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Canandaigua, NY… Finally! Finally after all the hard work, heart aches, near misses, and some plain old bad luck Paul Grigsby adds his name to the BRP CanAm Series winners list.
Grigsby drew the number one starting spot for the second ever BRP CanAm event at the fabled Land Of Legends – Canandaigua Speedway. He led the first lap of the 30 lap A-Main. However, he lost the top spot to the red hot Jeff Chesebro on lap two. At that point, few gave Officer Grigsby any hope of getting past Chesebro. As the laps quickly rolled by Chesebro stretched his lead to as much as ten car lengths, but Grigsby never quits. Chesebro was using the outside lane while Grigsby stuck to the bottom. The outside finally bit Chese since he was running about a 5/8th mile track while Grigsby was using only a ½ mile to complete his laps.
A caution on lap 22 for a spinning Beamer Guzzardi tighten the pack. Chese went straight to the top and Grigsby stayed on the bottom. As the cars came to starter Dave Farney’s five to go signal Grigsby had his Integrity Home Shaw Grand Prix in the top spot.
Matt Cobb was patiently watching from third for much of the race. Cobb followed Grigsby’s path and swept under Chesebro on lap 29 and rode his Austin Distributors Rocket home in the runner-up spot for his best Series finish ever.
Chesebro brought his McKiernan Towing & Recovery CRS Grand Prix to the checkers for the final podium spot.
Steve Dixon earned the DART Hard Charger award with his very impressive run from 20th at the start to a fourth place finish.
Todd Hanson completed the top five with a great run in his T&L Tiling CRS Monte Carlo.
F/A Products – Clevite Engine Parts heat race winners were: Jim Johnson, Paul Grigsby, and Matt Cobb
Next Series events are Wednesday August 15 at McKean County Raceway and then back to Canada and the Merrittville Speedway on Saturday August 18th.
30 lap Canandaigua Chrysler / Dodge / Jeep A-Main Finish: PAUL GRIGSBY, Matt Cobb, Jeff Chesebro, Steve Dixon, Todd Hanson, Jim Johnson, Bruce Miller, Scooter Pangrazio, Mike Williams, Quinn Sutherland, Rich Michael, Larry Knowles, Jon Rivers, Neil Patterson,
Bob Bartlett, Beamer Guzzardi, Randy Hall, Mikey Wonderling, Bob Buono, Ron Baker, Rick Baker, Tim Peterson
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