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Stock car season gets underway at Centre for Speed
BARACHOIS - Luc Bourgeois drove his Ford Fusion to victory in the super sportsman feature yesterday on the opening day of the stock car season at the Centre for Speed.
The 2007 super sportsman track champion from Memramcook won the first feature race of the season, despite getting his throttle stuck in the qualifying heat and nearly hitting the wall and also getting hit on his back bumper by Claude Gaudet of Grand-Barachois during the feature.
Bourgeois took the lead on lap 21 of the 50-lap feature from pole-sitter Marc Gautreau of Grand-Barachois and held on for the win. Gaudet settled for second place and Matt Rodgers, a 15-year-old rookie from Smithtown,
was third. Gaudet claimed the heat.
The super sportsman race was part of the Shediac Shakedown 50-lap invitationals in the four divisions yesterday at the Barachois speedway.
Don Marcoux of Saint-Louis-de-Kent took the lead at the halfway mark and claimed the feature win in the renamed Shediac sportsman (formerly street stock) division. The victory came in Marcoux's first day in the
Shediac sportsman division.
He previously raced in a four-cylinder class at Barachois. Doug MacEwen of Charlottetown came in second and Tim Layton of Hillsborough placed third. MacEwen took the heat.
Martin Landry of Grand-Barachois won the mini stock feature, in front of rookie Denis LeBlanc of Bouctouche and Julien LeBlanc of Haute-Abougajane. Landry was also the heat winner.
In the four fun division feature, Serge Robichaud of St-Charles crossed the finish line first, ahead of Corey Thebeau of Moncton and Wilfred Simon of Bouctouche. Eldon Campbell of Moncton captured the heat.
Racing resumes at the Centre for Speed Sunday at 2 p.m.
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