CASCAR - Vancouver Results & Summary
CASCAR Super Series
Canadian Tire 100 / Vancouver Molson Indy
Race Summary and Results
For more information contact CASCAR at (519) 641-1214
For immediate release / July 26, 2003
PHOTO: (l to r) Don Thomson (3rd), Jeff Lapcevich (1st) and Kerry Micks
(2nd) at the post-Canadian Tire 100 press conference at the Vancouver Indy
CREDIT: Greg MacPherson / Inside Track Motorsport News
Jeff Lapcevich wins the Canadian Tire 100 CASCAR race at the Vancouver Indy
VANCOUVER, BC - Until two weeks ago, prior to the Toronto Indy, Jeff
Lapcevich had never won a CASCAR Super Series race. But following today's
win in the Canadian Tire 100 at the Vancouver Molson Indy, the Caistor
Centre, ON racer has a pair of CASCAR checkered flags to his credit.
The Tim Horton's Chevy driver started on the pole and led all 35 laps
around the 12-turn temporary street course circuit at Vancouver's Concord
Pacific Place circuit. In doing so, Lapcevich swept both Indy events on the
2003 CASCAR schedule.
By lap 18 of the 35-lap race, Lapcevich had stretched out a lead of 12.6
seconds over Kerry Micks, who was followed by Don Thomson Jr. But the
race's only full-course caution bunched the field, thereby erasing
Lapcevich's commanding lead.
Simultaneously, Lapcevich lost the power steering on his Tim Horton's car,
which forced him to take it easier over the rumble strips. But even those
setbacks weren't enough to keep him from quickly re-establishing a lead of
three seconds, by lap 30.
Over the closing laps, Lapcevich maintained his composure and was never
challenged on his way to the checkered flag. He came home 2.297 seconds
ahead of Micks' UFCW Taurus.
"Losing the big lead to the caution wasn't that big a deal, but I was
worried about losing my power steering," said Lapcevich, after the race. "I
didn't know if I was going to be able to drive the car once it went back to
green. For a while, I actually thought I had a right-front tire going down."
Don Thomson Jr. had been engaged in a close battle with Micks for much of
the race, but the Home Hardware car got tighter as the race wore on, and
Thomson gave up the chase and settled for third.
Micks and Thomson are the prime combatants for the CASCAR Super Series
championship and based on their 'two-three' finish in the Canadian Tire
100, Micks has re-taken the lead by just two points over Thomson. The two
have exchanged the top spot in the championship in each of the past three
events.
Jeff Lapcevich's brother Jim finished fourth, ahead of the top finishing
western Canadian racer in the field, Kevin Dowler of Edmonton, AB.
CASCAR NOTEBOOK: The next CASCAR Super Series event takes place August 9 at
Autodrome Old Milwaukee / St-Eustache, in Montreal, QC... The initial
broadcast of the recent CASCAR race at the Toronto Indy airs Monday, July
28 at 7:00 p.m. on Rogers SPORTSNET... Saturday's announced crowd for the
Canadian Tire 100 was 51,171, for a two-day total of over 96,000 who
witnessed the CASCAR Super Series in action.
CASCAR Super Series
RESULTS: Canadian Tire 100
Molson Indy Vancouver
Round #7 // July 26, 2003 // Concord Pacific Place
Vancouver, BC // 12-turn temporary street circuit // 2.866 km
FIN. POS. # DRIVER (HOMETOWN) SPONSOR / MAKE LAPS
1 1 23 Jeff Lapcevich (Caistor Centre, ON) Tim Horton's / Fastline
Motorsports Chevrolet Monte Carlo 35
2 4 02 Kerry Micks (Mt. Albert, ON) UFCW Canada Ford Taurus 35
3 5 4 Don Thomson Jr. (Hamilton, ON) Home Hardware Chevrolet Monte Carlo 35
4 9 25 Jim Lapcevich (Hamilton, ON) Fastline Motorsports Chevrolet Monte
Carlo 35
5 8 35 Kevin Dowler (Edmonton, AB) EMCO Ford Taurus 35
6 6 37 D.J. Kennington (St. Thomas, ON) Snap On Tools / Castrol Canada
Intrepid 35
7 12 60 Ron Beauchamp Jr. (Windsor, ON) MOPAR Performance Parts / Exide
Intrepid 35
8 13 3 Chris Fowler (Stirling, ON) Snap On Tools / Castrol Canada Chevrolet
Monte Carlo 35
9 10 11 Dave Whitlock (Wyoming, ON) Avenue ACDelco / NMT Intrepid 35
10 17 33 Neil Fair (Ancaster, ON) Skoal Inc. / Mac's Intrepid 35
11 11 24 Cole Pearn (Mt. Brydges, ON) Kubota Canada Pontiac Grand Prix 35
12 21 12 Ron Larson (Quesnel, BC) Fastrack Chevrolet Monte Carlo 35
13 20 14 John Fitzpatrick (Ayr, ON) Cambridge Rigging Chevrolet Monte Carlo 35
14 15 64 Mark Dilley (Barrie, ON) NTN Bearings Intrepid 35
15 14 88 Dave Jacombs (Mt. Hope, ON) Inroble Brakes / FAG Ford Taurus 35
16 27 33W Don Sales (Quesnel, BC) Skoal Inc. / Shell Select Pontiac Grand
Prix 34
17 23 6 Todd Nichol (St. Albert, AB) Pennzoil Chevrolet Monte Carlo 34
18 26 86 Kenny Forth (Lynden, ON) Labour Ready / 820 CHAM / Rockton Berry
Farm Ford Taurus 33
19 24 71W Daryl Harr (St. Albert, AB) Westworld Computers Chevrolet Monte
Carlo 32
20 18 22 Scott Steckly (Milverton, ON) Schick Xtreme3 / Razor Mag. / ERB
Pontiac Grand Prix 28
21 25 19 Brad Graham (Glencoe, ON) Challenger Motor Frt. / Volvo Trucks
Pontiac Grand Prix 17
22 16 8 Marc Miller (Holland, MI) R Carhartt Clothing Chevrolet Monte Carlo 15
23 7 09 Trevor Seibert (Williams Lake, BC) Willow Springs Ford Taurus 14
24 3 1 Peter Gibbons (Stouffville, ON) Canadian Tire Chevrolet Monte Carlo 13
25 22 71 Bryan Cathcart (Peterborough, ON) R National Fast Freight Intrepid 12
26 19 2 Carl Harr (St. Albert, AB) GM Goodwrench of Alberta Chevrolet Monte
Carlo 11
27 2 39 Al Turner (Barrie, ON) Blue Streak Intrepid 9
28 28 81 James Ward (Kelowna, BC) Lordco Auto Parts Ford Taurus DNS
R after the hometown denotes Rookie contender.
TIME OF RACE: 53 minutes and 54.845 seconds // MARGIN OF VICTORY: 2.297
seconds // CAUTIONS: 1 for a total of 4 laps (18-21) // LAP LEADERS: #23
Jeff Lapcevich (1-35) // FASTEST LAP: #23 Jeff Lapcevich 1:23.876 on lap 3
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