Includes driver’s hometown and car number in brackets.

Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds

Feature (25 laps)

1. Jeff Daniels (20D) Merlin

2. Darryl Hoekstra (36D) Chatham

3. Brian Speelman (22S) Chatham

4. Jim Dale Jr. (00) Shrewsbury

5. James Beaulieu (26) Tilbury

6. Justin Mills (6M) Wheatley

7. Louis Clements (3C) Chatham

8. Eugene Hoekstra (36) Chatham

9. Drew Smith (86) Port Lambton

10. Brad Simpson (53) Rodney

11. Dan McIntyre (77) Windsor

12. Joel Dick (09D) Leamington

13. Gerald Martin (5) Essex

14. Emerson McIntyre (71) Windsor

DNS - Shawn Jones (27) Blenheim

DNS - Reg Daniels (31) Chatham

First Heat

1. D. Hoekstra; 2. E. Hoekstra; 3. J. Daniels; 4. Mills; 5. Speelman; 6. E. McIntyre; 7. R. Daniels; 8. Jones

Second Heat

1. Clements; 2. Dick; 3. Smith; 4. D. McIntyre; 5. Martin; 6. Simpson; 7. Beaulieu; 8. Dale Jr.

Dash

1. Clements; 2. Dick; 3. D. Hoekstra; 4. Smith; 5. E. Hoekstra; 6. Daniels; 7. Mills.

Tirecraft Mini-Mods

Feature (20 laps)

1. Denis DeSerrano (69) Cottam

2. Randy McKinlay (26) Chatham

3. Brett Hope (49) Blenheim

4. Steve Shaw Jr. (17) Merlin

5. Jody Mason (02M) Merlin

6. Ryan Beaulieu (747) Tilbury

7. Rick Balasin (21) Chatham

8. Norm DeSerrano (96) Kingsville

9. Joel Desjardins (23D) Chatham

10. Darryl Lucio (23X) Chatham

11. Matt Sorrell (3M) Dresden

12. Justin Hebblethwaite (25) Blenheim

13. Gerry Rivait Jr. (71) Tilbury

14. Kyle Hope (93H) Blenheim

15. Brad Wonnacott (36) Chatham

16. Rob Quick (18) Cottam

17. Justin Turkington (25T) Chatham

18. Jonathon Hebblethwaite (53) Blenheim

19. Trevor Jones (27T) Blenheim

20. Jamie St. Pierre (22) Chatham

DNS - Andrew Pfahler (7X) South Buxton

First Heat

1. Quick; 2. D. DeSerrano; 3. Balasin; 4. Jones; 5. St. Pierre; 6. Shaw; 7. Desjardins; 8. Ju. Hebblethwaite; 9. Wonnacott; 10. Jo. Hebblethwaite

Second Heat

1. McKinlay; 2. B. Hope; 3. Phahler; 4. N. DeSerrano; 5. Rivait; 6. Sorrell; 7. Desjardins; 8. Mason; 9. Turkington; 10. Beaulieu; 11. K. Hope.

Crack-The-Whip

1. Quick; 2. D. DeSerrano; 3. Jones; 4. Phahler; 5. Balasin; 6. B. Hope

Windride Transportation Sport Stocks

Feature (20 laps)

1. Steve Shaw (17) Merlin

2. Patrick Lajeunesse (98P) Harrow

3. Eren Vanderiviere (29) Merlin

4. Doris Lajeunesse (38) Essex

5. Willy Vyse (2V) Wallaceburg

6. Steve Clements (3C) Wheatley

7. West Bertozzi (46) Windsor

8. Jim Ellis (87) Kingsville

9. Rob Young (23) Kingsville

10. Jason Fox (93F) Chatham

11. Tyler Lozon (66) Grande Pointe

DNS - Jerry Ramault (2H) Chatham

First Heat

1. Young; 2. Vanderiviere; 3. Clements; 4. Ellis; 5. Fox; 6. Lozon; 7. Bertozzi

Second Heat

1. Vyse; 2. Shaw; 3. P. Lajeunesse; 4. D. Lajeunesse; 5. Ramault

Crack-The-Whip

1. Vanderiviere; 2. Young; 3. P. Lajeunesse; 4. Vyse; 5. Shaw; 6. Clements

UMP Late Model

Feature (15 laps)

