CARSTAR Weekly Racing Series
Race Wrap & Full Results

September 13th: Finale Friday!

SPORTSMAN
For the second straight season, Travis Roma (West Chezzetcook) found himself in victory lane at Scotia Speedworld to close off the Sportsman season. This time though, it was the champion in waiting Deven Smith (Lakeside) keeping him honest to the stripe. Roma, who was third the week prior in a late race shuffle, was able to establish a gap in the waning laps over the No. 94 TS Drilling/Smith Brothers Racing Chevrolet en route to the checkered flag. Smith finished in second ahead of last week’s feature winner Megan Parrott (Beaver Bank). Reigning Sportsman champion Jordan Veinotte (Porter’s Lake) would finish his season with a fourth place finish ahead of Alex Johnson (Enfield).

Johnson and Roma took home heat race wins.

Smith went in with a comfortable point lead on the strength of five regular point wins in nine races. The final margin of victory in the championship chase is 27 points over Veinotte. Parrott finishes the season in third in the standings with Brentley Pirri (Three Fathom Harbour) and Darren Hilchie (Lake Charlotte) edging out Jeffrey Breen (Antigonish) for top five spots in the standings.

STRICTLY HYDRAULICS LEGENDS
While Nicholas Naugle (Dartmouth) held court up front in Friday’s Strictly Hydraulics Legends feature, most eyes were on the back half of the top five as championship contenders waged war for a track championship.

Naugle drove to a convincing win on Friday night, his first at Scotia Speedworld for the year. Naugle won heat one and started on the outside of the front row with Dylan Sutherland (Beaver Bank). After two attempts at getting the race started, Naugle was able to take control of the race and hold on through the race for the victory. Austin MacDonald (Pictou) had to dodge the early cautions but raced his way through the field to a second place finish.

Behind them was the ultimate battle for the championship between Andrew Lively (Middle Sackville) and Tylor Hawes (Porter’s Lake). Hawes started two spots ahead of Lively in the feature lineup and at one point had the two cars between them that he needed to secure a championship but as the race went on the pair fought through traffic. Eventually, the battle became one for third with Lively getting ahead of Hawes at the end of 25-laps. With Braden Langille (Shubenacadie) getting swept up in an early accident and combined with the heat finish, Lively will take his first Scotia Speedworld track championship by seven points over Hawes.

Waylon Farrell (Conception Bay South, NL) was fifth in the feature. Naugle and Kody Quinn (Sydney, NS) took home heat race victories on Finale Friday. Twenty cars answered the call to the green flag on the evening.

TOURSEC THUNDER
Shay MacPhee (Yarmouth) etched his name into history as a winner in the Toursec Thunder division while Jesse Deveau (Greenwood) added his name to the list of drivers who have climbed to the top as a Thunder champion at Scotia Speedworld.

After his father Steve (Yarmouth) edged him out for the final podium spot a week prior, Shay not only bested his dad but he drove away from the field for the win in the final 25-lap feature of the season. While the first half of the feature was all the No. 17 TST Trucking Civic, Dave Matthews (Kennetcook) became bigger in the rearview mirror in the late laps, making a move in the final lap but couldn’t get by MacPhee at the line.

Deveau held off Steve MacPhee for third, recording his tenth podium in 11 races to lock down the track title by 30 points over Matthews. The elder MacPhee was fourth on the night with Greg McKay (Eastern Passage) taking fifth in the 11-car field.

Matthews took home the heat win.

TOURSEC LIGHTNING
When all the dust settled on the Toursec Lightning class on Friday night, it was Steve Matthews (Bedford) and “Rational” Richard Drake (Halifax) that had the bulk of celebrating to do!

Matthews would ultimately be declared the winner of the Toursec Lightning feature on Finale Friday. Travis Keefe (Timberlea) crossed the line first by less than a half straightaway over Matthews after the final restart with nine laps to go but would not pass post race technical inspection. That handed the win to Matthews, his fourth win of the season. Behind him, Drake put pressure on the No. 106 car, driven in the feature by Garth Bezanson (Oldham), but it would be Bezanson, driving for his brother Marshall, who crossed the line in second. The MacDonald brothers, Chevy and Earl (Stewiacke) completed the top five.

Mike Jollimore (Halifax) and Earl MacDonald took home heat race wins on the night.

Drake had the championship virtually under lock and key entering the final race of 2019. The final margin of victory will go down as 80 points between the No. 141 Covey’s Auto Recyclers/Ken-etic Auto Dodge over Chevy MacDonald.

HYDRAULICS PLUS BANDOLEROS
OUTLAWS
Colton Noble (Upper Nine Mile River) capped off his second straight Hydraulics Plus Bandolero Outlaw championship with a come from behind win on Friday evening.

Nate Singer (Kennetcook) looked poised to pick up his first Outlaw feature victory before Noble charged hard late and ultimately completed the pass coming to the white flag. Singer, who held on for much of the feature after damage sustained in a crash on Lap Two, finished second ahead of Nathan Langille (Coldbrook), who edged Owen Mahar (Hubley) for the final podium spot. Mahar battled with Noble for many laps in the second half of the feature in one of the most entertaining battles of the evening. Fifth place belonged to Danny Chisholm (Canning).

Heat wins went to Singer and Langille.

Twenty-two points is the final margin of victory for Noble in 2019 over Langille, who was able to nip Chisholm on the final night by three points for the runner-up spot in the Outlaw division.

BANDITS
Chase MacKay (Bear Cove) poured the pressure on at the end of the season but even his third feature win in four races would not be enough to top the early season dominance of Gage Gilby (Enfield) in the championship chase.

MacKay would take advantage shortly after the final restart with nine laps to go in the 15-lap feature. MacKay’s three wide move on Brooke Dowe (Bedford) and Ayden Christensen (Windsor Junction) was enough to take the top spot and held it to the finish of the feature. Christensen rebounded to finish second after falling to the back on that final restart. Gilby clinched his title with a third place finish, ahead of Dowe and Dawson Noble (Upper Nine Mile River). Dowe took home the heat race win.

Even with his late season challenge, MacKay fell just ten points short of the mark Gilby set for the championship. Christensen finished third, 13 points off MacKay after 12 races.

BEGINNER BANDOLEROS
After the championship battle got turned upside down, almost literally, on Lap Two of the Hydraulics Plus Beginner Bandolero feature, Emily Chisholm (Antigonish) was able to keep her composure to lock up not only a race win but a track title.

Chisholm, along with fellow title hopefuls Miles MacKenzie (Porter’s Lake) and Caden Tufts (Timberlea) raced hard into Turn One on Lap Two of the Beginner Bandolero feature. The trio made contact, ultimately sending Tufts for a wild airborne ride and ultimately ending his championship dreams. MacKenzie had to go to pit road for repairs to his car, making it out as the field had taken the green and would wind up a lap down to the leader Chisholm.

Chisholm drove to the front and drove away from the field after the incident and raced to her fifth feature win on the season and 11th win overall when you include her six heat victories. The driver of the No. 89 Keltic Ford Bandolero also swept the last three races, winning both heats and features on those race meets.

Second on Friday evening during the feature was the Tim Hortons at the Airport Rookie of the Year in the class Brett Pashkoski (Lower Sackville). Daniel Vandenberg (Glenholme) scored his first feature podium finish on Finale Friday with a third place run. Chase Livingston (Springhill) and Emma MacMillan (Noel) completed the top five.

The final margin of victory for Chisholm will go down as 15 points in the championship standings.