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Brockville Ontario Speedway

Release 32-2009

October 19, 2009

First Ever DIRTcar Northeast Fall Nationals A Huge Success for Brockville

BROCKVILLE-Brockville was a very busy place on Saturday and Sunday as most of the DIRT Northeast racing world descended on it. The first ever DIRTcar Northeast Fall Nationals were a huge success as crowds packed the Brockville Ontario Speedway for a two day festival of racing and fun. The event also provided a nice boost to the local Brockville economy as visitors from near and far camped out in hotel rooms and enjoyed the beauty of the Thousand Islands. They also enjoyed seeing Canadian drivers win all five events, that attracted almost 150 cars and teams.

Meanwhile on the track at the Beast of the East, things were just as entertaining as five different classes all put on a show to remember for the event. Mario Clair dominated early in the 100 lap 358 Modified event on Sunday afternoon. The Quebec driver was super fast on the high side of the race track but fell victim to lap traffic around the midway point and turned the top spot over to Dale Planck. However, a restart with 23 to go was the ticket as the clear sailing up top enabled Clair to retake the lead en route to his biggest win of his career. Planck's second place finish was enough to be declared 2009 358 Modified Super DIRT Series champion. Kingston's Pat O Brien was the top local pilot with a solid fourth place finish after setting fast time in qualifying on Saturday.

The Super DIRT event for the Sportsman event took place on Saturday afternoon. Former Brockville track champ and defending DIRT champion Chris Raabe once again mastered the Beast of the East. After a gentle nudge to take over the lead from Brockville's Dylan Evoy in the early going. Raabe dominated the remainder of the 50 lap distance for the win and almost guarantees the Napanee pilot a second straight title. Justin Wright was second with Brockville's Matt Billings charging through the field from 16th starting spot for a third place finish.

The Pro Stocks also ran a 50 lapper as the final event of their series in 2009. Joey Ladouceur of Alexandria came in second in the points and did everything he could to cop a title. The ultra smooth driver led every lap and covered the field with relative ease in taking the win. However, Pete Stefanski's third place finish was enough for the American driver to hold onto his lead and take the title.

The winning continued in the 25 lap Sprint car race that was run minus electricity thanks to a power outage that began just as the Sportsman were taking to the track on Saturday. Glen Styres of Oshweken, Ontario managed to hold off a fast closing Steve Poirier in the closing laps to take a well deserved win. The Riverside Bar and Grill King of the St. Lawrence championship for the sprints went to Bryan Howland on the basis of a fourth place finish just behind BOS fan favourite Jessica Zemken, who copped the win in the dash. Brockville fans also raised over 1600 dollars over the two days for British Columbia native Travis Rutz. The young Canadian was seriously injured in a nasty crash last month in Indiana. Joyceville's April Wilson led the charge in the stands to help out her friend.

The 40 lap Street Stock event that many expected to be a marathon was instead a sprint race. Just a couple of minor cautions in a quick and entertaining event won by Brockville track champ Steve Billings of Smith's Falls. Billings had the car sideways a number of times in turn 4 but kept it straight enough to outdistance teammate Brock Cullen and Kevin Fetterly Jr.

Brockville Ontario Speedway would like to thank its fans, sponsors, teams and staff for such a great event. Plans are already on the board complete with some lessons learned from the first kick at the can. The Big Block Modifieds will join in on the fun in October 2010. The Nationals also wraps up the 2009 season at the Beast of the East. The first green flag waves in May 2010. Fans can keep up to date at the track website at www.brockvillespeedway.com.

Mr. DIRTcar 358-Modified Championship Series Race #11 – Brockville Ontario Speedway, October 18, 2009 ‘DIRTcar Fall Nationals 100’ Event Summary

Feature

FIN STR CAR# DRIVER

1 2 22c Mario Clair/St-Edmond,QUE($4,000)