1. Dale Glassford (60) Ridgetown

2. Jim Jones (34) Chatham

3. Don Gordon (33) Chatham

4. Justin Coulter (555) Leamington

5. Gregg Haskell (RH21) Chatham

DNS - Brad Authier (1A) Chatham

DNS - Clinton Emery (22) Merlin

Heat

1. Coulter; 2. Authier; 3. Glassford; 4. Gordon; 5. Jones; 6. Emery; 7. Haskell

Dash

1. Glassford; 2. Coulter; 3. Jones; 4. Gordon

The Merlin driver spun out in turn three while leading on lap five and had to restart at the back of the field.

But it took Daniels just two laps to work his way back into the top three, passed his brother-in-law Brian Speelman of Chatham on lap 15 and led the final 10 circuits of the caution-plagued race.

Chatham’s Darryl Hoekstra passed Speelman for second, while Shrewsbury’s Jim Dale Jr. - driving Shawn Jones’ No. 27 car after his own 00 broke down in the heat - was fourth and rookie James Beaulieu of Tilbury was fifth.

Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano took the lead on lap five and ran away to his third straight Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature.

Chatham’s Randy McKinlay and Blenheim’s Brett Hope ran second and third for the second week in a row while Merlin drivers Steve Shaw Jr. and Jody Mason rounded out the top five.

DeSerrano finished second to Cottam’s Rob Quick in the heat and dash as the points leader has seven wins and two second-place finishes in his first nine races of the season.

Merlin’s Steve Shaw led all but two laps to win his second straight Windride Transportation Sport Stocks feature.

He lost the lead to Merlin’s Eren Vanderiviere on lap 12 but regained the lead two laps later when Vanderiviere looped it around on the greasy track in turn four.

Harrow’s Patrick Lajeunesse, Vanderiviere, Essex’s Doris Lajeunesse and Wallaceburg’s Willy Vyse rounded out the top five.

Ridgetown’s Dale Glassford smoked the field - literally - to win his first UMP Late Model feature of the season.

Glassford’s car started smoking heavily with eight laps to go but he was able to nurse the injured machine home, with Chatham drivers Jim Jones and Don Gordon the only other cars from the original five-car field still on the track.

Please check back later for expanded coverage and feature winners’ pictures.

Duke has been a familiar face at South Buxton Raceway for the past four decades. He won the 2004 Econo season championship race driving his No. 111 car and has been a long-time crew member of Brad McLeod’s race team. He owned Duke’s Truck Repair.

Duke is survived by his wife Shari (Suter), daughter Shaelyn and son Joseph.

Donations to Donor Awareness can be made through the Eric. F. Nicholls Funeral Home in Wallaceburg and online at  www.ericnichollsfuneralhome.com

As a living memorial, a tree will be planted in Nicholls Memorial Forest in memory of Duke.

Race officials announced this week the elimination of the ‘150 points and pay’ for feature races following a postponement from the previous Saturday night, as is the case this week.

Drivers will, however, still receive heat and show-up points.

Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano won his second straight Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature and has won all six races (two heats, two dashes and two features) to start the 2013 season.

Ryan Bonner outran Jeff Schives in a battle of Blenheim drivers for the second week in a row in the three-car Bomber feature.

This Saturday night’s schedule of events will have heat races in all five classes plus the Sport Stocks’ crack-the-whip, Modified dash and Bomber feature before intermission. The Mini-Mod crack-the-whip, Late Model dash and all five features will be run after intermission.

The grandstand opens at 5:30p.m. and racing begins at 7 p.m.

Denis DeSerrano (69) goes to the bottom to pass pole-sitter Matt Sorrell (3M), the rookie from Dresden, on the first lap of the Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature on Saturday.

Updated Version

A lot of people patted Denis DeSerrano on the back for his exciting victory.

DeSerrano wishes he could have seen it himself.

