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It is with great pleasure that we announce that once again the Drummond Family have added to the pot for the George W. Drummond Memorial Night at Capital City Speedway. In a way of saying a special thank you too the racers in their 90th year of being in business ( 3 family generations) Over $500. extra dollars will be added to Thunde
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Cars, Legends, Mini Stock and Four for Fun that night, making this the
richest regular night payout for these drivers this season. The Drummonds
who are the owners of the Speedway, and are the people who stepped forward 5
years ago and basically saved the track from going into the history books,
have continued to do as much as possible too help in other ways since that
time. They continue to support the Thunder Cars Series owning the title
rights to this class, which they did from the time the Malcolm Family took
over the day to day operations of the speedway, and continue to do so too
this day. For the the Drivers in these class's the heat race winners will
now receive the following: Thunder Cars $50. for each heat winner, Legends
$40. for each heat win, Mini Stock $35. for each heat win and also the four
for fun who have not been forgotten about and will also receive $25. for
each heat win. On top of that each feature winner will also receive an extra
$50. on top of the regular payout thanks to the Drummonds. This should and
will make for one very special night as we present the George W. Drummond
Memorial Night for the 4th year in a row. We would also like to inform the
Thunder Cars right now that August the 8th will see you guys running for
extra cash, extra feature laps (50) as well as qualifying heat races for
feature line up's. we will have more on this in the next week or so, but it
will be one of your richest races of the season.First of all don't forget everyone we switch back to Wednesday Nights next week (June 24th) with a special feature attraction at the Speedway, "The Night of Destruction", plus the LATE MODELS RETURN> We then come right back the following Wednesday with Live Band starting at 2:00 pm and playing all afternoon in the Beer Gardens, with the full racing program starting at the regular time. The Late Models return for the first time since the ACT Event so that should be a great addition to the program as we all get to congratulate Sean Kennedy for his big victory. Would also like to remind everyone about the awards banquet and the fact that we are moving to a new location for the Nov. 21st. affair. We also want to have a car or two for this years banquet, must be in perfect shape in order to be put on display in doors.
Well
the last Friday Night of the 2009 campaign came to and end and the good
thing about it, is we can say we have not had one rain out this season YET.
Next week we go back to Wednesday Nights and hopes are high for bigger
crowds to start making their way to the speedway when we do. This past weeks
winners where as follows Four for Fun saw a new feature winner again this
week with Quincy Roberts scoring a popular win, after avoiding a huge front
stretch crash which took out a number of the top runners. Heat races wins
went to Quincy and Shawn Ethier. Mini Stock was a feature win for Jeff Smith
who also captured a heat race win along with Chris Lynch. Thunder cars
feature went to Gregg Ogilvie after a hard fought battle with Ken
Fisher, here two Gregg took one of the heat race wins along with Ken
Sproule. The Lentech Legend Class was won by Kevin Foisy, who added to his
points lead with Kevin winning one of the heats as well as Chad Windsor who
returned with his back up car after a wicked crash of his main car last
weekend at the ACT Series event. Again we remind everyone we switch back to
Wednesday Nights next week with the Lentech Auto Performance Night of
Destruction.
LOCAL DRIVER SEAN
KENNEDY WINS THE BIG ONE: JUNE15/09
Ottawa, ON – Sean Kennedy
of Dunrobin, ON won the Toromont CAT 100 at his home track, Capital City
Speedway. Kennedy took the lead from another local Matt Moffiitt on lap 25
and never looked back. The Capital City Speedway regulars used their
experience on the third-mile oval to their advantage and two of them
finished in the top five. 2008 ACT Tour Champion Patrick Laperle won a
late battle with Jonathan Urlin to capture the second place position. Urlin
came home third, followed by Matt Moffitt, and Yvon Bedard rounded out the
top five. Last week’s winner, Donald Theetge finished sixth, chased to the
line by Daniel Descoste, Pier-Luc Ouellette, Brandon Watson, and Ken Baird
finished in the top ten. Unofficially, nine cars finished on the lead
lap of the 100 lap event that was slowed by seven cautions. The last caution
came on lap 44 as the final 56 laps were run without a yellow. Kennedy
becomes the ninth driver to qualify for the ACT Invitational at New
Hampshire Motor Speedway as there have been no repeat winners in the
combined nine events on the Series ACT Castrol and the ACT Tour. Kennedy
becomes the only qualifier so far from the Province of Ontario. He joins
drivers from Vermont, New Hampshire and Quebec. The Series ACT Castrol will
be at Riverside Speedway in St-Croix, QC next Saturday, June 20. The ACT
Tour will also be running next Saturday as they were rained out at Waterford
Speedbowl this weekend and will be completing the final 72 laps of the
event.
