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Jeff VanDusen is the ESS winner while PJ Peters wins the 50 lap Mohawk Race Parts and Accessories Series
By Martin Bélanger
CORNWALL, On – Sunday August 19, 2007 – It was a really busy evening on Home Hardware Night. It all started with last weeks feature at 6pm before tonight`s race which consisted of the second visit of the Empire Super Sprints and also the final race of the Mohawk Race Parts and Accessories Series for Pro-Stock as they had a 50-lap feature race.
In the final feature of the evening with a 30-lap for modified, Pierre Dagenais and Roy Delormier got right in when Brian McDonald spun out on the first lap. Delormier got a good start but Dagenais used the outside lane to pass him and got a good lead as Marc Therrien spun out in turn 4 on lap 5. Dagenais got a good jump with Kyle Dingwall now in second spot with Lance Willix in third when Brian McDonald slowed and brought his second caution of the race. On the restart, Dagenais stayed in front with Willix trying to get in front but spun out in the second turn and Laurent Ladouceur got into him. Dagenais was still front with Dingwall giving him a good challenge for the top spot with Boisvert and Lafrance going at it for third position and Lafrance finally got it and was now racing for second with Dingwall. Danny O’Brien was now fourth on lap 19 after starting fourteenth. Dagenais got into traffic with eight to go but did a great job as got away of Dingwall. Kyle Dingwall got closer to Dagenais did not have enough has Dagenais got the checkers to win his third feature of the year at Cornwall with Kyle Dingwall in second and Stéphane Lafrance who completed the podium. Lee Ladouceur, Roy Delormier and Dagenais had won the heats.
It was the last race in the Mohawk Race Parts and Accessories Series for Pro-Stock when Allan Peters took the lead in the 50-lap feature. Allan`s brother PJ got into second place on lap 3 and was now chasing Allan with Ghyslain Valade in third spot. Debris on the backstretch brought the first caution on the sixth lap. Allan Peters got a good start on the following green when Valade spun and Chris King hit him hard in turn 2. Allan Peters was still in first with PJ really and got the lead on the next lap while Roch Aubin and Stéphane Lebrun were battling for third when Bissonnette got into the mix and was now third as PJ Peters pulled away from the field but Aubin grabbed back third but Bissonnette was still present and was now in third. Steve Johnston slowed down on the backstretch on lap 20. PJ Peters got a great start with Allen in second and Gilles Godard in third when a yellow came out. On the following green, PJ was still your leader with Bissonnette who moved into second with Allen in third when Denis Gauvreau brought the yellow on lap 25. PJ Peters got a great jump with Bissonnette in second and Allen Peters in third, Louie Jackson was now in the top 5 after starting last when Denis Gauvreau brung out his second yellow of the feature. PJ Peters was still the leader with Bissonnette and Jackson now third when Godard and Jackson got together on lap 32. Peters was still the leader with Benedict now in the mix for the third spot and Joey Ladouceur in the top 5. Allan Peters got back his third with Ladouceur now in fourth as the three cars got into a great battle for third while Bissonnette was on the back bumper of PJ Peters when Steve Johnston slowed on lap 44. Peters got a good start and led the last 6 laps with Bissonnette on his back bumper to win the feature. Bissonnette finished second and Allan Peters in third, Clayton Benedict in fourth and Joey Ladouceur completed the top 5. With this win, PJ Peters wins the Mohawk Race Parts and Accessories Feature Race. PJ Peters also won the third heat race with Joey Ladouceur and George Renaud winning the others.
