This Thursday August 22nd we will be at River Glade Speedway for their 60th Anniversary special event. They have been closed for 10 years and have opened this 3 day weekend to celebrate 60 years. It will feature a 60 lap Pro Late Model show to kick off the exciting weekend. This will be our 10th race of 2024
In 1984 I was President of the Hobby Class, aka, Canadian Vintage Modifieds and organized a 2 week trip to the Maritimes. It was called the East Coast Tour. we raced at Aroostook County Speedway in Maine, then Riverside International Speedway in Nova Scotia. Our 3rd track was River Glade Speedway outside Moncton with the tour finishing this one in a life time road trip at Hammond River Speedway in St johns new Brunswick.
My team will be part of the River Glade 60th as we celebrate our 40th at this exciting event.
Hope the turn out is huge for the promoter Gary McLean.
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900 Consecutive Nights In The Books…..250 Lap Summer Clash On Our 900th
Thank you Scotia Speedworld and the East Coast Internatiinal Pro Stock Tour for recognizing our 900th Consecutive night.
I appreciate the interview by Tim Terry and time taken to get pictures with my crew…..and all my buddies racing in the Summer Clash 250. It’s a milestone that took 37 years to reach.
Thanks to all my sponsors especially Quaker State who is sharing this amazing journey.
Also very thankful to my kids David Elliott, Shirley Tiemersma, all my crew over the years and the crew this year.
Shannon Riley ,Bob Landry, Chris White, Jack Lynds, Robert Sanford, Emily Sanford and Ray Doucette……and my precious Buttons who’s been through this since 2012 ❤️
All the drivers in the race received a 900 Consecutive Night hat courtesy of Quaker State…I still have many left.
Thanks to Ashton Reekie for this photo.
I thank God for allowing this to happen.🙏❤️
899 In The Books…Car Was Off But Will Be Ready For 900 The Summer Sizzler At Scotia
We had a disappointing return to Oyster Bed Speedway on Saturday. We tried our best to get the car set up after a very long exhausting week especially for me. I was tired when we left home to travel to the track but with my awesome crew to help on this day Jack, Bobby, Emily, Ray, Buttons and my long time friend and crew Chief Jim we tired hard to get the car better but could not tame the handling. We did run as fast as the week before, even one lap faster but still not close to where we should have been.
We would finish 6th in the heat, I did try to get by the 5th place car but hit the dirt and lost a few car lengths.
We continued working on the car for the feature thinking we were not too far off but the same results occurred with the car pushing up the track and unable to turn strong in the corners. I was lapped by lap 23 and pulled off 8 laps laps later to finish 19th.
Disappointing for sure and I am hoping we can find the set up for our next race August 10th at Scotia Speedworld….our 900th Consecutive Night, s streak that started June 5th 1987>
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Bad Crash Ends Oyster Bed Hopes
Race#7
20 Cars
Robbie MacEwen wins
#898 Consecutive
Heat-6th
Feature- 20th crashed
Our visit to Oyster Bed Speedway in PEI was one I was really looking forward too. I love this little track and seem to run not too bad here. Our crew were fantastic, making many changes to get us better but we couldn’t get below 13:693. Most fast cars were in the 4’s and 5’s.
Jack was amazing again both spotting and making changes on the car with me. Bobby, Emily and Ray all did their part, especially in the feature when we were handling so bad, right front the start pretty well. I came in on the competition yellow, but was down one lap. The crew took air out of the LR tire to help the car turn better and I went back out.
We got the lucky dog. The cars were doubling up when I went back out and to my shock I couldn’t drive the car it was so loose I was almost spinning out at 30 mph. It was then I realized my RR tire was going down. I messaged to my crew, as we were still going around under the yellow “I have a RR flat tire”. I headed back into the pits and they changed it getting me back out before the restart. We had 4 practice tires we were allowed to use in case of a flat. I marked their depth before we put on the new tires. The best tire was a 5 in depth. It was our RF spare. I went back out and made the restart before the green. However the car still would not turn. The race went green until another yellow when a car needed towing, and again we were down a lap.
I went into the pits and asked them to check the rear stagger. It was less than 3″…not enough variance, should be 3 to 3 1/4″. The spare we put on was only 85 1/2″ and needed to be bogger to give us the stagger we needed. They rotated the tires on the outside because the the RF tire was bigger and that would give us what we needed.
