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BITS FROM THE PITS JULY 24/2011
*The Bracket Bonanza has many things that it is famous for and one of them is the Wally's that are presented each year, and this year you can add Door Pro and the High Rollers Race on Friday Night to that mix. Yep thats right the sixteen car shootout for the high rollers on Friday Night goes for a Wally as well as the very popular Door Pro Class, which will also be part of the mix on Friday and Friday Night.
*With all the things that has gone on this year no one was surprised when late Saturday night after the jrs. had just made their final runs, in fact Jacob Wilson was coming back up the return lane. A scared deer ran through the fields and jumped the ditch at the top end of the track and crossed the track. At first this was looked at as kind of exciting but once it was explained too everyone how dangerous this could have been the situation was looked at a little differently. In my 40 years of going to the track and basically living there during the summers for the past 31 years, I have never even saw a deer standing in the fields let alone one running across the track. Again its been a weird year.
*Once again we remind everyone that the Scotty Richardson School of Drag Racing starts Thursday morning at 9:00 AM. We also remind everyone that each and every unit will be parked this up coming weekend as we expect this too be the biggest Bracket Bonanza of all times.
*Those that are responsible can be very proud of what they have done with the kids playground, as everyone was overly pleased with what has happened so far and the plans they have laid out to continue.
 

WE WHERE TESTED ONCE AGAIN, AND PASSED: JULY 24/2011
A number of years ago we use to do 4 airport shows in a summer, but these days we are down to one show where we go in and set up a drag strip and run the whole show on generators. One show that is until this past weekend when prior to time trials starting on Sunday Morning we lost all power to Luskville Dragway and surrounding area's. When we called hydro Quebec they told us 10:15 and it would be restored, no sweat we don't start time trial until 10:30, however when 10:15 rolled around still no hydro and now it would be 1:30 before it was restored. So with the help of many racers, and the use of 9 generators, including two motor homes which include Nitro Mike the Wheel stander Car guy's we had Luskville Dragway up and running. Watching everyone work together to get the track up and running makes me understand why I love to do this stuff, 99% of the racers at Luskville Dragway are just like a BIG FAMILY and it comes through every time we have a situation, and we have had many of them this season. Yes we have been tested often this summer, and I think we can say we have passed all the tests, so hopefully this one was the last. Now getting into the racing, Never in all my years at Luskville have I ever seen such GREAT Super Pro runs, "0" lights where the norm almost every pass and side by side right on their dial in runs, yes the track was better than it has ever been, but the drivers where better than I have ever seen at anytime. Was it the excitement of the weekend that lies ahead, I'm not sure but all I can tell you, and I think everyone that was there would agree, this past Sundays racing was the best ever. Heading into the finals of Super Pro Denis Souliere who had changed transmissions on Saturday night went up against Kevin Morrow in a famous Door car vs. Dragster match up, Souliere who cut another 0 light took the win. Semi Pro saw a repeat of Saturdays final as Mike Devenny and Daryl Jensen went to the line only this time the out come was reversed as Mike came out on top. In the Jr. Dragster portion of things Steve Clarmo beat Ashley Ogilvie in the finals for the win and the money and the points lead spread as well.

JULY 23/2011
On a day where the heat was almost unbearable Daryl Jensen burned up the track and won his first final in a year. Daryl and Mike Devenny went too the finals after eliminating Pam Koulaib and Marc Sauvé, and in the finals Jensen came out on top. Jr. Dragster was a first time winner as he beat last years points Champion Jacob Wilson, Wilson gained ground on Steve Clarmo as he went out early. because of a massive oil down and a cruise night fast approaching it was decided that Super Pro would be finished on Sunday Morning. We will bring those results later on this weekend. The heat and the traction took its toll on transmissions in Super Pro cars as can be seen by the photos below. No less than three dragsters where repaired with the help of almost everyone possible.
*Saturdays Super Pro race was finished up on Sunday Morning with current points leader Derek Malcolm laying the tree over and took the win light over Randy Bellefeuille  and his for sale dragster.