The Cottam driver used the high side of the track to beat Chatham’s Randy McKinlay by inches to line to win second straight Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature race on Saturday night at South Buxton Raceway.

“I couldn’t see nothing,” DeSerrano said, as rain was falling and mud was flying in the waning laps.

“I used up all my tear offs and ended up having to race with my visor open … and my glasses were covered with mud.”

DeSerrano took the lead on lap four and stayed up front until the caution waved for rain with two laps to go.

After a few laps under caution, the rain subsided to set up the first of two attempts at a green-white-checkered finish.

On the second restart, McKinlay rode the high side through turns one and two to take the lead going onto the straightaway.

“I started on the inside and didn’t know how greasy it was going to be and he (McKinlay) stayed on the throttle a little longer and got by me on the outside,” DeSerrano described the final restart.

But on the last lap, DeSerrano decided to go to the top of the track entering turn three,

“I thought I’d try the high side and found a little bit off grip up there and it was pretty close crossing across the line,” said DeSerrano, who barely nosed past McKinlay for his second win in as many weeks.

“I wasn’t quite sure,” DeSerrano answered when asked if he was confident he could reel McKinlay back in once he lost the lead.

“I knew I was going to give it everything I had … you never know under track conditions like that what’s going to happen.”

The veteran duo started side-by-side in the third row of the 20-lap feature but DeSerrano wasted no time moving into second on lap two and passed Blenheim’s Brett Hope for the lead on lap four.

McKinlay, meanwhile, was tied up in a six-car battle behind the leaders before moving into second on lap 12 when Cottam’s Rob Quick tangled with a lapped car while he was running second.

DeSerrano seemed to have the field covered until three late cautions, including one as rain started falling, tightening the field and setting the stage for the dramatic finish.

“I didn’t hear anybody right behind me, but you can never tell what’s going on behind you,” he said of his lead as the laps wound down.

“I just kept trying to hit my marks and keep it going straight.”

It was the second week in a row that McKinlay led in the final laps but was denied a victory.

In last Saturday’s season opening feature, McKinlay passed DeSerrano for the lead with four laps to go and led the rest of the way. But after the checkered waved, race officials penalized McKinlay two positions for jumping a restart with five laps to go.

McKinlay’s hot start has certainly caught the attention of DeSerrano.

“I can guarantee the 26 is going to win one soon … he’s running strong,” DeSerrano said of McKinlay.

Hope, Chatham’s Jamie St. Pierre and Blenheim’s Trevor Jones rounded out the top five.

The feature win capped a second straight three-for-three night as DeSerrano has swept the heats, dashes and features in the first two weeks of the season.

“I don’t know what to say … I guess just luck so far,” he said of his six-for-six start.

“It’s still early in the game and I’m sure everybody’s going to get up to speed.”

Rain began falling a little harder after the completion of the Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature.

The Windride Transportation Sport Stocks were on the parade laps for their feature but the racing surface quickly worsened, forcing race officials to cancel its feature, along with the  Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds and UMP Late Models ‘A’ Mains.

Chatham’s Gregg Haskell and Port Lambton’s Drew Smith won the heat and dash races in the Late Models and Modifieds, respectively - the first flags of the year for both drivers.

For Smith, it was the first two checkered flags in the career of the sophomore driver.

Four other drivers also won their first races of the season - Chatham’s Rick Balasin in a Mini-Mod Heat, Merlin’s Joe Brosseau in a Modified heat, Wallaceburg’s Willy Vyse and Harrow’s Patrick Lajeunesse in the Sport Stocks heats.

Merlin’s Steve Shaw, who won the feature and heat race a week earlier, won the Sport Stocks dash.

Ryan Bonner outran Jeff Schives for a second straight night in a three-car all-Blenheim Bomber feature. Dylan Bonner was third.

Results include driver’s hometown and car number in brackets.