Unofficial Top Ten%20(Small).JPG)
1 14 Sean
Kennedy
2 91
Patrick Laperle
3 4 John
Urlin
4 44 Matt
Moffitt
5 9PQ
Yvon Bédard
6 80 Donald
Theetge
7 2 Daniel Descoste
8 8QC Pier-Luc
Ouellete
9 19
Brandon Watson
10 12 Ken Baird
The biggest race of the season rolls into CCS this weekend and its time to hit one out of the park as one racer said to me this week and I couldn't agree with him more. The ACT Late Model Tour has always been a big deal,
and always been a big deal at CCS even back in the days when it was called
the Coors Tour. This weekend also has a great deal of significance for our
local drivers in this class as they get a chance to show just how good they
are up against some of the best late model drivers out there. Justin Holtom,
one of our regular points racers has been doing well at the three events he
has attended on the out of town tour dates, coming in 13th just this past
weekend. So hopefully the stands will be packed with local supporters of our
Late Model Drivers as they try not only to put on a good show, but win the
race and earn a spot on the trip to Lowden New Hampshire as part of the
Nascar weekend in Sept. All of the other class's will be in action this
Saturday as well and look for a number of out of town drivers in both
Thunder Cars and Legends. It should be a BIG SHOW for sure.Dave North one of the Kart Drivers sent us these video's from last Friday Night check them out.
Heat 1: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7xki9HsglLA
Heat 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b1_okkrHfQo
Final: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WSUhob3LWmQ
GO-KARTS RESULTS from last Friday Night, next race July 8th
HEAT #1 HEAT #2 FEATURE
1. #75 RON HENRIE #55 LEFTY QUINN #55 LEFTY QUINN
2. #67 SHANE FINDLEY #67 SHANE FINDLEY #75 RON HENRIE
3. #55 LEFTY QUINN #75 RON HENRIE #67 SHANE FINDLEY
4. #19 PIERRE PARISIEN #52 JOCELYN COTE #52 JOCELYN COTE
5. #52 JOCELYN COTE #19 PIERRE PARISIEN #77 SYLVAIN COULOMBE
6. #77 SYLVAIN COULOMBE #32 DAVID NORTH #19 PIERRE PARISIEN
7. #2 FRANK JONES #2 FRANK JONES #32 DAVID NORTH
8. #33 MICHAEL NORTH #77 SYLVAIN COULOMBE #33 MICHAEL NORTH
9. #25 #33 MICHAEL NORTH #2 FRANK JONES
10. #32 DAVID NORTH #25 #25
11. #99 KEN SPROULE #99 KEN SPROULE #99 KEN SPROULE
12. #9 #9 #9
With the nicest weather of the summer, and the second biggest crowd of the year on hand it was a great night at the speedway for Kenyon Racing Products night. The Go-Karts racing for the first time was well excepted
d
by everyone as the 12 or more that where on hand showed everyone some of the
nicest bit of racing we have seen. Bump drafting down the straight
stretches, 3 wide on the corners and a photo finish with lead changing twice
on the last two corners had all the fans on hand saying JOB WELL DONE GUYS.
The top three spots for the Kart guys went to James Quinn, Ron Honrie and
Shane Findley, Findley is the son of former late model driver Tom Findley so
for me personally was extra special. The Karts are back on July 8 and word
has it that many more will take part in the next go round for these guys. In
the Regular racing Ken Baird showed he is ready to go for the big ACT race
next Saturday (June 13) as he out ran the Farmer, Steve Munro for the Dash
for Cash Late Model shootout. In the Thunder Class Ken Sproule showed he
will make a move for the championship this season with back to back wins, Sproule's evening was made a little easier when front runner Greg Ogilvie
dropped a valve in his motor and had to retire to the pits for the night,
Sproule and Ogilvie also managed too take home the wins in the heat races.
