From TJ Buffenbarger: OHSWEKEN, Ontario – (September 15th, 2006) – Kyle Patrick and Justin Barger won feature events during a wild night of racing during the “Night before the Nationals” presented by native poker.com Friday night at Ohsweken Speedway that kicked off the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals weekend.
Patrick dominated his feature event after a crash took out Dustin Daggett and Chuck Hebing while they were racing for the lead. Barger battled Ken Mackey through lapped traffic and held off a late race charge by Brock Mayes to win the second feature. With their victories Patrick and Barger secured guaranteed starting positions in the Canadian Sprint Car Nationals on Saturday night.
In the first 15 lap feature Hebing and Kevin Job started on the front row. Dustin Daggett immediately moved up from fourth starting spot to challenge Hebing for the lead. With one lap in Daggett and Hebing were going through turns three and four when the duo made contact, sending Hebing into a wild flip in turn four. Both drivers emerged uninjured, but Hebing’s car was destroyed in the incident.
The beneficiary from the incident was Patrick who had raced from his original eighth starting position into the lead for the restart. From there Patrick destroyed the field lapping up to fifth position during the 15 lapper. Job, Jason Barney, Bobby Breen, and Nick Mulheim rounded out the top five.
After the race Patrick was pumped up about his feature win.
“It feels good to finally get (a win) this year,” said Patrick in the pit area after the race. “We’ve been so close this year to winning several features and haven’t been able to finish them off. Tonight we finally did it.”
In the second 15 lap feature Barger and Ken Mackey started on the front row. Barger led the first lap, but Mackey came back on lap two to retake the top position. Mackey held the position until he was picked by a lapped car that allowed Barger to retake the lead.
After a short caution for Bryan Howland’s broken front end Mayes moved up from fifth starting spot into the second past Mackey and set sail after Barger. Mayes’ teammate Dale Blaney also moved into the top five.
On Lap 12 Brad Knab flipped over the turn two wall. Knab emerged from the wreckage uninjured.
Barger was strong on restarts and was able to pull away from Mayes and hold on for the feature win. For Barger the win was accomplished using a car the team did not plan on using on Saturday, but after Friday’s performance Barger was not sure which car they would use.
“I’m actually thinking about using this car now,” said Barger in victory lane. “(The crew) and I will have to talk it over.”
Heat race events were won by Fred Cade, Hebing, Daggett, Glenn Styres, Mayes, and Barger.
In the Village Pizza Ohsweken shootout Daggett started on the front row and led all 10 laps in the special event for all the top four finishers in special events held for the Southern Ontario Sprints, Sprints on Dirt, Patriot Sprints Group, and Empire Super Sprints.
Justin Harris and Mike Farrell flipped during hot laps. Tim Philips flipped in the second heat race and Lee Stark took a wild flip out of the track in turn two during the third heat. All the drivers emerged uninjured.
“Night before the Nationals”
Presented by nativepoker.com
Ohsweken Speedway – Ohsweken, Ontario
Results:
Heat Races (Top four finishers transferred to the “A” Main)
Heat Race #1 (8 Laps): 1. 12C – Fred Cade, 2. 21X – Kevin Job, 3. 11M – Joe Middlemiss, 4. 56D – Jeff VanDusen, 5. 25P – Michael Parent, 6. 10C – Bob Crawford, 7.0x – Caleb Griffith, 8. 00 – Ryan Grubaugh, 9. 21 – Don Adamzak , 10. F1 – Nick Fratto, 11. 34 – Luke Hall, 12. 25 – Geoff Quackenbush
Heat Race #2 (8 Laps): 1. 45 – Chuck Hebing, 2. 6 – Mike Dussel, 3. 33K – Kyle Patrick, 4. 3G – Tim Norman, 5. 11 – Tim Allison, 6. 2 – Ryan Coniam, 7. 37 – Jamie Colalrd, 8. 27H – Tom Huppunen, 9. 1A – John Reigling, 10. 8L – Brian Lee, 11. 21P – Tim Phillips, 12. 35 – Ron Blair
Heat Race #3 (8 Laps): 1. 85 – Dustin Daggett, 2. 9 – Bobby Breen, 3. 38M – Nick Mulheim, 4. 87 – Jason Barney, 5. 21J – John Burbridge, 6. 49T – Gregg Dalman, 7. 42W – Rick Wilson, 8. 17J – Lance Younge, 9. 79 – Dick Mahoney, 10. 96 – Jim Davies, 11. 33 – Jim Porter, 12. 16x – Lee Stark
Heat Race #4 (8 Laps): 1. 0 – Glenn Styres, 2. 25M – Ken Mackey, 3. 92M – Dougie Norrie, 4. 25 – Warren Mahoney, 5. 52 – Mark Broughman, 6. 30 – Adam West, 7. 27R – Ryan Ruhl, 8. 47x – Louie Carufel, 8. 94 – Stan Zachin, 9. 20D – Jeff Daniels. DNS: 2J – Justin Harris, 24 – Bob McDonald.
