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During the first weekend of September, Jukasa Motor Speedway hosted the Canadian Short Track Nationals for the Pro Late Model and Super Stock classes.
A purse of over $100,000 with $50,000 going to the Pro Late Model winner attracted competitors from all over Canada and the United States.
Rules for this event were similar to those used by the success APC series. These purpose-built race cars utilise a tube frame chassis covered with fiberglass or plastic bodies. The most common body styles used by teams are from Chevrolet, Ford, Toyota and Dodge. Depending on the engine choice a car can weigh as much as 2800-lbs. Crate motors from General Motors (GM 604 & GM 602) and Ford (347) were used in the race cars. The Pro Late Model event saw forty-drivers compete on the 5/8-mile oval for two-hundred-laps. There was a break after the first one-hundred-laps to allow teams to refuel and make changes to the car.
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Forty-cars are gridded on the Jukasa Motor Speedway front straight for the inaugural Canadian Short Track Nationals Pro Late Model event. On the pole is the No. 14 Chevrolet SS driven by Michigan resident, Carson Hocevar. Sharing the front row with Hocevar is Brandon Watson who was victorious the previous evening in round eight of the APC Late Model series. |
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Bubba Pollard is tough to beat where ever he travels. The Georgia native was victorious the previous weekend capturing the historical Oxford 250 in his first attempt. Pollard recorded the sixth quickest time in qualifying. In the race, he took a methodical approach on lap-144, Pollard took the lead. Despite a couple of late race cautions, he was able to pull away from the field and earn the winner’s purse of $50,000. |
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Carson Hocevar grabbed the pole for The Canadian Short Track Nationals with a time of 18.166-seconds. Helping Hocevar this weekend was Camping World Truck Series championship contender, Noah Gragson. At the start, he lost first place to the 2017 APC Series champion, Brandon Watson. Hocevar never fell out of the top-five but in the end could not maintain the pace of the winner, Bubba Pollard and took the runner-up spot. |
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Starting on the outside of the front row and just 0.108-seconds slower than the pole-sitter, Carson Hocevar was local racer and 2017 APC Series champion, Brandon Watson. At the drop of the Starter’s flag, Watson jumped out front and led the field until he was passed on lap-88 by Raphael Lessard. After the lap-100 break, he was unable to match the speed of the leaders and fell to a sixth-place finish. |
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Completing an American sweep of the podium was Brian Campbell. The Michigan driver drove the No. 47 Chevrolet SS with backing from the Daily Deals Food Outlet. His qualifying effort gave him the ninth position on the starting grid. Campbell moved forward during the event and with less than twenty-laps remaining he was in sixth. Passes on Patrick Laperle and J.R. Fitzpatrick late in the race gave a third-place finish. |
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Local favourite and the current APC Series point’s leader, J.R. Fitzpatrick qualified tenth in the Cambridge Rigging sponsored Chevrolet SS. In Saturday’s APC event, he started eighth and grabbed the runner-up spot. During the two-hundred-lap feature on Sunday, Fitzpatrick would never fall out of the top ten. With the race coming to a conclusion, he battled with Patrick Laperle and eventually finished fifth. |
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Advancing the most positions during the two-hundred-lap Pro Late Model race was Trevor Holdaway. Driving the No. 41 Toyota Camry, he set a time of 19.102-seconds in qualifying which was only thirty-eighth quickest. In the last chance race, Holdaway finished ninth – just making the feature. During the final event, he passed twenty-nine cars and was in tenth place at the checkered flag. |
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The 2016 NASCAR Pinty’s series champion, Cayden Lapcevich participated in a couple of races during the Canadian Short Track Nationals weekend. On Saturday, Lapcevich competed in the Outlaw Super Late event and was a contender until he encountered engine problems. The following day, Lapcevich started the Pro Late Model race in the twenty-sixth position. An excellent drive resulted in an eleventh place finish. |
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The top thirty starters for the Canadian Short Tracks Nationals were decided during qualifying. Those drivers not quick enough would compete in a ten-lap last chance race to determine their starting position in the feature. Just missing the cut by 0.019-seconds was Billy Schwartzenburg. Schwartzenburg started on the pole and took an easy victory. In the feature, he finished sixteenth. |
