The Scripture Union (SU) kids Race Camp was another successful venture that I was proud to be part of. This was the 3rd year for this Race Camp and it went well in every category. Awesome weather, lots of kids, lots of opportunity to ride go carts and my time with the different groups each day was excellent.
I would like to thank Sarah Chaudery and Scripture Union for having me involved again this year. Praise God for a wonderful sagfe and perfect week. I also want to thank Lloyd Lariviere, one of my crew members, who helped every day. Matt Smith, another crew member, also took time from his work to lend a hand in the tech garage helping to teach the kids some race car information. Our lesson on day one was safety, day 2 maintenance, day 3 practice and testing and on day 4 we talked about rules, playing by the rules, not cheating and racing clean. Day 5 was a barbecue and the kids got their awards for participating in the various games each day.
I hope we do this again in 2016…..I’m in for sure!

Our Sunset Speedway outing was a disappointment. We worked hard on the car most of the day trying to get it to handle. We had some good help from Brad Pearsoll and Gary McLean. Unfortunately by feature time I wasn’t confident with our car and decided to take scratch. I only do that when I feel my car is a non contender and it sure was this day. We did take a 3rd in one heat and 11th in the feature. We are now tied for 2nd in the points with John Baker Jr #63. We race the Modified this Saturday at Flamboro Speedway. On Friday night we race the Late Model at Full Throttle Motor Speedway. Race nights #22 and #23 for 2015. Our consecutive streak continues, we have 744 nights in a row after this past weekend’s Friday and Saturday night races.
I am away this week to Race Camp at Sunset Speedway, hosted by our sponsor Scripture Union Sports. Thank you to Sunset Speedway for providing the facility…just awesome. The first 2 days have been great for us and the kids, it finishes on Friday. Special thanks to Lloyd Lariviere and Matt Smith for helping me.

Thank you to Ontario Oval’s Eric Uprichard for taking this great shot of me and Brian McLean #47 at Sunset on Saturday…..I will catch up on more posting and updates next week.
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One of my favorite events at a race track is Fan Appreciation Night, or Meet The Drivers. It gives us a chance to give back to the fans by letting them see our car up close, maybe talk to some when time permits and sign one of our autograph cards for them. It’s a great night for fans because they get to see their favorite cars up close.
The announcer came on the track and talked to many of the drivers and when he talked to me he asked about our streak that started at 721 in a row at the beginning of this season and on this date, race #19 of 2015, it is at 740. It’s nice to be interviewed, gives me a chance to thank God for good health and a great sport, the track owner, fans and our sponsors.
Sauble gave the fans a deal on the front grandstand, so that was good as well. It was beautiful out weather wise and many fans came down to meet the drivers who brought out their cars.

We made our first visit to Sunset Speedway in our Late Model in 2015. We ran full seasons at Sunset in 2012 and 2013, but once in the OSCAAR Modified, missed the Late Model shows that were conflicting with the Modified.
It was the 3rd annual Family Faith Night, put on by 2 of my sponsors, Open Doors and Scripture Union, they gave away 500 pocket Bibles to the fans.
I must admit I do miss racing here. The atmosphere is awesome, lots of cars, lots of fans, lots of action and clearly lots of drama. But I still believe Sunset is the best race track in Ontaro in many ways, although running full time this year at Sauble Speedway has been fun, accept that we have no chance against the 400 HP built motors. The full report of the nights racing is on our Message Board, under Diary of a Season 2015.
Special thanks to Jerry Abramowicz for this photo.

Our latest run was with the Modified at Peterborough Speedway. We thought for sure we could turn things around but had a disappointing night. The car was not right again, as though it was out of control. It wasn’t out of control, but there was little feel with entering and going through the turns. I felt as though I was on the edge all the time and when that happens I tend to bakc off because the end result of driving a car like that is getting spun and worse, getting spun and wrecked.
I hope we can turn it around for our next Modified race at Sunset Speedway on August 22nd. We are still holding on to 3rd in the points, but barely with some very fast cars behind and in front, and all of them handling better than us.

OSCAAR Top 7
Gary McLean……….415
Chad Strawn……….381
Gary Elliott………368
John Baker………..367
Corey Horner………366
Brian McLean………354
Mike Hearty……….335