GILL INCHES CLOSER TO THE QUAD AT BROCKVILLE
BROCKVILLE, ONT - Lee Gill hasn’t dominated the Modified division the way he has in the past couple of seasons at Brockville Ontario Speedway. However, he blew away the field and inched closer to his fourth consecutive track title taking the 30 lap 358 feature on Friday night at the fast quarter mile oval.
Gill survived numerous cautions especially late in the race by turning laps consistently in the 14.5 range around the quarter mile oval. The Lefargeville, New Tork pilot was even faster in winning his heat race with 14.1 second laps. Gill was so dominant on this night, that despite the final restart coming with 3 laps to go, he had a 2.3 second lead over second place Jeff Sykes when the checkered flag fell.
Bill Gill finished third followed by Mark Hitchcock and Stephane LaFrance who all took advantage of a late race miscue by Chris Herbison who fell back to sixth in the closing laps.
After one quick early race caution it was green flag to the end in the 20 lap Sportsman main. Cardinal’s Jason Riddell led all the way picking up his third win of the year in a race that took under 8 and a half minutes from start to finish. Dave Wilgosh was a distant second in front of Kyle Dingwall, Ben Tucker and Jason Potter.
There were a couple of first time winners in the Novice and Rookie divisions. Shane Ray of Heuvelton NY held off a late challenge from Peter Stapper for his first ever 15 lap Novice win. Robin Perrin was third with Barry Baker and Ryan Poole rounding out the fast five.
Cornwall’s Bob Ray, who smacked the wall in his last Brockville adventure drove to the 10 lap Rookie honours by a large margin over Dave Blue. Don Hall was in third after a wild final lap which featured a number of skirmishes with Dan Lortie and Kurtis McPhee making up the remainder of the top five.
The Speedway will be back in operation on Friday Night, August 15th at 7:30 pm for second and final appearance of the season for the always popular winged warriors, the Empire Super Sprints along with the Modifieds, Novice and Rookies.
Modifieds 30 laps: 1. Lee Gill 2. Jeff Sykes 3. Bill Gill 4. Mark Hitchcock 5. Stephane LaFrance 6. Chris Herbison 7. Brian Rogers 8. Randy Gaudet 9. George MacIntyre 10. Perry Francis 11. Doug Fuller 12. Cole Dingwall 13. Billy Cook 14. Jamie Martin 15. Adam Moore 16. Todd Stewart 17. Jeff Ciglich 18. Matt Gonyo 19. Darren Catillier 20. Dan Foss
Sportsman 20 laps 1. Jason Riddell 2. Dave Wilgosh 3. Kyle Dingwall 4. Ben Tucker 5. Jason Potter 6. Randy Earl 7. Jim Vock 8. Tim Alton 9. Tim VanBrocklin 10. Lance Willix 11. Kurtis Lee 12. John Mulder
Novice 15 laps 1. Shane Ray 2. Peter Stapper 3. Robin Perrin 4. Barry Baker 5. Ryan Poole 6. Roger Bushey 7. Billy Code 8. Dave Austin 9. Brian Hutton 10 Brett Horner 11. Kevin McRae 12. Adam Turner 13. Steve Billings 14. Sheldon Hoogwerf 15. Jack Code 16. Charles Barkley 17. Jeff Welch 18. Art Brown 19. Brian Lee 20. Jason Reimersma 21. Scott Bowman
Rookie 10 laps 1. Bob Ray 2. Dave Blue 3. Don Hall 4. Dan Lortie 5. Kurtis McPhee 6. Joseph Banks 7. Jesse Perrin 8. Brett Hartin 9. Mike Wilson 10. Donny Lacroque