I returned again to the track with 121 laps remaining. But it wasn’t to be this time, our night would end with a bad crash on lap 121 restart when the field got together going into turn one. I couldn’t stop and the track was completely blocked. I hit #11 Jordan Veinotte very hard on the RF, doing lots of damage to the car. Congrats to PEI’s Robbie MacEwen on his win, his 2nd Tour race in his career.
Here are some of the parts we know we need so far:
RF-spindle
RF–strut
Front steel bumper’
Front nose
Braces for the front bumper
Body braes
We have started work on the car and should have it ready by Thursday. Lots of dollars and hours again for this repair.
Our next race is back to Oyster Bed Speedway next Saturday August 3rd. My Ontario crew chief Jim Hulzinga and his wife Marie will be there.
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Three Nights To Go
We are now just three nights away from our 900th consecutive night, a streak that stated on June 5th 1987.
So many people have made this happen, family, crew, friends, sponsors and of course our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
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IWK 250 Draws 31 Cars….We Finish 19th
It was a hectic night of racing, starting early Saturday morning and ending at 10:30 in the evening. Our team worked hard to be competitive but I was exhausted from being up most of the night with my poor Buttons being so sick. We avoided trouble in the heat race, a wreck on lap one coming off turn two on the green. Unfortunately Dwayne Baker, who came from Ontario didn’t survive the wreck and was out for the rest of the night.
Two other Ontario drivers were here, Danny Benedict and Josh Stade and both didn’t finish the race. We were the last running car to cross the finish line in 19th place.
We finished the race with no damage and an exhausted driver…..250 laps on the toughest track in Canada.
Our nest race is this coming Saturday in PEI at Oyster Bed Speedway.
We have now completed 897 consecutive nights with 3 to go to reach 900 in a row since June 5th 1987.
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Photo courtesy of RYE “Grizzly” Chapman
Four Nights To Go….IWK 250 Up Next
Here is an update…a little late, the past week was hectic. More coming soon.
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Journey To 900 Consecutive Nights
We have raced a total of 1339 nights since May 1969. WE had a streak of 151 consecutive nights up until the long weekend in May of 1987. However a 2 week suspension ended that streak. I was reinstated on June 5th 1987 and since then we have not missed a night of racing that we were scheduled to run.
After Petty on July 7th we have 4 more nights to go. Here is the flyer before the Petty Raceway night…5 Nights To GO.!!!
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Petty Race July 7th….Proved All Our Work After Riverside Crash Was Good….Easy week Now For The IWk250
We worked hard on our car after the June 29th huge wreck at Riverside International Speedway. I hate having my crew come over more than once a week but some did and I appreciate their support very much. Some live an hour away and I respect the cost to travel to work on the car, so one night a week is the norm unless we tear the car up.
he repair parts were over $2,000 but doing the work out selves saved thousands more.
Special thanks to all my crew Shannon Riley, Chris White, Jack Lynds, Bobby and Emily Sanford, Bob Landry, Ray Doucette and Buttons.
We were rained out on Saturday the original date of the race, but it was rescheduled for the Sunday. I was exhausted but wanted to get the car on the track to make sure it was good and after two sets of hot laps we were satisfied the car would be good for Riverside’s IWK250, the biggest race of the year with 28 drivers registered so far.
We finished 8th in our hear race and 14th in the feature. I pulled off on lap 68 because I was down a lap, no chance for the lucky dog, the car was good, I was very tired after the past weeks work and the money was the same from 14th to 9th.
Our next event will be the 250 lap race at Riverside International speedway on July 20th
Thanks to Rye “Grizzly” Chapman for this photo.
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Best Finish Ever…Riverside International Speedway June 29th
We had our best finish ever at Riverside Speedway on Saturday taking a 6th in the heat race and 7th in the150-lap feature. We ran well all day staying in the top 10-12. A huge wreck on a restart involved every car but one. We were right in the middle of it and sustained a ton of body damage but lucky our rad was not busted, though it had a severely bent tank.
I drove to the pits and told my crew to strip the font end I wanted to get back out. They did that and we finished 7th completing 150 of 151 laps.
WE have been working on the car all week and will make out next race at Petty International Raceway on July 6th.
We are now tied for 8th in the standings.
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