(Photo by Rod Henderson, CanadianRacer.com)
There’s nothing like watching school buses do things you wouldn’t want them to do with your kids on board. Or anyone’s kids for that matter.
And they weren’t, on Saturday night at Brighton Speedway, where a full house watched 19 banana boats compete on the third of a mile clay oval as part of their feature race night.
The Workman OK Tire School bus drivers did not wait for the features to turn up the excitement, in heat two when #31 Jason Tehaar would get sideways coming to the initial green flag leaving nowhere for the #98 Kyle Rhebergen to go and when the two collided, Tehaar would barrel roll his freshly painted bus right down the front straight in front of the packed stands. The fifteen-lap feature event started with a four-wide salute to the grandstands full of fans. As the field took the green flag, it was the #45 James Seymour taking the early lead. With Seymour breaking away to a full straightaway lead, things would get tightened up as the red came out for #8 Cody Juby who was flipped around and on his side in turn two. When the buses went back to green Seymour would jump to the lead again but now, he would have #19 Paul Quick battling for the top spot with him. Quick and Seymour would make contact popping a tire on Seymour’s bus and Quick would suffer mechanical issues. The beneficiaries of the contact between the top two runners were #75 Frank Flieler and #77 Bernie Rhebergen. Flieler would hold on to win the 15-lap race.
Next up were the features.
Jeff Humphries led the 23-car field to green and finished with his first feature flag of the season in the Thunder Stock Division.
Steve Baldwin outlasted the 14-car field to win his third Late Model Division race of the year.
Ron Wadforth took the lead on lap 7 to earn the checkered flag in the caution-filled Canadian Modified Division for the third time this season.
And Caleb Severin got his first checkered flag in the 15-lap Mini Stocks race.
June 17 Feature Results
Workman OK Tire School Bus Division
1 75 Frank Flieler
2 77 Bernie Rhebergen
3 45 James Seymour
4 88 Bryan McColl
5 29 Jan Steenstra
6 94 Shawn Sousa
7 3 Deano LeClair
8 11 Jim Bryant
9 83 Don Forsyth
10 14 Randy McCann
11 18 Rinaldi Crew Member
12 19 Paul Quick
13 53 Mike Workman
14 27 Matt Klawitter
15 81 Jack Juby
16 8 Cody Juby
17 116 John McColl
Vanderlaan Building Products Late Model Division
1 5 Steve Baldwin
2 11 Kyle Sopaz
3 3 Nate Rinaldi
4 41 Ryan Lambert
5 46 Brandon Mowat
6 151 Brian McDonald
7 5 James Seymour
8 77 Caley Weese
9 89 Austin King
10 33 David Vandertoorn
11 49 Brett Hope
12 21 Rich Sanders
13 73 Anthony Rinaldi
14 39 Rob Hood
Bainer’s OilGARD Anti Rust Canadian Modified Division
1 40 Ron Wadforth
2 1 Shawn Gregory
3 5 Wally Alderdice
4 2 Leslie Mowat
5 47 Joe Brosseau
6 51 Mike Freeman
7 26 Bob Green
8 41 Corey Halbert
9 32 Doug O’Blenis
Brighton Automotive Thunder Stock Division
1 17 Jeff Humphry
2 3 Justin Ramsay
3 0 Tyler French
4 97 Dave Barrett
5 9 Josh Black
6 19 Cory White
7 11 Cole McKeown
8 74 Mike Lucas
9 16 Kaitlyn O’Blenis
10 73 Jason Preece
11 45 Dylan Riley
12 8 Angie Kirby
13 6 Bill OHara
14 23 Doug May
15 18 Kyle Anderson
16 6 Chris Hackett
17 46 Dion Riley
18 9 Garren Taylor
19 3 Paul Read
20 88 Patrick Easton
21 72 Doug Anderson
22 27 Torri Pope
23 28 Steve Baldwin
Bill’s Johns Mini Stock Division
1 12 Caleb Severin
2 4 Chris Tufford
3 25 Lawrence Evenden
4 96 Cole Abrams
5 54 Tim Moore
6 72 John South
7 77 Ethan Humphry
8 95 Chris Lammle
9 17 Evan Minnie
10 71 Alesha Gerrard
11 18 Carter Rhodes
12 8 Sebastian Rightmeyer
13 1 Bre Chambers
14 43 Jacob McKenzie
15 22 Tyson Gregory
DNS 0 William Vidito