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NASCAR Pinty’s series rookie, Cole Powell was also entered in the Pro Late Model two-hundred-lap event. Powell who has participated in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour won his first Pinty’s race this year at Wyant Group Raceway in Saskatoon. At Jukasa Motor Speedway, the driver of the No. 73 Copps Buildall sponsored Chevrolet qualified twenty-fourth quickest and finished fourteenth. |
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The APC Series christened the new Jukasa Motor Speedway last year with a double-header. At that event, the ‘man to beat’ was former Canadian NASCAR competitor, Jason Hathaway. At the Canadian Short Track Nationals, Hathaway qualified with a time of 18.340 which gave him the sixth starting spot. During the race, Hathaway ran with the lead back but it all came to an end on lap-168 when he cut a tire and hit the turn three wall. |
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The Canadian Short Track Nationals Pro Late Model podium at Jukasa Motor Speedway. In the center is Bubba Pollard - all smiles – after taking the victory and winning the $50,000 purse. This was Pollard’s second consecutive big payday as he won the Oxford 250 last weekend. To his right is second place finisher and fastest qualifier, Carson Hocevar. And, rounding out the top-three is Brian Campbell. |
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| FINISH | START | DRIVER | SPONSOR / CAR | LAPS |
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| 1 | 6 | Bubba Pollard | Racecar Engineering / Ford Fusion | 200 |
| 2 | 1 | Carson Hocevar | Precision Fleet Image / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 3 | 9 | Brian Campbell | Daily Deals Food Outlet / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 4 | 8 | Patrick Laperle | Frameco / Ford Fusion | 200 |
| 5 | 10 | JR Fitzpatrick | Cambridge Rigging / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 6 | 2 | Brandon Watson | Shear Metal Products / Ford Fusion | 200 |
| 7 | 16 | Derek Ramstrom | Ramstrom's Auto Center / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 8 | 17 | Shae Gemmell | Auto Parts Centers / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 9 | 14 | Matt Pritiko | Napa Certified Bodyshops / Toyota Camry | 200 |
| 10 | 39 | Taylor Holdaway | Holdaway Automotive / Toyota Camry | 200 |
| 11 | 26 | Cayden Lapcevich | Ace Services / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 12 | 19 | Treyten Lapcevich | London Recreational Racing / Toyota Camry | 200 |
| 13 | 29 | Jake Sheridan | Pride Seeds / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 14 | 24 | Cole Powell | Copps Buildall / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 15 | 15 | Kyle Reid | Robby's Towing / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 16 | 31 | Billy Schwartzenburg | Hy-Grade/Spira / Ford Fusion | 200 |
| 17 | 7 | Jordan Simms | Sims Counter Tops / Ford Fusion | 200 |
| 18 | 22 | Shawn McGlynn | Meineke / Chevrolet Impala SS | 200 |
| 19 | 35 | David Elliott | Quaker State / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 20 | 28 | Branden Verhoeven | McRobert Fuels / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 21 | 38 | Steve Arrand | Minute Lube / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 22 | 32 | Matthew Shirley | WSSL Auto Parts / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 23 | 23 | Nick Goetz | Great Lakes Concrete / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 24 | 34 | Matt Box | Maple City Tire / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 25 | 30 | Lane Zardo | National Exhaust / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 26 | 33 | Steve Laking | Laking Motorsports / Chevrolet SS | 200 |
| 27 | 4 | Raphael Lessard | M.E.P. / Toyota Camry | Accident |
| 28 | 20 | Weston Griffith, Jr. | Solid Steel / Toyota Camry | Did Not Finish |
| 29 | 11 | Jordan Lawrence | APC/Total / Dodge | Did Not Finish |
| 30 | 18 | Jesse Kennedy | D.A.D.S. / Chevrolet SS | Did Not Finish |
| 31 | 5 | Jason Hathaway | Kubota / Chevrolet SS | Accident |
| 32 | 37 | Brady Smith | Mapleview Farms / Chevrolet SS | Accident |
| 33 | 25 | Jaxson Jacobs | FM 96 / Chevrolet SS | Accident |
| 34 | 21 | Rick Spencer-Walt | Heidi's Superstore / Chevrolet SS | Accident |
| 35 | 3 | Johnny Van Doorn | Lisa Thomas Salon / Chevrolet SS | Did Not Finish |
| 36 | 36 | Patrick Freel | Simtech / Toyota Camry | Oil Leak |
| 37 | 13 | Harold Fair | Fair Racing Development / Chevrolet SS | Did Not Finish |
| 38 | 12 | Martin Latulitte | Frameco / Toyota Camry | Wheel Bearing |
| 39 | 27 | Kent Vincent | TireTire.ca / Dodge | Accident |
| 40 | 40 | Trevor Monaghan | Seven Star / Chevrolet SS | Vibration |
| - | - | Paighton Jacobs | Country 104 / Chevrolet SS | Did Not Start |
| - | - | Andrew Gresel | McRobert Fuels / Ford Fusion | Did Not Start |
| - | - | Joshua Stade | Tiremaster / Toyota Camry | Did Not Start |
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