Ontario Legends Series Awards 3 National Qualifier Spots at Peterborough Speedway
As if things on the home front weren’t already complicated enough – Saturday, June 29th – the www.trailersplus.net Ontario Legends Series put a trio of preferred starting spots for the INEX Legends Asphalt Nationals – October 17th & 18th at Carteret County Speedway in Peletier, North Carolina – up for grabs at the tight, tricky bullring on Mount Pleasant Road.
A potent group of 25 starters rolled from the staging area to green flag at the venue known as Canada’s Toughest 3rd of a Mile Paved Oval, with Cole McFadden and Miles Tyson on the front row. Every driver in the field had their eyes on the coveted prize, as well as accumulating valuable points on the annual leg of the tour and the Clarke Motorsports Communications Challenge Cup for this year’s Peterborough Speedway events.
Tyson took an early lead, but a quick yellow flag with just a single circuit on the scoreboard brought the pack back together. Within a few laps of the restart, Kevin Foisy – who had come from 6th on the grid – was running 3rd and tracking Tyson’s every move. The field caught some of the backmarkers with just over a handful of laps complete and ran clean until an incident in the 2nd turn produced another caution period with almost 2 thirds of the race distance in the record books.
On the restart, Foisy lit the fuse that turned his piece into a rocketship. He took the lead and never looked back. Just after the #57 took the checkered flag, Tyson and Andre Fiorini made hard contact with the frontstretch retaining wall. Running 2nd and 3rd at the time, their cars were both heavily damaged and cradled back to the pits. Kenny McNicol Jr., Dave Riopelle, Adam Cuthbertson and Paul Pierik were scored 2nd through 5th. Connor James, Mark Griffin, Tyson, Fiorini, Cory Richardson, Jeff Forsey, Thomas Dunn, Parker Traves, Chris Massey, Glenn Morris, Zach Latimer, Shawn Murray, Cody Newell, Rick Eades, McFadden, Andrew Massey, Don Arnott, Shane Pollock, Dawson Drimmie and Matt Haufe completed the finishing order.
Ontario Legends Series notebook: Foisy earned the Masters starting spot, with Connor James taking the Semi-Pro honours and Adam Cuthbertson earning the Pro classification…Heat race wins went to Cole McFadden, with a pair. Parker Traves, Tyson, Paul Pierik and Foisy took the others…The tour returns to action with back-to-back shows – July 6th and 7th at Grand Bend Speedway.
2019 Ontario Legend Series schedule and results
Saturday, May 4th Sunset Speedway
Cancelled – rain
Saturday, May 18th Peterborough Speedway
Main event winner: #15N, Nicholas Ledson
Sunday, May 19th Sunset Speedway
Heat race wins: Adam Cuthbertson, Parker Traves, Robin Jongen
Balance of the event cancelled – rain
Saturday, June 1st Peterborough Speedway
Heat race wins: Kevin Foisy (x2), Miles Tyson, Nicholas Ledson, Matt Haufe
Balance of the event cancelled – rain
Saturday, June 15th Peterborough Speedway
Double features
Cancelled – rain
Saturday, June 29th Peterborough Speedway
National qualifier
Main event winner: #57, Kevin Foisy
Guaranteed starters Masters: Foisy, Semi Pro: James, Pro: A. Cuthbertson
Saturday, July 6th
Sunday, July 7th Grand Bend Speedway
Saturday, July 13th Sunset Speedway
Saturday, July 27th Peterborough Speedway
Double features
Saturday, August 2nd
Sunday, August 3rd Sauble Speedway
INEX point paying National
Qualifiers. No series points.
Friday, August 16th
Saturday, August 17th
Sunday, August 18th Sunset Speedway
Canadian Legends Asphalt
Nationals
Saturday, August 24th Peterborough Speedway
Saturday, September 7th
Sunday, September 8th Grand Bend Speedway
Saturday, September 21st Sunset Speedway
Friday, October 11th
Saturday, October 12th
Sunday, October 13th Peterborough Speedway
27th Annual
Autumn Colours Classic
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