CASCAR - MOPAR Parts 500 - Qualifying Results & Summary
CASCAR Super Series MOPAR Parts 500 Race Weekend Race City Motorsport Park / Calgary, AB RESULTS: Qualifying and Twin 100s July 19, 2003 Dilley, Kennington and Gibbons share qualifying glory on Friday of the MOPAR Parts 500 Race Weekend, at Calgary’s Race City Motorsport Park CALGARY, AB - The opening events of the MOPAR Parts 500 Race Weekend took place Friday night at Calgary’s Race City Motorsport Park. Time trials and Twin 100 Qualifying Sprint Races set the majority of the starting grid for Sunday’s MOPAR Parts 300, at the high-banked, half-mile oval. In time trials, held Friday afternoon at Race City, former CASCAR National champion Mark Dilley turned in the fastest lap of the 29 drivers who participated. The NTN Bearings MOPAR driver circled the Race City oval in 17.570 seconds (102.447 mph). Peter Gibbons was second quickest. As a reward for their time trial speeds, Dilley and Gibbons will start first and second, respectively, on Sunday. Based on time trial results, the field of contenders was split into two groups for Friday night’s 100-lap sprint races. In the first, St. Thomas, ON racer DJ Kennington started sixth in his Snap On / Castrol Intrepid and moved steadily to the front. He passed polesitter and race leader Dilley on lap 80 and held the position for the remaining 20 laps. At the finish, Kennington’s MOPAR-powered Intrepid finished ahead of Brad Graham and current Super Series points leader Kerry Micks, who started sixth and seventh, respectively, in the 100 lapper. In the second Qualifying Sprint Race, polesitter Gibbons relinquished the lead to Don Thomson for the first 29 laps, but was able to pass the two-time and defending National champion, at that point, and never looked back. Thomson later said he wasn’t happy with the handling of his Home Hardware Chevy, and he plans to make several significant changes prior to the start of Sunday’s main event. Gibbons’ Canadian Tire Chevy cruised to a comfortable win over Thomson and Dave Jacombs. Happy with his car’s prospects for a record fourth MOPAR Parts 300 win on Sunday, Gibbons said he hardly broke a sweat during his heat win. The remainder of the starting grid for Sunday’s MOPAR Parts 300 will be determined tonight (Saturday) at Race City. The Final Qualifier race is scheduled to start at 7:00 p.m. and will include nine cars who have not yet secured starting positions for Sunday’s 300 lapper. Calgary’s Wheeler Boys will start on the pole for the Final Qualifier race. EVENT SCHEDULE MOPAR PARTS 500 RACE WEEKEND / RACE CITY MOTORSPORT PARK: SATURDAY, July 19, 2003 3:00 3:30 p.m. CASCAR Practice 4:15 4:45 p.m. CASCAR Practice 7:00 p.m. Final Qualifier Race for the MOPAR Parts 300 // IMCA, Super Truck, and Street Stock racing to follow SUNDAY, July 20, 2003 11:15 noon CASCAR Driver Autograph Session 12:30 p.m. Driver Introductions 1:00 p.m. START: MOPAR Parts 300 CASCAR Super Series MOPAR Parts 500 Race Weekend RESULTS: Twin 100 Qualifying Sprint Race #1 Round #6 // July 18, 2003 // Race City Motorsport Park Calgary, Alberta // Twin 100s // ½-mile, high-banked paved oval FIN. ST. # DRIVER (HOMETOWN) SPONSOR / MAKE LAPS 1 6 37 D.J. Kennington (St. Thomas, ON) Snap On Tools / Castrol Canada Intrepid 100 2 7 19 Brad Graham (Glencoe, ON) Challenger Motor Frt. / Volvo Trucks Pontiac Grand Prix 100 3 8 02 Kerry Micks (Mt. Albert, ON) UFCW Canada Ford Taurus 100 4 3 33 Neil Fair (Ancaster, ON) Skoal Inc. / Mac's Intrepid 100 5 13 22 Scott Steckly (Milverton, ON) Schick Xtreme3 / Razor Mag. / ERB Pontiac Grand Prix 100 6 4 09 Trevor Seibert (Williams Lake, BC) Bibby Ste-Croix Ford Taurus 100 7 5 14 John Fitzpatrick (Ayr, ON) Cambridge Rigging Chevrolet Monte Carlo 99 8 1 64 Mark Dilley (Barrie, ON) NTN Bearings Intrepid 98 9 11 38 Jim White (Kamloops, BC) R James Western Star Sterling Chevrolet Monte Carlo 98 10 2 60 Ron Beauchamp Jr. (Windsor, ON) MOPAR Performance Parts / Exide Intrepid 98 11 10 50 Wheeler Boys (Calgary, AB) Industrial Graphics Intrepid 97 12 9 33W Don Sales (Quesnel, BC) Skoal Inc. / Shell Select Pontiac Grand Prix 71 13 12 15 Mike Browne (Calgary, AB) Coors Light / Bartin Pipe Pontiac Grand Prix 62 14 14 71W Daryl Harr (St. Albert, AB) Westworld Computers Chevrolet Monte Carlo 16 15 DNS 23 Jeff Lapcevich (Caistor Centre, ON) Fastline Motorsports Chevrolet Monte Carlo 0 R after the hometown denotes Rookie contender. TIME OF RACE: 34 minutes and 17.721 seconds // CAUTIONS: 1 for a total of 6 laps (17-22) // LAP LEADERS: #64 Mark Dilley (1-79) and DJ Kennington (80-100) RESULTS: Twin 100 Qualifying Sprint Race #2 FIN. ST. # DRIVER (HOMETOWN) SPONSOR / MAKE LAPS 1 1 1 Peter Gibbons (Stouffville, ON) Canadian Tire Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 2 2 4 Don Thomson Jr. (Hamilton, ON) Home Hardware Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 3 4 88 Dave Jacombs (Mt. Hope, ON) Inroble Brakes / FAG Ford Taurus 100 4 3 39 Dave Whitlock (Wyoming, ON) Avenue West ACDelco / NMT Intrepid 100 5 8 35 Kevin Dowler (Edmonton, AB) EMCO Ford Taurus 100 6 5 25 Jim Lapcevich (Hamilton, ON) Fastline Motorsports Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 7 6 2 Carl Harr (St. Albert, AB) GM Goodwrench of Alberta Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 8 14 71 Bryan Cathcart (Peterborough, ON) R National Fast Freight Intrepid 100 9 9 12 Ron Larson (Quesnel, BC) Fastrack Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 10 7 24 Cole Pearn (Mt. Brydges, ON) Kubota Canada Pontiac Grand Prix 99 11 13 86 Kenny Forth (Lynden, ON) Labour Ready / 820 CHAM / Rockton Berry Farm Ford Taurus 96 12 10 42 Darin Guillet (Calgary, AB) Havoline / Tower Chrysler Intrepid 66 13 12 27 Mark Derks (Calgary, AB) R Caltech Surveys Ltd. Chevrolet Monte Carlo 42 14 11 11 James MacFarlane (Calgary, AB) Ford Taurus 5 R after the hometown denotes Rookie contender. TIME OF RACE: 33 minutes and 42.538 seconds // CAUTIONS: 1 for a total of 6 laps (43-48) // LAP LEADERS: #4 Don Thomson (1-28) and #1 Peter Gibbons (29-100)