Story By: MARTIN BÉLANGER / CORNWALL MOTOR SPEEDWAY – CORNWALL, ONT – After a week off because of the inclement weather, Cornwall Motor Speedway was back with the Run what you Brung along with a complete race program presented by Rutters Elevators.
Brian McDonald took the early lead in the 50-lap Run what you Brung modified feature with Louie Jackson in second. Gage Morin was quicker and passed Jackson for second. McDonald put on a torrid pace as the feature quickly got to lap 20 with Morin and Johnathon Ferguson running in the top 3. Gavin MacFarlane brought the caution on lap 24. McDonald kept the lead as Stephane Lafrance moved to the top 4. Lafrance moved to third with 9 laps to go. Darryl Mitchell brought the caution with 4 laps to go. On the restart, Gage Morin got a great restart and took the lead and led the last laps and got the win!
In the 25-lap Next Level Home Improvement Sportsman, a good battle on the initial start between Justin Cyr and Shane Pecore with Cyr taking the lead with Josh Jock in third. William Racine had a good lane and took third on lap 10. Cyr got into heavy traffic in the final portion of the event as Racine passed Pecore for second with 2 laps to go. Cyr led the whole feature and grabbed his first ever feature over Racine and Pecore.
A good battle right from the start between Burton Ward and Marc Lalonde who exchanged the lead in the 25-lap Alexandria Home Hardware Pro-Stock feature with Lalonde taking the lead with Jocelyn Roy in third. Lalonde led the way with Roy taking second over Ward. Lalonde led the final portion and got his 5th feature of the season.
James Clarke took the lead in the 20-lap Ricks Ranch Mini-Stock feature over Dan Cook as Antoine Dumouchel was now in third. Travis Lamarche did a rollover and red flag was out on lap 4. Clarke to the lead over Cook and Brandon McMillan in third. McMillan had the best car in the final portion of the race as he took the lead over Clarke with 4 laps to go. McMillan captured his first feature of the year over Clarke.
Trey Ladouceur was the early leader in the 20-lap Fun Zone Inflatables Novice Sportsman as Sylvain Dupuis was in second spot. Dupuis used the inside lane and passed Ladouceur for the lead as Marco McCarthy passed Ladouceur for second with 5 laps to go. Dupuis held off a charge from McCarthy and won the feature.
One of the big events of the season is next on the schedule as the Canadian Big Block Series will be in town with a 100-lap feature paying $10,000 to win along with a complete race program plus a 40-lap Sportsman feature and Mini-Stocks.
358 Modified JLB Heating and Cooling
A Feature 1 50 Laps
1. M16-Gage Morin[3]; 2. 151-Brian McDonald[2]; 3. 44-Johnathon Ferguson[5]; 4. 66X-Carey Terrance[6]; 5. 115-Stephane Lafrance[8]; 6. 23-Joey Ladouceur[7]; 7. 18J-Louis Jackson Jr[1]; 8. 77E-Ryan Stabler[9]; 9. 88-Lee Ladouceur[12]; 10. 879-Darryl Mitchell[14]; 11. 08-Chris Ferguson[13]; 12. 40-Gilles Godard[11]; 13. 17M-Gavin MacFarlane[15]; 14. 66-Kyle Dingwall[10]; 15. SS3-Sandy MacFarlane[16]; 16. 47S-Corey Wheeler[4]
Sportsman Next Level Home Improvement
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:06:44.249
1. 88J-Justin Cyr[1]; 2. 35R-William Racine[5]; 3. 0-Shane Pecore[2]; 4. 00-Donovan Lussier[6]; 5. 03-Joshua Jock[3]; 6. 94-Gabriel Cyr[9]; 7. 35-Thomas Cook[7]; 8. 22C-Cedric Gauvreau[10]; 9. 85-Tyler Givogue[4]; 10. -Scott McGill; 11. 44-Casey Swamp[13]; 12. 29D-Justin Desrosiers[11]; 13. 88-Fire Swamp[19]; 14. 67-Marc Therrien[16]; 15. 21L-Terry Ladouceur[8]; 16. 3-Adam Rozon[15]; 17. 71-Delbert LaGrow Jr[22]; 18. M70-Billy Cook[14]; 19. 92T-Tristan Ladouceur[18]; 20. 04-Scott McGill[12]; 21. 27D-Mario Dupuis[21]; 22. 95-Dan Jalbert[17]; 23. (DNS) 1-Justin Lalancette
Pro-Stock Alexandria Home Hardware
A Feature 1 25 Laps | 00:07:17.775
1. 8-Marc Lalonde[1]; 2. 48-Jocelyn Roy[6]; 3. 4-Rock Aubin[3]; 4. 28-Burton Ward[2]; 5. 64-Daniel Desnoyers[4]; 6. 27-Thomas MacDonald[10]; 7. 17-Marc Peladeau[5]; 8. 57K-Kevin Fetterly Jr[7]; 9. 9-Eric Jean Louis[8]; 10. 2X-James Clarke[15]; 11. 55-Joel Renaud[13]; 12. 22B-Blayne Nichols[12]; 13. 3-Mike Gaucher[11]; 14. 57-Alain Leduc[14]; 15. 67-Eric Leblond Reche[16]; 16. 72G-Denis Gauvreau[9]
Mini-Stock Ricks Ranch
A Feature 1 20 Laps
1. 23B-Brandon Macmillan[4]; 2. 2X-James Clarke[1]; 3. 7M-Dan Cook[2]; 4. 7-Antoine Dumouchel[6]; 5. 48-Carl Gorry[3]; 6. 30B-Jean Cedrick Bouchard[8]; 7. TJ35-Tyler Lamarche[9]; 8. 11-Jordan McNaughton[10]; 9. 90-Christopher Proulx[11]; 10. 83-Steven Boies[12]; 11. 93M-Travis Lamarche[7]; 12. 75-Emily Massy[15]; 13. 114-Felix Lavictoire[14]; 14. (DNS) 21-Marc André Voyer; 15. (DQ) 15B-Adrian Black[5]
Sportsman Novice Fun Zone Inflatables
A Feature 1 20 Laps | 00:05:37.653
1. 48D-Sylvain Dupuis[1]; 2. 37-Marc Olivier Mccarthy[4]; 3. 21T-Trey Ladouceur[3]; 4. 16-Matthew Prunner[10]; 5. 25-Pierre Picard[7]; 6. 18JR-Denis Rose[5]; 7. 82-Nicolas Mainville[11]; 8. 14-Ty David[8]; 9. 87X-Daylon Ezard[2]; 10. 17M-Madie Wallace[6]; 11. (DNF) 67-Brent Lozo[9]