Tirecraft Mini-Mods

Feature (20 laps)

1. Denis DeSerrano (69) Cottam

2. Randy McKinlay (26) Chatham

3. Brett Hope (49) Blenheim

4. Jamie St. Pierre (22S) Chatham

5. Trevor Jones (27T) Blenheim

6. Elliott Wilton (1) Blenheim

7. Rick Balasin (21) Chatham

8. Matt Sorrell (3M) Dresden

9. Norm DeSerrano (96) Kingsville

10. Joel Desjardins (23D) Chatham

11. Steve Shaw Jr. (17) Merlin

12. Darryl Lucio (23X) Chatham

13. Jody Mason (02) Merlin

14. Rob Quick (18) Cottam

15. Jonathan Hebblethwaite (53) Blenheim

16. Ryan Beaulieu (747) Tilbury

17. Justin Turkington (25T) Chatham

DNS - Justin Hebblethwaite (25) Blenheim

First Heat

1. D. DeSerrano; 2. McKinlay; 3. Hope; 4. Mason; 5. Quick; 6. Beaulieu; 7. Desjardins; 8. N. DeSerrano; 9. Ju. Hebblethwaite

Second Heat

1. Balasin; 2. Jones; 3. Sorrell; 4. Wilton; 5. Lucio; 6. Turkington; 7. Jo. Hebblethwaite; 8. Shaw Jr.; 9. St. Pierre

Crack-The-Whip

1. D. DeSerrano; 2. McKinlay; 3. Jones; 4. Balasin; 5. Hope; 6. Sorrell

Windride Transportation Sport Stocks

Feature (20 laps)

Postponed by rain

First Heat

1. Willy Vyse (2V) Wallaceburg

2. Steve Shaw (17) Merlin

3. West Bertozzi (46) Windsor

4. Tyler Lozon (66) Grande Pointe

5. Steve Clements (3C) Wheatley

6. Jim Ellis (86) Kingsville

Second Heat

1. Patrick Lajeunesse (98P) Harrow

2. Doris Lajeunesse (38) Essex

3. Eren Vanderiviere (29) Merlin

4. Jason Fox (93F) Chatham

5. Mike Hough (2H) Chatham

Crack-The-Whip

1. Shaw; 2. Vyse; 3. Bertozzi; 4. P. Lajeunesse; 5. D. Lajeunesse; 6. Vanderiviere

Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds

Feature (25 laps)

Postponed by rain

First Heat

1. Joe Brosseau (47B) Merlin

2. Louis Clements (3C) Chatham

3. Darryl Hoekstra (36D) Chatham

4. Eugene Hoekstra (36) Chatham

5. Joel Dick (09) Leamington

6. Gerald Martin (5) Essex

7. Mario Toniolo (14) Belle River

8. Jeff Mills (6M) Wheatley

DNS - Shawn Jones (27) Blenheim

Second Heat

1. Drew Smith (1) Port Lambton

2. Jim Dale Jr. (00) Shrewsbury

3. Brad Simpson (53) Rodney

4. Dan McIntyre (77) Windsor

5. James Beaulieu (26) Tilbury

6. Brian Speelman (22S) Chatham

7. Reg Daniels (31) Chatham

8. Jeff Daniels (20) Merlin

Dash

1. Smith; 2. Dale Jr.; 3. Clements; 4. Brosseau; 5. Hoekstra; 6. Simpson

UMP Late Models

Feature (20 laps)

Postponed by rain

Heat

1. Gregg Haskell (RH21) Chatham

2. Jim Jones (34) Chatham

3. Brad Authier (1A) Chatham

4. Justin Coulter (555) Leamington

Dash

1. Haskell; 2. Jones; 3. Authier; 4. Coulter

Bombers

Feature (10 laps)

1. Ryan Bonner (5B) Blenheim; 2. Jeff Schives (98) Blenheim; 3. Dylan Bonner (16) Blenheim

Heat

1. Schives; 2. R. Bonner; 3. D. Bonner

Fans can also fill out a ballot of the Best Appearing Cars on Saturday afternoon at the new Tirecraft location on Richmond Street in Chatham.

The cars will be on display in the Tirecraft parking lot from 12 noon to 4 p.m. Fans can look at the cars and grab a hot dog and a pop.

