularly Cam Wilkinson as he took a couple of real hard blows and was stopped in a vunerable place along with Dougan's car. After a few moments for clearing cars and checking drivers, Young led the field back to green and held on for the win followed by Alex Carry and Carl Jones. As the season is getting shorter, things are beginning to heat up in the Bomber Series with several fast cars making their way from the back to the front in search of Championship points. Aaron Cameron and Bredan Moore led a field of sixteen cars to the flag in the Feature event with Moore grabbing the early lead followed by Jamie Morgan and Chris Broughton. Broughton took the second spot on lap five only to lose that position to Chris Stone four laps later. On lap ten, the yellow came out as one of the drivers spun out and on the restart, Moore took the lead again. On lap twelve Stone grabbed the lead with Rob Gaudreault taking the second spot with Brandon Steen moving up to third three laps later. Over these few laps, Gaudreault, Steen, Giles Cyr, and Jarraod Sagmoen ran in a tight bunch often side by side through the corners leaving little room to make passes. Up front, Stone stretched his lead by a considerable margin as the rest of the pack was trying to get untangled behind him. Gaudreault, once in the clear, started to reel in the frontrunner as Broughton and Cyr were still in tough fighting for position. Young Steen also was in tough as he and Gaudreault rubbed paint several times but the youngster did not give an inch either as he was trying to get to the front. On lap twenty, Gaudreault passed Stone for the lead but had Steen right on the bumper passing Stone one lap later. On lap twenty-two, Steen took over the lead as Gaudreault spun around in front of him and narrowly missed a collision. Rob was able to get going in the right direction and watched as Steen took the checquerd flag with Stone in second just ahead of him. Jarrod Sagmoen and Giles Cyr rounded out the top five. |
Cory Mckmeekin led ten trucks for the drop of the green flag and twenty-five laps of racing for the Big Rigs. Before the first lap was complete, Colin Fraser took the lead and was quickly followed by Peter Van Dyke and Ron Singer Jr. On lap twelve, Van Dyke, from Airdrie Alberta, took over the lead with Darren Berdahl taking the second spot two laps later. Glen Creed made his move to the thrid spot on lap fifteen as both he and Berdahl tried to reel in the leader. Several times it looked like Van Dyke was about to spin out with Berdahl trying to get the inside groove but the veteran driver shut the door each time. On the final lap, Van Dyke again went a little wide and it looked like Berdahl would make it with the chequered flag in sight. Van Dyke was able to win the drag race and came in with the victory with Berdahl in second and Creed finishing third right behind Berdahl.
After several minutes of smashing hits and banged up cars, B.J. Veld was the last man standing, or running, and claimed the Total Destruction event. Gary Williams came down the frontstretch heading for the ramps in a big hearse. He flew several feet in the air and this time coming down head first in the bunch of catch cars. He was unhurt and now one must wonder what is left to jump. He has completed a limo jump, a truck/camper pulling a boat trailor, a bus, a side by side jump, and now the hearse.
The next event, at Western Speedway is set for September 4th with the Katana Boat Sportsman Series running in the Canada 200, along with the Stock Cars. Western Speedway also will run an Enduro race Monday, September 6th with a 1:00 P.M. start time.
Posted: 08/29/10
BIG WEEKEND AT SARATOGA
Submitted by Terry Guest
| A big weekend at Saratoga Speedway was featured by 2 great 35 lap main events and our biggest roll over of the year. |
The Old Timers made there first appearance of the year with there first race cancelled due to rain. A new track record was set by #23 Dan Morneau with a time of 16.229 beating the old record of 16.319 which was set by Morneau. The dash went to #11 Duane Zeinstra. The B heat went to #66 Doug Shilito and the A to #03 Joe Dardengo filling in for regular driver Denis Morneau and finally the reverse heat to #35 Kail Beck. The 35 lap Ronnie Mayell memorial race saw #11 Duane Zeinstra and #23 Dan Morneau go first and second for 15 laps until they got into each other leaving the door open for #1 James Campbell to take the lead and go on to win the main. 2nd place went to #03 Joe Dardengo and 3rd to #43 Dean Gill.
The Island Mini Stocks made there 2nd appearance of the 2010 season. Fast time was set by #25 Ryan Medynski with a time of 16.969. The dash went to #7 Justin Woodske. The heat went to #96 Alex Mouner and the reverse heat to #33 Mike DeRepentigny. The 35 lap main saw #77 Jeremy Waksell lead for the first 10 laps until #96 Alex Mouner took away the lead and he never looked back as he went on to win the main. 2nd place went to #25 Ryan Medynski and 3rd to #62 Gilles Parenteau.
The Dwarf cars had there best car count of the year with 17 taking to the track. Fast time was set by #15 James Dor'e with a time of 15.550. The dash went to #34 Ike Armitage. The B heat to #24 Dave Emerson, A heat to #11 Mike Meeres, B reverse to #24 Dave Emerson and the A reverse to #16 Gord Kraus. The planned 30 lap Bob Powell memorial race was cut to 20 due to track conditions and time. #5 Bruce Garside led the first 12 laps until #24 Dave Emerson took over the lead. Emerson would lead till the last lap when #4 Sean Sanger passed him on the back stretch giving him the win. 2nd went to Emerson and 3rd to #15 James Dor'e.
The last race for the I.M.C.A modifieds saw there best car count as well with a field of 7 cars. Fast time was set by #91 Chris Beaulieu with a time of 15.769. The dash went to #98 Pat Brown and the heat to #44 Tim Openshaw. The 20 lap main saw #53 Kevin Noble lead for 10 laps until he spun out #99 Tony Johnson resulting in a black flag for Noble, and Johnson getting his position back giving him the lead and he never looked back from there as he went on to win the main. 2nd went to #91 Chris Beaulieu and 3rd to #44 Tim Openshaw.
The Bomber car class had another competitive night. Fast time went to #48 Weston Lane with a time of 18.126. The dash and the heat went to #9 Darrel Larson. The 15 lap main saw Larson take the lead early and never look back as he won all 3 races on the night. 2nd place went to #5 Darren Larson and 3rd to #48 Weston Lane.
Extra laps... The Canadian American demolition derby is back next weekend. This 2 night event is one of our biggest nights on the schedule. The goal of is to destroy every other car on the track that has the other teams colours. The can-am is accompanied by the Crash to pass cars, Hornets and Roadrunners. Admission is $20 for adults, $15 for child, and $10 for anyone under 12 so make sure you mark your calendars for this great 2 night event!
Posted: 08/29/10
RANGER STEALS ONE BACK AT MONTREAL
Collects Third Canadian Tire Win With Bump-Pass Of Bowles
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| MONTREAL (Aug. 29, 2010) - Andrew Ranger took one bump that nearly cost him the win and gave it right back to grab the checkered flag in the NAPA AUTOPRO 100 Sunday. |
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It is Ranger's second win in three years at Montreal's 2.709-mile course; he was second in last year's event. It's the third win of the season -- all on road-courses -- for the Roxton Pond, Quebec, driver who is running a partial schedule in the series along with his NASCAR K&N Pro Series obligations. The two-time NASCAR Canadian Tire Series champion has 12 career wins in the series with nine coming on road courses. |
Don Thomson Jr. finished second, followed by Robin Buck, Scott Steckly and Jason Hathaway. Kerry Micks Trevor Seibert, J.F. Dumoulin, Ron Beauchamp Jr. and rookie John Farano rounded out the top 10.
Bowles, the 2009 NASCAR K&N Pro Series West champion, limped his car across the line in 20th with major hood damage.
Bowles and Ranger ran 1-2, respectively, in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West race at Infineon Raceway in Sonama, Calif., earlier this year before Bowles ran out of gas 100 yards from the finish line and handed that win to Ranger. Sunday in Montreal, Bowles had several restarts to challenge Ranger include one on Lap 3 where they made contact in Turn 1 that briefly put Bowles into the lead. However, Ranger quickly regained the top spot.
Bowles took advantage of a green-white-checkered finish to make a move for the lead on Ranger in the hairpin Turn 10. Ranger wobbled from the contact but slipped back into second. As the leaders went through the final chicane, Ranger returned the favor. Bowles spun into the retaining wall and Ranger kept the momentum and took the lead.
Points leader JR Fitzpatrick and his closest challenger DJ Kennington both suffered mechanical issues early. Fitzpatrick, who started on the front row alongside Ranger, picked up enough spots through attrition to finish 18th. Kennington completed just 14 laps of 24 laps and finished 28th. Fitzpatrick, who carried a 16-point lead into the race, extended his lead to 51 points with just three races left on the schedule.
Both Steckly and Micks capitalized on the opportunity and moved into striking distance of the two leaders should either or both encounter further misfortune. Micks now trails Fitzpatrick by 92 points and Steckly is 101 points off the pace.
The next NASCAR Canadian Tire Series race will be the Wild Wing 300 presented by DriveWise at Barrie (Ont.) Speedway.
Posted: 08/29/10
KUHN SETS NEW TRACK RECORD
Submitted by Bob Kuhn
Photo by Leslie McKellar
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Hornet car #58 driven by 15 year old Dalton Kuhn from Agassiz Speedway set a new track record in the Hornet series at Motoplex Speedway, Vernon, B.C.
August 14. CWR Note: Hornet photos from the Gordie Mannes Memorial weekend at Penticton Speedway available on our Trackside Photo page. |
MUNN STRETCHES POINTS LEAD
Submitted by Kaleb Hart
For Skagit Speedway veteran Alan Munn, a season like this has been a long time coming. On Saturday night, Munn won his third race of the year and stretched his points lead in the Budweiser 360 division at ASA member track Skagit Speedway, leading all 25 laps of the main in his Munn Construction #42 XXX. Alan has never won a Skagit Speedway track championship in his 30+ years of racing and will look to bring home his first season title with only one points race remaining. Evan Funk was second in the Jeff Jansma powered #8r Rocket. Danny Kirkpatrick was third in the Jet City Equipment #7k Maxim. Kirkpatrick was quick time. Heat wins went to Mack Brown and Devin Madonia.
Steve Parker shook a 6 season monkey of his back, taking home his first main event victory since roughly late 2005 in the Cook Road Shell Sportsman Sprint division. After dominating the Sportsman division in '05, Parker has bounced around divisions, finally landing back in a Sportsman Sprint in '10. After battling mechanical woes, Parker put it all together on this cool August night, leading all 20 laps en route to the win in his Construction Unlimited #23 XXX. Justin Youngquist was second in the Blade Chevrolet #56 XXX. Dylan Dunham was third in the Tib Automotive #7d J&J. Heat wins went to Parker and Paul Burdick.
Travis Jacobson has been on a tear at Skagit Speedway over the past month and continued that tear on Saturday night as he won for the 3rd time this calendar month, leading all 25 laps of the Associated Asphalt 410 main. Jacobson pulled off the elusive clean sweep, setting quick time and winning the heat race as well, driving the Performance RC #8r Eagle. Points leader Jesse Whitney was second in the RPM Rentals #88 Eagle. Jayme Barnes was third in the Jerry Chambers Chevrolet #33 XXX.
In a recurring theme of the night, Wade Swatzina led all 17 laps of the Pull A Part Outlaw Hornet feature. Swatzina was only seriously challenged once, as he fought off a late race attempt on his position by Rick Young. Young took to the inside on a lap 14 restart, pulling even with Wade going into turn one. Swatzina battled back, out powering Young off of turn two as he raced away for the win. Following Young for second was Matt Ploeg, whose third place finish was a career best. Swatzina and Brian Michelson won the heats.
