Cavan, ON – The 33rd annual Autumn Colours Classic kept its Thanksgiving weekend tradition alive from October 9-11 at Peterborough Speedway. The event featured exciting races like the Electric City 167 pro late model race, OSCAAR Hot Rods and Modifieds, Outlaw Midgets, and the Ontario Legend Car Series.
This year’s races showcased some drivers maintaining their winning streaks while others claimed victories and championships that had been a long time coming. Fans witnessed intense battles and thrilling moments, including on-track payback and a spare tire unexpectedly rolling out of a bone stock’s trunk during a crash. Some familiar faces took to different rides, with Shawn Chenoweth racing in a Legend Car, Lane Zardo in a Bone Stock car, and Danny Benedict making his comeback to the track with a Hot Rod.
Though rain threatened to disrupt Sunday’s events, it held off until later in the day. Overall, it was yet another unforgettable weekend for Ontario’s biggest stock car racing celebration.
Below are the results from the feature podiums along with Inside Track interviews from the Autumn Colours Classic. Please note that some results are provisional.
Electric City 167
The 167-lap pro late model main event kicked off Sunday’s lineup at Peterborough. This year’s track champion Dan Mc Hattie led for much of the first half before slipping to second place after the competition caution for pit stops at Lap 100. Jake Sheridan’s car picked up speed in the latter half after he held onto second place early on. Sheridan and Mc Hattie collided during a late restart just before another caution for debris. After pitting, Mc Hattie lost his front-row spot but managed to recover to finish sixth.
Sheridan took home the victory, extending his impressive run in pro late models. He won not only the Electric City 167 but also last year’s Frostoberfest feature and NTN BCA Triple Crown over two years while adding this year’s titles from Delaware Speedway and Flamboro Speedway’s Grisdale Showdown Series as well as APC Series championship and Great Canadian 300 win.
Podium: 1) Jake Sheridan, 2) Dustyn Mobourquette, 3) Shawn Chenoweth
OSCAAR Hot Rods
Danny Benedict celebrated his victory in his very first OSCAAR Hot Rods race while Tyler Hawn clinched his seventh series title by just one point over Steve Book.
Podium: 1) Danny Benedict, 2) Connor James, 3) Daniel Hawn
OSCAAR Modifieds
Amanda Balson earned her second OSCAAR Modifieds win this season marking her first Autumn Colours Classic victory ever while Dale Reinhart captured his inaugural series championship after narrowly missing out last year by just one point.
Podium: 1) Amanda Balson, 2) Wally Wilson, 3) Brent Mc Lean
Outlaw Midgets
After several close finishes in previous years’ races, two-time Outlaw Midgets champion Mike Bradley finally joined his brother Dave as an Autumn Colours Classic winner. Rob Mc Call achieved his first series championship after spending more than ten years competing in this class.
Podium: 1) Mike Bradley, 2) Rob Mc Call, 3) Robin Mc Lean
Ontario Legend Car Series
This season wasn’t kind to the Ontario Legend Car Series due to four consecutive rainouts earlier in summer including a doubleheader on August long weekend at Sauble Speedway. Unfortunately for them that bad luck continued at Peterborough when predicted rain finally hit during their feature race resulting in multiple delays which ultimately shortened their planned 40-lap event down to just 26 laps that included caution flag laps.
Matt Haufe achieved his first Legend Car win of this year along with fourth overall at Autumn Colours while Adam Cuthbertson secured a championship title after more than fifteen years away from winning any titles prior!
ACC Podium: 1) Matt Haufe , 2 ) Mackenzie Milwain , 3 ) Cole Mc Fadden P >
P >
P >
Dawson Drimmie , Mackenzie Milwain , and Cole Mc Fadden filled out podium spots during Friday night make-up feature race consisting of twenty-five laps following an earlier weather cancellation. P >
In addition , Legend Cars driver Keaton Pipe continued tradition by hosting Fall Food Drive alongside Annual Colors festivities. P >
Super Stock P >
To honor Mark Gordon’s memory , Peterborough Speedway dedicated fifty-two lap Super Stock Feature Race since Gordon passed away earlier this year – he regularly drove car number fifty-two! P >
Shawn Chenoweth went unchallenged throughout this middle segment within triple duty performances. P >
Podium :1 ) Shawn Chenoweth ,2 ) Bailey Jacobs ,3 ) Coltin Everingham
p >
p >
Mini Stock
During sixty-seven lap Mini Stock headliner event track paid respect towards former racer Melissa Bullen who sadly passed away back In twenty-twenty.
Podium :1 ) Jacob Sutcliffe ,2 ) James Townsend ,3 ) Michael Robinson
p ><“P ndeddressedn th “Bonestock” field wrapped up Weekend Events following weather delay through forty-lap show downtion. “P odiesgnh:”Jordan Willms,”Phil Givens,”Spencer Riddell” “P Junior Late Models ” ” ‘Po’duem; ” Kaiden Beatty,”Lyla Sikma”,”Brody Coates” “P OMRS Sports Mods ” ” ‘”Po’du’: b Stevenson,’Kyle Gordonn,’Chad Strawn’ “P Ontarion Bandoleros ” ” ‘Racel”‘Josh Davenport,”Landon Sellers,'”Lucas Finnegan “Race ‘twopodum:’Josh Davenport’,’Landon Sellers’,’Lucas Finnegan’
Source link