BITS FROM THE PITS: JULY 22/2011
*Look for not only some new cars this weekend, but a new tow unit also, word has it that Mike Ogilvie and his race team will be traveling to Luskville Dragway in a brand new rig. Could it be that Ed DeCooman (D&D Performance) is going to be spending a lot more time at the races as he has purchased a jr. dragster for his grandson. The car was bought from Terry Wheeler, who bought Jacob Wilson's car, Jacob and father Scott where in New Jersey on Tues picking up his new car, just more great news for the track.
*Just a reminder to everyone, only one tow vehicle, in the pits, no spectator cars what so ever, for the weekend of the Bracket Bonanza. We don't want to have to have people moved so please pay close attention too this, as we will be very packed so everyone has to cooperate. Also keep in mind that RACER'S will be coming in the upper gate, and those gates will be open Thursday. Again we remind those in the Richardson School to bring your payment in US Cash for Scotty. you will be able to park Wednesday for anyone that interested, each and every rig must be directed into their parking space by a employee of Luskville Dragway.
 

POINTS CHASE'S TOO HEAT UP THIS WEEKEND WITH TWO BIG DAYS OF RACING: JULY 22/2011
Things could get pretty interesting in the 2011 points battles, as we head into a weekend that has two big days of racing for all class's. The Jr. Dragster class has seen as much movement as any class in the history of the track this summer, and with cars changing hands, and new cars being purchased it could be even more interesting in the second half of the year. Last years points champion Jacob Wilson will debut a new car this weekend and he hopes too gain some ground on Steve Clarmo who is having a banner year and leads the points at the half way mark. Steve has only a 600 point lead over Jacob, so will have to be looking over his shoulder for the rest of the summer, but not only at Jacob as Chevy Morrow and Rookie Ashley Ogilvie are also within sticking distance, and a good showing on a two day weekend can really shake up this class. In the Semi Pro Class the top five drivers are not separated by much and Marc Sauvé will have to keep an eye on all and in particular Ian Gould who is only 700 points out of catching Marc. Mark Thompson, Joe Doyle and Pamela Koulaib only need a good weekend and they too will be chomping at Sauvé's heels for the points lead. The Super Pro Chase has a very familiar face leading right now as Derek Malcolm a former Track Points Champion has a small lead over second place driver Jamie Clarmo. Another former points champion Kyle Jessup is also within one weekend sticking distance and is very capable of doing just that on any two day show. Clarmo who is coming off a great weekend at the Elliot Lake Tour event has had to work all week to get his car back together as it had a small engine problem up north forcing Jamie to use Denise Souliere's car as a back up car, and where Clarmo did very well with it also. So with out question the big weekend, before the bigger weekend could prove very interesting and could set the stage for the showdown to the points leading up too our final races this fall. Could we first time ever have a father and son win championships in the same year, its probably something no one has even thought of but it could happen this season.

BRACKET BONANZA ADDS YET SOMETHING ELSE NEW AND EXCITING: JULY 22/2011
As if we don't have enough going on at the 20th Annual Bracket Bonanza, but there is always room for more. And more is what everyone is going to get as Nitro Mike and his wild Wheel Standing PT Cruise is booked too be part of this very popular weekend of drag racing at Luskville Dragway. I got too meet Mike for the very first time at Elliot Lake and I can tell you that he is AWESOME and his show is even more AWESOME so we decided to bring him to our track for our biggest race. Mike puts on quite a show and will be very popular with the fans we know as was shown at the Lake. So as if the weekend was jammed back enough, we now have something that has never been seen in this area, Mike comes from British Columbia and is looking forward to meeting everyone in the East.