Posted: 08/29/10
RECORD RUN FOR RANGER IN MONTREAL
Earns Fourth Canadian Tire Pole Of 2010 With New Top Time
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| MONTREAL - Andrew Ranger extended his dominance in road-course qualifying with a record run Saturday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in advance of Sunday's NAPA AUTOPRO 100. |
| The NAPA AUTOPRO 100 will air live Sunday on TSN and RDS. The broadcast will start at 11:30 a.m., with the green-flag scheduled for 11:40 a.m. Fitzpatrick is the defending race winner and holds a 16-point lead over Kennington entering the weekend. |
LSHS AT THUNDERBIRD SHOW PARK
Submitted by Bud Bussiere, LSHS
| Langley Speedway Historical Society, a member of Tourism Langley, was on hand at Thunderbird Show Park Saturday, August 21. Thunderbird Show Park, is one of North America's premier equestrian facilities located in the heart of the Fraser Valley just minutes from the Trans Canada Highway in Langley, the horse capital of British Columbia, and a short drive from Vancouver. |
Posted: 08/28/10
KASEY KAHNE WINS SAGE FRUIT SHOWDOWN
Submitted by Kaleb Hart
A strange night at ASA member track Skagit Speedway ended with the returning Kasey Kahne winning the Sage Fruit Showdown. After running second for the first half of the Budweiser 360 sprint car 20 lap main event, Kasey experimented with the high groove coming through turns three and four, finding the extra speed he needed to catch up with race leader Seth Bergman.
| Kahne pulled even with Bergman coming out of turn two on the thirteenth lap, powering by him down the back straight away to take the point. Kahne expertly navigated lapped traffic until a yellow came out on lap 16, giving him open air with Bergman and Austen Wheatley in behind him. Kahne was flawless on the restart, visiting Skagit Speedway's victory lane for the first time since the Jim Raper Memorial Dirt Cup in 2003 in his Sage Fruit sponsored #4 Maxim. |
The enthusiastic crowd sat through two delays during the night, as sprint car driver Bud Ashe crashed hard into the turn two wall, heading to the local hospital for observation after a lengthy extraction. In between the second and third heat race, a local power line went down, knocking out the power to the back straight lights. Speedway crews scrambled to put backup lighting in place, with the push truck crew illuminating the back stretch with the flood lights on their trucks. The 360 drivers in heat three gave speedway officials the thumbs up, and ran the third heat without incident. Both Outlaw Hornet heats were also run without incident under the push truck lit back stretch. Skagit Speedway wants to thank the fire and safety crew, push trucks, officials as well as the drivers and fans for sticking with us through the hardships of the evening.
In the Pull A Part Outlaw Hornet division, Ken Higby overcame his season long motor woes to hit victory lane, leading every lap except the first on his way to the W. Rick Young took second and Ashley Lewellen third. Higby and John Gunderson won the heats.
Posted: 08/28/10
KATANA MAIN AGASSIZ SPEEDWAY AUGUST 21
Courtesy of DDT Racing
Posted: 08/27/10
HORNETS CLOSE OUT 2010 SEASON
Langford, B.C., August 25, 2010
Submitted by Ken Keating
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| The Steve Copp Construction sponsored Hornet Wednesday Night Fever came to a close on Wednesday night with fifty-two cars qualified to race in five Trophy Dashes, twelve Heat races, and three Main events. |
          
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Trophy Dash wins went to Lois Lagan, Rhett Smith, Richard Shuck, Garrett Smith, and Mike Melin. Heat race wins went to Mike Moss, Matt Schultz, Phil
Lagan, Caleb VanBree, Mike Melin, and Corey Sandirson in the Expert Class. James Bennett, Larry Rogers, Glenn Rand, Richard Shuck, Ryan Smith, and Davin
Otke were Heat race winners in the Rookie class. Eric Fournier and James Bennett shared the front row for the B-Main event. The top two Hornets and Bumblebees would transfer to the Feature event of the night. Fournier grabbed the lead followed quickly by Meagan McCollum and Real Fournier for the first seven laps. There was a lot of bumping and jostling for position and in one incident McCollum got tagged on lap eight and lost a lot of positions and Ian Walker moving to third and then to second as Glenn Rand also moved up one lap later. On lap eleven the yellow came out for a spinning car on turn two. On the double file restart, Walker took over the lead followed by Davin Otke and Rand. When the chequered flag dropped Walker took the win followed by Otke, Rand, Stephan Sager, and Lois Lagan rounding out the top five. Fournier, Otke, Lagan, and Darci Denis were the drivers that would transfer from this race. Rob Lewis and Mike Moss led seventeen cars to the green flag for twenty laps of racing in the Expert Feature event with Moss grabbing the early lead followed by Rocky Sandhu and Matt Schultz. At times the drivers attempted to run four wide as the faster cars were trying to get to the front. On lap five the yellow came out as Jessica Hall's car came to a stop on the backstretch. On the double file restart, Sandhu and Schultz were lined up side by side with Moss getting the early edge and good tough racing behind him with Mike Melin and Corey Sandirson. Melin took the lead on lap eight with Sandirson all over the rear bumper and actually went by but before the lap was complete, Melin pushed right back to regain the lead with Shultz still in the hunt. On lap thirteen, Sandirson muscled his way to the top spot as Shultz moved up to run third one lap later. On lap seventeen, Reece Crocker took over running third sending Shultz back one spot. When the dust settled, Sandirson came away with his first win of the year followed by Melin, Crocker, Shultz, and Phil Lagan rounding out the top five positions in a very competitive Feature event. Helen Thorne had the pole for the start of the Feature event with the Rookie Class and twenty-four cars lined up to take the green flag. On lap three, Cole Schuurman grabbed the lead followed by Horne, Richard Shuck, Devin Fournier, and Ruxton Pitt for the first six laps. On lap seven, Shuck got bumped around and was given a pretty good hit coming out of turn four and sending him into the pits for a quick look at the damage. Chris Davis moved up to run in third by lap nine while several drivers changed positions behind the front runners including Ryan Smith coming through the pack in a hurry. On lap fourteen, Smith grabbed the lead while Rhett Smith was also coming up in a hurry. On lap seventeen, Rhett took over the second spot and started to put the heat on the other Smith as drivers were still changing positions behind them. When all was said and done, Ryan came home with the victory followed by Rhett, Schuurman, Laura-Ashley Grant, and Tom Davis rounding out the top five positions. Ashley Grant again took the top Bumblebee honors on this night. There has been some great racing, hard hits, and big car counts all year and tonight was no different as the curtain dropped on the Hornet 2010 season. The Series has produced a lot of different winners in all classes, great entertainment for the fans, a lot of fun for the drivers, and new Champions. Cam Stanfield won the overall title, for the Expert Class with 1421 points followed by last season's Champion, Bill Peacey, Phil Lagan, Garrett Smith, and Jean-Luc Lagan rounding out the top five. Mike Halls is the Rookie Champion for 2010 with a total of 1245 points followed by Rhett Szevics, Ryan Smith, John Lerik and Richard Shuck the top five. Lois Lagan is the top Bumblebee for 2010 with 972 points. Congratulations to all three new Champions and a well deserved thank you to Steve Copp for his outstanding committment and support for this Series. Thank you to all the fans for your support as without the fans there would be no racing. We will see you all in 2011. The next racing event features the Demo Series, with Demo Cars, Demo Trucks, Figure 8s, Mini Vans, and the Bomber Series with Brandon Steen and Giles Cyr challenging for the Championship. Also on the card is a hearse jump with Gary Williams set to try leaping cars again. Langford's own Glen Creed, driving his Louisville Ford, will lead a bunch of Big Rigs back to the track with the legendary "Pinkfoot" Peterbuilt owned by Peter Van Dyk set to duke it out. This event will be on Saturday, August 28th. See you there. |
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND!
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| The NAPA Autopro 100 on Sunday at Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in Montreal will mark the 10th event of the 2010 season for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1. |
- The Race: NAPA Autopro 100
- The Place: Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Montreal, Que.
- The Date: Sunday, Aug. 29
- The Time: 11:45 a.m. ET
- TV Schedule: LIVE on TSN & RDS 11:30 a.m.
- Track Layout: 2.709-mile road course
- Race Purse: $80,248
- 2009 Winner: JR Fitzpatrick
- 2009 Pole: Alex Tagliani
- Schedule: Saturday - Practice 7:45 8:45 a.m.; Qualifying 1 p.m.
LESLIE MCKELLAR - RACE PHOTOGRAPHER
| If you are looking for exciting Katana Sportsman photographs or would like a custom photo shoot, see Leslie at the track during any Katana race. Leslie is the official photographer to the Katana Sportsman Tour. |
FINAL ROUND!
TOM STORMS TO OILMENS VICTORY
Submitted by Gord Craig, NPP
| EDMONTON, AB. - A major storm system held off long enough to allow Mike Tom the opportunity to win the 17th annual Oilmen's Classic at Castrol Raceway Saturday night. |
With five laps to go Tom managed to break away from the battle with Day and Clark and set his sights on the race leader. Fines was just four laps away from claiming his first ever Feature win in a NPP Late Model when Tom began his challenge for the race lead. "Pat ran an incredible race. He was a bit higher up on the track than where I wanted to run. He held his line the entire time. His car was definitely stronger on the straights where I think we were better in the corners." Tom grabbed the race lead with four laps to go. Current NPP Series point leader Bruce Broughton, who had handling problems the entire Oilmen's Feature, managed to move up to third getting past Day. On the final corner Whitecourt's Kevin Wheeler made a bold move squeezing between Fines and Broughton to steal second place. Moments after the checkered flag flew the rain began to fall. Mike Tom's victory and Kevin Wheeler's second place finish narrows the gap in the NPP Championship point standings. Only 55 points separates the top three drivers with one race to go in the 2010 season.
Posted: 08/24/10
AGASSIZ SUPER SATURDAY - AUGUST 21
Additional photos on the Katana Sportsman Tour and
SOB Street Stock Series websites as well as our Trackside Photo page.
Posted: 08/22/10
KATANA/SOB STREET STOCK RESULTS - AGASSIZ SPEEDWAY
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| South Okanagan Bakery Street Stock, #15 Brent Rohrer, in his Harding Motorsports Supply sponsored Chevy Camaro, wins his first SOB main event at Agassiz Speedway. |
SCOTT AUMEN WINS DAFFODIL CUP
Langford, B.C., August 21, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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| A lovely performance, of the U.S. and Canadian Anthems by local singer Jenny Rhodes, was a great way to begin the finale of the Daffodil Cup two day event held at Western Speedway and in front of a huge crowd. |
    
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Bill Stidston and Dano Ryan led twelve cars to the green flag for twenty-five laps of racing in the Old Time Racing Association Feature event with
George "The Jet" Jenson taking the lead after just one lap. Ron Simpson held the second position early as did Kail Beck but that position was taken by
Duane Zeinstra on lap six and the third spot was taken by James Campbell. Up front Jenson had built a pretty good lead over the first five or six laps
but Zeinstra reeled him in and on lap nine passed Jenson for the lead while Campbell used two more laps to take over the second spot. On lap twelve, Dan
Moneau took over the third spot and began to reel in the second place car driven by Campbell. On lap fifteen, Morneau took over the second spot and
watched as Duane Zeinstra got the chequered flag. Morneau, Campbell, Jenson, and Kail Beck rounded out the top five positions in a flag to flag race. Before the race was one lap down, Deter Lejeune hit the turn four wall and suffered enough front end damage to his car that put him out for the night and bringing out a red flag. On the full restart, Matt Verhagen and Mark Gall had the front row for twenty-five laps of racing in the WilRoc Lites Feature event with Gall leading for the first two laps. On lap four, Jesse Dardengo jumped from his tenth starting spot and into the lead followed quickly by Brian Bickford and Paul Verhagen. Behind them, Dale Robinson and Marc Parkinson were in a great battle trying to make their way through traffic. On lap fourteen, Robinson jumped a tire but managed to come to a stop before hitting the turn one wall bringing out a yellow flag. On the restart, Parkinson got a great jump and moved into the second spot dropping Bickford back to third. Once out front Dardengo and Parkinson ran away from the field and, as they have done so many times in the past, put on another great race with Parkinson putting all sorts of pressure on Dardengo for the lead. On this night, Dardengo took the chequered flag with Parkinson, Bickford, Stephan Dardengo, and Joe Dardengo rounding out the top five positions. The sky was a bright red, lightening was on the ground, and thunder pierced the night air as twenty-four high powered, lightening quick, ground shaking Sprint Cars lined up for fifty laps of racing for the Daffodil Cup/Denny Rand Memorial race. |
On the restart, and twenty-two laps remaining, Aumen again went into the lead followed by Alberding, Montgomery, Schmelzle, and Guy Barrett the top five. On lap thirty-two, Barrett shuffled Schmelzle back a spot to move into fourth. Two more yellows came out quickly as Kyle Vantreight hit the turn four wall and Schmelzle who had a great run going spun out along with Barrett. The final yellow came out on lap forty as Darren Yates and Matt Hein got together and spinning out. When the chequered flag dropped, it was Scotty Aumen taking the win followed by Alberding, Montgomery, Jeff Bird, and Cory Lockwood rounding out the top five positions. Coupled with this win and total points gathered in the two days, Scott Aumen claimed the Daffodil Cup, the Denny Rand Memorial Trophy, and the Feature event win in front of a near capacity crowd.
