June 27th, 1981
Harvey Hainer Jr. of St. Catharines, Ont. wheeled the Fron tier Part Mart 2H to a convincing win over Don Turner to win this years Frontier Part Mart sponsored night at the speed-way. Keith Ippel and Connie Gagnon from Frontier were on hand and couldn't be more pleased with the outcome of the racing program, first they ran three dash for cashes in each division and then finally to make a great topper their car driven by Electrify'n Harvey Hainer won the close feature event run-ning side by side for many laps with the Blue Streak of Don Tumer.
At the drop of the green flag. Pat Collins driving the Quality Radiator sponsored machine jumped into the lead and led the event for 12 laps before the 37H of Harry Sittler took over. Harry looked really strong the best yet for 1981 in the Harry Berraed/Daubney owned racer and kept the lead until Don Tumer wheeled the Hamill Engineered car pass Sittler and in-to the lead.
Turner who was leading the feature at Ransomville the night before, when misfortune struck sending the 39 over the bank to miss a spinning car seemed to be on his way to his first feature win in three years. However Hainer wasn't going to let that dream materialize and ran down Turner to over take the lead. Tumer didn't let up easily and held the lead from Hainer for a few more laps. After every caution period Hainer would lead the pack down the front straightaway where he would come close to the wall to cool off his tires. This enabled Hainer to maintain the great amount of power that he consumed the whole night. Hainer was the fourth different winner in as many weeks. Don Turner was second followed by Brian Stevens third, Harry Sittier fourth and Ivan Little fifth.
The accident filled Limited Sportsman feature was won by Al Wagner. The race was marred by two flips. One was the 77 of Billy Williard Jr. Billy who just turned 18 flipped three or four times finally resting on top of the cement wall on the front stretch. Billy was taken to the hospital and was OK Chuck Rumsby and Howard Manges tangled coming down for the checkered flag which resulted in the no. 2 of Rumsby to flip just about the same place as Williard had.
Carl Saunders kept his winning streak alive pulling off win no. 4 at the Speedway. Kevin Baker who won the Frontier dash was second followed by Roy Susice of Youngstown, NY third
Qualifying events were won by Pat Collins of St. Catharines, George Treanor and Wes Miller of North Tonawanda, NY; won the consolation. The NIAGARA AUTO SALES driver fo the week award went to Kevin Baker in the bomber, Harold Sonnenberg in the Limiteds and Harvey Hainer, Jr. in the modified class. The FRONTIER PART MART dash for cashes were won by Kevin Baker in the Bomber picking up an extra $25. Harold Sonnenberg in the Limiteds recieving $50 for Frontier and Colin Slade of Hamilton in the modifieds division picking up the $100 cheque from Keith Ippel of Frontier.
SUMMARY
Harvey Hainer, Jr., Don Turner, Brian Stevens, Harry Sit-tler, Ivan Little, George Treanor, Pete Bicknell, Mark Allan, Bill Stuyvenberg, Dan Rizzardo.