OHSWEKEN, Ont. – A busy night at Ohsweken Speedway saw a total of 123 cars roll through the pit gate on Core-Mark Wall of Fame and Kids Race Night.
A ceremony at intermission inducted five new people to the Ohsweken Speedway Wall of Fame, including John and Wendy Brush of Corr/Pak Merchandising, drivers Ryan Hunsinger and Rob Pietz, and former track preparation guru Zeger Van Thuyl.
When the final checkered flag waved at the end of the night, it was Cory Turner who claimed victory with the Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprints Cars and Nick Sheridan scoring a win with the Strickland’s GMC Crate Sprint Cars.
For the stock cars, 15-year-old Donny Lampman won his first Middleport Mechanical Thunder Stock Feature and Kyle Wert topped the HRW Automotive Mini Stocks.
Travis Cunningham and Aaron Turkey started on the front row for the 20-lap Kool Kidz-Corr/Pak 360 Sprint Car A-Feature. The red flag waved on the opening lap though, as Mike Thorne flipped in turn one, causing damage to the top wing. Thorne was uninjured.
On the restart, Turkey jumped out front and paced a three-car breakaway that included Dylan Westbrook and Mack DeMan. By lap five, Westbrook was all over Turkey for the lead with DeMan in the mix.
Two laps later with the leaders in heavy traffic, Westbrook got past Turkey in turn one to take over the lead and on lap nine, Turner got past both Turkey and DeMan for second.
Then on lap 11, Westbrook had opened a half straightaway lead and drove into turn one as he was about to put Shane Ross one lap down.
Halfway through the corner, the car darted to the right as the steering box broke and sent Westbrook into the hay bales in turn two. Westbrook was uninjured.
That left the lead to Turner on the restart who pulled away from the field with DeMan in tow. The clean air helped Turner as he opened a five car-length lead. The advantage shrunk on lap 17 when Turner slowed briefly to avoid a lapped car, but DeMan wasn’t able to capitalize enough.
Turner was smooth through the slower traffic over the final three laps to score his first win for the Burger Barn Racing team over DeMan, Scott Kreutter, Jim Huppunen and Turkey.
DeMan’s second-place finish was his fourth straight podium result to start the season, while Huppunen earned his fourth top-five in as many starts.
Cory Turner, DeMan and Kreutter won their qualifying heat races to start the night.
The finish:
1. 13-Cory Turner, [7]; 2. 17X-Mack DeMan, [4]; 3. 49-Scott Kreutter, [6]; 4. 14H-Jim Huppunen, [5]; 5. 68-Aaron Turkey, [2]; 6. 1-Holly Porter, [10]; 7. 10-Mitch Brown, [12]; 8. 81-Derek Jonathan, [9]; 9. 11-Jamie Turner, [13]; 10. 91-Ryan Turner, [11]; 11. 5D-Shane Ross, [19]; 12. 9-Steve Lyons, [18]; 13. 90-Travis Cunningham, [1]; 14. 88H-Josh Hansen, [20]; 15. 21-John Burbridge Jr, [16]; 16. 15-Dan Nanticoke, [15]; 17. 9B-Scott Burk, [14]; 18. 87X-Shone Evans, [17]; 19. 1-10-Jake Brown, [8]; 20. 47X-Dylan Westbrook, [3]; 21. 0C-Cole MacDonald, [23]; 22. 46-Kevin Pauls, [21]; 23. 43-Scott Sherk, [22]; 24. 55-Mike Thorne, [24]
Lap Leaders: Aaron Turkey 1-6; Dylan Westbrook 7-11; Cory Turner 12-20
Hard Charger: Shane Ross (+8)