The next event, at Western Speedway, is the grand finale in the Steve Copp Construction sponsored Wednesday Night Fever Series with the Hornet and Bumblebee cars and looking to crown Champions. Next Saturday night, August 28th, Western Speedway presents the Demo Series with Demo Cars, Trucks, Mini Figure 8s, Mini Vans, and the Bomber Series with Giles Cyr and Brandon Steen set to resume their battle for supremecy. Also on this card, Gary Williams is going to jump a hearse in his quest to leap anything with four wheels. Also joining the hit parade will be the return of the Big Rigs with Peter Van Dyke and the Peterbuilt "Pinkfoot" machine along with hometown driver Glen Creed and his big Louisville Ford.
Posted: 08/22/10
LOCKWOOD WINS STAGE ONE DAFFODIL CUP
Langford, B.C., August 20, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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Billy Stidston had the pole for the start of the Stock Car Feature event with Kevin Knight to his outside ready for thirty laps of racing. Stidston took
the lead after three laps only to have Ryan Wade pass him on the eighth lap. Behind him Stidston, Daryl Crocker and Aaron Wilkie were dicing for positions
with Wilkie taking over the second spot on lap thirteen. Dave Reside moved into the third spot on lap seventeen while Kirk Peacey, driving the #15 car,
moved into fourth two laps later. Over the remainder of this race nothing changed up front but Dan Myers did move up to take over the fifth spot on lap
twenty-three and followed Wade, with the win, Wilkie in second, Reside, and Peacey to the chequered flag. The WilRoc Lites were running for twenty-five laps and the Roy Smith Memorial Trophy as Mark Gall and Brian Bickford led the field of fourteen cars to the green flag. Dale Robinson grabbed the lead on lap two leaving Gall to battle with Jesse and Joe Dardengo for the next positions. Behind them Steven Dardengo and Deter Lejeune were in a good race themselves and looking to move up. On lap five, Jesse took over the second spot with Joe moving to third two laps later while Steven also advanced a position. Up front, Robinson had gained a sizeable lead but in the late stages he was feeling the heat as Jesse had moved up to the rear nerf bar on the #8 car. The laps ran out before Jesse could get by and followed Robinson to the chequered flag with Joe, Steven, and Lejeune rounding out the top five positions. This was Robinson's first Feature win in this Series. Twenty-five high winged lightening quick Sprint Cars took the grid for forty laps of racing in stage one of the prestigious Daffodil Cup led by Cory Lockwood with Randy DuBois on the outside front row. Behind them NSRA points leader, Matt Hein; past Strawberry Cup winner, Jeff Bird; two time Feature event winner with the NSRA, eighteen year old Sierra Jackson; Guy Barret; always a front runner; the "Tirefryer" Scott Aumen four time WilRoc Champion; Andy Alberding past NSRA Champion; Jeff "The Hurricane" Montgomery with so many titles and wins; Matt Mansell, Chris Schmelzle, driving the #25Z car; Ken Hamilton, driving "The Pink Lady" a car with a great history; Robbie Haslam, and a host of others. |
Posted: 08/22/10
THOMSON RETURNS TO VICTORY LANE
Picks Up First 2010 Win And Sixth Of Career
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| BOWMANVILLE, Ontario, Canada (Aug. 21, 2010) - Don Thomson Jr. drove to Victory Lane at Mosport Speedway for the second time in his career as he took the Dickies 200 checkered flag in NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 action Saturday night. |
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Fitzpatrick finished as the race runner-up and was able to extend his points lead on DJ Kennington, who earned the pole earlier in the day, to 16.
Kennington finished sixth. Following Thomson and Fitzpatrick across the line were Micks and Ron Beauchamp Jr. Pete Shepherd III, Kennington, Mark Dilley, Anthony Simone, John Gaunt and Joey McColm rounded out the top 10. |
The race featured 10 lead changes among six drivers.
The Dickies 200 will be telecast by TSN and TSN HD on Saturday, Aug. 28 at noon ET.
In the championship point standings, Fitzpatrick and Kennington are breaking away from the pack a bit as Micks is 128 points back and Steckly is 147 points off the pace.
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 is right back on the track on Sunday, Aug. 29 for the NAPA AUTOPRO 100 at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, the last of five road-course events on the 2010 schedule. Practice and qualifying are set for Saturday, Aug. 28 with the race scheduled for Sunday just prior to the NASCAR Nationwide Series event.
Posted: 08/22/10
MADONIA, DUNHAM, JACOBSON & GUNDERSON WIN ASA ALL STAR CHALLENGE PRESENTED BY WSIB
Submitted by: Kaleb Hart
Alger, WA. - Repeat winners hit big paydays at ASA member track Skagit Speedway. All three sprint car division winners visited victory lane for the second time this year in their respective division, while Outlaw Hornet winner Ben Gunderson cashed in for the fifth time. Skagit Speedway drivers raced a new format, the ASA All Star Challenge, with points being awarded for how they finished and posted positions gained. The finish of segment one was fully inverted for segment two, with drivers again scoring points for finish and posted position gained. Initial starting position was determined by pill draw in the pit area pre-race, with the top ten cars in owner¹s points participating in the draw.
In the Budweiser 360 division, Devin Madonia hit victory lane for the first time since opening night, taking his Bayside Marine #42m Rocket to the win after leading all 20 laps. Madonia parlayed a 5th and 1st place finish in the first two scoring segments into a front row starting spot, then held off Jared Peterson over the 20 lap finale to take the $2,000 winner's share home. Peterson was second in the Speedmart #9p Rocket. Rod Perkins was third in the 92.9 Kism #69 XXX. Perkins and Madonia won their respective segments.
Like his 360 counterpart, Dylan Dunham won his second main event of the year in the Cook Road Shell Sportsman Sprints, visiting the promised land for the first time since opening night. Dunham took the lead from Bill Rude on the second lap and streaked away for the victory from there in his Tib Automotive #7d J&J, taking home $1,000 for his efforts. James Bundy finished a career best second in his Ridge Runner Wings #57 Eagle. Cory Swatzina was third in the Carl's Towing #2 Becker. Justin Youngquist was fast time for the non qualifying cars and won the b feature, as well as the second race segment. Clayton Sibley was the other car who raced from the B Main into segment racing. Dunham captured the other segment win.
Travis Jacobson became a two time Associated Asphalt 410 division winner, leading all 20 laps of the final segment to cash in on a $2,500 payday in the Performance RC sponsored #8r Eagle. Defending 410 champion and current points leader Jesse Whitney was second in the Rocky¹s Plumbing #88 Eagle. Eric Fisher was third in the Fisher Racing #59 XXX. Fisher and Jacobson were the segment winners.
The Pull A Part Outlaw Hornets ran a normal format on this night, and when the final flags flew, it was Ben Gunderson leading all 17 laps of the A Main to win his 5th feature of the year. Tyler Ketchum was second and Freddie Vela third. Gunderson and Ashley Lewellen won heats.
Kasey Kahne returns to Skagit Speedway next Friday night for the Sage Fruit Showdown presented by the Kasey Kahne foundation. Budweiser 360 Sprints and Pull A Part Outlaw Hornets will be in action. For ticket information, log on to Skagit's website.
Posted: 08/22/10
MORE RAIN AT SARATOGA
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| Mother Nature once again came away the winner at Saratoga Speedway as rain cancelled the Saturday night racing program for the 2nd time in three weeks. |
Extra laps... The top 3 in points for the Island mini stock class are: 1st place #96 Alex Mourners with 1346 points, 2nd place #33 Mike Deepening with 1101 points, and 3rd place #7 Justin Woodsmen with 1052 points. The top 5 in points for the Bomber cars are as followed: 1st place #48 Stewart Lee with 940 points, 2nd place #11 Justin Beaulieu with 573 points, 3rd place #87 Brandon Steen with 542 points, 4th place #20 Kyle Harrison with 531 points and 5th place #99 Gilles Cyr with 483 points. The top 3 in points for the I.M.C.A modified are: 1st place #91 Chris Beaulieu with 352 points, 2nd place #53 Kevin Noble with 298 points, and 3rd place #99 Tony Johnson with 290 points. In Victoria Saturday night the Campbell River owned and sponsored #44 sprint car driven by Duncan's Scott Aumen won the 50 lap main event as part of the two day 50th Daffodil Cup which had $50,000 up for grabs. Condolences go out from the speedway staff who knew and worked with Bill Beaudin. "May your last motorcycle ride be your longest".
Posted: 08/22/10
AGASSIZ GEARS UP FOR SUPER SATURDAY
Saturday, August 21st, Agassiz Speedway will be hosting the Katana Sportsman Tour and the South Okanagan Bakery Street Stock Series. This event draws cars from throughout B.C. Fans are always treated to a super night of racing. Come out and enjoy!
Posted: 08/19/10
SCHUSS WINS 7 STRAIGHT AT LOCAL MERRITT DIRT TRACK
Submitted by Merritt Speedway Fan
As the season began Schuss moved from Agassiz as his home track to a local track in Merritt to win himself a championship. Coming second overall in Agassiz with 6 respectable main event wins behind his back, Schuss decided to move to the good ol fun of dirt racin'. His Dad Jim Schuss won the championship in the bomber class in 2008 and is looking to hoist that trophy himself this year. With 2 races to go he looks pretty good for the championship already. Close competitors are Brendin Parker, driver of the number 30 4cyl bomber and the number 2 Brad Mackay. With a low car count as it is, "Merritt is a one of a kind race track that all should enjoy racing on". The crowd always seems to find a good way to enjoy the fun of dirt racin'. "It offers cheap membership and easy going people, and most of all, a lot of fun!" says Schuss as he enjoys banging door handles with his young and race ready competitors. Next race in Merritt is August 28th and the final race is on September 11th.
Posted: 08/19/10
$50,000 PAYOUT - AUGUST 20 & 21
Submitted by: Ken Keating
Posted: 08/18/10
BUDWEISER JOINS RCR RACING IN 2011
NASCAR Media and RCR Racing
 
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2010 OILMEN'S CLASSIC RACE WEEKEND
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EDMONTON, AB. - The 17th running of the Oilmen's Classic, one of Western Canada's longest running stock car events, is set for this weekend at Castrol Raceway. Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model Series racer Travis Day competed in the very first Oilmen's race and is looking forward to Saturday nights Feature. "Over the years we've had some pretty good Oilmen's races and some real bad ones too." The fondest Oilmen's memories for the driver of the Trappers Auto Parts #10 Chevrolet goes back to the 1994 race at Yellowhead Raceway in Hinton, Alberta. "This was the very first Oilmen's and we finished third. I remember that very well," smiles the Whitecourt, Alberta driver, "it was a major battle just to get to the Feature." Days first ever Oilmen's race unfortunately began with a bang. "I had one of my tires ripped off in a heat race crash and at first I thought that was it, we were done."