Heat Race #5 (8 Laps): 1. 7B – Brock Mayes, 2. 8 – Blake Breen, 3. 6B – Dale Blaney, 4. 20 – Dan Kaszubinski, 5. 14M – Matt Norrie, 6. 10 – Jeff Cook, 7. 17 – Gary Evans, 8. 9JR – Tim Zack, 9. 83W – James Whittaker, 10. 37S – J.R. Stewart. DNS: 15 – Mike Ferrell, 79X – Brett Mann
Heat Race #6 (8 Laps): 1. 32 – Justin Barger, 2. 51 – Bryan Howland, 3. 38 – Brad Knab, 4. 11x Fred Pigeon, 5. 28FM – Steve Poirer, 6. 32 – Keith Dempster, 7. 1Z – Jessica Zemken, 8. 6N – Dain Naida, 9. 42 – Andrew Reeume, 10. 15AW – April Wilson, 11. 29 – Daryl Turford, 12. 7 – Jim Price, 13. 36 – Mike Stelter,
Village Pizza Ohsweken Shootout (10 Laps): 1. 85 – Dustin Daggett, 2. 51 – Bryan Howland, 3. 1F – Nick Fratto, 4. 30 – Adam West, 5. 25 – Warren Mahoney, 6. 9 – Bobby Breen, 7. 6N – Dain Naida, 8. 10C – Bob Crawford, 9. 14M – Matt Norrie, 10. 56 – Jeff VanDusen, 11. 45 – Chuck Hebing, 12. 25M – Ken Mackey
Lap Leaders: Daggett 1-10
“A” Main Events (Winners guaranteed a starting position Saturday’s “A” Feature)
“A” Feature #1 (15 Laps): 1. 33K – Kyle Patrick, 2. 21x – Kevin Job, 3. 87 – Jason Barney, 4. 9 – Bobby Breen, 5. 38M – Nick Mulheim, 6. 25P – Michael Parent, 7. 3G – Tim Norman, 8. 11M – Joe Middlemiss, 9. 11 – Tim Allison, 10. 12C – Fred Cade, 11. 21J – John Burbridge, 12. 56D – Jeff VanDusen, 13. 45x – Chuck Hebing, 14. 85 – Dustin Daggett, 15. 6 – Mike Dussel
“A” Feature #2 (15 Laps): 1. 32B – Justin Barger, 2. 7B – Brock Mayes, 3. 25M – Ken Mackey, 4. 6B – Dale Blaney, 5. 8 – Blake Breen, 6. 25 – Warren Mahoney, 7. 14M – Matt Norrie, 8. 0 – Glenn Styres, 9. 92M – Doug Norrie, 10. 52 – Mark Broughman, 11. 11x – Fred Pigeon, 12. 20 – Dan Kaszubinski, 13. 38 – Brad Knab, 14. 28FM – Steve Poirer, 15. 51 – Bryan Howland.
RACE RESULTS FROM: SEPTEMBER 15TH, 2006
pos car # DIRT SPORTSMAN
1st 5 DAVE DYKSTRA
2nd 17 BRAD ROUSE
3rd 64 DOUG ERSKINE
4th 21JJ JIM JOHNSTONE
5th 2K ROB KNAPP
6th P38 ROB PRATT
7th M11 MARK DIXON
8th 99C NICK CUPOLO
9th 88B DOUG SPIECE
10th 20J PAUL STRAWN
11th 50 ROGER LAUZON
12th 3Z ZACK ZUMPE
13TH 96 GRAHAM MACKAY
14TH 21J JOHN BURBRIDGE
15TH 11VT JAY BAIN
pos car # THUNDER STOCK FEATURE #1
1st 3 BRAD BACHER
2nd 40 TERRY OSMOND
3rd 37 JEREMY BEAN
4th 12 BRAD HERRON
5th 57 MURRAY NICHOLLS
6th 18 AMANDA STONER
7th 23 TREVOR DEBOER
8th 24A AJ LEWIS
9th 7 REMINGTON PRICE
10TH 3C RYAN DINNING
11TH 7F JASON FONTAINE
pos CAR # VILLAGE PIZZA OHSWEKEN SHOOTOUT
1ST 85 DUSTIN DAGGETT
2ND 51 BRYAN HOWLAND
3RD 1F NICK FRATTO
4TH 30 ADAM WEST
5TH 25 WARREN MAHONEY
6TH 9 BOBBY BREEN
7TH 6N DAIN NAIDA
8TH 10C BOB CRAWFORD
9TH 14M MATT NORRIE
10TH 56 JEFF VANDUSEN
11TH 45X CHUCK HEBING
12TH 25M KEN MACKEY
pos Car # SPRINT A-MAIN #1
1st 33K KYLE PATRICK
2nd 21X KEVIN JOB
3rd 87 JASON BARNEY
4th 9 BOBBY BREEN
5th 38M NICK MULHEIM
6th 25P MICHAEL PARENT
7th 3G TIM NORMAN
8TH 11M JOE MIDDLEMISS
9th 11 TIM ALLISON
10th 12C FRED CADE
11th 21J JOHN BURBRIDGE
12th 56D JEFF VANDUSEN
13th 45X CHUCK HEBING
14th 85 DUSTIN DAGGETT
15th 6 MIKE DUSSEL
pos CAR# SPRINT A-MAIN #2
1ST 32B JUSTIN BARGER
2ND 7B BROCK MAYES
3RD 25M KEN MACKEY
4TH 6B DALE BLANEY
5TH 8 BLAKE CREEEN
6TH 25 WARREN MAHONEY
7TH 14M MATT NORRIE
8TH 0 GLENN STYRES
9TH 92M DOUG NORRIE
10TH 52 MARK BROUGHMAN
11TH 11X FRED PIGEON
12TH 20 DAN KASZUBINSKI
13TH 38 BRAD KNAB
14TH 28FM STEVE POIRIER
15TH 51 BRYAN HOWLAND