Cabral Takes NEMA Lead to Seekonk
Brockton, MA — Randy Cabral and owner Tim Bertrand come to Seekonk Speedway’s Open Wheel Wednesday with the respective Northeastern Midget Association point leads. They’ll be looking for a third straight victory in the 25-lap feature.
Second place Russ Stoehr, who trails by 46 points, heads up the group aiming at stopping the streaking Cabral. The two have 11 Seekonk wins between them.
Stoehr, who drives the Dumo Desire #45, is joined by Chris deRitis, Adam Cantor, Russ Stoehr, Jim Miller and Jeff and Mike Horn, all showing strength on occasion this season. Last year’s rookie of the year, deRitis, currently sits third in points after five races.
A 100-lap Modified feature and the NEMA Challenge of Champions are on the busy Seekonk docket as well.
Young Jeff Abold, with two NEMA wins at Seekonk over the past two seasons, and veteran Lou Cicconi Jr. are also contenders. Cicconi, a three-time Seekonk winner, will drive the Seymour car Abold rode to victory in last year’s Boston Louie. Abold now drives a Gaerte-powered family-owned car that is maintained by the Seymours .
Defending two-time champion Cabral has won four of the last seven NEMA races at Seekonk (Abold, Cantor have the others). He comes to the “cement palace” off wins at Thompson and Stafford Speedways. Both were hard fought and crowd pleasing victories and he and Bertrand expect another battle.
No one, in fact, knows better that no track rivals Seekonk when it comes to hard fought Midget battles. A win away from moving into sixth place on the all-time win list, Cabral won his first NEMA feature in the family car at Seekonk on July 22, 2001.
Sources: Pete Zanardi/NEMA PR