Fans will be able to fill out a ballot, choosing one Best Appearing Car in each class, at the Tirecraft location and at the track.

The winners will be announced and receive their awards on Saturday, May 21.

Ryan Bonner, left, and Jeff Schives battle door-to-door in their Bomber heat race on Opening Night. Schives won the heat and Bonner the feature.

Veteran drivers Jim Dale Jr. of Shrewsbury and Steve Shaw of Merlin led every lap of their feature races to open the 2013 stock car racing season at South Buxton Raceway on Saturday night.

Dale Jr., the two-time defending series champion, led all 25 laps to win the Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modified feature.

Shaw took the green flag in the second row of the Windride Transportation Sport Stocks feature and took the lead before the cars completed a lap as he led all 20 circuits to take the checkered flag.

Leamington’s Justin Coulter won the UMP Late Model feature, his first career feature win in this class, as he outran Charing Cross’s Chris Ross and Eric Spengler, of Lake City, Mich., in an exciting three-car battle for final 13 laps.

Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano won all three races, including the 20-lap feature, in the Tirecraft Mini-Mod division.

DeSerrano actually crossed the finish line in second place in the feature but was declared the winner when Chatham’s Randy McKinlay, who took the lead with four laps to go, was penalized two positions for jumping the restart a lap earlier.

(Photos by James MacDonald Apex One Photo, click on photos for larger views)

Dale Jr. starts ‘13 where he left off in ‘12

Jim Dale Jr. took advantage of last year’s ‘race forward’ format to start on the front row numerous times in feature races, as he led the Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds with eight victories in 2012, including the season championship race.

The eight-time champion was one of the biggest advocates for the new pill draw to invert the field for the feature, so it isn’t always the fastest cars starting up front.

And wouldn’t you know it -  the ‘zero’ frisbee was selected by the junior fan club member, meaning there was no invert for the opening night feature race.

This put Dale Jr., who finished second in the dash to Merlin’s Jeff Daniels, on the outside of the front row for the 25-lap feature.

Jim Dale Jr. led all 25 laps of the Schinkels' Gourmet Meats UMP Modified feature of Carrier Centres night.

Dale Jr. took the lead on the first lap and never looked back, leading every lap to open the season with a dominating victory.

Chatham’s Louis Clements made up ground in the late going as the leaders worked their way through the lap traffic but couldn’t wrestle the lead away from Dale Jr.

Chatham drivers Brian Speelman and Darryl Hoekstra finished third and fifth, with Clayton Smith, of Taylor, Mich., finishing in between in fourth.

Rookie Shawn Jones of Blenheim, the three-time Tirecraft Comp 4 champion, finished sixth - one lap down - in his modified debut.

Two other Modified rookies had top-10 finishes as Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano was eighth and Tilbury’s James Beaulieu was 10^th.

Windsor’s Dan McIntyre had a strong top-five run going until he made contact with Hoekstra and had to pit, leading to an 11^th-place finish.

Chatham’s Eugene Hoekstra also pitted late in the race as the seven-time champion finished 13^th in his return to racing after a nearly 16-year absence from South Buxton.

Daniels won the heat and dash but crashed early in the feature to end his hopes of a sweep.

Dale Jr. and Speelman won the other heats.

Coulter happy first career Late Model win came ‘at home’

Leamington’s Justin Coulter won his first career feature race in a late model car, and was happy it came so close to home.

“It was nice to get it at home in front of friends … and we needed it as a team,” Coulter said.

The long-time modified driver switched to a full-time late model ride last year, racing on the Ohio circuit at Eldora and Oakshade with other local drivers Chris Ross, Don Gordon and Andrew Reaume.

“We won a couple of ‘B’ mains (last year), but this is our first ‘A’ feature (win),” said Coulter, whose last win at South Buxton came in a modified in 2009, one year after winning the season championship race..

Ross and Gordon were two of the seven drivers who took the green flag for Saturday’s first UMP Late Model feature of the season, as crashes in the heat race ended the nights for Ridgetown’s Dale Glassford and Chatham drivers Jim Jones and Mike Dale.

