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Brantford’s
Mitchell Brown had a busy but impressive stretch of racing
this past weekend and although he didn’t win, he certainly
made his presence felt on two uniquely different racing
circuits.
On Saturday night
the youngster made his first start of the season in the Lucas
Oil Sportsman Cup Series at the paved Mosport Speedway
qualifying tenth among the 18 participants and raising some
eyebrows with his runs in the two 50-lap features.
In the first 50-lap
chase around the fast half-mile oval he was making a strong
run at the leaders midway through the contest when he got hit
from behind during a brief skirmish entering turn one. The
result of the spin forced him to restart at the rear of the
field but with a solid effort during the final laps the
teenager had worked his way back to eighth.
With the top ten
finishers in the first feature inverted for the second 50-lap
event, Mitchell was determined to make an even better showing and
stayed with the leaders from the drop of the green flag until
deep into the event. He eventually worked his way up to fifth
spot with six laps remaining chasing down last year’s
“Rookie of The Year” Bennan Didero of Ancaster. On lap 48
Brown passed Didero finishing fourth at the checkered flag.
“Yea, it was a
good night for my Bicknell Racing Products/ Leitch Performance
Engines/Carquest and Strodes BBQ & Deli Chevy team and it
could have been even better given that incident in the first
50 but I’ll take it,” he grinned, showing signs of
exhaustion having raced against some veteran campaigners much
his senior.
Steve Robblee of
Dorchester
captured the first feature then followed his son Matt
(Robblee) to the finish line in the second contest.
AT OHSWEKEN ROBINSON
WARDS OFF BROWN AT THE FINISH LINE
Mitchell Brown’s
win streak at Ohsweken Speedway was broken by Rick Robinson of
Paris
who managed to stave of a late race caution and red flag to
capture his first Esso Mini Stock feature of the season.
Robinson had built up
a sizeable lead in the early going until Brown broke free from
the pack from his tenth starting spot. But a late race caution
for a spinning car and a red flag thrown when Wyatt Van Wart
of Cambridge flipped his racer with less than five laps
remaining meant the field was right on Robinson tail for the
restart. Brown had Mike Evers of
Caledonia
between him and theleader and was
able to work his way into second place on the final lap. But
his bid for his fourth straight feature victory fell short by
the length of the front fenders on his Strodes Express &
Deli–sponsored Mustang.
In
victory lane, Robinson said “Mitchell and I are good friends
and we help each other with our cars, but I am glad to beat
him!”
Kevin
Hilborn of
Brantford
followed Evers across the line for a fourth place finish.
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