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Bussière, Johnson, Benedict, Mullin and Jalbert are winners on Opening night at Cornwall Speedway
By Martin Bélanger
CORNWALL, On – Sunday June 10, 2007, it was finally opening night at Cornwall Motor Speedway, the stands were packed along with the pits with a whopping car-count of 114 cars on this beautiful Sunday night.
In the first of two features race of 25 laps for the modifieds, 24 cars took the green has Yan Bussière was able to lead the feature, from wire to wire to win his first career feature at Cornwall. He had to hold off Boisvert a few times during this finale. It was his second feature of the weekend, as he won at Drummondville on Saturday night. Only one caution happened in this race as McDonald spun off in turn 3 and 4 on lap 7. Danny Johnson finished third, Roy Tarbell fourth and Mark Hitchcock rounded up the top 5.
In the second twin 25 laps feature, Billy Cook grabbed the lead on the initial start for the first 5 laps when a caution brought back the field together. Pierre Dagenais took the lead with some outside moves on Cook on the restart, followed by Brian McDonald who is now challenging Dagenais for the lead and is able to take it from him on lap 7 and keeps it until lap 20 when a hard charging Dagenais who has raced from on the outside groove all night long, passes McDonald but Danny Johnson who started twentieth on the field is now in the top 3 and challenges both Dagenais and McDonald for the lead. A great move of the Doctor over Dagenais on the last lap enables him to get a spectacular win on this second feature. Dagenais is second, McDonald third, Clément Therrien and Kyle Dingwall complete the top 5. Bussière, Boisvert, Tarbell and Bill Mullin won the heats and McDonald was the winner in the consis.
The 2006 track champion, Clayton Benedict was on the pole for the 20 laps feature in the Pro-Stock category. Even with 3 cautions, Benedict was able to lead all laps over the field of 18 cars to collect his first win of the season. P.J Peters finished second, Travis Back, Rock Aubin and Louie Jackson who had to come from the back after getting the first caution of race, completed the top 5. Benedict had also won his heat race, Jackson and Ricky Thompson are the other heat winners.
Eighteen cars took the green in the Semi-Pro feature, Mullin who was second took the lead and never looked back to win his first of the season. Only 2 caution in this 15 laps race. Michel Desjardins finished second and Derek Cryderman completed the top 3. Sloan Shuman and Mullin won the qualifying heats.
The 4 cylinders brought up 24 cars for their 12 laps feature race. Corey Jalbert on the pole for this one but Martin Bernard take the lead on the first lap after starting fourth but a caution on lap 7 for a 2 cars tangle in the backstretch gives a chance to the field to regroup. Corey Jalbert is able to retake the lead on the restart and never looked back to win his first one of the season. Gerry ‘O’ finished to second followed by Dominic Charlebois who finished third. Jalbert had a perfect night has he won the first heat, Jean Paul Laberge, Corey Wheeler and Martin Bernard won the other ones as Justin Leroux won the consis.
A demolition derby of seven cars closed the night in spectacular fashion with a lot of banging and crashing pleased the fans.
The show ran very smoothly even with the huge amount of cars in the pits. The track was in very good conditions and gave some great side by side racing in every classes. Do not miss next week as the Empire Super Sprints are in town for their first of two visits to the speedway in 2007. A complete race program is also on schedule along with bumper sticker night. The 4 cylinders class has a night off next week. It will be another exciting night of racing. Do not miss it!
Complete Results
Modifieds first feature (25L):
1.Yan Bussière, 2. Alain Boisvert, 3. Danny Johnson, 4. Roy Tarbell, 5. Mark Hitchcock 6. Clément Therrien, 7,Bill Mullin 8. Laurent Ladouceur, 9. Kyle Dingwall, 10. Lance Willix, 11. Carey Terrance, 12. Chris Jones, 13. Dave Heaslip, 14. Lee Ladouceur, 15. Chico Dingwall, 16. Brian McDonald, 17. Jasmin Léveillé, 18. Stéphane Lafrance, 19.Tim Kerr, 20. Pierre Dagenais, 21. Billy Cook, 22. Guillaume Daoust, 23. Robbie Grant, 24. Steve Jeffrey
Modifieds second feature (25 L):
1. Danny Johnson, 2. Pierre Dagenais, 3. Brian McDonald, 4.Clément Therrien, 5. Kyle Dingwall, 6. Stéphane Lafrance, 7. Alain Boisvert, 8. Dave Heaslip, 9. Mark Hitchcock, 10. Lance Willix, 11. Yan Bussière, 12. Chris Jones, 13. Roy Tarbell, 14. Jasmin Leveillé, 15. Carey Terrance, 16. Tim Kerr, 17. Guillaume Daoust, 18. Lee Ladouceur, 19. Robbie Grant, 20. Billy Cook, 21. Steve Jeffrey, 22. Kyle Dingwall, 23. Bill Mullin, 24. Laurent Ladouceur
Pro-Stock Feature (20L):
1.Clayton Benedict, 2. P.J Peters, 3. Rock Aubin, 4. Travis Back, 5. Louie Jackson, 6. Ghyslain Valade, 7. George Renaud, 8. Dion Oakes, 9. Joey Ladouceur, 10. Daniel Leduc, 11. Gilles Godard, 12. Jocelyn Roy, 13. Steve Johnston, 14. Stéphane Lebrun, 15. Ricky Thompson, 16. David Papineau, 17. Dave Bissonnette, 18. Chris Wilson
Semi-Pro Feature (15L):
1. Stuart Mullin, 2. Michel Desjardins, 3. Derek Cryderman, 4. Stéphane Carrière, 5. Mathieu Aubin, 6. Sloan Shuman, 7. Steve Harrigan, 8. Richard Turcotte, 9. Marc Lalonde, 10. Guy Regimbald, 11. Marco Lalonde, 12. Jeremie Levac, 13. Eric Alexander, 14. Jeremy Gougeon, 15. Chris Tremblay, 16. Kurtis McPhee, 17. Kevin Jodoin
Rookies Feature (12L):
1.Corey Jalbert, 2. Gerry Oszczakiewicz, 3. Dominic Charlebois, 4. Mark Radbourne, 5. Marc Chartrand, 6. Leslie Turcotte, 7. Andrew Leroux, 8. Joe Banks, 9. Shawn Quesnel, 10. Kevin DeJongy, 11. Martin Bernard, 12. Gary Kyer, 13. Dudes Thompson, 14. Chris James, 15. Gage Morin, 16. Shawn Michaud, 17. Ronnie Tyo, 18. Stéphane Depatie, 19. J-P Laberge, 20. Mike Gaucher, 21. Corey Wheeler, 22. Andrew Russell, 23. Kevin McClelland, 24. Michel Blais
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