RESULTS: MOSPORT SPEEDWAY 200 Results

Round #9 // August 21, 2004 // Mosport Speedway
Bowmanville, ON // 200 Laps // ½-Mile, Banked Oval

FIN. ST. # DRIVER (HOMETOWN) SPONSOR / MAKE LAPS

1 1 4 Don Thomson Jr. (Hamilton ON) Home Hardware ChevroletMonte Carlo 200
2 5 64 Mark Dilley (Barrie ON) NTN Bearings Dodge 200
3 11 17 DJ Kennington (St. Thomas ON) Castrol Canada Dodge 200
4 2 39 Dave Whitlock (Wyoming ON) Avenue MotorWorks / NMTDodge 200
5 22 23 Jeff Lapcevich (Caistor Centre ON) Tim Horton’s /Fastline Motorsports Chevrolet Monte Carlo 200
6 7 84 J.R. Fitzpatrick (Ayr ON) R Cambridge Rigging ChevroletMonte Carlo 200
7 8 50 Pete Shepherd (Brampton ON) R ATTO Dodge 200
8 4 22 Scott Steckly (Milverton ON) ERB Group Pontiac GrandPrix 200
9 3 1 Peter Gibbons (Stouffville ON) Canadian Tire / MonroeBrakes Chevrolet Monte Carlo 200
10 17 71 Bryan Cathcart (Peterborough ON) www.berms.r.us.comChevrolet Monte Carlo 200
11 14 19 Brad Graham (Glencoe ON) Challenger Motor Frt. PontiacGrand Prix 200
12 16 11 Ron Van Es (Smithville ON) R Star Van Systems ChevroletMonte Carlo 199
13 10 10 Doug Brown (Brantford ON) NAPA / Autopro ChevroletMonte Carlo 199
14 21 55 Rob Graham (Bothwell ON) R G-Dox / Doering BrownMonte Carlo 199
15 12 88 Dave Jacombs (Mt. Hope ON) Lou’s BBQ / Inroble /FAG Ford Taurus 199
16 24 60 Ron Beauchamp Jr. (Windsor ON) MOPAR Parts / ExideDodge 198
17 15 42 Sean Stafford (Springfield ON) Mid-America FreightSystems Chevrolet Monte Carlo 196
18 9 25 Jim Lapcevich (Hamilton ON) Retrocom Growth Fund/ Fastline Chevrolet Monte Carlo 195
19 6 02 Kerry Micks (Mt. Albert ON) Power Water Ford Taurus 185
20 20 41 Matty Tsoumaris (Toronto ON) John’s Unique AutoChevrolet Monte Carlo 140
21 19 86 Kenny Forth (Lynden ON) Parkinson Tours / 820 CHAMFord Taurus 137
22 23 32 Mike Alguire (London ON) A-Dor Construction PontiacGrand Prix 131
23 18 93 Joe Goncalves (Concord ON) Chevrolet Monte Carlo 73
24 13 3 Stu Robinson Jr. (Holland Landing ON) R Snap-On Tools/ General Electric Dodge 32
25 25 8 Marc Miller (Holland MI) R Carhartt Clothing ChevroletMonte Carlo DNS
26 26 14 John Fitzpatrick (Ayr ON) Cambridge Rigging ChevroletMonte Carlo DNS


R after the hometown denotes Rookie contender.

TIME OF RACE: 1 hour, 47 minutes and 29 seconds // MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.935 seconds // CAUTIONS: 7 for a total of 41 laps // LAP LEADERS: #4 Don Thomson Jr. (1-96), #1 Peter Gibbons (97), #4 Thomson (98-200).

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August 23, 2004

Petey Shepherd Posts Another Top-Ten

(Bowmanville, Ontario) – Petey Shepherd and his Team ATTO / Performance Racing News Dodge had a couple of weeks off following the Western swing of the 2004 CASCAR Super Series season and returned to action last Saturday, August 23rd at Mosport Speedway. The 200-lap feature at ‘Canada’s Fastest ½-mile’ was the first of four straight oval track races in five weeks to close the season, as Shepherd continued to battle J.R. Fitzpatrick and Rob Graham for the National Rookie-of-the-Year title. Shepherd had a number of Late Model starts at the track, and was very impressed with the improvements that had been made on the track. “They did some paving. There used to be a lot more bumps, but they took some of those out and it’s made for a better racing surface.”

Shepherd was 10th-fastest in practice for the Mosport 200 and backed it up with a solid eighth-place qualifying effort. “We were happy with that result. That should give us a good starting spot for the feature.”

Petey rolled off from the outside of row four, but his night would get rocky right off the bat. “I think Kerry Micks blew an oil line and we got into the fluid and spun out.” Luckily for the # 50 machine there was no damage to the Dodge and Shepherd was able to rejoin the field at the back. “We gave up a good starting spot with that, but at least the car was all right. We basically started the race from the back of the field.”
Shepherd got hooked up with Fitzpatrick early in the race and the pair made their way through the field together, as Petey advanced to 13th while the race reached the halfway point. Under a yellow flag almost the entire field made wholesale pit stops, but Team ATTO had a little hiccup as the socket came off the impact gun. Another gun was quickly brought into service, but Shepherd had lost a few spots.
He returned to action and started to wade through traffic again, once more hooking up with Fitzpatrick as the pair navigated through the pack. By the time the checkered flag fell Shepherd had recorded another solid top-ten finish, winding up seventh. “We had some good luck and some bad luck. We had bad luck when we spun out early, but we also got some good luck on one of the yellows when the caution flag flew while Don Thomson Jr. was coming up to lap us. We had a solid outing, and I think we had a top-five or top-three car, but we weren’t in the same league as Donnie.”

Thomson, and David Whitlock qualified on the front row for the Mosport 200, with Thomson grabbing the lead when the green came out. Thomson would lead until lap 96 when he pitted for tires, but re-took command on lap 98 and paced the field for the remainder of the event to record his first win in over two years. Mark Dilley held off D.J. Kennington for second position, while the win gave Thomson the point lead as former championship leader Gibbons finished ninth.
1. Thomson, 2. Dilley, 3. Kennington, 4. Whitlock, 5. Jeff Lapcevich, 7. Petey Shepherd.

Unofficial point standings (after nine of 12 events) – 1. Thomson (1550 points), 2. Gibbons (1527), 3. Whitlock (1527), 4. Jeff Lapcevich (1463), 5. Kerry Micks (1450), 11. Petey Shepherd (1272).

The next event for Team ATTO will be Saturday August 28th at ‘Canada’s Fastest 1/3-mile’, Peterborough Speedway. Shepherd had success there earlier in the season as he qualified third, and ran strong all night before bending some suspension late in the contest and fading. “We’re excited about racing at Peterborough. We qualified third there in the spring with just a single lap, and had a solid top-five car. I still think we can get a win before the end of the season, and I think we have as good as shot as anyone when it comes to winning at Peterborough. I grew up racing on small, flat tracks like Flamboro, and with no banking you really have to work the car through the corners. On these high-banked tracks, like Peterborough it’s a lot easier to get through the turns, and then when you hit the straights you realize just how fast you’re going.”

For more information on Petey Shepherd, Team ATTO, CASCAR, Mosport, or Peterborough Speedway, please visit www.cascar.ca, www.mosport.com, or www.peterboroughspeedway.com. Or contact Maudsley Motorsports at (519) 670-3278, or maudsleymotorsports@sympatico.ca.