Coulter started in the second row behind pole sitter Gordon and Chatham’s Gregg Haskell.

Leamington's Justin Coulter earned his first career late model win on Saturday, his first feature win at South Buxton since 2009 in a modified.

He passed Gordon for the lead on the second lap two and led the final 18 circuits.

Coulter had his hands full holding off strong challenges from Ross and Eric Spangler, of Lake City, Mich., as the trio raced hard but clean over the final 13 laps.

“I seen Chris get inside of me with a couple of laps to go,” Coulter said. “I didn’t know how close he was, I just tried to hold my line and see what the outcome was going to be.”

Haskell was fourth, the only other car to finish.

Chatham’s Brad Authier, who arrived at the track just in time for the feature after finishing his car late in the evening, was fifth. Gordon was sixth while rookie Eric Walker was seventh.

Coulter credited the infield crew for giving the competitors a racy surface following problems early in the evening.

Overnight vandalism to track equipment, including the water truck, hampered the day’s preparation.

The start of the program was delayed almost an hour and led the dusty track conditions in the heat races.

More water was applied during the intermission and after surviving some slick conditions in the dash and crack-the-whips, the track came around in time for the features.

“I didn’t think it was that bad at all, by feature time the track was pretty decent and there was more than one racing groove,” Coulter said of conditions.

Spangler, who raced Friday at Mt. Pleasant in mid-Michigan before coming across the border Saturday, dominated the two preliminary races as he won the heat and dash but started fourth in the feature after the invert.

Coulter was second in both races to Spengler.

Ruling helps DeSerrano go three-for-three

Cottam’s Denis DeSerrano is no stranger to the Winner’s Circle at South Buxton, winning 12 features over the last three years.

And he started the 2013 season with three wins on Saturday, including a victory in the Tirecraft Mini-Mod feature - even though he crossed the line in second place.

DeSerrano was declared the winner when Chatham’s Randy McKinlay, who took the lead with four laps to go, was penalized two laps for jumping the restart a lap earlier.

“I thought for sure the 26 had won it,” DeSerrano said of McKinlay.

“Obviously I didn’t know what happened behind me, but when he passed me, I figured it was over.”

Merlin’s Jody Mason had a strong run to finish second, with McKinlay relegated to a third-place finish.

Cottam's Denis DeSerrano won all three races including the feature in the Tirecraft Mini-Mod.

It was a wild roller-coaster ride for the two-time champion McKinlay.

He led the first three laps but collided with Chatham’s Jason Turkington while trying to put the rookie a lap down and had to restart at the back.

McKinlay stormed through the field and got as high as third when he had to pit under caution when his hood came loose.

It took McKinlay only two laps to go from the back to the front, taking the lead from DeSerrano with four to go only to be penalized for jumping the green and passing Mason on the restart a lap earlier.

Cottam’s Rob Quick, the 2012 championship race winner, ran second for a few laps but couldn’t get past DeSerrano and settled for a fourth-place finish. Steve Shaw Jr. was fifth.

DeSerrano won the heat race with a last-lap pass of Quick and also won the crack-the-whip.

Chatham’s Joel Desjardin’s and Blenheim’s Trevor Jones won the other heats.

DeSerrano also made his debut in the Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds, but crashed in both the heat and feature. He nursed his car to a respectable eighth-place finish in the 18-car feature.

“These cars don’t stop as good as the Minis,” DeSerrano said about his incidents, including the feature when he got on the brakes to avoid a crash ahead of him.

“The Mods have a lot more horsepower, you have to play with the throttle, where the Minis you just put it to the floor and go.”

‘Brakes’ go Shaw’s way in Sport Stocks feature win

Steve Shaw used his wily experience to post his 106^th career feature win.

The veteran Merlin driver seemed to have the Windride Transportation Sport Stocks feature field covered until his car seemed to slow in the late laps, allowing Dover Centre’s Tyler Lozon, the 2012 championship race winner, to close the gap.

“The right rear caliper broke, I had no brakes,” Shaw explained to what slowed down his No. 17.