Bubby Kerrick got a quick start in the 25-lap Empire Super Sprints feature while Lance Yonge moved up in second. Jeff Vandusen used the outside lane to pass Yonge on lap 4 and was did the same thing two laps later on Kerrick to take the lead and he was flying on the speedway while a great battle for second between Yonge and Kurrick when Tommy Wickham spun out on lap 12. VanDusen stayed in front on the restart while Poirier moved up to third but Jeff Cook used the outside to pass Poirier for third as Wichkam spun for the second time on lap 18. Vandusen got another great start while Cook was now second with Yonge in third. Vandusen led the last 7 laps to win his second feature in a row at Cornwall, as he was the winner in June 17. Jeff Cook finished second with Lance Yonge completed the podium. Mike Stelter, Mikael Parent and Alain Bergeron were the heat winners with Bergeron getting the win in the dash for cash.
It is a total of 20 cars that took the green in the 15-lap feature of the Semi-Pro category as Jeremy Levac got the lead and Cryderman got quickly into second and got in the first spot on the second lap by using the inside lane to pass Levac. This same Levac got a flat tire and this brought the first caution of the feature. Cryderman stayed in front while Stéphane Carrière followed him closely with Michel Desjardins in the third when an accident occurred in the backstretch on lap 7 with three cars in it. Cryderman got a good start when a driver lost a bumper bringing the yellow out. On the restart, Cryderman was still in front with Carrière and Desjardins going into a great battle for second spot when Jason Bourdon lost a tire and the caution was out on lap 11. Cryderman got another good lead when Guy Regimbald got sideways in turn 2 on lap 12. Cryderman got a quick start over Carrière and led the last two laps to win the feature with Stéphane Carrière finishing in second, Michel Desjardins third, Stuart Mullin fourth and Alexandre Gagnon rounding out the top 5. Desjardins, Cryderman and Carrière were the heat winners.
The rookie expert started tonight’s features with their 12-lap finale. Kevin Dejong grabbed the lead with Gage Morin chasing him. Morin used the outside lane to pass Dejong on the second lap when the caution came out for Chris James on lap 3. Morin stayed in front while Bob Ray used the outside lane to get into second and was closing in on Morin. The yellow came out on lap 6 when Mike Gaucher had problems in the backstretch. Morin kept the lead but Ray passed him in the inside of turn 3 when Marc Usereau`s car got into fire in the engine bay and the red came on the field. On the restart, Morin took back the lead from Ray and led the last two laps to win his third feature of the year over Bob Ray and Andrew Russell completed the podium. Marc Usereau and Dominic Charlebois had won the heats. A big rollover for Jean-Marc Larose occurred during these heats.
Stéphane Racine grabbed the lead in the feature race when he is pushed by Adam Trickie and Racine rolls over two times in turn 4 and this brings over the red flag while Trickie got the black flag for this push. Racine was ok. The new leader was now Matt Leroux when he lost control of his car in turn 2 and gave the lead to Donny Larocque. Larocque kept his lead with Marc Chartrand in second place. Larocque lost a wheel on lap 10 and Chartrand was now the leader. Chartrand and Leroux got into a great battle into the last laps and Matt Leroux was the winner over Chartrand and Guillaume Daoust completed the podium. Adam Trickie and Stéphane Racine were the heat winners.
Billy Cook took the lead in the 30-lap feature for the modifieds and led the first two laps when Lance Willix passed him from the outside and took the lead on the third lap. Willix got a sizeable lead over Cook with Laurent Ladouceur in third. The leaders got into traffic and Brian McDonald was able to work is through the field and was now second on lap 17. On lap 20, Willix was first with McDonald second, Cook Third Ladouceur fourth and Danny O’Brien completed the top 5. O’Brien was now fourth when he passed Cook. McDonald was getting closer to the leader, but Willix was able to hold off to win his first feature at Cornwall in a green to checker feature. Brian McDonald finished second, Clément Therrien was third, Danny O’Brien was fourth and Lee Ladouceur rounded out the top 5. The modified heats winners were Perry Francis, Laurent Ladouceur and Lance Willix
In the 20-lap feature for Pro-Stock, Roch Aubin got the lead over the field of 18 cars when Steve Johnston spun out in turn 4 on lap 2. Aubin kept the lead on the restart when Joey Ladouceur and Gilles Godard got together in the backstretch and this brought the second caution of the feature. Aubin was still in front but Dion Oakes passed him in the backstretch and got a good lead over the field. Daniel Leduc stopped in turn four on lap twelve and the yellow came out. Oakes kept his lead over Aubin when a few cars got together and debris was on the track. Oakes stayed in front with Aubin trying hard to regain the lead, Louie Jackson used the outside line to get from third to first in the same lap on the lap 18 and led the last laps to win his second feature of the year. Oakes was second, Aubin third, Clayton Benedict fourth and PJ Peters rounded out the top 5. Roch Aubin, Gilles Godard and Jocelyn Roy had won the heat races.