Day and his crew managed to patch up his damaged #10 Camaro in time for the Oilmen's Feature. "I think this is the first time I've admitted this but because of the crash we had no brakes in that Feature." Day indicates he was forced to come up with a creative way to slow down his brakeless race car. "Hinton has no inner walls. They had just a dirt burm to mark the inner line of the track. Just before going into the corners I would intentional go low and use this burm to scrub off some speed. It was a pretty rough way to slow a race car down but it worked." The Oilmen's Classic has been run at Edmonton's Castrol Raceway since 2001. This year the NPP Late Model Series and the Alberta Sportsman Sprint Car Series team up for two nights of action. Friday will be an open practice night for NPP Late Model Series competitors and preliminary races for Sportsman Sprint Car teams. Saturday is the big race night with the NPP Late Model Series Oilmen's Classic and the Sportsman Sprint Cars X-treme Cup races.
Posted: 08/17/10
NEWSLETTER AND POINTS UPDATE
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LOUDOUN WINS ROUND ONE WCSS HOT AUGUST NIGHTS
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GARRETT EVANS WINS ARCA WEST LATE MODEL RACE - WENATCHEE SPEEDWAY
Photo courtesy The Wenatchee World
Posted: 08/15/10
SECOND ANNUAL BIKINI CONTEST RESULTS
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| The 2nd annual bikini contest ended with Heather McNabb winning the 2nd annual Bikini contest which featured a great card of racing on Saturday. Another feature event on the night was the boat race with 11 boats in the competition. |
The Stock cars out of Victoria made a rare visit to the track for an important point¹s race. Fast time was set by #66 Larry Graham with a time of 16.994. The racing just got better from there with #55 Jeff Hamstra taking the win in the B heat and #32 Aaron Wilkie taking the win in the A. the 50 lap main saw #95 Ryan Wade dominate the field taking the lead on lap 9. #15 Brandon Carlson would challenge late but Wade was to much as he went on to win the 50 lap main. 2nd place went to #15 Brandon Carlson and 3rd to #14 Daryl Crocker.
The Roadrunner class saw an attack of green cars with all 4 green Leemar cars making the night. Fast time was set by #28 James Buchanan with a time of 18.833. The dash went to Buchanan and the 10 lap heat went to #77 Hans Baan. The 20 lap main saw #19 Weston Lane jump out to the lead on lap 6 and never look back as he went on to win the main. 2nd place went to ##28 James Buchanan and 3rd to #77 Hans Baan. Weston is proudly sponsored by progressive metal fabricators.
The Crash to pass class had an amazing 14 cars take to the track on Saturday with #72 Travis Stevenson setting fast time with a time of 18.949. The dash went to Stevenson; the B heat went to #8 Brad Kotscherofski and the A to #68 Richard Millne a demo truck out of Victoria. The 20 lap main saw #88 Troy Tarbuck dominate taking the lead on lap 5 and holding of a hard charging #2 Glenn Pinto to take the win. 2nd place went to Pinto and 3rd to #8 Brad Kotscherofski.
A 37 car field marked the highest total this year in the Hornet class. Fast time went to #21 Gord Fraser with a time of 18.386. The C dash went to #68 Bill Stidston, the B to #9 Andrew Buchanan and the A to #61 Ryan Jenson. 4 heats on the night with the D going to #90 Carl Naughton, the C to #59 Ted Dimitrov, the B to #33 Tristin Gait and finally the A to #07 Brandon Philips. The 20 lap B main saw #59 Ted Dimitrov dominate for most of the race until the last lap when he got up in lap traffic leaving the door open for #40 Dave Erdman to take the lead and he went on to win the main. 2nd place went to Dimitrov and 3rd to #9 Andrew Buchanan. The 40 lap A main saw 5 lead changes with the eventual advantage going to #02 Daryl Cahill as he took over the lead on lap 36 from #21 Gord Fraser. 2nd in the main went to #21 Gord Fraser and 3rd to #67 Corey Sanderson. Cahill is proudly sponsored by South island imports.
Extra laps... The Canadian American demolition derby is coming up on September 4th and 5th making its return to the Speedway. This event is also one of our biggest events on the year, accompanying them our the Hornet cars, Roadrunners and Crash to Pass so make sure you mark your calendars for that special event.
Posted: 08/15/10
EMOND WINS AT SASKATOON
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RANGER SCORES COMEBACK VICTORY
Rebounds From Early Trouble For Third Straight Trois-Rivieres Win
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| TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec, Canada (Aug. 15, 2010) - Defending NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 champion Andrew Ranger showed why you never give up in a road course race. |
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After falling back several positions after his contact with Fitzpatrick, Ranger was able to move up to third by Lap 19 and back into the lead on a Lap 29
restart when Ranger made it three wide passing Fitzpatrick and Kerry Micks to the inside for the lead. Ranger enjoyed a comfortable lead until Maryeve Dufault spun on Lap 38 to set up a green-white-checkered finish. |
Fitzpatrick followed in third with DJ Kennington fourth and Jeff Lapcevich fifth.
Both Ranger and Fitzpatrick led a race-high 16 laps with both drivers earning 10 bonus points for leading the most laps which caused a change atop the championship point standings. Kennington, who brought a 14-point lead into the event, now trails Fitzpatrick by a single point. Fitzpatrick and Kennington have volleyed the points lead back and forth all season.
Scott Steckly was sixth and J.F. Dumoulin seventh while Jason Hathaway was eighth. Peter Klutt and Mark Dilley rounded out the top 10.
Ranger has also recorded wins this season in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series with triumphs at Infineon Raceway in Sonoma, Calif., and Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., and his NASCAR Canadian Tire Series victory in Toronto on July 17.
With this win in Trois-Rivieres, Ranger has 10 wins and 17 podium finishes in his 18 road-course starts in NASCAR including his third-place effort last season in Montreal¹s NASCAR Nationwide Series event.
The race was slowed due to caution just three times for eight laps and the race lead changed hands five times among three drivers.
Television coverage of the GP3R 100 will air on TSN and TSN HD on Sunday, Aug. 22 at 4 p.m. ET
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 returns to oval-track racing in its next outing on Saturday, Aug. 21 at Mosport Speedway near Bowmanville, Ont., for the Dickies 200.
Posted: 08/15/10
YOUNGQUIST NOW TWO TIME SKAGIT WINNER
Submitted by: Kaleb Hart
Alger, WA. - Fortune once again smiled on Justin Youngquist as he went on to win his second straight Cook Road Shell Sportsman Sprint Main Event at ASA member track Skagit Speedway. Driving his Bubba Suds Car Wash #56 XXX, Youngquist inherited the lead on lap 9 when race leader Steve Parker fell out with what they thought was an oil line issue. Justin paced the field comfortably until lap 17, when lapped traffic and a hard charging Dylan Dunham reared their collective heads. While Youngquist looked for the way to safely clear the slower cars, Dunham took his shot, showing the wheels of his Tib Automotive #7d J&J to the leader coming out of the outside of turn two. Youngquist gassed it up hard, shooting hard to the inside of the lapped car in front of him, safe for the moment. Dunham also cleared the lapper, and the race was on again coming to the white flag. Dunham tucked in behind Justin in one and two, then took a high entrance to turn three. At the apex of the corner, Dylan drove the car down sharply to the bottom of the track, shooting himself forward with enough momentum that it made the race to the finish a side by side, wheel to wheel drag race. When the dust settled, Youngquist held of Dunham for his second straight win in the Sportsman Sprints by a mere .057 seconds. Rob Schroder was third in the R&R Autoworks #1r XXX. Heat race wins went to Youngquist and Bill Rude.
Cook Road Shell Sportsman Sprints
- Heat 1 - Bill Rude, Rob Schroder, Matt VanDerSys, James Bundy, Cory Swatzina, Glen Reinstra, Dave Mead, Eric Thibert, Curtis Clark
- Heat 2 - Justin Youngquist, Steve Parker, Dylan Dunham, Paul Burdick, Cale Brooke, Clayton Sibley, Marc Schutte, Ron Butler, Devin Barnes
- Main - Justin Youngquist, Dunham, Schroder, Bundy, Swatzina, Schutte, Rude, Butler, Reinstra, Sibley, Thibert, Mead, Parker, Brooke, Burdick, VanDerSys
- Lap Leaders - Parker 1-8 Youngquist 9-20
Budweiser 360 Sprints
- Fast Time - Jared Peterson
- Heat 1 - Rod Perkins, Jared Peterson, Jonathan Jorgenson, Alan Munn, Steve James, Bud Ashe, Brett Cole
- Heat 2 - Evan Funk, Devin Madonia, Brock Lemley, Kelsey Carpenter, Jeff Dunlap, Tyler Anderson
- Main - Alan Munn, Lemley, Carpenter, Perkins, Madonia, Peterson, Jorgenson, Dunlap, Cole, Ashe, Funk, Anderson, James
- Lap Leaders - Munn 1-25
Pull A Part Outlaw Hornets
- Heat 1 - Ben Gunderson, Ken Higby, Tony Mascio, Mike Ploeg, Tyler Ketchum, Wade Swatzina, Greg Hibma, Tyler West, Jeremy Dethman, James Sims
- Heat 2 - Ashley Lewellen, Rick Young, Freddie Vela, TJ Campbell, Brigham Mirabelli, Larry Kwik, Howard Vos, Jerry Birdsey Jr, Tina Thibert
- Main - Ben Gunderson, Lewellen, Vela, Young, Hibma, Swatzina, Ketchum, Mirabelli, Higby, Dethman, Ploeg, Campbell, Birdsey Jr, Sims, Kwik, West, Mascio, Thibert
Posted: 08/15/10
HOLMES' SUCCESS CONTINUES IN COLORADO
Submitted by Kevin Green, NASCAR
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The win also gave Holmes a $10,000 bonus as he won his third race in the five-race Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Challenge. Holmes won earlier this season at
Douglas County Speedway in Roseburg, Ore., and Montana Raceway Park in Kalispell, Mont., to become eligible to win the bonus Saturday. The victory was the second in a row and fourth of the year for the Escalon, Calif. driver who has also finished in the top-10 in eight of the nine races so far this season and now has 13 career series wins. "That was a hard run there, a lot of fun, really fun," Holmes said. "This track creates a good two-wide, three-wide racing. The NAPA Toyota probably wasn't as good as his (Martinez) there at the mid-part of the race, but I just figured out a line that worked good for me and I was able to get by him. Once I got out front I was all right. The restarts my car didn't really want to take off. It made it a little tough." |
"Our crew showed their NAPA know-how tonight, that's for sure," Harraka said. "When we got going, we didn't have the car quite balanced the way I wanted it. At the halfway mark, we rolled through the pits, went to the back of the field and made the changes we wanted to. Fortunately, they were the right ones. We just kept creeping our way through the field, on and on and on. We just didn't have enough time. We got to second, got around Luis with five to go. I was going all out to get by Eric, but just didn't have the time to do it."
Martinez started from point after setting his first career fast time in winning the 21 Means 21 Pole Award by Coors Brewing Company. He led early in the race until Holmes, who started on the outside front row, made the pass on Lap 3. Holmes remained out front until Martinez got back around after a restart on Lap 78. Martinez set the pace while going after his first career win; however, Holmes was able to pass Martinez for the lead on Lap 107 and stayed out front the rest of the way.
"The car stayed about the same the whole day from the time it came from the shop," Martinez said. "It unloaded fast. Right before qualifying, my guys told me just sail it into the corner because it looks like the track's got a lot of grip. That's what I did. It ended up paying off real well for us."
"The race I thought was pretty good," he said. "We had a good car the first 75. After that it kind of started losing the drive off a little bit. We raced Paulie hard to the last bit of the race. I don't think a podium's bad coming out here for the first time, being a rookie. This track's been awesome to us. I couldn't be more excited."