BITS FROM THE PITS: JULY 18/2011
* To say this race has a 1000 stories would be putting it mildly but we hope to bring you as much info as we can on what was another very successful Elliot Lake Tour event, marking 12 years of doing so.
*On our way too Elliot Lake we had the misfortune of loosing a wheel off of our trailer, upon pulling into the parking lot at Elliot Lake, and informing some of the northern drivers, Bruno Serre quickly went to work on his cell phone staring to do what would turn out too be a long process of getting us fixed up. And Bruno along with a number of other racers and crew members including Steve Woods in Semi Pro did not stop until we where back together, THANK YOU SO MUCH.
*Things had run pretty smooth on Friday and we decided to move another big on wheels diesel generator too the top end to run the score board so we would never have to fill it during the day. One of the city workers who has help us for all the years we have been there hooked on too it and started down the return road, the only thing was he had forgotten to put down the light pole, it caught the overhead wires and flipped the generator over, and tore down the ticket booth and overhead wires. Even though things looked bad once Derek had reset everything, nothing had been damaged and other than some injured body parts (Troy was in the back of the truck and was thrown 10 feet in the air, the city working cut his hand in a hurry to set the huge generator back up) everything was good.
*Saturday morning saw Denis Souliere take his wife, Jill to the hospital as she just did not feel right, (everything here also turned out good) so this meant that a substitute driver Jamie Clarmo who had blown up his motor in his car would step in too drive for Denis, and not only did Jamie step in, but stepped up to the runner up spot in Super Pro.
*Whether is was the heat or the competition but many cars fell to broke parts through out the weekend, lets hope everyone can get them repaired as we head back to Ottawa and two big weekends for Luskville Dragway
*the J&S Collision Best Appearing Car award went too Chris Manzo of Sault Ste. Marie, Chris was also awarded the best appearing crew award presented by Rose Hill Auctions.
*Besides all the regular racing that went on this past weekend at Elliot Lake we also have too take our hats off too Diamond Jim Crownhart and his spectacular Jet Car Show, Bill Hallet and the Detroit Thunder Nostalgia Funny Car, Diesel Dave and his funny car, and for the first time every Nitro Mike and his wheel standing PT Cruiser, who by the way was immediately invited to take part in our Bracket Bonanza.
*Hope everyone can understand that we have a massive job to get the points tabulated and posted but will do that as soon as we can, we can tell you that some new comers will lead the points chase's for the first time ever and that should make for a wild season.
*We are back at things as we head into the biggest part of our summer, Two days of racing this weekend, a cruise night and busy, busy busy. Things get underway on Saturday at noon, hope some of you racers come in Friday Night as we need some bodies to help reinstall the Score Boards, please and thank you.

ELLIOT LAKE REPORT, DAY #3
Again the sun would shine and the temperatures would sore but the racing was fantastic and when the curtain fell around 4:05 more new winners would emerge for the first race on the 2011 tour. With no street class on Sunday things moved along at a stellar pace and with no slowdowns for oil downs or anything else things where wrapped up in record times. Jr. Dragsters would see Steve Clarmo go too the line for another battle of the sex's only this time Randi Lyn Urslak would come out on top and take the North Shore Challenge Trophy home. Sled/Bikes would see another day of record turnouts for this class and another day of a familiar face going to the winners circle, Justin Prevost of Sudbury would come out on to of Serge Lapierre for all the marbles. In Semi Pro Shawn Oliver would make his way too the winners circle after a two year absence of being there and would do so at the displeasure of Steve Woods of Elliot Lake trying hard to win in front of his home town. Super Pro would see Dick Stanton come too the line to face Hal Blanchard of Belleville, Ontario marking his first ever final round appearance. Stanton would prevail and take home the first place prize money of $10,000, but for Hal who only a week ago thought about packing it in for the season, the second place finish was very, very encouraging. So once again Elliot Lake proved they do the best job of anyone when it comes to putting on these types of events and they deserve a big round of applause.

