Cavendish Farms 150 racing results from CFS on Sunday
(Shediac, N.B.) — Rookie Super Sportsman driver, Matt Rodgers (#42) of Smithtown and Shediac Sportsman driver Gary Tingley (#8) of Colpitts Settlement captured their first career feature wins during the Cavendish Farms 150 stock car racing event Sunday afternoon at the Centre for Speed (CFS), Atlantic
Canada’s Super Speedway and “Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power”.
“This feels totally awesome’” beamed 15-year-old rookie Matt Rodgers as he stood in victory lane as the third-generation Rodgers to capture a stock car feature event. “I have to thank my whole family and pit crew who have made this all possible’” as the young driver received congratulations from fellow drivers Craig Ward (#02) of Riverview and Ron Lane (#46) of Prosser Brook along with a warm round of applause from the CFS crowd for his historic win. After grandfather
Bob and father Steve, Matt now has his own feature trophy to proudly display in the family home>
Matt, whose even younger brother Andrew (13 years old) who is also a rookie in the Mini Stock division at CFS, along with dad Steve were also part of the celebration in victory lane. Ward, who had a front row seat for Matt’s win, crossing the li9ne a close second, also had words of praise for the young driver from Smithtown. “Matt really deserves this win and although he’s just starting, he sure knows how to handle himself out there. My hat’s off to Matt and his
crew.”
Matt captured the win in veteran fashion, bidding his time early in the 50-lap event after starting on the pole and seeing veteran Claude Gaudet (#22) of Grand Barachois move ahead on lap #8. Matt kept pace and pressured the veteran Gaudet throughout the event before picking a small opening on the inside coming out of turn #4 on lap #28 to make his move to the front of the pack. From then on, he held off the late race challenge from Ward to capture the feature win with Lane coming in third’ Ward also had to settle for second in the 10-lap heat behind winner Luc Bourgeois (#88) of Memramcook.
In Shediac Sportsman action, Gary Tingley (#8) of Colpitts Settlement captured his first career feature win at CFS after a late race mix-up with leader Doug MacEwen (#40) of Charlottetown. MacEwen, who led for most of the 50-lap event, was relegated to the back of the field after a collision with Tingley as they fought for the lead going into turn #1 on lap #47. Tingley then held onto to the lead over the remaining three laps to record the win, crossing the stripe ahead of Mike Francis (#23) of Saint John and Tyler Rossiter (#14) of Weldon. MacEwen had earlier copped the win in the 10-lap heat.
In Mini Stock action, Mike Edwards (#23) of Riverview captured his second feature win of the season in the 50-lap main event, crossing the stripe ahead of CFS points leader Martin Landry (#00) of Grand Barachois. Landry had earlier turned the tables on Edwards by capturing the win in the 10-lap heat.
In the Four Fun division, veteran Eugene Weagle (#60) of Petitcodiac captured wins in both the 50-lap feature, his first of the season, and the 10-lap heat. (In the feature, Weagle outdistanced Dave Crossman
(#14) of Moncton and Kevin Dunster (#16) of Nannytown.
Next Saturday, July 24 at 7:00 p.m., the Centre for Speed will host its ‘carload night special’ with carload admission of only $20 for championship stock car racing action in all four regular divisions as well as a
‘full contact’ Thrasher division 50-lap Barrell Race.
Full schedule details are available at www.centreforspeed.com