2 10 77x Dale Planck/Cortland,NY

3 15 22h David Hebert/St. Damase,QUE

4 12 6 Pat O'Brien/Kingston,ONT

5 7 21 Yan Bussiere/Drummondville,QUE

6 4 6* Stewart Friesen/Niagara-o-t-Lake,ONT

7 1 88 Tim O'Brien/Kingston,ONT

8 14 22j Jeremy Wilder/Fort Plain,NY

9 5 42 Pete Bicknell/St.Catharines,ONT

10 11 22L Larry Lampman,Jr./Port Colborne,ONT

11 26 16w Lance Willix II/Theresa,NY

12 3 124 Pierre Dagenais/Gatineau,QUE

13 23 39 Clement Therrien/Victoriaville,QUE

14 27 72 Todd Stewart/Bath,ONT

15 25 23b Dany Bilodeau/Victoriaville,QUE

16 16 96 Kyle Dingwall/Brockville,ONT

17 13 25 Bobby Herrington/Elginburg,ONT

18 17 55 Perry Francis/Akwesasne,NY

19 24 6m Mat Williamson/St.Catharines,ONT

20 29 48 Tim Kerr/Picton,ONT

21 9 72x Denis Gauvreau/Alymer,QUE

22 18 9r Jason Riddell/Cardinal,ONT

23 22 87 Martin Gagne/Granby,QUE

24 32 35 Adam Moore/Elgin,ONT

25 8 99L Larry Wight/Phoenix,NY

26 19 3b Chad Brachmann/Sanborn,NY

27 21 7* Danny O'Brien/Kingston,ONT

28 31 63 Adam Roberts/Watertown,NY

29 6 m96 Brian McDonald/Cornwall,ONT

30 30 14 Mitchell Jock/Akwesasne,NY

31 20 0 Bill Gill/Plessis,NY

32 28 22 Eric Gauvreau/Chelsea,QUE

GATER NEWS LAP LEADERS: Clair (1-47), Planck (48-77), Clair (78-100).

CAUTIONS: 12 for 15 laps.

HEAT WINNERS (run 10/17): Planck, T.O'Brien, Dagenais, P.O'Brien.

CONSI WINNERS: Gagne, Therrien.

DASH (run 10/17): D.O'Brien.

BICKNELL RACING PRODUCTS WINNER AWARD: Mario Clair.

HALFWAY LEADER: Dale Planck.

BERT HARD CHARGER: Lance Willix II.

PENSKE POWER POSITION (12th): Pierre Dagenais.

INTEGRA SHOCKS FAST TIME AWARD (run 10/17): Pat O'Brien (14.290sec/94.472mph).

TOTAL PURSE: $19,575

CARS ENTERED: 43.

DID NOT QUALIFY(11)

7x-Todd Kendrick/London,ONT

8-Rich Scagliotta/Bound Brook,NJ

9-Mark Smoke/Akwesasne,NY

12-Skip MacKenzie/Ottawa,ONT

12k-Kyle Wilson/Joyceville,ONT

17c-Pete Cosco/St.Catharines,ONT

m70-Billy Cook/Hogansburg,NY

73-Dave Austin/Perth Road Village,ONT

75j-Pernie Banks/Portland,ONT

76-Ryan Poole/Charleston Lake,ONT

88L-Eric Lefebvre/St-Cyrille,QU

Hoosier Tire-VP Racing Fuels Mr. DIRTcar Sportsman Series Race #16 – Brockville Ontario Speedway, Oct. 17, 2009 “DIRTcar Northeast Fall Nationals Championship” Event Summary

FIN STR CAR# DRIVER

1 4 01 Chris Raabe/Napanee,ONT($1,000)

2 7 19w Justin Wright/Piffard,NY

3 16 74 Matt Billings/Brockville,ONT

4 11 20 Randy Earl/Brockville,ONT

5 3 k38 Ryan Susice/Ransomville,NY

6 12 38s Luke Whitteker/Iroquois,ONT

7 6 0 Jipp Ortiz/Ransomville,NY

8 10 7 Kenny Polite/Spencerville,ONT

9 15 07 Guy Ouellette/Valcour,QUE

10 18 8a Dana Aikins/Wellesley Island,NY

11 23 140 Mark Dixon/Durham,ONT

12 21 6m Mike Mainse/Kingston,ONT

13 24 5 Dave Wilgosh/Lyn,ONT

14 13 54 Mark Chiddy/Boston,NY

15 17 92 Adam Turner/Picton,ONT

16 20 63 Chris Herbison/Brockville,ONT

17 2 83 Dylan Evoy/Brockville,ONT

18 8 66w Dan Wiesner/Geneva,NY

19 22 57 Anthony Stockman/Watertown,NY

20 19 80b Steve Barber/Lansdowne,ONT

21 25 6v Roger Varacalli/Brockville,ONT

22 14 81 Bruce Makinson/Richmond,ONT

23 1 11 Dillon Sallows/Wolfe Island,ONT

24 30 52 Jessica Power/Kingston,ONT

25 29 32 Doug O'Blenis/Shannonville,ONT

26 9 27 Sheldon Hoogwerf/Prescott,ONT

27 27 44 Todd Ferguson/Prescott,ONT

28 26 11x Brian Copp/North Gower,ONT

29 28 66 Tabatha Murphy/Prescott,ONT

30 5 77jr. B.J. Willard/St.Catharines,ONT

LAP LEADERS: Evoy (1-7), Raabe (8-50).

