We raced at Scotia Speedworld on Saturday June 1st. It was the coldest June I can remember in decades. It also rained, then stopped, sun came out and it rained again. We thought we might lose the night because the cold temps wouldn’t dry the track, but the sun did come it and the rain went away but didn’t take the cold with it.
We had three sets of practice and the car felt good. We decided to lower the chassis a bit closer to the track surface, that was our only adjustments all day and it was good.
Our crew this day was Shannon Riley, Chris White, Jack Lynds, Bobby and Emily Sanford and of course Buttons.
There were 18 cars, a decent turn out. The format was a 10 lap heat race and 150-lap feature.
I decided to take scratch in the heat race because everyone qualified and I wasn’t too keen on getting hit or spun. We could run with these cars but our budget is low this year and we need to be smart and not beat up the car. We finished 6th and would start 18th in the feature.
There was a fan appreciation event planned but with the cold, wind and loss of time already, they cancelled that. It was a good idea because rain was still not far away.
I wished I still had my message board but it was too outdated and slowed our site down. So I post the results here on the front page and a little story, but only one picture.
This feature was a wild one. On lap 8 a car made it 3 wide going into turn three. By the time they got on the front chute the car on the outside had to check up or get squeezed into the front straight wall. But when he checked up the car behind got into him sending him sideways down the front chute and basically resulting in all kinds of mayhem. Three cars were badly damaged and done, others were beat up but came back out. As I was coming off turn four and on the straightaway I saw cars flying everywhere and managed to get slowed down enough to zig zag through the pile up.
The rest of the race was close and nothing serious. There were two more spins but no one got damaged. On the last lap I got lapped again by the leaders. My spotter told me to follow the fourth place car when he passed me. I did that and it put me beside the 13th place car and right behind the 12th place car. As we went down the back chute I thought I might have a chance to get by one of these cars but as we entered turn three the 12th place car chopped down on the 13th place car and they both spun out. I went high to avoid them and crossed the finish line in 12th place and no damage.
This night gave us enough points to be in 12th place in the standings.
On Friday I am doing a special event show in Moncton for the East Coast International Pro Stock Tour.
Thank you for visiting our site. Thanks to Ashton Reekie for supplying this photo.
God bless you all.
ECI Pro Stock Tour Standing
Car#…….Driver…….Points
54…….Butcher………..414
41…….Ridgers…………404
25…….Gilby…………….392
13…….MacDonald…..390
25…….Vanoirschot…387
11V……Veinotte……..383
88…….Smith…………..382
0……..Rogers………….379
08…….Naugle…………375
36…….Elliott…………….369
32…….Hughes………….361
30…….Lively…………….380
2……..Tucker…………….209
1……..Messer…………….205
10…….Snell……………….200

Our first race for 2024 is in the books. We had a good day considering all we did over the winter.
The only tech issue was our spoiler. It was 3/8” too wide. We fixed it. Everything else was good.
There was a few small issues but none serious.
I messed up on the gear selection. 5:67 was too much.
The LF fender was rubbing the tire. Got that fixed and we had a slight diff leak and that too was fixed.
My crew were fantastic.
Chris White, Jack Lynds, Robert Sanford and Emily Sanford and Buttons. They made sure everything was set to go. Shannon Riley had to work. But she will make our next race.
We’re at 891 consecutive nights now, closing in on 900.
We finished 6th in our heat and 14th of 19 cars in the feature. A fun night.
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We were suppose to start our season on Saturday May 18th at Scotia Speedworld but when the weather man said it was going rain, the series cancelled the show, moving it to June 1st. I was disappointed to see the race cancelled. I get it that some racers in this series travel from New Brunswick and PEI, for them it’s a long day, and I understood how cancelling would be good for them. My issue was my weather app showed no rain, here or in Halifax area, and as it turned out, there was no rain Saturday or Sunday.
The East Coast International Pro Stock Tour will see it’s opening night at Speedway 660 on Saturday May 25th. It’s over 3 1/2 hours for us to get to this track. We will leave early in the morning and get home early in the morning.
We had our car out for our first off track event on May 14th at Mount Traber Bible Camp. It was a fun day spent with the kids who got to see and hear the race car. Shannon and Buttons were with me, Buttons was a huge hit 🙂
Race wise everything is set to go. Unfortunately we didn’t get to practice on May 11th, it was rained out. We sat at the track hoping it would clear up, but it was a cold day and drying the track would not happen. Just hoping we can get enough laps in during practice to sort out any issues….if there are any. We did take the car completely apart, stripped down to a bare chassis accept for the fuel cell, line and brake lines. The rest was all removed.
Wishing you all a great week. God bless.

We finally got our car complete as far as work is concerned. There are a few small things left to do that will be done in the next week or so, then our final set up for 2024.
Here is the picture of our new look.
More updates to come, sorry for being slow on posting, lots going on.
God bless you all and thanks for visiting our site.