“I just kept going and hit my marks … you don’t need brakes here, but they do help when you go in a little too hard,” added Shaw, as he used the old racing adage of slowing down to go fast.

Shaw, who won his heat and finished second to Kingsville’s Rob Young in the dash, started in the fourth position after the invert.

Merlin's Steve Shaw waves the checkered flag in the Winner's Circle in the Windride Transportation Sport Stocks.

But the five-time track champion got a great run on the outside through one-and-two and was the leader when the cars crossed the stripe the first time.

Lozon ran second for all 20 laps while Young was third until he suffered front-end damage late and pitted with three laps to go.

Wallaceburg’s Willy Vyse closed the gap on Lozon in the waning laps and settled for third, with Windsor’s West Bertozzi and Essex’s Doris Lajeunesse rounding out the top five.

Shaw, like Coulter, credited the track staff for a great racing surface in the feature.

“The infield crew did an awesome job … there were too many cautions with the dry conditions and I really didn’t want to take the green in the crack-the-whip,” he said of the slick conditions.

“But it was phenomenal in the feature, they had to do what they did in the intermission.”

Pit Notes

• Ryan Bonner won the Bomber feature, outrunning fellow Blenheim driver Jeff Schives in the 10-lap shootout after Chatham’s Mike Nead pitted early. Schives won the heat.
• Several rookies made their South Buxton debuts -Blenheim’s Justin Hebblethwaite, Jonathon Hebblethwaite and Elliott Wilton, Dresden’s Matt Sorrell and Chatham’s Jason Turkington in the Mini-Mods; Chatham’s Eric Walker in the Late Models; plus Jones, DeSerrano and Beaulieu moving up to the Modifieds.
• DeSerrano said the fire under the hood of his Modified heat race was no big deal. “Some fuel got on the exhaust and it was just burning off.”
• Track promoter Blake Outhouse expressed his appreciation to the fans for the nearly one-hour delay at the start of the program due to the vandalism, and the mid-show interruption to water and work in the track before the features. “We had a big crowd and it was pretty cool with the wind coming off the lake, the last thing we wanted was a long night but we really want to thank the fans for their patience, especially all those who stuck it out to the end,” he said, as the races ended near 11:30 p.m.
• Fans can vote for The Best Appearing Cars at the track this Saturday as well as at the new Tirecraft location on Richmond St. in Chatham from noon to 4 p.m. The winners will be announced May 18.

Schinkels Gourmet Meats UMP Modifieds

Carrier Centres Feature (25 laps)

1. Jim Dale Jr. (00) Shrewsbury

2. Louis Clements (3C) Chatham

3. Brian Speelman (22S) Chatham

4. Clayton Smith (55) Taylor, Mich.

5. Darryl Hoekstra (36D) Chatham

6. Shawn Jones (27) Blenheim

7. Emerson McIntyre (77) Windsor

8. Denis DeSerrano (69) Cottam

9. Shawn Gillis (15) Windsor

10. James Beaulieu (26) Tilbury

11. Dan McIntyre (77) Windsor

12. Justin Mills (6M) Wheatley

13. Eugene Hoekstra (36) Chatham

14. Jeff Daniels (20D) Merlin

15. Mario Toniolo (14) Belle River

16. Brad Simpson (53) Rodney

17. Joe Brosseau (47B) Merlin

18. Drew Smith (86) Wallaceburg

DNS - Joel Dick (09) Leamington

DNS - Scott Mackenzie (28) Maidstone

DNS - Gerald Martin (5) Essex

First Heat

1. Daniels; 2. Gillis; 3. Dick; 4. Brosseau; 5. DeSerrano; 6. Martin; 7. Toniolo

Second Heat

1. Speelman; 2. E. Hoekstra; 3. Mackenzie; 4. Simpson; 5. Jones; 6. C. Smith; 7. Mills.

Third Heat

1. Dale Jr.; 2. D. Hoekstra; 3. D. McIntyre; 4. D. Smith; 5. E. McIntyre; 6. Clements; 7. Beaulieu

Dash

1. Daniels; 2. Dale Jr.; 3. E. Hoekstra; 4. D. McIntyre; 5. D. Hoekstra; 6. Dick; 7. Speelman; 8. Gillis.

UMP Late Models

Feature (20 laps)

