Arbuthnot, Pecore, Ward, Merkley, & Dumouchel raced to victories on Sunday at Cornwall Motor Speedway
July 7 evening, one of the most popular nights on the calendar, featured intermission autograph session and full racing program
Louie Jackson took the early lead in the 358-Modified feature race Sunday night at the Cornwall Motor Speedway, while Ryan Arbuthnot and Sam Charland followed close behind. Jackson got tied up in traffic by lap 10 as Arbuthnot closed in, and Dingwall forced the caution flag to fly.
On the restart, Arbuthnot took the lead with Corey Wheeler now in contention for second place with Jackson. The leaders remained in heavy traffic with 10 laps to go. Jackson was on the back bumper of Arbuthnot as caution came out with 3 laps remaining.
Arbuthnot led the final three laps to win a first feature this year in Cornwall, as Wheeler was able to pass Jackson for second.
This article was adapted from text submitted by Martin Belanger.
Shane Stearns was the early leader in 25-lap Sportsman class feature race. He held the position until lap 2 when caution came out. On the restart, Karl Letendre took the lead over Shane Pecore and Stearns. Pecore had a good lap 5 restart to move in front of Letendre. While Pecore pulled away, Gabriel Cyr made his move to grab second spot with eight laps to go. Pecore led the final laps to win his second feature of the season ahead of Gabriel Cyr and Letendre.
In the Pro-Stock 25-lap feature, a good battle between Kevin Fetterly and Burton Ward started off the action, as Ward took the lead with Marc Lalonde also in the mix taking second. Caution was out on lap 5. When full-speed racing resumed, Ward was strong in front as Lalonde and Fetterly were behind the leader. Ward never looked back en route to the victory.
In the 20-lap Mini-Stock feature, Antoine Dumouchel led early in front of Brandon McMillan. Dumouchel had the fastest car on the speedway surviving several cautions to take the win.
Nick Merkley took the lead in the 15-lap Novice Sportsman in front of Garin Thompson and Nicolas Mainville. Merkley led all laps to win his second feature of the season.
Race fans should take note that the speedway will not be holding any racing on July 14 but will be back in action on Wednesday, July 17, when the dirt oval will host the biggest Sportsman race of the year with $5,555 up for grabs in the 100-lap feature. The total purse on the night will be close to $26,000. The Modified will have a 55-lap event paying $5,555 as well, and the Mini-Stock will have a 25-lap feature with the winner getting $555.
Full results from July 7
358 Modified (25 entries, 35 laps, 00:13:22.228) — 1. R70-Ryan Arbuthnot[3]; 2. 47S-Corey Wheeler[11]; 3. 18JR-Louie Jackson Jr[1]; 4. 35R-William Racine[2]; 5. 41-Samuel Charland[4]; 6. M16-Gage Morin[10]; 7. 60-Jackson Gill[17]; 8. 66X-Carey Terrance[5]; 9. 44-Johnathon Ferguson[14]; 10. 18-Kalen Draper[16]; 11. 151KB-Brian McDonald[15]; 12. 17-Tristan Draper[9]; 13. 23-Joey Ladouceur[6]; 14. 13-Kevin Hamel[8]; 15. 77E-Ryan Stabler[22]; 16. 15B-Brianna Ladouceur[19]; 17. 23J-Jeff Sykes[7]; 18. 88-Lee Ladouceur[12]; 19. 40-Gilles Godard[18]; 20. 35-Thomas Cook[24]; 21. 55-Matt Woodruff[23]; 22. SS3-Sandy MacFarlane[21]; 23. 08-Chris Ferguson[20]; 24. 17M-Gavin MacFarlane[25]; 25. 66-Kyle Dingwall[13].
Sportsman (22 entries, 25 laps, 00:09:07.607) — 1. 0-Shane Pecore[7]; 2. 94-Gabriel Cyr[6]; 3. 8KL-Karl Letendre[5]; 4. 22S-Shane Stearns[1]; 5. 92T-Tristan Ladouceur[2]; 6. 9-Kristian Smoke[12]; 7. 29D-Justin Desrosiers[8]; 8. 95-Dan Jalbert[15]; 9. 98-David Andre[3]; 10. 16-Matt Barbour[13]; 11. 94J-Justin Cyr[4]; 12. M70-Billy Cook[9]; 13. 25-Bob Ray[16]; 14. 44-Casey Swamp[14]; 15. 37-Marc Olivier McCarthy[10]; 16. 3-Adam Rozon[21]; 17. 14-Ty David[19]; 18. 21T-Trey Ladouceur[17]; 19. 15-Matthew Noiseux[18]; 20. 51-Hugo Noiseux[20]; 21. 48D-Sylvain Dupuis[11]; 22. 21L-Skylar Ladouceur[22].
Pro-Stock (15 entries, 25 laps, 00:08:32.996) — 1. 28-Burton Ward[2]; 2. 8-Marc Lalonde[3]; 3. 57K-Kevin Fetterly Jr[1]; 4. 32-Jonathan Levesque[10]; 5. 22B-Blayne Nichols[4]; 6. 48-Jocelyn Roy[6]; 7. 4-Rock Aubin[8]; 8. 64-Daniel Desnoyers[5]; 9. 72G-Denis Gauvreau[14]; 10. 17-Marc Peladeau[12]; 11. 921-Eric Jean Louis[7]; 12. 3-Mike Gaucher[9]; 13. 57-Donald Leduc[11]; 14. 55-Joel Renaud[13]; 15. 67-Eric Leblond Reche[15].
Mini-Stock (25 entries, 20 laps, 00:20:39.831) — 1. 7-Antoine Dumouchel[1]; 2. 23B-Brandon Macmillan[2]; 3. 15B-Adrian Black[11]; 4. 93M-Travis Lamarche[9]; 5. 48-Carl Gorry[6]; 6. 19M-Martin Bernard[5]; 7. 21-Marc Andre Voyer[20]; 8. 30B-Jean Cedrick Bouchard[10]; 9. 38-Danick Cousineau[25]; 10. 83-Steven Boies[23]; 11. 22R-Eric Roy[12]; 12. 114L-Hugo Lavictoire[13]; 13. 27M-Crystal Pommainville[19]; 14. (DNF) 75-Emily Massy[8]; 15. (DNF) 42-Jeremy Levac[4]; 16. (DNF) 36-Danny Lecuyer[16]; 17. (DNF) 90-Christopher Proulx[7]; 18. (DNF) K49-Kevin Audet Charbonneau[14]; 19. (DNF) 43-Xavier Metivier[17]; 20. (DNF) 7X-Chris Cotton[3]; 21. (DNF) 114-Felix Lavictoire[24]; 22. (DNF) 84-Matthieu Massie[18]; 23. (DNF) 25R-Richard Belair[15]; 24. (DNS) 5M-Cameron Malloy; 25. (DNS) 7D-Macy Tarbell.
Sportsman (11 entries, 20 laps, 00:09:23.940) — 1. 911-Nick Merkley[3]; 2. 1RJR-Garin Thompson[1]; 3. 18JR-Denis Rose[2]; 4. 33X-Marco Poirier[8]; 5. 5-Mark Johnston[6]; 6. 82-Nicolas Mainville[4]; 7. 42-Kent Miller[9]; 8. X23-Daniel Menard[7]; 9. 7J-Jacory Thompson[10]; 10. 80D-Damien King[5].