Kevin Jodoin took the lead in the 15-lap feature for the Semi-Pro and led the first three laps whe the first caution came out for Marc Lalonde who spun out. Jeremy Levac grabbed the lead on the restart when he got too high and Mathieu Aubin was now first when the yellow came out for Levac who had a flat tire on lap 6. Point’s leader Stuart Mullin powered by Aubin when the green was back on and got a good lead when Steve Herrigan lost a tire on lap 10 and that caused the third caution of this feature. Mullin kept his lead over Aubin when Michel Desjardins spun in front of the grandstand on lap 12. Mullin was still in front with Derek Cryderman in second, Mullin led the last three laps to win his fourth feature of the year, Cryderman finished second and Kurtis McPhee was third. Stuart Mullin had also won his heat; Marc Lalonde and Steve Herrigan were the other heat winners
The rookie novice started the night with there 12-lap feature race when Stéphane Racine took the lead followed by Gary Kyer, Racine pulled away and at the halfway point, he had a 10-car length advantage over Kyer who had some challenge with Mikael Laberge. Racine led all laps and captures his first win of the season in this class, Kyer followed him but got penalized for rough riding and Laberge completed the podium. Michael Duval and Stéphane Racine won the qualifications.
It was probably the busiest night of racing this year at Cornwall with a total of 10 feature races plus 16 heat races making for a total of 26 races. It is a total of 335 green laps that were done on the quarter mile of Cornwall. The pits were packed with the infield loaded with the Semi-Pro and Rookie cars as a whopping total of 105 cars showed up for tonight race program. Do not miss next week, as the modifieds will have the Run What Ya Brung event as the drivers can modify their cars as they want and we usually get some great creations. A complete race program is also on the schedule with a general admission price of 9$ and the first heat is schedule to start at 7pm.
Feature Results:
Modified Feature ( 30 L)
1) Pierre Dagenais, 2) Kyle Dingwall, 3) Stéphane Lafrance, 4) Danny O’Brien,5) Clément Therrien, 6) Alain Boisvert, 7) Lee Ladouceur, 8) Mark Hitchcock, 9) Todd Stewart, 10) Jeff Sykes, 11) Roy Delormier, 12) Perry Francis, 13) Lance Willix, 14) Laurent Ladouceur, 15) Bill Mullin, 16) Jamie Martin, 17) Billy Cook, 18) Ron Valade, 19) Michel Pelletier, 20) Marc Therrien, 21) Brian McDonald, 22) Mitch Jock,23) Dave Heaslip (DNS)
Mohawk Race Parts and Accessories Series Pro-Stock Feature ( 50 L):
1) PJ Peters, 2) Dave Bissonnette, 3) Allen Peters, 4) Clayton Benedict, 5) Joey Ladouceur, 6) Louie Jackson, 7) George Renaud, 8) Gilles Godard, 9) Roch Aubin, 10) Jocelyn Roy, 11) Dion Oakes, 12) Scott Kocher, 13) Daniel Leduc, 14) David Papineau, 15) Stéphane Lebrun, 16) Steve Johnston, 17) Denis Gauvreau, 18) Ricky Thompson, 19) Chris King, 20) Ghyslain Valade