CAUTIONS: 5 (lap 4, lap 8, lap 14, lap 15, lap 40).

HEAT WINNERS: Willard, Susice, Ortiz, Wright.

CONSI WINNERS: Mainse, Stockman.

XTREME LUBRICANTS FAST TIME AWARD: Chris Raabe (15.103sec/89.386mph).

CARS ENTERED: 35.

DID NOT QUALIFY(5)

1-Cory Winters/Finch,ONT

25-Phil Potts/Brighton,ONT

80eh-Ryan Buzzell/Renfrew,ONT

81m-Christine Martin/Wellesley Island,NY

86-Adam Trickey/Mallorytown,ONT

Mr. DIRTcar Pro Stock Championship Series Race #9 – Brockville Ontario Speedway, October 18, 2009 ‘DIRTcar Northeast Fall Nationals 50’ Event Summary

Feature

FIN ST CAR# DRIVER / HOMETOWN

1 1 92 Joey Ladouceur/Alexandria,ONT($1,000)

2 11 47 Dave Bissonnette/Apple Hill,ONT

3 6 48 Dion Oakes/Akwesasne,NY

4 8 6 Stephane Lebrun/Gatineau,QUE

5 4 7 Rob Yetman/Castleton,NY

6 2 2 Pete Stefanski/Wheatfield,NY

7 14 55 George Renaud/Green Valey,ONT

8 17 73 P.J. Peters/Akwesasne,QUE

9 5 99 Ghislain Valade/N.Lancaster,ONT

10 15 8 Sean Corr/Goshen,NY

11 9 05 Jocelyn Roy/St-Helene,QUE

12 3 44 Gilles Godard/Cornwall,ONT

13 12 26 Don Carlson/Ridgefield,CT

14 23 73d Michel Desjardins/Hawkesbury,ONT

15 25 188 David Papineau/Akwesasne,NY

16 22 16 Roger Levesque/Kingston,ONT

17 19 98t Jack Terrell/Jamesville,NY

18 20 4 Roch Aubin/Alexandria,ONT

19 24 jr7 Harvey Arquette/Akwesasne,NY

20 16 151 Ryan Stabler/Cornwall,ONT

21 10 18 Louie Jackson/Akwesasne,NY

22 18 1 Ricky Thompson/Hogansburg,NY

23 7 47s Corey Wheeler/Cornwall,ONT

24 13 ba98 Steve Johnston/Ingelside,ONT

25 21 14 Chris Tremblay/Long Sault,ONT

DNS 26 88 Allen Peters/Westville,NY

LAP LEADER: Ladouceur (1-50).

CAUTIONS: 9 (lap 2, lap 8, lap 15, lap 17, lap 19, lap 23, lap 25, lap 40, lap 46).

HEAT WINNERS: Yetman, Ladouceur, Stefanski.

NATIONAL PARTS PEDDLER HALFWAY LEADER: Joey Ladouceur.

FAST TIME TRIALER: Joey Ladouceur (17.472sec/77.266mph).

CARS ENTERED: 26.

Sprint Cars Riverside Bar and Grill A-Main (25 Laps)- 1. Glenn Styres (0), 2. Steve Poirier (28FM), 3. Jessica Zemken (1z), 4. Bryan Howland (51H), 5. Jeff Cook (10), 6. Rick Wilson (42w), 7. Shawn Donath (33), 8. Bubba Broderick (5), 9. Keith Dempster (5k), 10. Kayle Robidoux (46), 11. Travis Cunningham (71), 12. Lee Ladouceur (51L), 13. Alain Bergeron (8B), 14. Brandan Warner (10B), 15. Gordy Button (714), 16. Tim Kelly (12), 17. Joel Lehman (4z), 18. Devin Caron (24k), 19. Brian McDonald (151), 20. Chris Jones (11J), 21. Tyler Rand (84), 22. Paul Pekkonen (98), 23. Daniel Lampron (52L), 24. April Wilson (15aw), 25. Kyle Fraser (01), 26. Ryan Hunsinger (77x), DNS: Doug Banks (14), Stan Zanchin (94).

Street Stocks 40 Laps: Steve Billings, Brock Cullen, Kevin Fetterly Jr, Jason Fontaine, Craig Handley, Bruno Boivin, Phil Potts, Peter Raabe, Caley Weese, Gaetan Amesse, Yan Labelle, Adam Whaley, Richard Brady, Guy Reginbald, Alex Gagnon, Kevin Perrin, Stephane Bussiere, Mike Staley, Selena Simzer, Richard Lalonde, Rob Perry, Doug Anderson, Steve Kearney, Brian Billings, Jay O Hara, Jason Lamothe, Zach Trudeau