The race was slowed six times by caution with the only multi-car incident of the race occurring during the final caution on Lap 136 after Michael Self and Blake Koch collided while racing in the top 10. The final incident set up the sprint to the finish.
With the win, Holmes increased his lead in the championship standings to 114 points over Mayhew - with three races remaining this season.
"We padded our point lead tonight," Holmes said of his quest for a third title. "We've just got to play smart, but go to Roseville and Phoenix as planning on winning races and not doing anything different than what we've been doing all year."
The Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge from CNS will air on SPEED on Thursday, Aug. 26 at 6 p.m. ET.
The NASCAR K&N Pro Series West will return to action on Sunday, Sept. 12 for the running of the Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Challenge at Miller Motorsports Park in Tooele, Utah.
Posted: 08/14/10
RANGER TAKES TROIS-RIVIERES POLE
Sets Track Record En Route To Season's Third Pole
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| TROIS-RIVIERES, Quebec, Canada (Aug. 14, 2010) - Andrew Ranger claimed the pole position for Sunday's GP3R 100 in NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 qualifying at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres in record fashion for his first series start since July 17 in Toronto. |
Starting alongside Ranger on the front row is JR Fitzpatrick who posted a qualifying time of 68.533 seconds (80.370 mph). With two wins - Mosport International Raceway in Bowmanville, Ont., and Edmonton (Alberta) City Centre Airport - already in the book this season and a victory at Montreal's Circuit Gilles Villeneuve in 2009, Fitzpatrick, 22, has won three of the series' last four road-course events. The Cambridge, Ont., driver is a two-time pole winner in Trois-Rivieres.
The second row consists of Mt. Albert, Ontario's Kerry Micks, who registered a time of 68.681 seconds (80.197 mph) and Anthony Simone, out of Holland Landing, Ont., with a 68.719-second lap (80.153 mph).
Jason Hathaway, Don Thomson Jr., DJ Kennington, Scott Steckly, Ron Beauchamp Jr. and Trois-Rivieres' Louis-Philippe Dumoulin are the rest of the top-10 qualifiers.
Kennington, the current points leader, made contact with an outside retaining wall during his qualifying session, but the damage appears to be relatively minimal. Fitzpatrick also spun at the end of his run, but did not hit anything.
The GP3R 100 is slated to take the green flag Sunday at 3:30 p.m. ET.
Posted: 08/14/10
78 ACT TEAMS HEAD FOR NHMS TEST & TUNE
Courtesy ACT
| The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has confirmation from seventy eight (78) Late Model teams that are scheduled to test and tune at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) Tuesday, August 17 and Wednesday, August 18 in hopes of getting an invitation back for the second annual ACT Invitational to be held September 18, 2010. |
The goal will be to capture one of the coveted 'at large' bids for the second annual ACT Invitational which is held as part of a triple header with the NASCAR Whelan Modified Tour, the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series, and the regions finest short track teams in the second annual ACT Invitational. There will also be Sprint Cup qualifying on Saturday in what has become one of the most anticipated events of the stock car season.
"This is just a great couple of days for our teams. For veterans it is a chance to get to this great facility that has been the heartbeat of stock car racing for the past twenty years, and for our younger teams, it is really a dream come true. The hard part is sorting out who gets the invites for the September race after the practice sessions end," said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour.
Posted: 08/14/10
STANFIELD AND SMITH RECORD HORNET WINS
Langford, B.C., August 11, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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| With the season running out on the Steve Copp Construction sponsored Hornet Series, Western Speedway hosted another entertaining and competitive race Wednesday night. Five Trophy Dashes, twelve Heat races, and three Feature events made up the full race program on this night. |
With the season running out on the Steve Copp Construction sponsored Hornet Series, Western Speedway hosted another entertaining and competitive race Wednesday night. Five Trophy Dashes, twelve Heat races, and three Feature events made up the full race program on this night. Rhett Szevics, Bruce Duffis, Garrett Smith, Caleb VanBree, and Lois Lagan won Trophy Dashes while Heat race winners included Matt Schultz, Bruce Hood, Mike Melin, Blair Davis, Cody Aumen, and Cam Stanfield in the Expert Division. Kevin Smith, Bruce Duffis, Tom Davis, Bailey Walker, Chris Davis, and Ryan Smith were Rookie Heat race winners.
     
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Real Fournier and Patricia Cooper shared the front row for the start of the B-Main event with the top two Hornets and top two Bumblebees transfer to the
Feature event. Fournier got the early lead on the first lap followed quickly by Allan Brown and Hellen Thorne. Brown grabbed the lead on lap eight only to
lose it one lap later to Fournier and then took it back on lap ten. On lap eleven, Lois Lagan took over third and then took second one lap later. As the
field was coming out of turn four, and looking at the chequered flag, Brown slid wide and Lagan dove to the inside and nipped Brown for the win. Brown hung
on to the second spot with Fournier holding on for third. Brown, Fournier, Lagan, and Darci Dennis were the drivers advancing to the Feature event. Jake Spring led a field of fifteen Experts to the green flag for the start of thirty laps of racing. He grabbed the early lead followed by Caleb VanBree and Matt Schultz. Behind them Mike Melin, Howie Mace, and Garrett Smith were in a close battle for the next several positions while Cam Stanfield, Bill Peacey, and Jean-Luc Lagan were trying to work their way to the front. On lap thirteen, Melin took over the second spot and then took the lead two laps later. Meanwhile, Peacey had moved into the third spot with Stanfield also gaining spots as he was now running fourth after sixteen laps. Stanfield and Peacey traded positions a couple of times over the next few laps while trying to also get by Melin. On lap twenty-two the yellow came out as Jean-Luc got spun around and backing into the frontstretch wall. On a double file restart Melin and Stanfield shared the front row as they came around for the resumption of green flag racing and over the next four laps, they ran door handle to door handle until Stanfield finally got clear for the lead with bill Peacey still in the mix running third. At the chequered flag it was Stanfield, with his fourth Feature win, Melin, Peacey, Phil Lagan, and Howie Mace rounding out the top five positions. Twenty cars lined up to take the green flag in the Rookie Division led by John Broughton. Broughton took the early lead followed by Devin Fournier and Cole Schuurman for the first five laps when Stephan Sager took over the second spot only to lose that position to Ryan Smith. On lap six the yellow came out as Fournier went around and slammed into the frontstretch wall. The race was halted to make sure Fournier was OK as he hit on the drivers side. After just a few moments he was set to resume. On the double file restart Broughton had Sager to his outside with Broughton gaining the lead again with Ryan Smith taking the second spot dropping Sager back to third and Laura-Ashley Grant now running fourth. On lap ten, Smith took the lead dropping Broughton back to second and Chris Davis now running third and Lois Lagan in fourth. Over the next several laps, a few cars got shuffled around as Grant got taken out and John Lerik got tangled up with Mike Halls going through turn one. On lap eight, Lagan moved into the third spot dropping Davis back to fourth. Over the next several laps, Smith maintained the lead and took the chequered flag followed by Broughton, Lagan, Davis, and Glen Rand rounding out the top five. |
on August fourteenth. On August 20th and 21st you will see the fastest cars in the Pacific Northwest as the WilRoc Sprint Cars along with the NSRA battle for the prestigious Daffodil Cup and a piece of $50,000.00, the biggest purse in Western Speedway history. Also on this card will be the Lites and the Stock Car Series on Friday night and the OTRA Series on Saturday night.
Posted: 08/14/10
MARK DUTHIE - RACE PHOTOGRAPHER
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If you are looking for exciting ARCA West Sportsman video or custom photographs, Mark Duthie of Next Level Media, is your man! Mark is the
official photographer to the ARCA West OK Tire Sportsman Series. |
Posted: 08/13/10
DATE CHANGE ANNOUNCED - SEASON FINALE AT PHOENIX
Submitted by Kevin Green, NASCAR
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| DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 13, 2010) - A date change has been announced for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West season finale at Phoenix International Raceway in November. The championship race at PIR has been moved from Thursday, Nov. 11, to Saturday, Nov. 13, providing fans with a better opportunity to have an up close and personal experience with one of NASCAR's premier developmental series. The green flag will drop shortly after 6 p.m. local time. |
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND!
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| The GP3R 100 on Saturday at Circuit de Trois-Rivieres will mark the eighth event of the 2010 season for the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1. |
- The Race: GP3R 100
- The Place: Circuit de Trois-Rivieres (Que.)
- The Date: Sunday, Aug. 15
- The Time: 3:30 p.m. ET
- TV Schedule: TSN Sunday, Aug. 22, 4 p.m. ET
- Track Layout: 1.53-mile temporary road course
- Race Purse: $98,998
- 2009 Winner: Andrew Ranger
- 2009 Pole: Alex Tagliani
- Schedule: Saturday - Practice 9:25 - 10:05 p.m.; Qualifying 3.35 p.m.
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND!
Submitted by Kevin Green, NASCAR
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| The Toyota / NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 on Saturday at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colo., will mark the ninth race of the 2010 season for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. |
- The Race: Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150
- The Place: Colorado National Speedway, Dacono, Colo.
- The Date: Saturday, Aug. 14
- The Time: 8:15 p.m. PT
- TV Schedule: SPEED Aug. 26, 3 p.m. PT
- Track Layout: .375-mile paved
- Race Purse: $104,584
- 2009 Winner: Paulie Harraka
- 2009 Pole: Eric Holmes
- Schedule: Saturday: Practice 12 p.m. Noon-12:45 p.m.,1:15-2 p.m. Time Trials 5:30 p.m.
Posted: 08/11/10
WEEKEND OF MAYHEM - DAY 2
Langford, B.C., August 8, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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| After rain spoiled the Saturday planned event at Western Speedway organizers were encouraged by the forecast for better weather on Sunday and then went ahead with the second night of "Weekend of Mayhem" with the Demo Series, the Bombers, plus the Monster Trucks, and another car jump by Calgary's Crazy Canuck Collin Heacock. |
     
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As Rick and Eric Swansen had to catch a ferry later in the evening, they were first up putting Obsessed and Obsession, the Monster Trucks, through
their paces up and over some cars and jumps positioned at each end of the Speedway. Eric is only fourteen but he is not afraid to put the power to
the big Ford. Again, as he did Friday night, he had better airtime than his dad. He told his father: "Just do what I do." Rick is a little better at
doing the donuts however. Can you imagine the conversations at school when a fourteen year old says; "I was in Canada driving a Monster Truck." After
the Trophy Dashes the Swansens again put on a display of pure power from these trucks and then had to leave for California. Derek Salling and George Newell shared the front row for the start of the Figure 8 Feature event and on the second lap Shawn Hitchings grabbed the lead with a couple of drivers changing positions behind him. On lap six, Brandon Young took over the second spot followed by brother Cody with brother James in the mix running fourth. On lap eleven, Cody took over the lead with Brandon taking second one lap later leaving Hitchings in a battle with James Young, Kail Beck, and Cam Wilkinson. Over the next few laps there were some heavy hits and a couple of controversial calls but when the dust settled, Cody Young took the chequered flag followed by Kail Beck and Brandon Young. Ron Benham and Jarrod Sagmoen led the field to the green flag for the Bomber Series Feature event and by lap three Chris Broughton jumped into the lead position. There was an early yellow and on the double file restart there was some contact between Rob Gaudreault and Brandon Steen that sent the young driver into the wall losing several positions. Up front, Broughton and Gaudreault waged a good battle for several laps with Giles Cyr moving into contention taking the second spot by lap nine. On lap fifteen, Cyr finally got by Broughton for the lead and began to check out. Broughton, Gaudreault, and Steen ran bumper to bumper and door handle to door handle for several laps and every time Gaudreault was able to shut the door each time Steen attempted to get the position away while Broughton still held the preferred line on both these drivers while still running second. On lap twenty-two, Steen finally got a run on Gaudreault and made the pass for the third spot while Cyr went on for the win. Paul Scotthorne and Heath Cooper shared the front row for the start of the Demo Truck Feature event. George Haywood, driving for Dakota Hansen, took the lead by lap four with Cooper still running second until he lost that position, as he spun out, to Scotthorne on lap seven with Richard Milne with the front runners as well. This race also was a hard hitting event as Mark Keeler got nailed on the frontstretch ending his night early. When the dust settled, George Haywood took the win followed by Scotthorne and Cooper coming back for a third place finish. |
After a perfect jump Friday, by the Crazy Canuck, everyone was ready to see him do it again. Measurements were taken, ramps were set up, and buses and cars were put in place as Collin Heacock was buckling up in his car. Again he hit the ramp perfect and in a burst of flames from the pyrotecnics, Collin soared over the buses and landed nose first into the last two cars set to break his crash. On this jump he almost cleared the catch cars altogether bettering his jump on Friday. In the pro jump interview he said he had a little too much speed but was: "More nervous doing an interview than doing the jump." He did get some serious airtime on this fly by!! You can check out both jumps on YouTube.
