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(ELMIRA-9/5)
by Mike Mathu
With the season points chase settled, a last hurrah remained last
Saturday night at Northern Michigan Speedway in the form of
Season Championship races.
The final race format is the chance to put a final
stamp on the year after a stellar summer or the opportunity
to vindicate those that fell short.
There was a little of both.
Nine time feature race winner Jim DuBois had the lead on lap-6 of
the 30-lap Pure-V8 main until Chantelle Paquette went to the
front. DuBois
seemed poised to regroup but on lap-14 he was passed by Brad
Leach for second and a lap later he dropped out for good.
Paquette then kept Leach in her wake to win her
second feature of the year.
Jon Clancy claimed third and also won the heat.
Paquette won the dash.
Jon Clawson set the early pace in the 30-lap Modified feature with
Jim DuBois in tow until the #26 captured the lead on lap-8.
Persistent sparking from the left front wheel
assembly of DuBois’ car would doom him as
Clawson
went back into the lead on lap-14 and DuBois would exit on
the next circuit.
That put Ryan Radiziewski behind Clawson.
In his first Modified race at the Speedway, last season’s Pure-V8 champ only needed three
more laps to pass
Clawson, then stretched out his lead
for a comfortable win.
Joe Noeske finished behind Clawson for third.
DuBois won the heat and dash.
Nathan Embree limped home the Factory Stock points championship
without a feature win since June.
A brake problem kept him out of the dash on this
night and a fourth place finish in the heat was less than
reassuring. In
the 20-lap main however he came back to life.
Enduring cautions for oil on the track on lap-13 and
14, he stayed in front of Corey Ward then Ryan Zimmerman in
the early going, then held off heat winner Tod Ferguson to
win. Ward
finished third.
Zimmerman was the dash winner.
The year’s tightest point battle was surprisingly the one division
that went according to Hoyle on the night.
Point champ Daniel Loshaw took the lead on the
opening lap of the 25-lap Pure-4 event, held George Finney
in check who likewise stayed in front of Mark Tompkins.
The caution-free race remained that way to the
checkered flag with Jeff Blanzy fourth.
Allie Jepsen was fifth and won one of the heat races.
Tompkins won the other, and Alicia Vanniman took the
dash.
The Pro-4 field was cut in half due to mechanical and technical
problems but even this 15-lapper was noteworthy.
Victor Hart led from start to finish to win his first
feature of the season, staying ahead of heat winner Mick
Pieri throughout.
Dale Britting won the dash.
Northern
Michigan Speedway
Season
Points Standings
LTD LATE MODEL: 1.#35-John
Clawson,Sault Ste Marie;
2.#15-Noeske,Vanderbilt(-13); 3.#17-Mick Pieri,Sault Ste
Marie(-27).
FACTORY STOCK: 1.#10-Nathan Embree,Vanderbilt;
2.#69F-Nick
Kanazziz,Bellaire(-155);
3.#77-Corey
Ward,Topinabee(-169).
PRO 4: 1.#26-Jim DuBois,Indian River;
2.#4X-Derek
Ferry,Gaylord(-96);
3.Michael
Evans,Wolverine(-141);4.#45-Victor Hart,Charlevoix(-174);
5.Dale
Britting,Gaylord(-194).
PURE-V8: 1.#26-Jim DuBois,Indian River;
2.#89-Chantelle Paquette,Gaylord(-22); 3.Brad
Leach,Wolverine(-26); 4.#45-Mike Benner,Gaylord(-126).
PURE-4: 1.#6-Daniel Loshaw,Vanderbilt;
2. #44-George
Finney,Bellaire(-2);
3.#57-Mark
Tompkins,Vanderbilt(-3);
4.#13V-AliciaVanniman,Bellaire(-24); 5.#31V-Ty
Phillips,Bellaire(-52); 5.#22-Jeff Blanzy,Gaylord(-78);
6.Scott Norman,Frederic(-93).
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