With out question one of the most popular wins of the night went to young
Brandon Shipman who took home his first ever feature win in the Lentech
Legend Class, this win was exceptionally special as Brandon's Grandma, who
was celebrating her birthday at the speedway where her and Brandon's Mom are
every race night. Yes, some times things just work out very, very specially
and with out question this was a very special win, Watching Brandon's Family
cheer him on (including Grandma) from our vantage point in the tower made
feel as good as we ever had at the speedway, after all this is what its all
about. Another first time winner was Pierre Ladouceur who took home the win
in Mini Stock giving us 5 different winners in this class this year which is
incredible in its own way, Pierre and Doug Mould where the winners of the
heat races as well. Four for Fun was the the dominance of Brian Sehl once
again, even with the added 100 pound weight that he was accessed from the
previous week, Brian was able to charge home for the victory. There has been
a lot of talk about Brains fast car, Let us say this very publicly his car
is Totally Legal, he is just someone who has done his homework very well and
it shows. But as we said right from the beginning of our running the race
track we would do everything possible with in the rules to make all cars as
equal as they can be, however the one thing we can not control is the level
of driving that takes place, and Brain has shown that he is very good at
that.
Well now they say that
first are always good, and in our case we hope that is the truth as next
weekend will mark the first time we have ever had THREE different events
going on, on the same weekend. The Benson Tour will be in Grand Bend where
it is expected that 500 race cars are going to show up, The American
Canadian Tour event stops at our stock car track Capital City Speedway, and
of course Luskville Dragway will be open for time trials and cruise nights.
Yes to say that we will be praying for good weather would be a HUGE
understatement, but things will shake out the way they will with the weather
which we have no control over. We are also very fortunate to have our
genetic family members as well as our race track family members for with out
this we could not have even imagined such a task. Grand Bend will be a three
day deal with Friday, Saturday and Sunday, Capital City Speedway will be a
one day-night affair on Saturday June 13th and Luskville Dragway will see
time trials on Saturday, Cruise Night Saturday Night and Time Trials again
on Sunday. So things might be a little slow getting up dated on the web
sites, we have left town but not the country so check back often. From
all of us at ADM Motorsports we want to thank everyone in advance for
putting in that extra to make this happen lets just hope the weather man
does his part also. See you at the Races>
Local Heroes in
Stittsville has done everything they can to solidify their relationship with
Capital City Speedway, there is even a full page of coverage on their web
site devoted to CCS. They have a couple of their own nights at the track as
well as making their presence known with a number of car advertising deals
as well. And once again they have taken on another effort to not only help
promote Locals in Stittsville, but too also promote Capital City Speedway
and Y101 Night coming up on June 19 our last Friday Night of the spring
before we switch to Wed. Nights on June 24th and the Night of Destruction.
So look for ticket give always at Locals, Look for special prize package's
and special give away's as this "Local" establishment helps Capital City
Speedway promote Y101 Night on June 19th. Stay tuned to Y101 for more
information and plan on attending Y101 night at Capital City Speedway
presented by Local Heroes Stittsville. 
We
once again are overwhelmed by the advertising support that keeps rolling too
Capital City Speedway, and this week is no different as we are extremely
pleased to welcome Bluewave Energy to our Family of Marketing Partners.
Bluewave Energy is an employee owned petroleum distribution company with branches
throughout Canada.
As an authorized distributor of Shell fuels, they deliver furnace oil,
diesel fuel, gasoline, lubricants, marine gas oil and heavy fuel oil to
homes and business such as farms, fishing vessels, trucking fleets, mines
and oil and gas drilling rigs. They also sell, service and finance heating,
air conditioning, water heating and fuel storage equipment. Independent
consumer surveys show their service levels are industry leading. They focus
on leadership in energy solutions, such as price protection plans and energy
management services, and personal, responsive service. Bluewave Energy
supports their employees and their communities. They donate oil to the
Salvation Army for the less fortunate; thousands of dollars are provided to
many non-profit organizations through an employee/employer matching program;
and they fund various events in support of healthy youth in our local
communities. Yes to say Bluewave is a very community oriented company would
be a huge understatement as can be seen by these comments. Once again we
welcome them on board at Capital City Speedway and look forward to a night
at the races for their employee's, families and customers. You can learn
about Bluewave by clicking on their logo and visiting their web site
www.bluewaveenergy.caThis Friday Night will once again see something new and exciting at the speedway as the a large contingent of Go-Carts will race on the speedway for the first time ever. These cars are very fast and should be very entertaining for those that join in this race night which is also Fan Appreciation Night at the track as well as a Late Model Dash for Cash. Long range forecast is for good weather so lets hope they are right and we can get things headed in the right direction. As the season has gotten off but not to the big start we had been hoping for, as weather, economy and other things have played a part in the turnouts, but that will hopefully turn around this week.