Posted: 08/11/10
SECOND ANNUAL BIKINI CONTEST!
Submitted by Terry Guest
| Mother Nature played Havoc on Saturday cancelling the scheduled night of Wilroc Lites, Bomber Cars and Hornet Cars; but next weekend Mother Nature is not a factor as Saratoga Speedway will be hosting there 2nd Annual Bikini contest which will run Rain or Shine. Last year we had 8 girls enter the contest and this year we will be having 12. Our 2nd Boat Race of the year will be another main event of the Racing Card on Saturday, The boat race is one of our most exciting and popular races of the year. If you are not familiar with the boat race the rules are simple. Hit every boat that you see! The advertised "Stock Car Invitational" also on Saturday has been changed to a point's race for the stock car class out of Victoria because there race at Western Speedway was cancelled; we are also expecting at least 18-20 cars! Accompanying all of these great events are the Hornet Cars who featured 34 cars last race, the Crash to Pass cars who had 13 cars last race with more to come, and finally the Roadrunners! August 14th is a date you must book off to witness one of our most featured nights of racing all season! |
Posted: 08/10/10
BIG RICHMOND STEEL STREET STOCK INVITATIONAL
By Chris Arronge
Big Richmond Steel Street Stock Invitational in Prince George August 14th and 15th, 2010. $200 tow dough for Abbotsford, Vernon, and Penticton and $300 for the island cars. We have a big sponsor for this event. Our goal is to give the weekend point invitational winner $2,000 cash and then have another $2,000 to be split up for points for everyone else. We also have our big PGX (Prince George Exhibition) in town that weekend. Camping is available at the track, and hot lapping Friday night. Out of town cars must bring their home town rule book and membership. May run new American racers, or used Goodyears only, max 5/32 tread depth. All cars must weigh 3,300lbs with driver, all day.
MST Carriers Mini Stocks Invitational also this weekend, max 2.3 liter, 120 factory hp rating. This is also our 25th anniversary at the new track, and we will be celebrating Saturday night with a big Bar-b-que. Please let your guys know for us. The Playground of Power.
Posted: 08/10/10
MATT STEPHENSON MAKES ARCA HISTORY!
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The main event started with the unique ARCA 3-wide salute to the fans. When the green flag dropped #1 Matt Stephenson quickly took the lead. Around the half-way point of the race, Langley driver #57 Ken Jorgensen, had broken through the pack to move into second and was quickly eating into Matt's lead. Unfortunately, contact with a spinning car in turn 3 ended Ken's night. The final portion of the race was a bumper to bumper freight train finish for drivers #1 Matt Stephenson, #52 Garnet Grimard and #5 Bob Williams.
The next ARCA West OK Tire Sportsman race will be September 11th at Vernon's Motoplex Speedway.
Posted: 08/08/10
NEW! ARCA WEST SUNDAY, AUGUST 8 RACE DAY SCHEDULE - AGASSIZ SPEEDWAY
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Posted: 08/08/10
HOLMES ADDS NEW TRACK RECORD TO RESUME
Submitted by Kevin Green, NASCAR
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| KALISPELL, Mont. - Eric Holmes added a new track to his résumé of wins as he took the victory in the Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 in the inaugural visit by the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West to Montana Raceway Park on Saturday night. |
"I was hoping for no more cautions," Holmes said. "I knew I had the better car and I could stretch the lead out. I really wanted to take the high side once I was leading. It was fun. I don't think we've ever gone 105 laps without a caution. I was definitely working. I almost got dizzy after that."
His charge to the front during the long green flag run did not come easy, according to Holmes.
"It was tough to pass, but I got by them guys," he said. "I was trying not to run David down. I didn't want to have to try to run him down, figuring there would be a caution. About lap 100, I started putting my head down and going to try to catch him. Then we got the caution and that's all I needed, a couple good restarts."
Holmes credited his Bill McAnally Racing team for having the right set-up on the car.
"The NAPA Toyota team did a great job setting the car up. It was good at the end when it mattered," he said. "I know we missed a little bit in qualifying. We've been doing that this year. As long as we get to the front and not beat the car up too bad so we can race it next week in Denver."
It was Holmes' third win of the season and the 12th of his series career. As the leader in the championship standings coming into the event and the only driver with multiple wins, he was able to pad his points with just four events remaining on the schedule in his quest for a third series title.
Mayhew, who led a race-high 94 laps, settled for a second-place finish and now trails Holmes by 79 points in the standings.
"He just has a real good car at the end of these short tracks," Mayhew said of Holmes. "He had us handled at the end. We really need to win one of these short tracks. We've been second to that NAPA car way too many times."
Moses Smith finished the race in third. He was followed by Jonathon Gomez and Gary Lewis, who has top-five finishes in both of his career series starts.
Daryl Harr, Blake Koch, Michael Self, Luis Martinez Jr. and Todd Souza made up the remainder of the top-10 finishers.
In qualifying earlier in the evening, Greg Pursley collected his second Coors Light Pole Award of the year. He was caught up in a late-race incident, however, which ended his night with an 18th-place finish.
The Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 from Montana Raceway Park will air on SPEED on Thursday, August 12 at 3 p.m. PT.
The next event on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West schedule is the Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 at Colorado National Speedway in Dacono, Colo., on Saturday, August 14.
Posted: 08/08/10
WEEKEND OF MAYHEM
Langford, B.C., August 6, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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| Western Speedway was the venue for another "Weekend of Mayhem" that featured the Demo Cars, Demo Trucks, Figure 8s, and the Bomber Series. As well as the regular races, the Speedway also featured the Monster Trucks with Obsessed and Obsession with a fourteen year old Eric Swanson behind the wheel of Obsessed. |
  
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Kyle Rizok and Brenden Marquis shared the front row for the start of the Mini Figure 8 Main event and Rizok led the first three laps until
he was passed by James Young on lap four. On lap eight, Cody Young moved up to run second and one lap later Brandon Young moved into the
third spot. On lap fourteen, Cody took over the lead only to lose it to brother Brandon two laps later who in turn lost the lead back to
Cody after two more laps. Kail Beck moved into the second spot on lap nineteen while cars were changing positions behind him. Cody went on
to the win followed by Beck and Brandon Young. Its only fitting that two of the faster cars had identical qualifying times in the Bomber Series. Giles Cyr and Brandon Steen have waged a battle each and every race this season and tonight was no different as Brandon set a new track record only to have Giles Cyr equal that time in his run. Both drivers qualified with a lap time of 19.477 and again found themselves starting at the back of the pack for the Feature event. Mike Rutty and Jarrod Sagmoen, driving the #51 car, shared the front row for the start of Main event racing. Rutty led for the first four laps until he was passed by Chris Broughton who was quickly followed by Rob Gaudreault now running second and Cyr jumping into third with Steen moving into the fourth spot after just six laps. On lap eight, Cyr took over the second spot and then into the lead on lap eleven. Once at the front, Cyr checked out on the rest of the field and left Broughton, Gaudreault, and Steen to battle for the next podium positions and that they did over the remaining laps. Steen running fourth tried everything to get by Gaudreault using the outside and the inside groove and each time Gaudreault shut the door. Each driver changed positions back and fourth until lap twenty-four when Gaudreault lost the handle going through turn four and spun around. With one lap remaining Steen got by Broughton and took the second place finish as Cyr took the chequered flag. Chris Broughton held on to the third spot. Cody Young had the pole for the start of the Demo Car Feature event and led for the first two laps. He was overtaken by Greg Sagmoen on lap three for the lead followed by Robbin Trotter. There was some controversy over this race as Sagmoen suffered a stop and go but got back out at the end of the lead lap cars and worked himself back to the win followed by Trotter and Cody Young. Dakota Hanson and Heath Cooper led the field to the green flag in the Demo Truck Feature event and after just two laps Aasen Baker went into the lead followed by Kenny Baker and Richard Milne. On lap six Milne took the second spot and three laps later took over the lead. He went on to take the win followed by Aasen Baker and Heath Cooper. The finale for the evening was Collin Heacock known as the Crazy Canuck jumping a car over two school buses parked end to end and into some catch cars lined up behind the buses. He would have to acheive a speed of 92 KPH to make the jump successful and clear the buses. In a post jump interview he picked the spot he should reach and he nailed it right on. The car done a nose dive and flipped in the air doing a complete double somersalt landing on its roof just off the catch cars. The car was a mess but the driver easily walked away after a great fly by. |
Posted: 08/07/10
AGASSIZ SPEEDWAY - ARCA WEST RESCHEDULED!
Submitted by Kendall Thomas
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| Saturday rain out - rescheduled to Sunday, August 8. Gates open 10:00 a.m. See you there! |
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Posted: 08/06/10
GEARING UP FOR ARCA WEST OK TIRE SPORTSMAN SERIES RACE 5 - AGASSIZ
Submitted by Kendall Thomas
| We welcome any sportsman racers that would like to visit the series. Any questions, feel free to contact Kendall Thomas at 250-398-0919. |
Race Day Schedule for Saturday, August 7:
- 2:00 pm - Pit gate opens
- 3:00 to 3:30 - ARCA WEST hot laps
- 3:30 to 3:45 - Track gate open
- 3:45 to 4:15 - ARCA WEST hot lap
- 4:15 to 4:20 - Streets
- 4:20 to 4:25 - Hornet 1st group
- 4:25 to 4:30 - Hornet 2nd group
- 4:30 to 4:45 - Track gate opens
- 4:45 to 5:15 - ARCA WEST hot laps
- 5:15 to 5:20 - Streets
- 5:20 to 5:25 - Hornet 1st group
- 5:25 to 5:30 - Hornet 2nd group
- 5:30 to 5:35 - Belfor Hornets hot laps
- 5:45 - Pit meeting
- 6:00 - Qualifying
View map to the speedway (.pdf document).
Camping is available across from the track in Alm Park. Campers please pay a $10.00 weekend fee at the participant gate as the track covers the cost of portable toilets. Address is: 5045 Cemetery Road, Agassiz, B.C. See you at the track!
Posted: 08/06/10
STEVE ARPIN READY TO GET BACK IN THE SADDLE OF THE NO. 55 MIKE'S HARD LEMONADE TOYOTA AT BERLIN RACEWAY
Submitted By Steve Arpin Racing
CORNELIUS, NC (August 4, 2010) - After a two-race absence to run select NASCAR Nationwide races for Jr. Motorsports, Steve Arpin will be back behind the wheel of the No. 55 mike's hard lemonade Toyota in the Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway.
"I'm really looking forward to getting back in the ARCA car again this week at Berlin," said Arpin. "These past few Nationwide races with Jr. Motorsports have been very educational and I'm more than excited to apply what I've learned to my ARCA efforts."
In the nine events Arpin has competed for Venturini Motorsports in the 2010 ARCA Racing Series presented by Remax and Menards, the Canadian has scored back-to-back wins at Salem Speedway and Texas Motor Speedway, and has three top-five and four top-10 finishes. He has also posted six top-10 qualifying efforts.