ELLIOT LAKE REPORT, DAY #2
Day two was once again met with fantastic weather, and with over 400 cars to compete you can just imagine the rush that was on. Today would see some lucky street racer crowned the KING OF THE STREETS and take home $1000. When all was said and done it came down too two northern drivers with Ron Fournier beating up on Chris Butler for the championship. In the JR. Dragster division the Luskville Dragway points leader Steve Clarmo was not too be denied as he beat rookie sensation Ashley Ogilvie for the win. Mike Lalande would would come out on top of Andrew Cassels also two competitors who call the north home but run the tour quite often. The Semi Pro Class was one of the biggest and here two regular tour competitors would stand out, as Gord Harling and Alan Siebart would go too the line for all the money with Harling prevailing and walking off with $2000. for his efforts. Harling would also come away from the event with the points lead and would mark for the first time a Northern Driver would lead the points chase with only 3 races left too go. Super Pro saw the largest turnout of cars in the history of the event as 41 cars would go too the line in the first round. But when it was all over Rock Beaudion would come out on top of Jamie Clarmo driving Denis Souliere's car, Denis was forced to skip the first round as he had to take his wife Jill to the hospital as she did not feel just right and precaution is the best policy. Jill was fine and Denis would return too compete in the Sunday's portion of the program. The super pro class had some new faces including two or three new US Based cars including Mike Kalin who went many rounds all weekend and is one of the favorites to challenge for the points championship should he decide to compete at the remaining three races. Saturdays activities finished up around 7:10 and was followed by presentations and live music.

ELLIOT LAKE REPORT, DAY #1
Once again the Elliot Lake airport was over run by hundreds of race cars gearing up for the first race on the richest bracket racing program in Canada, the Benson Auto Parts Show Me the Money Tour. Things kicked off Friday night with a $3500. gamblers race which saw cars, bikes and sled all gunning for the $2000. first place prize money. heading into the round of eight thee was still very good representation of all the class's, however in the round of four (which is only three) there was Derek Malcolm, Darren Frasso and Mike Scott with his brand new semi pro Mustang. Scott would receive the buy and Darren Frasso took Derek Malcolm out when Malcolm broke out by 1 thousand on the big end. Frasso would continue that good fortune in the final where he set the pace for the weekend with a day one Win and enough money to pay for his weekend and more. Day two saw more cars coming in too what was already overflowing parking space in the pit area, however everyone was well accommodated 
 

*In case some don't realize it, Luskville Dragway is not open this weekend as we head down the road to put on the first Tour Event at Elliot Lake, Ontario, as we kick start the Benson Tour 2011. However we are back on July 23-24th with some very big events, and the of course the BIG ONE the 30th annual Bracket Bonanza on July 29-30-31st. Never in the history of the track has you the racers and spectators been needed more than now, in a season that has seen the track have more than its fair share of ruff times we have only a few months too turn it around. We hope that everyone who has a love for the sport of drag racing, or a love for Luskville Dragway, will help us turn things around and make the remainder of the season the best we can.
*Just a Reminder, too those taking the driving school on July 28 and 29th I have been asked to ask drivers too bring US Cash for the amounts you still owe to Scotty Richardson. The school will start on Thursday July 28th. at 9:00 am in the morning which will be class room first. As earlier mentioned we have two spots still left in the school and anyone who has ever taken it will tell you, you come out of it a better drag racer, so give it some thought as it will be a while before it happens again.
*Angie has just purchased some of the playground structure and we will be taking it too the track next week, NOW anyone who can lend a hand say Friday night after you get in and get parked to put it together would be greatly appreciated. We are trying real hard to get stuff done for the Bracket Bonanza, and will be doing more as we continue to add too the playground until the end of the year.
 

OK TIRE PEMBROKE BUMPS SEMI PRO PURSE UP TOO $750. TO WIN ON AUG20th: JULY 14/2011
In a season where the weather man has not cooperated very well with us, there is no question that the advertisers have stepped up to help off set all the bad news with the weather, with more big purse's than in any other season. And this week that happens again as the Inter-track race the weekend of August 20-21 OK Tire Pembroke has added to the semi Pro Purse bumping first place money up to $750. and the runner up to $300. This will make the payout for this class one of the best of the season besides the Tour Events, Larry and Darlene Delaurier have been big supporters since signing on in 2010, and they have shown it once again with this bonus purse for the semi pro cars. This event is shaping up to me HUGE, with the Inter-track cars being there, as well as the Interstate Batteries Door Pro Shootout, The running of the Precision  Concrete Mulligan event which pays out $2000. to win super pro, and then Sunday where the Ottawa Greenbelt day takes over and pays out HUGE bonus dollars. So even in a year where the track has had its fair share of bad luck, the drivers have benefited big time by the tremendous support of our advertisers which we are very, very lucky to have.

