CASCAR CARQUEST Series: Kawartha Finale Summary & Results
CARQUEST Series Kawartha Speedway: Summary & Results September 18, 2004 Hathaway takes Kawartha battle, but Graham wins the war FRASERVILLE, ON - On Saturday afternoon at Kawartha Speedway, Jason Hathaway did everything he could to try and catch series points leader Brad Graham in the hunt for the CARQUEST Series championship. Hathaway earned the pole during qualifying for the 100-lap CARQUEST Series season finale, and led eventual second-place finisher Graham for the entire race distance, en route to his third checkered flag of the season. In the end, however, Hathaway came up just short of Graham in the chase for the title. Hathaway's E.L Fordham / TSC Stores Chevy was the class of the field at Kawartha. The Appin, ON racer was able to stretch out comfortable margins over Graham's HB Material Handling Dodge, which ran safely in second for most of the race. Behind them, however, Mike Hryniuk, Doug Graham and Mike Gold put on a spirited battle for third. The veteran Hryniuk, from LaSalle, ON, was able to hold off Graham and Gold to claim the final podium position for the second week in a row in his One Stop Auto Pontiac. For Graham, who hails from Glencoe, ON, second place was good enough for him to edge out Hathaway for the CARQUEST Series points championship. In doing so, Graham joins CASCAR legend Steve Robblee as the only other person to win the coveted CARQUEST Series title. Robblee won the championship for the first four years of its existence. Third-place in the points went to CARQUEST Chevy driver Andre Coursol of St-Jerome, QC. The CASCAR Super Series will conclude its 2004 season with a 250-lap race at Kawartha on Sunday afternoon. Qualifying takes place at 12:30 p.m. and the green flag is scheduled to fly at 2:30 p.m. Three-time and defending National champion Don Thomson Jr. enters the event with a 17-point lead over two-time Super Series title winner Peter Gibbons. Thomson has won both prior Super Series races at Kawartha. CASCAR CARQUEST SERIES: RESULTS: CARQUEST 100 Race #7 // Sept. 18, 2004 // Kawartha Speedway // Fraserville, ON // 100 Laps // 3/8-mile oval FIN. ST. # DRIVER (HOMETOWN) SPONSOR / MAKE LAPS 1 1 76 Jason Hathaway (Appin, ON) E.L. Fordham Motors / TSC Stores Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 2 2 6 Brad Graham (Glencoe, ON) HB Material Handling Dodge 100 3 3 80 Mike Hryniuk (LaSalle, ON) One Stop Auto Pontiac Grand Prix 100 4 6 10 Doug Brown (Brantford, ON) NAPA Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 5 4 39 Mike Gold (Sault St. Marie, ON) Avenue / Clarica Dodge 100 6 7 15 Jim Patrick (Delaware, ON) Ennio's Ford Taurus 100 7 11 03 Jesse Kennedy (Southwold, ON) A Dream Limousine Pontiac Grand Prix 100 8 12 58 Abe Harder (Aylmer, ON) R Tricorp Pontiac Grand Prix 100 9 13 00 Steve Munro (Carp, ON) Maytag / Home Depot Chevrolet Monte Carlo 100 10 14 81 Chad McGlynn (Kitchener, ON) McGlynn Motorsports Ford Taurus 100 11 9 36 Ken Grubb (Walkerton, ON) Munday's Mobile Service Ford Taurus 100 12 16 44 Cole Weber (New Hamburg, ON) R Erb Transport Dodge 99 13 15 12 Mark Patrick (Delaware, ON) Sandercock's Tourist Resort Chevrolet Monte Carlo 99 14 17 7 Jerry Marinuk (Scotland, ON) Olivetree Heights Chevrolet Monte Carlo 99 15 5 18 Andre Coursol (St-Jerome, QC) CARQUEST Chevrolet Monte Carlo 98 16 20 67 Scott Mitchell (St. Catharines, ON) Chevrolet Monte Carlo 98 17 18 66 Josh Wood (London, ON) EMC Safety Fencing Specialists Pontiac Grand Prix 97 18 22 45 Bob Merrifield (Belle River, ON) Team Remax Preferred Pontiac Grand Prix 96 19 8 09 Kent Nuhn (Williamsford, ON) R Pontiac Grand Prix 96 20 21 02 Scott O'Connor (Delaware, ON) Tunks & Kosi Oldsmobile 96 21 10 16 Paul DeJong (Pembroke, ON) Giant Tiger Stores Chevrolet Monte Carlo 87 22 19 8 Michael Wagner (Campbellford, ON) R Rogers Digital Cable Chevrolet Monte Carlo 68 R after the hometown denotes Rookie contender. TIME OF RACE: 42 minutes and 6 seconds // MARGIN OF VICTORY: 0.643 seconds // CAUTIONS: 5 for a total of 23 Laps // LAP LEADERS: #76 Jason Hathaway (1-100).