"We're bringing the same car this week that we raced in Iowa," continued Arpin, "Everyone at Venturini Motorsports has been working long hours getting these cars ready to finish off the second half of the season strong. I can't wait for the opportunity for them to feel the rewards for all of their efforts."
In addition to his on-track duties, Arpin will be participating in several autograph sessions throughout the weekend.
"A lot of Mike's Hard Lemonade Co. employees, retailers, and distributors are here with us again to enjoy the weekend's events...and hopefully an exciting victory lane celebration Saturday night."
Saturday's Berlin ARCA 200 at Berlin Raceway is scheduled to get the green flag at 8:30 p.m. (ET).
Vote Steve Arpin for 2010 ARCA Series Most Popular Driver.
Posted: 08/05/10
COMING UP THIS WEEKEND!
Submitted by Kevin Green, NASCAR
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| The Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150 on Saturday at Montana Raceway Park in Kalispell, Mont., marks the inaugural series visit to the state of Montana. It is the eighth race of the 2010 season for the NASCAR K&N Pro Series West. |
- The Race: Toyota/NAPA Auto Parts Bonus Challenge 150
- The Place: Montana Raceway Park, Kalispell, Mont.
- The Date: Saturday, Aug. 7
- The Time: 9:00 p.m. PT
- TV Schedule: SPEED Aug. 12, 3 p.m. PT
- Track Layout: .25-mile paved
- Race Purse: $116,118
- 2009 Winner: Inaugural event
- 2009 Pole: Inaugural event
- Schedule: Friday: Practice 5-5:45 p.m., 7-7:45 p.m.; Saturday: Final Practice 12:30-1 p.m., Time Trials 6 p.m.
KENNINGTON RULES AGAIN
Earns Third Oval Track Victory This Season
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| Saskatoon, Sask., Canada (Aug. 4, 2010) - DJ Kennington has been the king of the ovals in 2010. He picked up his third win of the season on an oval track by taking the checkered flag Wednesday night in the Velocity Prairie Thunder at Auto Clearing Motor Speedway. |
JR Fitzpatrick, who is locked in a back-and-forth battle for the championship with Kennington and held a six-point edge coming into the event, charged from 14th on the grid to finish second. Fitzpatrick had made a run at Kennington on the restart just after all the leaders pitted, but could not make it stick.
With the win, Kennington vaulted back past Fitzpatrick to take a 14-point lead in the standings.
Third place in the race went to Don Thomson Jr., with Scott Steckly finishing fourth and John Gaunt in fifth. Jason Hathaway, Kerry Micks, Mark Dilley, Anthony Simone and Nathan Weenk completed the top 10.
After starting alongside each other on the front row, Thomson and Kennington exchanged the lead throughout the first half of the race. Thomson began to pull away midway through the 250-lap event, but his margin was erased when the caution came out. Pit stops put him back to fifth, but he fought back to get past Steckly late in the race.
The race was slowed just three times due to caution for 36 laps and the race lead changed five times between Kennington and Thomson.
In the championship point standings, Steckly and Thomson are closing in on the top two, as they try to make a push for the title as the season winds down.
The TSN telecast of the Velocity Prairie Thunder will air on Saturday, August 21 at 1 p.m. ET.
The NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 returns to road-course action in its next outing for the GP3R 100 in Trois-Rivieres, Que., on Sunday, Aug. 15 as part of the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres.
Posted: 08/04/10
NASCAR CANADIAN TIRE SERIES CREW MEMBERS PENALIZED FOR RULES VIOLATIONS AT MOTOPLEX SPEEDWAY
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 4, 2010) - NASCAR announced today that two crew members that compete in the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 have been penalized as a result of a rules violation committed Saturday, July 31 at Motoplex Speedway in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada. |
Grove and Wight have each been fined $200, suspended from NASCAR until the fine is paid, placed on probation for the next three NASCAR Canadian Tire Series events, and placed on NASCAR probation until Aug. 25, 2010.
Posted: 08/04/10
MOTOPLEX SPEEDWAY RESULTS REVISED DUE TO RACE RULES VIOLATIONS
Submitted by Shon Sbarra, NASCAR
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| DAYTONA BEACH, Fla. (Aug. 4, 2010) - NASCAR announced today that the unofficial results of Saturday's NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1 race at Motoplex Speedway in Vernon, British Columbia, Canada, have been revised due to race procedure violations discovered during the event and verified in post-race inspection of the second-place car - the No. 3 driven by Jason Hathaway. |
The resulting penalty of two laps per unapproved tire change dropped Hathaway to ninth in the official race finish. Drivers in the event in unofficial finishing positions third through ninth moved up one position in the official finishing order.
Posted: 08/04/10
WHITE AND SEIBERT OFF TO NASCAR SASKATOON
Posted: 08/03/10NASCAR SASKATOON AUGUST 4, 2010
By NASCAR Media
| Every good relationship has that certain somebody who made the first introductions. For Auto Clearing Motor Speedway in Saskatoon, Sask., and the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series presented by Mobil 1, that somebody was Todd Nichol. |
"To me, it made sense. Canadian Tire Series teams were traveling all the way across the country to race two times," said Nichol. "There's this great new track sitting there in Saskatoon, so why not add a race on the way back from Edmonton and Vernon (B.C.)."
As the Canadian Tire Series prepares to make its second visit to the quaint .333-mile oval after a smashing debut there a year ago, Nichol looks to be the hero, but he could easily could have been the goat.
"As with any club-operated track, it's difficult to reach any kind of consensus and there were people worried about the finances of bringing a show the size and scope of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series," he stated. "I wasn't worried. I knew it could be done, so I personally guaranteed the money."
A successful businessman in a wide variety of areas including the auto body supply industry, Nichol had no personal gain at stake-just risk.
"If there was going to be a profit, I wanted no part of that. I was just there to cover the loss if it came to that," Nichol said.
Last year's inaugural event was sold out weeks in advance which lent a clue to what was possible and another capacity crowd is expected Wednesday night.
The true measure of credibility, as far as Nichol was concerned, came when Bayer Crop Science got on board in the way of sponsorship.
"When Mike Gerhardt brought Bayer Crop Science to the table, I knew we had something special," said Nichol. "This is a huge company with no motorsports history. They're the ones who deserve the credit. They had the vision on how to use this to their advantage in the marketplace."
Nichol also credits the efforts of Saskatoon Stock Car Racing Association President Trent Seidel and Track Promoter Herm Hordal for championing the cause and seeing it through.
"My role in this was tiny. All these other people laid the foundation and did the work," he said. "This is going to be a successful event for years to come. I'm honored to be able to compete in it."
Posted: 08/03/10
JASON BEAULIEU SWEEPS SHIPWRECK BEADS NORTHWEST MODIFIED NATIONALS
Article and Photos Submitted by Dennis Daniel, DirtModifiedRacer.com
| July 31, 2010 - Elma, WA - On a cool central Washington Saturday night, Canadian Modified driver, Jason Beaulieu, bested the field of a record tying 67 drivers, to collect the $2,500 win in the 11th annual Shipwreck Beads Northwest Modified Nationals. |
   
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Beaulieu, who was one of the top 12 drivers from Friday's qualifying events, joined the other 12 drivers on Saturday to draw for their starting spots.
Oregon's Jon DeBenedetti, who had scored the most points during Friday's prelims, drew first and drew the pole. Beaulieu, who was the 11th to draw, was
left with either a 7 or a 12. During his on track interview, he said "I know it's going to be the 12." Sure enough, he drew his pill and it had the number
12 on it. Starting the 40 lapper, Beaulieu would have to start in the 6th row, with former 3-time winner of the event, DeBenedetti on the pole. After Friday night qualifying and heats, 16 drivers had locked themselves into the A Main on Saturday, with the remaining 51 cars were left to battle for one of the remaining 8 starting spots. The "alphabet" Mains started with a D and progressed to the B. Only the top 4 would transfer out of the B to the A. The remaining cars were divided into 2 Last Chance Qualifiers, where the top 2 in each would make the feature. The A Main paid $250 just to start, so making the feature provided financial importance, as well as bragging rights, knowing that only 24 of the 67 cars would make the feature. After all the preliminary races were completed, the field of 24 cars hit the track just after 11:00 PM. After a 4-wide salute during the parade lap, the field was ready to battle it out. When the green flag flew, DeBenedetti wasted no time in showing that he had a great car and was ready to try to win his 4th Nationals. He quickly jumped out in front, but before a complete racing lap could be completed, Curt Coggins stopped on the track, forcing a complete restart. Craig Hanson pulled his car to the infield and was done before the race had begun. The field got lined back up in their starting spots and got ready to go at it again. |
A tangle in turn 3 resulted in a red flag, as Morgan Criswell flipped his car onto the infield. He climbed out under his own power and walked off the track. The field was halted and Criswell and another former Nationals winner, Chris Shoemaker, were out of action. With only 5 laps in the books, DeBenedetti looked to be in control but Beaulieu knew that he had to charge early to try to catch him. Beaulieu was moving forward very quickly. By the completion of lap 2, he had already gotten into 3rd place and was battling with Grays Harbor star, Scott Miller.
With a Delaware-style restart, where the leader is alone on the front row, while the rest of the field is double filed, DeBenedetti quickly opened a small lead when the green flag flew yet again. Beaulieu worked hard to get by Miller and did so on lap 6 and looked to track down the leader. The fans began to feel the excitement as these two drivers looked to be the best of the field and were ready to battle it out on the track. Working lap 8, DeBenedetti still had a several car length lead over Beaulieu but entering turn 3, the car broke, causing him to roll to a stop at the top of the track in turn 4. A broken z-link mount off the frame, which is a vital part of the cars rear suspension, ended his bid and handed the lead to Beaulieu.
With only 7 laps in the books, Beaulieu had the lead but did anybody else have something for the accomplished dirt and pavement Stock Car and Modified driver from Canada? As the field got back to racing, Miller still ran in second but running in third was Lenz, followed by O¹Connor and another Oregon star, Brian Poppa. On the restart, Beaulieu powered away, while Lenz quickly moved into second and looked to track down the leader. The two of them began to open a lead over the pack, with Beaulieu only leading by 2 car lengths over Lenz. The field had settled in to racing on the bottom groove, which proved to be the fastest way around the 3/10th mile clay oval.
By lap 17, the leaders would now enter lapped traffic. This could be the difference in the battle for the lead. Lenz looked to capitalize as he pulled alongside Beaulieu but could not pull off the pass. Behind the two leaders, who had opened a comfortable lead over third running Miller and Poppa, the rest of the field seemed to settle in to logging laps. A few drivers were trying charge towards the lead, with defending track Champion, Josh Muller working up to 5th from his 18th early on.
On lap 26, Poppa was finally able to move by Miller and claim the third spot but was still nearly a straight away behind the leaders, and with several lapped cars in between. On lap 30, the caution flag flew for the broken car of Josh Cullen. The field would be bunched back up, with the lapped cars being moved to the rear. Only 8 cars remained on the lead lap, but with only 10 laps remaining, it was time to put it all on the line.
Before the caution, Lenz didn't seem to have enough to power by Beaulieu and take the lead. The restart would give him a new chance to be glued to his rear bumper and see if he could pressure Beaulieu into a mistake or overtake him. As the laps clicked off the scoreboard, Lenz tried his best to get under Beaulieu. Although Beaulieu said after the race, "I was real loose but my car had enough power (to keep the lead)." As the white flag flew, Lenz was still right behind Beaulieu. Entering turn 1, he was able to show Beaulieu his bumper but Beaulieu was able to pull away and take the checkered flag. " I've been racing a long time and I have to say that this is my biggest win in a Modified," Beaulieu said after the race.
Lenz raced hard and just came a little short but did earn $1,500 for his second place efforts, his second consecutive runner-up at the Nationals. Poppa picked up his $1,000 third place finish, followed by a last lap pass for 4th by Yreka, California¹s Travis Peery, and Muller in 5th.