*Just a Reminder, too those taking the driving school on July 28 and 29th I have been asked to ask drivers too bring US Cash for the amounts you still owe to Scotty Richardson. The school will start on Thursday July 28th. at 9:00 am in the morning which will be class room first. As earlier mentioned we have two spots still left in the school and anyone who has ever taken it will tell you, you come out of it a better drag racer, so give it some thought as it will be a while before it happens again.
*With this past weekend at Shannonville under our belts the points series there has had a bit of a shaken up too it as Darren Frasso moves into first place in Super Pro with two or three drivers nipping at his heals
*Another new car moves into the Shannonville Dragway area, another good sign as the rebuilding continues. Chris McEvoy bought a 80 Camaro from Jamie Tupper, this is a car that started out at Shannonville with Darren Frasso, who sold it to Al Ray who sold it too Jamie Tupper who sold it to Chris
 

TUPPER WINS SUPER PRO IN RACE 2 OF THE SHANNONVILLE SERIES: JULY 11/2011
It's been over a month since we last put drag cars down the Shannonville Motorsports Park Dragway, but even though it was a while, some drivers  didn't forget where the finish line was. Jamie and Shelia Tupper made the long haul from Tillsonburg, Ontario to back up their opening day win with a second one in a row in Super Pro. Jamie went to the finals after a red light start for Darren Frasso in the semi's with Jason Chatwood making his way to the finals after defeating Trevor Tandy in the other Semi's. In the finals Tupper would not be denied as he went too the winners circle for the second time in a row at Shannonville. The sportsman class was won by a young lady driver Angela Mark from Peterborough who did a great job all day long for her victory. Michelle MacDonald was the Jr. Dragster winner as she beat Brandon Barker in the finals. The third race in the series will go Aug 7th and should see a lot more cars as the car count continues to grow back at Shannonville.

SNAP ON TOOLS SUPER SATURDAY HAS ITS WINNERS: JULY 9/2011
It was just good to race let me say that is for sure, and it was real good for Ron Headrick as he picked up his first ever win in the new dragster. Ron will be the first to admit that he had some luck along the way, but so does everyone win they win. A 4:99 read light by Troy Davis in the Semis and a broken car for Jamie Clarmo in the finals, but Ron did his job and that's how you win races. Randy Urslak also had a pretty good day as he was the other semi finalist. In Semi Pro Marc Sauvé once again showed why many consider him the man to beat this season as he took Frank Cantusci jr. in the finals. Ian Gould once again had a good day as he went to the semis making his last few events pretty good. Steve Clarmo looks like the driver to beat in Jr. Dragsters as he picked up another win over Kayle Urslak from Randy's Performance Automotive. Late in the season and we where also happy to see some new cars one being Bob Therein's Corvette making some shake down runs. So now its off too Shannonville for another race day there and then off too Elliot Lake for the number one race on the summer Tour. We will post Shannonville Results early Monday.

