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The 2010 edition of the MacGillivary Chevrolet 100 is now history but what an event it was. The action was fast and furious from start to finish, there were several leaders The eventual winner, Greg Proude from PEI, made the pass for the lead late in the race, on a restart, and had to hold off Halifax’s Wayne Smith through ten or twelve wild laps to claim victory. Antigonish’s Donald Chisholm was in the mix for all 100 laps and came home third, right on Smith’s tail. The first 54 laps ran green, without a caution, in a torrid pace, and although several cautions in the next thirty laps or so slowed the pace a bit, the race was completed in less than an hour, without any of the crashing and banging that has become all too commonplace in these events. The support division, the NAPA Sportsman Series actually stole the show in the event with a tremendous green flag 50 lap run without any cautions. Halifax’s Darren Wallage led from start to finish in this one and was never seriously challenged, setting him up as the favourite in this six race series. Race two in this series goes this Saturday down in Lake Doucette and if the Riverside race is any indicator, fans are in for a real treat. The race ran at a furious pace, setting the record for the fastest 50 lap race at Riverside in a blazing time of 14 minutes and 26 seconds. If there was one disappointment with the whole event, it occurred after the race leaving the parking lot. The Antigonish detachment of the RCMP set up a roadblock at the end of the exit road, slowing traffic to a virtual crawl. This writer was over one and a half hours getting out of the lot due to this. While I realize that intoxicated drivers must be contained, this seems a bit excessive and quite intrusive. If they claim to be directing traffic, I find this hard to believe as it doesn’t take six police cars and officers to handle one exit road. While all this was going on in Antigonish, or more correctly, James River, Speedway 660, near Gagetown, was holding “military night”, in honour of our armed forces. Several armoured vehicles were on display and a large appreciative crowd was in attendance. In a fitting ending to the event, Glyn Nott, himself a member of the Armed forces, captured the Sportsman feature in impressive style. This week, FANFEST is on the schedule, which means that it is FREE admission for all this Saturday evening with a full slate of racing on the card. Races were also held at Oyster Bed speedway Saturday Evening before a huge crowd and from all reports, the racing was tremendously exciting and close finishes were the order of the day on the Island. This writer also attended the regular racing card at Scotia Speedworld Friday evening and was very impressed with the level of competition and quality of the racing all night long. Unfortunately, Mother Nature took another swing at Centre for Speed on Sunday, washing out the race card. Last week’s feature, the Eastern Well Drillers Shediac Sportsman (street stock) 50, will be added to this week’s card which already includes the opening race of the Atlantic Open Wheel Tour. This should be a great event and well worth the trip to Shediac on Sunday afternoon. Well, my time is done again so I’ll talk to you again next week. In the meantime, keep the pedal to the metal and turn left – but keep the racing on the track, NOT on our streets.
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