Special thanks to Glen and Lisa Vincent of Shipwreck Beads for sponsoring the event, and also adding a $500 Hard Charger award. Congratulations to George Wade and the hard-working crew at Grays Harbor Raceway for a tremendous event. If you've never been to Grays Harbor, you are missing one of the finest dirt track facilities in the country.
Posted: 08/02/10
BEAULIEU WINS PETE MULLER LOGGING RACE OF CHAMPIONS
By Jack Fordyce
Courtesy Grays Harbor Raceway
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Elma, WA. - Jason Beaulieu of Campbell River, B.C. shot from third to first on the first lap of the 30-lap Pete Muller Race of Champions never looked back Friday
night at Grays Harbor Raceway. Friday night was the opening night of the two day 11th Annual Ship Wreck Beads Northwest Modified Nationals at the clay oval in Elma. |
The starting grid was determined by a pill draw by the twenty drivers and Beaulieu draw number three. Jon DeBenedetti of Medford, OR. drew the lucky number 1, but Grays Harbor Raceway Promoter George Wade offered DeBenedetti an extra $500.00 in purse money if DeBenedetti would opt to go to the back and work his way through the field for the win. DeBenedetti accepted the challenge. Travis Perry fell into second behind the Canadian, followed by Shawn Dorie of St Helens, OR. Scott Miller of Shelton, WA. and Scott Lenz of Eagle Point, OR. Lenz dropped out of the top five when he had mechanical problems and brought out the caution flag on lap 7.
DeBenedetti moved into the top five after the restart when he got by Dorie for fourth, behind Beaulieu, Peery and Miller and did manage to climb as high as third before falling back. Beaulieu had put some breathing room between him and the rest of the pack, but a couple of cautions allowed Perry, Miller and DeBenedetti to close the gap.
Beaulieu survived the final caution flag just past the mid point of the race and then held off Miller for the win. Peery finished third, last years NW Modified Nationals winner Jesse Williamson finished fourth and DeBenedetti fifth.
Prior to the feature race of the night, the 67 car field, which tied the record for the most number of cars for the event, went through two sets of eight heat races series heat races to earn points toward the field of 24 cars for the feature event on Saturday.
The first set of heat races the cars started in an inverted position from their qualifying time, with the second set based on a heads up start based on qualifying time.
Drivers earned points for where they finished their heat races plus points for each car they passed in a heat race and points for qualifying.
The top sixteen drivers in points after the end of Friday night are locked into the feature Saturday night, four more drivers will gain the feature from the B Main Saturday night and the final four needed to round out the 24-car field will come from two last chance races. Brian Poppa of Medford, DeBenedetti, Perry and Dave Duste JR. were the only drivers to sweep both of their heat races.
Posted: 08/01/10
MONSTER TRUCKS
Submitted by: Terry Guest
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| The car smashing, high powered monster trucks made there big appearance at Saratoga Speedway on Saturday and Sunday. |
Saturday night's Crash to pass marked one of our biggest fields of Crash to pass with 12 cars taking to the track. Fast time went to #8 Brad Kotscherofski and #77 Mark Stephens both setting times of 19.253. With all the fantastic monster truck action, the dashes got cut from the schedule for the 2 nights of racing. The heat was won by out of town racer #89 Greg Sagmoen making his first ever appearance at the Speedway. The 15 lap main saw 3 lead changes with the advantage going to #89 Greg Sagmoen as he passed his brother #88 Jarrod Sagmoen for the lead on the last lap. 2nd place with to #88 Jarrod Sagmoen and 3rd to #63 ³Smokin² Joe Libatore. Sunday saw local racing maniac #13 Tom Dunn make his return to the track and even hitting the big monster truck jump 4 times! Fast time on the night went to #88 Troy Tarbuck with a time of 18.911. The B heat went to #89 Greg Sagmoen and the A to #88 Troy Tarbuck. The 25 lap main saw some big crashes and some great racing. Tarbuck led most of the first half of the race until eventual race winner #2 Glenn Pinto spun him out to take the lead and eventually go on to win the main. 2nd went to #77 Mark Stephens and 3rd to #88 Troy Tarbuck.
The Roadrunner class hit the track once again with a field of 7 on Saturday. Fast time went to #28 James Buchanan with a time of 18.747. The heat went to #40 Cam Edward and the 15 lap main saw #77 Hans Baan dominate to win the main with #28 James Buchanan 2nd and #40 Cam Edward 3rd. Sunday's night action saw Buchanan go back to his winning ways, Buchanan set fast time with a time of 18.594, and won the 25 lap main event. The heat went to #19 Weston Lane and the main to Buchanan. 2nd in the main went to #10 Allias Parker and 3rd to #19 Weston Lane. Buchanan is proudly sponsored by Island Car Buyer.
A 35 car field for the Hornet cars made for some great racing on Saturday/Sunday. #02 Daryl Cahill set a new track record with a amazing time of 18.195 beating the old track record of 18.247 set by #07 Brandon Phillips. The D heat went to #14 Kyle Fallowfield, C heat to #13 Jason Fraser, B heat to #84 Jake Townsend and A heat to #08 Daryn Cahill. The 25 lap B main saw #20 William Boyes lead for most of the race but on lap 18 #93 Jake Johnson took over the lead and never looked back from there as he went on to win the B main. 2nd went to #81 Jeremy Stormo and 3rd to #14 Kyle Fallowfield. The 35 lap A main saw #08 Daryn Cahill dominate for most of the A main until lap 29 when #29 Gord Fraser took over the lead to go on to win the A main. 2nd went to #02 Daryl Cahill and 3rd to #08 Daryn Cahill. Fast time on Sunday night was set by #07 Brandon Phillips with a time of 18.395. The C heat went #2 James Buchanan racing a borrowed car, B heat to #95 Carolyn Thomas and A heat to #99 Chris Perkins. The 20 lap B main saw #76 Gord Fraser lead green, white and checkered as he won the B main. 2nd went to #33 Tristin Gait, and 3rd to #37 Brandon Steen. The 40 lap A main saw #02 Daryl Cahill move his way up to the take over the lead on lap 12 and never look back as he went on to win the A main. 2nd went to #07 Brandon Phillips and 3rd to #15 Lane Pearson. Daryl Cahill is proudly sponsored by South Island Imports and Domestics.
Extra Laps... 2 of our greatest local race car drivers Jason and Chris Beaulieu were racing at Grays Harbour Speedway in Washington for the 11th annual Shipwreck BEAD North West Modified Nationals on Friday and Saturday. Jason was the 30 lap race of champions on Friday against 66 other race cars! Saturday Jason carried his winning ways into the main winning the 40 lap main event. #27 Lawrence O'Connor from Port Hardy finished 6th and Chris finished 9th. Congratulations to all of our BC racers! Next Weekend marks the return of the Wilroc Lites. This class has been rapidly growing from a usual 6 cars last year, to up to 13 cars this year! The Lites will by accompanied by the Bomber cars and the Hornet Cars so make sure to mark your calendars for this special race event.
Posted: 08/01/10
STANFIELD CLEANS UP IN FIRST HORNET "99"
Langford, B.C., July 31, 2010
Submitted by: Ken Keating
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| Tonight marked the first ever Hornet 99 race that featured the Steve Copp Construction sponsored Hornet Series and they were joined by the very competitive Bomber Series racing at Western Speedway. |
   
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Last year's Bomber Champion, Brian Wakelin, suffered a rough ride as he slammed into the turn three wall, during the Trophy Dash, and that ended his night very
early. Brian was taken to the Hospital for X-rays as a precautionary measure but otherwise seemed OK. Blair Davis and Ryan Smith won their respective Dashes
while Rob Gaudreault and Ron Benham were winners in the Bomber Dashes. Giles Cyr and Benham were the winners in the Bomber Series Heat races. Twenty-eight cars lined up for the first segment of the Hornet "99" race with Jonathan Randal and James Bennett on the front row. Randal led the first lap but was passed by Candace Van Bree by lap two. She was followed by Jake Matthews, Tom Davis, and Joe Spring very quickly. On lap eighteen, Eric Fournier moved up to run in fourth but one lap later, Ryan Smith took that position. On lap twenty-two, Cam Stanfield grabbed the lead and was quickly followed by Smith but a yellow flag came out after just two more laps after a couple of cars got together that included Smith. On a double file restart, Stanfield again went back to the lead followed by Fournier and Steve Copp. Cam Stanfield walked away with the victory followed by Fournier, Copp, Jean-Luc Lagan, and Mike Halls. Jason Priddle and Dustin Dash had the front row for the first of the Bomber Feature events. Chris Broughton grabbed the lead after the first lap followed by Rob Gaudreault and Giles Cyr. On lap five Cyr took over the lead while Gaudreault moved into second with Brandon Steen taking the third position by lap six. These three drivers raced bumper to bumper for several laps and on lap sixteen, Steen made the pass for second sending Gaudreault back to third. On lap nineteen, Steen went to the inside going for the lead but got pinched off by a slower car but still managed to remain on Cyr's bumper. On lap twenty-five, the yellow flag came out as Dash went around on turn four. |
Twenty-six cars lined up for the start of the Hornet second segment with Glenn Rand and John Lerik sharing the front row. Steve Copp jumped into the lead after the first lap followed by Lerik and Eric Fournier but on the fourth lap Jean-Luc Lagan took over running third. On lap seven, Garrett Smith grabbed the lead and two laps later, Cam Stanfield grabbed the second spot dropping Copp back to third. On lap twelve, Phil Lagan moved through the pack to run fifth while up front Smith was in a tight battle with Stanfield and Copp. On lap twenty-four Bill Peacey took over the third spot with Lagan taking the fourth spot on lap twenty-nine sending Copp back to fifth. On lap thirty-one Stanfield finally got by Smith and went on to win the second segment with Smith, Peacey, Lagan, and Copp rounding out the top five positions.
Daniel David had the pole for the start of thirty-five laps in the second Feature event in the Bomber Series and after the first lap, Rob Gaudreault went into the lead followed by Giles Cyr and Brandon Steen. On lap three, Cyr took the lead with Steen taking the second spot one lap later and then passing Cyr for the lead on lap five. Over the remainder of this race, Cyr tried everything to get by the sixteen year old Steen but couldn't make it stick. Steen held the inside groove and was not about to let Cyr find an opening to complete a pass. Steen hung on for the win followed by Cyr, Gaudreault, Chris Stone, and Chris Broughton rounding out the top five positions.
Bruce Duffus and Joe Spring shared the front row for the final segment and thirty-three laps of racing in the Hornet "99" event. Duffus got the early lead while Spring hung on to second until lap seven when Marty Anctil took that spot. On lap fifteen, Garrett Smith moved through the pack and took over the third spot just as the yellow came out. On the double file restart, Anctil led for one lap and was quiclky passed by Bill Peacey while behind him several cars were racing hard that included, Anctil, Mike Halls, Smith, Cam Stanfield, and Jean-Luc Lagan. On lap twenty-two, Halls dropped out of contention leaving Smith running second and Stanfield moving to third by lap twenty-six. Over the next several laps, there was a lot of trading paint with several drivers but no serious crashes or mishaps. When the dust settled, Peacey hung on for the win followed by Smith, Stanfield, John Lerik, and Phil Lagan rounding out the top five. With the third place finish, and winning two segments earlier, Cam Stanfield came home as the first overall winner in the Hornet "99" race.
The next Hornet race is scheduled for Wednesday, August 4th with very few races left for the 2010 season. Racing will be more than intenses as each of the top drivers will be looking for more points in the Championship race. The next events, at Western Speedway will be a two day show billed as the "Weekend of Mayhem" that will feature the Demo Series with the Demo Cars, Demo Trucks, Mini Vans, and the Figure 8 Series. Western Speedway will also have the "Crazy Canuck" back for another car jump along with the Monster Trucks. This event will see Obsessed and Obsession here for the first time. Come early for the best seats and bring ear plugs.
Posted: 08/01/10
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