BITS FROM THE PITS: JULY 8/2011
*This just in, Thanks too Larry and Darlene the owners of OK Tire Pembroke, Semi Pro will be running for bonus dollars on the August weekend. stay tuned for details
*Well know, it seems like its been a long time since we have been doing any racing, but that is all about to change as we get ready too head into the busiest times of the season. Between now and the long weekend in Sept. there is a lot of racing with not many breaks, but that is good. We once again hope everyone comes out this Saturday and competes at Luskville Dragway, and that as many as possible will travel to Shannonville with us on Sunday (or Saturday Night). We then head to Elliot Lake for the first of 4 tour races, back to Luskville for a two day event (July 23-24) and then the Bracket Bonanza.
*We still have a couple of spots still open in the Scotty Richardson Driving School which will take place the Thursday and Friday of the Bracket Bonanza. Scotty Richardson is famous for his cross country schools and many have become much better racers because of this so really give it some thought, as it is probably not going to happen at Luskville Dragway for a good many years because we just don't have the numbers to do it year after year. But if you want to be a better drag racer here is your chance with a proven teacher.
*Word has it also that Scotty would like to stick around and race that weekend, and he is looking for a car too do that in if there is any interested parties let me know.
*Congratulations to Julie Dube for her runner up spot at Sanair last Sunday, a number of local racers traveled there to compete as Luskville Dragway had no racing going on. Julie has been close a couple of times at Luskville Dragway also, and its only a matter of time before she makes it too the winners circle. Julie  like anyone else who has not registered for should think about that Scotty Richardson driving school, as sometimes its just the little thing that takes you to the next level.
*We are also hoping for some helping hands to take down the score boards after the race event on Saturday, these things are very heavy and the more bodies we have too lift the easier and quicker it can happen. Speaking of scoreboards we once again have one of them for sale as an advertising package, got too tell you we could sure use the sale at this time with everything that has happened the last little while.
*The all new and very, very limited 30th Annual Ottawa Sun (Reddi Chef) Bracket Bonanza T-Shirts have arrived and will go on sale this weekend. There is only 144 of these babies and they will go fast. Lila already has one for her collection as can be seen by the photo to the right, they will be a collector item so get them while they last. All of the drivers who enter the race on July 29-30-31 will receive one, which means there wont be many extra's what so ever.

BITS FROM THE PITS: JULY 3/2011
*Not sure how many of you follow what goes on at other tracks and other sanctioning bodies, but did anyone read this week that IHRA will be implementing buy backs at some of their events beginning with their Sportsman Nationals at Maryland July 8-9. This include's all their class's Stock, Super Stock, Top Sportsman and Top Dragster just too name a few. Amazing its taken them this long to catch on how us small tracks have been surviving the last 15 years.
*Congratulations to Al and Linda Ray for their new towing set up which they picked up this past week. This is one of the nicest looking pieces around and gives them room in the trailer for a dragster and a door car EM!
*Just a reminder that Saturdays Snap on Tools race has a 12:00 pm start time for Time Trials and 2:00 pm start time for Eliminations. The track is also open for all street cars, and their is a cruise night Saturday Night. Track will be open Friday night for parking.

THE WEEKEND (JUNE 25-26) IN FROM HELL BEHIND US, LETS GO RACING: JULY 3/2011
Well too say the last 7 days has been a test of ones sanity, would be putting it very, very mildly, following the disaster on June 26th. their has been a whirlwind of activities to get things put back in order. First off we got on the phone to a new timing company (as our old one no longer services their equipment) and order a brand new system. Mean while Derek along with Mike Code who many of you know as someone who has been with us full time, and part time for the past 25 years, went to the track on Wednesday and work well into the night to get the old system fixed. That alone was great news but we could just rely on that anymore as we did not want what happened to everyone June 26th to happen again. So even though Luskville Dragway had certainly not budgeted a new timing system a new one was purchased from Port-A-Tree, and their service technician was brought to Canada to set it up, show Derek, Mike, and the rest of us how it works. Al and Sue Smith where tremendously helpful as was Frank the Tech who came to Canada, and we will be working with them in the future. Right now we are still using our old system (Daktronics) and we have the Port-A-Tree set up to roll out should anything happen, we will be switching in the not too distant future to the Port-A-Tree system full time at our track like many other tracks close to us (Sanair, Naperville, Lebanon Valley). Port-A-Tree is located in Mass. not on the West Coast of the USA, where we have been dealing with Daktronics for 28 years. Daktronics is the off shoot of Chrondeck which was really the very first real timing system NHRA used. We will have always been able to roll out and set up and airport race, and once we have everything in place we will be able to do it much, much easier and will be looking for other venues to do just that.  As we move forward we will be purchasing a new set of scoreboards that will be set up on a trailer to be much much more movable with out killing everyone like it does now when we take down the big ones. So with all of that seeing a car go down the track on Saturday and noon was a very very good site to say the least, seeing the tree come down, and the scoreboards light up was very good. We certainly want to thank Mike and Derek for spending many hours at the track and getting things right, Our Son in Law Jason for working with Port-A-Tree to make sure we had the right computers here once their tech arrived, and now its back to racing with Luskville Dragway Saturday July 9, Shannonville Sunday July 10 and then Elliot Lake July 15-16-17.