1. Justin Coulter (555) Leamington

2. Chris Ross (18R) Charing Cross

3. Eric Spangler (27) Lake City, Mich.

4. Gregg Haskell (RH21) Chatham

5. Brad Authier (1A) Chatham

6. Don Gordon (33) Chatham

7. Eric Walker (W05) Chatham

DNS - Jim Jones (34) Chatham

DNS - Dale Glassford (60) Ridgetown

DNS - Mike Dale (00) Chatham

Heat

1. Spangler; 2. Coulter; 3. Jones; 4. Haskell; 5. Gordon; 6. Dale; 7. Ross; 8. Walker; 9. Glassford

Dash

1. Spangler; 2. Coulter; 3. Jones; 4. Haskell; 5. Gordon

Windride Transportation Sport Stocks

Feature (20 laps)

1. Steve Shaw (17) Merlin

2. Tyler Lozon (66) Dover Centre

3. Willy Vyse (2V) Wallaceburg

4. West Bertozzi (46) Windsor

5. Doris Lajeunesse (38) Essex

6. Steve Clements (3C) Wheatley

7. Rob Young (23) Kingsville

8. Jason Fox (93F) Chatham

9. Eren Vanderiviere (29) Merlin

10. Mike Hough (2)

11. Patrick Lajeunesse (98P) Essex

12. Bob Visnjic (95) LaSalle

DNS - Jim Ellis (87) Essex

First Heat

1. Young; 2. Vanderiviere; 3. Bertozzi; 4. Hough; 5. Clements; 6. P. Lajeunesse

Second Heat

1. Shaw; 2. D. Lajeunesse; 3. Lozon; 4. Vyse; 5. Fox; 6. Visnjic

Crack-The-Whip

1. Young; 2. Shaw; 3. Vanderiviere; 4. Bertozzi, 5. Lozon; 6. D. Lajeunesse.

Tirecraft Mini-Mods

Feature (20 laps)

1. Denis DeSerrano (69) Cottam

2. Jody Mason (02) Merlin

3. Randy McKinlay (28) Chatham

4. Rob Quick (18) Cottam

5. Steve Shaw Jr. (17) Merlin

6. Rick Balasin (21) Chatham

7. Norm DeSerrano (96) Kingsville

8. Matt Sorrell (3M) Dresden

9. Brad Wonnacott (36) Chatham

10. Gerry Rivait Jr. (71) Tilbury

11. Jamie St. Pierre (22S) Chatham

12. Joel Desjardins (23D) Chatham

13. Jonathon Hebblethwaite (53) Blenheim

14. Darryl Lucio (23X) Chatham

15. Trevor Jones (27T) Blenheim

16. Jason Turkington (25T) Chatham

17. Justin Hebblethwaite (25) Blenheim

18. Brett Hope (49) Blenheim

DNS - Elliott Wilton (1) Blenheim

DNS - Ryan Beaulieu (747) Tilbury

First Heat

1. Desjardins; 2. Shaw Jr.; 3. Balasin; 4. Sorrell; 5. N. DeSerrano; 6. Ju. Hebblethwaite; 7. Wilton

Second Heat

1. Jones; 2. McKinlay; 3. Hope; 4. Wonnacott; 5. Turkington

Third Heat

1. D. DeSerrano; 2. Quick; 3. Mason; 4. St. Pierre; 5. Rivait; 6. Beaulieu; 7. Lucio

Crack-The-Whip

1. D. DeSerrano; 2. Jones; 3. Quick; 4. Mason; 5. Shaw Jr.; 6. Balasin; 7. Desjardins; 8. Hope; 9. McKinlay

Bombers

Feature (10 laps)

1. Ryan Bonner (5B) Blenheim; 2. Jeff Schives (98) Blenheim; 3. Mike Nead (4Q) Chatham

Heat

1. Schives; 2. Bonner; 3. Nead.

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