NEMA’s Leonard Eyes Success at Monadnock
Brockton, MA — Only eight times in the Northeastern Midget Association’s 58-year old history has a driver won the first two races of a season. Chris Leonard hopes to make it nine when NEMA returns to action Saturday night (May 29) at Monadnock Speedway.
The “Lites” will be on hand as well as NEMA gets back into action after a long layoff. Leonard was the winner way back on March 28 at Waterford Speedbowl.
The Pelham, NH product hopes to join an impressive group that includes two-time defending champion Randy Cabral. The popular Cabral drove Tim Bertrand’s #47 to victory in the first two races of 2008 and ’09.
The Cabral/Bertrand team heads up a gang aiming to keep Leonard from a club that also includes legends Bill Eldridge (1954 and ’58), Johnny Coy Sr. (1970), Drew Fornoro (1982 and ’83) and Bobby Seymour (1990).
Cabral, a winner at Monadnock last year, hopes to post the first-ever NEMA victory for Honda power.
Greg Stoehr, who has won three Monadnock races over the past three years, rates special notice at a facility known to favor the veterans. It is one of the most challenging venues on the NEMA schedule.
Brother Russ Stoehr (Dumo’s Desire #45) is the only other active driver with a Monadnock checkered.
NEMA NUGGETS:
It will the 30th NEMA race at Monadnock going back to Dave Humphrey’s win in the McCarthy 47 back in 1972.
Cabral’s first win in 2010 will give him at least one victory in 11 consecutive years. Only Humphrey has more – 16 between 1963 and 1980).
On the all-time NEMA win list, Russ Stoehr ranks fourth with 40, five behind Nokie Fornoro, and Cabral sits seventh with 26, three behind Johnny Mann.