BITS FROM THE PITS: JULY 1/2011
*First of all let me wish everyone a HAPPY CANADA DAY" hope you have a great day and things go well. I have had to scratch pretty deep to come up with much to get  upbeat about this week, with everything that went on at the track last weekend. However Canada Day reminds me that we live in the best country in the world, and no matter how bad things get they always get better. Derek along with our good friend and always their to help person, Mike Code have fixed our system and we will be back up and running this weekend. Mike has been with us at the track for so many years now I cant remember, and although he is not there every weekend he is always there when we need him, and I and I'm sure everyone says THANK YOU for that. We will also be at the track Friday working with the new timing company that is coming in from the US to supply us with a new system as back up, so there wont be another situation like we had last weekend.  But there wont be  much time for celebrating until we have race cars going down the track and time slips coming out of the printers. Even after that there will be much work too do as the Elliot Lake Benson Tour Event is just around the corner and we have to be ready for that and we have the Shannonville Race on July 10th the Sunday before Elliot. We desperately need bodies and hands Saturday night after the cruise night to take down the scoreboards, if you can help please do so as this is a big job.
*Rumor has it that one Super Pro racer could be looking for a new car and if that is the case I believe his current car will be for sale? we will keep you posted as things happen.
*Because we wont see a lot of our regular racers until July 9th. I just want to remind everyone that Shannonville is running a full program on July 10th. I'm really asking for as many of our regulars as possible to support us here and to join the train that will be leaving Luskville for Shannonville for Sunday. As you all know we are very involved with Shannonville and need as much support as possible. I also know that this is not an easy thing with the price of gas and such, but it will take us back too the old days when it was nothing too run at one track one day and one track another day. I can remember running Luskville Saturday, Naperville Saturday night and then Cicero NY on Sunday. I know back then gas was nothing compared to what it is today, but please consider helping us with the Sunday Race at Shannonville

GOULD AND WATT'S BACK $1000. TO WIN SEMI PRO EVENT AUG 27TH. JULY 1/2011
Even in a week which has been one of the worst for Luskville Dragway, with all the damage that was brought upon us by mother nature (why is she called Mother Nature) some good news has risen to the surface once again. Ian Gould and Bruce Watts, two Semi Pro drivers who own and operate successful business's in the Pembroke area have bought the title rights to Semi Pro Spectacular Aug27th 2011. The purse for that Saturdays Semi Pro event will see drivers competing for $1000. to win in their class, something usually only the Super Pro Cars compete for. So even in the worse week ever in the history of Luskville Dragway some racers, who own companies manage to add a little bit of sunshine at the end of the day. Entree fee's for this race will stay the same and the drivers will be running for points, as this will be a make up day for the June 26 race. Bruce Watts who came on the scene a few years back owns his own carpet installation business in Pembroke and Ian Gould is the owner of Custom Auto Repair also located in Pembroke Ontario. Ian just won his first ever Semi Pro Final a few back and says he will be gunning for some of his own money on August 28th. This will make for some great racing for the semi pro cars and will in all likely hood see some super pro door cars running in it also. Again a big Thank You to Ian and Bruce who have made a very, very bad week have a breath of good news at least.