BRP CanAm Racers Ready To Race

St. Catharines, Ont…BRP CanAm race teams have been busy on the show circuit for the past several weeks. Others have been testing. The shopping mall shows and testing are over and the real show is about to begin!

The BRP CanAm Super Stock Series will not start until the end of May, specifically, Monday May 24 at Merrittville Speedway and Sunday May 30 at Little Valley Speedway. However, many of the BRP CanAm teams began their weekly racing programs at Genesee Speedway and McKean County Raceway last Saturday. The weekly programs which include Super Stocks at Freedom Raceway and Bradford Speedway will get underway on Friday May 30 and Sunday May 2, respectively.

Several Super Stock teams took advantage of a practice session at Genesee Speedway. Headlining that group was defending track champion Jim Johnson. Johnson has a brand new Upstate Utilities sponsored Rocket chassied Ford powered Mustang shrouded car for his chase of the BRP CanAm Super Stock Series championship. Johnson did not race the Series in 2003, but plans a full schedule with a “Series Only Hot Rod” for 2004 in addition to his weekly racing at Genesee. Justin Chaddock and Pete Waldron were also testing their 2004 Super Stock rides at the Batavia, NY track. Johnson’s test / practice apparently worked since he won the Genesee opener on Saturday!

When Scott Drake scheduled a 2004 practice date for his Woodhull Raceway, he expected many of his weekly teams to take advantage, but he had no idea that nearly a dozen BRP CanAm Super Stocks would show up. The CanAm Super Stocks will race once at Woodhull in 2004 on Saturday September 18. However, for the Woodhull practice, enough of the BRP CanAm late model look-a-likes showed up that they could have run an exhibition race. What a race it would have been. The field would have included second generation racer AJ Young in the Otis Eastern Oil & Gas Field Services Bullit Dodge Intrepid owned by his mom and dad, Tim Dunham in his shiny black Ron’s Engine Science GRT Monte Carlo, Bill Holmes in a new GRT Monte Carlo sponsored by his grandparents, Jeremy Wonderling, another second generation racer, in his Baldwin’s Forest Products Larry Shaw Grand Prix, and the Dave Miller racing family from Wellsville. Dave Miller was in his wife’s GRT Grand Prix [this ain’t no go to the market Grand Prix]. Dave and Lois’s boys, Andy and Bruce, tested the Woodhull high banks in the cars they will campaign on the 2004 BRP CanAm Super Stocks Series. Andy was in his R&M Amsoil Miller Mfg. Grand Prix while Bruce tested in his Strate Welding Supply GRT Grand Prix. All of the BRP Super Stock drivers liked what they saw at Woodhull and are already looking forward to the September 18 program.

Young left the Woodhull high banks and set up his Intrepid for the McKean County Raceway opener. There he won his first ever Super Stock main.

The BRP CanAm Super Stock Series is designed to promote the extremely competitive Super Stock race teams that race weekly at Bradford [PA] Speedway, Freedom [NY] Raceway, Genesee [NY] Speedway, and McKean County [PA] Raceway. The 2004 BRP CanAm Super Stock Series includes 13 programs with events scheduled at the weekly tracks plus Gasport [Ont] Speedway, Little Valley [NY] Speedway, Merrittville [Ont] Speedway, Ransomville [NY] Speedway, and Woodhull [NY] Raceway. Visit www.brpcanamsuperstockseries.com or contact Gary Montgomery at 315-536-3728 for more information.