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 Contact CASCAR at (519) 641-1214 or visit www.cascar.sympatico.ca Prepared by Inside Track Communications // Contact: Greg MacPherson (416) 561-2320 (cell). Comments regarding additions to - or deletions from this mailing list should be sent to: greg@insidetracknews.com