THE LUCAS OIL CAN-AM TQ MIDGETS

“Lucas Smith takes Feature Win at Ontario’s Grand Bend Raceway”

On their second and final visit of the year to the newly rebuilt Grand Bend Raceway located on the shores of Lake Huron, the Lucas Oil Can-Am TQ Midgets once again thrilled the fans with their lightning quick lap times and high speed, open wheeled racing excitement.

2004 Can-Am Champ Paul Smith in the #2 DayGlo Yellow Car, started on the poll and led the first 14 laps of the 25 lap feature as he moved quickly through lapped traffic and appeared well on his way to a feature win. That was until a drivers worst nightmare happened, the throttle hung “wide open” on the Yellow Deuce Coupe and he careened first into the front-straight wall and then into the end wall.  Smith climbed from the wrecked TQ with a broken hand and a foot injury and his night was over.

On the re-start it was Points Leader Lucas Smith (no relation to Paul) after having moved into 2^nd place on lap 12, who would take the green flag ahead of 2^nd place points man Rob Neely, and followed by Craig Mackereth and Todd Cresswell . Darren McLennan rounded out the top five, with Clorox/Ford Female Development Driver Alison MacLeod, fresh off a USAC Midget win in Indiana re-starting in sixth place.  The six drivers worked each other over hard, until lap 19 when Todd Cresswell finally got by the 43 car of Mackereth and into 3^rd place.  Mackereth kept trying to get the position back, but Cresswell who had dropped from 1^st place in the championship run to 4^th place because of a wreck a couple of weeks before, would have none of it.

At the Checkers, it was Lucas Smith in 1^st Place with Rob Neely 2^nd, Todd Cresswell 3^rd, Craig Mackereth 4^th, Darren McLennan 5^th and Alison MacLeod 6^th.  The top 3 on the nite would also emerge in that same order in the 2007 Lucas Oil Can-Am TQ Midget Points Championship.

Heat Winners – Todd Cresswell, Rob Neely.  B Main – David Balych.

Feature Race Results – Lucas Smith, Rob Neely, Todd Cresswell, Craig Mackereth, Darren McLennan, Alison MacLeod,  David Balych, Larry Wilson, Harvey Walsh, Gregg Smulders, Tyler Mackereth, Colin Turnbull, Earl Caine, Mike Hooper, Chris Bauman, Paul Smith, Daniel Bois.