Brad Leighton Wins Summer Sizzler 200 at Kawartha Speedway
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