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Brad Leighton Wins Summer Sizzler 200 at Kawartha Speedway – YankeeRacer.com

Brad Leighton Wins Summer Sizzler 200 at Kawartha Speedway

By admin July 12, 2009 ACT LM Tour

Brad Leighton of Center Harbor, NH captured his second ACT Tour victory of the 2009 season in the Summer Sizzler 200 at Kawartha Speedway in Peterborough, ON. Leighton started on the outside pole with a plus four handicap in ACT’s plus/minus system and led until Patrick Laperle took control on lap 27.

Laperle wouldn’t hold the lead for long as Randy Potter got by him on lap 56. Potter and Laperle then battled until a caution flag on lap 92 when Potter along with several other cars pitted for fresh tires and gas. Laperle would not be contested again until Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. caught him on lap 113.

Laperle and Pole rubbed fenders until lap 139 when Laperle lost the lead for good. It then appeared that Pole was going to run away from the field until a caution on lap 181 grouped them back together and brought Potter within striking distance. Pole and Potter then swapped the lead through three more late restarts until Potter had issues on the lap 189 restart.

Leighton took advantage of Potter’s mishap and got by Pole for the final lead change on lap 191. Pole would hang on to finish second followed by ACT Tour point leader Scott Payea in third. Karl Allard and Jonathan Urlin finished fourth and fifth. Brian Hoar, Patrick Laperle, Dave Morgan, Brandon Watson and Chip Grenier filled out the sixth through tenth positions.

Leighton scored his first victory of the season at the ACT Tour opener at Lee USA Speedway in April, where he received the first invite to the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 19th. Therefore the total number of qualifiers remains at eleven.

The ACT Tour has next weekend off but many of them will make the trip to Oxford Plains Speedway for the Oxford 250 on Sunday, July 19th. The next ACT Tour event will be at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, ME on Saturday, July 25th.

Sources: ACT Tour PR

Unofficial ACT Summer Sizzler 200
Pos      Car #    Driver
1          55NH    Brad Leighton
2          97NH    Joey Polewarczyk, Jr.
3          89         Scott Payea
4          48QC    Karl Allard
5          4          Jonathan Urlin
6          37         Brian Hoar
7          91         Patrick Laperle
8          70         Dave Morgan
9          19         Brandon Watson
10         9VT      Chip Grenier
11         51ME    Ricky Rolfe
12         80         Donald Theetge
13         15         Derek Lynch
14         71         Dan McHattie
15         72         Pete Vanderwyst
16         25         Cole Powell
17         26VT     John Donahue
18         17ON    Justin Holtom
19         7ME     Glen Luce
20         3          Sylvain Lacombe
21         11PQ    Claude Leclerc
22         2          Daniel Descoste
23         02NH    Randy Potter
24         41         Pete Potvin, III
25         10QC    Stéphane Descoste
26         38VT     Tyler Cahoon
27         8          Mike Sinopoli
28         1          Nick Sinopoli
29         81         Bryan Mercer
30         31         Spencer MacPherson
31         16         Ryan Kimball
32         07         Tim Kirby
33         5          Darragh Moroney
34         77         Tim Fernandes
35         40VT     Eric Chase
36         55VT     Brent Dragon
37         67         Yvon Bédard