CORNWALL, Ont. — For the first time this season and the fourth time in his career, Dylan Swiernik picked up the Empire Super Sprints victory at Cornwall Motor Speedway on Sunday night.
Pinnacle Pole Award winner Trevor Years and Jason Barney would lead the field to green for the 25-lap main event. Barney jumped out to an early lead, with fourth starting Swiernik right in tow.
In the first handful of laps, Barney was able to extend his lead to just over 1.5 seconds, but Swiernik started cutting into that lead on lap 6. After a caution and the ensuing restart, Swiernik was able to get by Barney on lap nine to take the lead.
Meanwhile, Jordan Poirier had been slowly marching forward from his seventh starting spot and followed Swiernik around the No. 87 of Barney to take second on lap nine.
With the balance of the field behind him, Swiernik never looked back and led the remainder of the event and collected the $2,000 A-Main win.
“The track did a good job tonight, they got it to where we could race two and three wide,” said Swiernik. “We were able to take the lead on the restart and had a battle through lap traffic with Jordan Poirier, I think it was a really good race for the fans.”
Hometown favorite Poirier came home in second and was able to extend his points lead.
“Everyone was convinced that the bottom was going to be better, on the initial start I was able to pass probably four cars on the top and my car was really good,” said Poirier. “I think my car was good at the beginning, but then too free by the end. Still, it was a pretty good night for us.”
Jeff Cook advanced 8 positions overall on the night and completed the Ashley Lynn Winery podium finishing in third.
“The track ended up being alright tonight. In the beginning we were a little skeptical and thought it was going to take some rubber, but the track crew did an awesome job and got it pretty racy,” said Cook. “I’m happy with a third place, I thought I had a little more in the car, but we will take a third and move on to Speedweek.”
Feature Finish (25 Laps)
#7C-Dylan Swiernik[4]; 2. 28-Jordan Poirier[9]; 3. #10-Jeff Cook[11]; 4. #90-Matt Tanner[8]; 5. #87-Jason Barney[2]; 6. #5D-Jacob Dykstra[6]; 7. #53-Shawn Donath[10]; 8. 77T-Tyeller Powless[3]; 9. #13T-Trevor Years[1]; 10. 51-Lee Ladouceur[15]; 11. #23-Tyler Cartier[21]; 12. #36-Logan Crisafulli[16]; 13. 11J-Chris Jones[20]; 14. 84-Tyler Rand[5]; 15. 42W-Rick Wilson[14]; 16. #88C-Chad Miller[17]; 17. #3G-Dale Gosselin[12]; 18. 19-Mathieu Bardier[13]; 19. #13-Keith Granholm[18]; 20. 98R-Evan Reynolds[19]; 21. (DNS) #98-Joe Trenca