Semi-Pro Feature ( 15 L)
1) Derek Cryderman, 2) Stéphane Carrière, 3) Michel Desjardins, 4) Stuart Mullin, 5) Alexandre Gagnon, 6) Mathieu Aubin, 7) Marc Lalonde, 8) Kurtis McPhee, 9) Steve Herrigan, 10) Guy Regimbald, 11) Kevin Campbell, 12) John McDonald, 13) Corey Barnes, 14) Jason Lamothe, 15) Jason Bourgeon, 16) Sloane Sluman, 17) Joe Woods, 18) Kevin Jodoin, 19) Jeremy Levac, 20) Eric Alexander, 21) Marco Lalonde, 22) Wes Bilmer, 23) Jean-Paul Laberge
Rookie Expert Feature ( 12 L)
1) Gage Morin, 2) Bob Ray, 3) Andrew Russell, 4) Dominic Charlebois, 5) Eli Gilbert, 6) Kevin Dejong, 7) Kevin McLelland, 8) Gary Kyer, 9) Frank Colpitts, 10) David Seguin, 11) Corey Wheeler, 12) Marc Usereau, 13) Mike Gaucher, 14) Chris James, 15) Jean-Marc Larose (DNS)
Rookie Novice Feature ( 12 L)
1) Matt Leroux, 2) Marc Chartrand, 3) Guillaume Daoust, 4) Justin Leroux, 5) Donny Larocque, 6) Albert Scharf, 7) Adam Trickey, 8) Stéphane Racine, 9) Erin Joyce (DNS),10) Pierre Picard (DNS),11) Jamie McKee (DNS),12) Jesse Thompson (DNS),13) Mikael Laberge (DNS)
Modified Feature (August 12, 2007) ( 30 L)
1) Lance Willix, 2) Brian McDonald, 3) Clément Therrien, 4) Danny O’Brien, 5) Lee Ladouceur, 6) Billy Cook, 7) Mark Hitchcock, 8) Laurent Ladouceur, 9) Stéphane Lafrance, 10) Kyle Dingwall, 11) Perry Francis, 12) Alain Boisvert, 13) Roy Delormier, 14) Mitch Jock, 15) Bill Mullin, 16) Pierre Dagenais, 17) Dave Heaslip, 18) Ron Valade, 19) Carey Terrance (DNS), 20) Roy Tarbell (DNS)
Pro-Stock Feature (August 12, 2007) ( 20 L):
1) Louie Jackson, 2) Dion Oakes, 3) Roch Aubin, 4) Clayton Benedict, 5) PJ Peters, 6) Jocelyn Roy, 7) Stéphane Lebrun, 8) George Renaud, 9) Ghyslain Valade, 10) Joey Ladouceur, 11) Dave Bissonnette, 12) Steve Johnston, 13) Daniel Leduc, 14) Ricky Thompson, 15) Chris King, 16) Gilles Godard, 17) David Papineau, 18) Allen Peters
Semi-Pro Feature (August 12, 2007) ( 15 L)
1) Stuart Mullin, 2) Derek Cryderman, 3) Kurtis McPhee, 4) Mathieu Aubin, 5) Marc Lalonde, 6) Kevin Jodoin, 7) Sloane Shuman, 8) Stéphane Carrière, 9) Kevin Campeau, 10) Wes Bilmer, 11) Jeremy Levac, 12) Michel Desjardins, 13) Marco Lalonde, 14) Steve Herrigan, 15) Roger Hamilton (DNS), 16) Sylvain Campeau (DNS), 17) Mark Trudeau (DNS), 18) Corey Barnes (DNS), 19) Robert Delormier (DNS),
Rookie Novice Feature (August 12, 2007) ( 12 L)
1) Stéphane Racine, 2) Kevin McLelland, 3) Donny Larocque, 4) Marc Chartrand, 5) Mikael Laberge, 6) Jesse Thompson, 7) Albert Scharf, 8) Gary Kyer, 9) Chris James, 10) Jamie McKee (DNS), 11) Michael Duval (DNS),
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