Pete Bicknell Enters BRP CanAm Super Stock Dash

St. Catharines, Ont…Pete Bicknell wears many hats at Merrittville Speedway. Bicknell is one of the Speedway’s owners. He is part of the crew that has rebuilt the Speedway over the past 12 months. He is a 15 time modified champion of the Speedway. He has won more races at the fabled Thorold, Ontario race place than any other driver. He is part of the day to day management of the Speedway. However, you can forget all of that on Monday May 24 when Bicknell’s hat will be a helmet! For the first time in five years, Bicknell will race a full bodied race car. A last minute deal has Bicknell in Scott Beherns’ super stock.

Merrittville Speedway’s Victoria Day Spectacular will include a ten lap TNT Motorsports sponsored Dash for Cash featuring the BRP CanAm Super Stocks. Scott Beherns races his Super Stock weekly at Genesee Speedway and planned to venture over the border on Monday May 24; however, his day job schedule changed and Behrens will be out of town. The Beherns race team still wants to establish a Merrittville setup baseline so they contacted Pete Bicknell. They probably could not have contacted a better resource.

“The last time I drove a full bodied car was Ed Carley’s late model at Little Valley Speedway. What I remember most about that deal was that the car behaved very differently than my modified. I suspect the super stock will be equally different, but I am excited about the opportunity. I hope that I do not look too bad in front of all my family and friends,” relates the man they call Mr. Small Block.

On the wall in Bicknell’s office at Bicknell Racing Products [BRP] is a photo of Pete taken in the late seventies as he parked a beautiful full bodied Camaro in Merrittville Speedway’s Victory Circle. It has been a long time and the technology is very different, but Scott Behern’s crew better take good notes because nobody gets around Merrittville Speedway any better than Mr. Small Block.

Other drivers that have made plans to enter the Merrittville TNT Motorsports Dash for Cash include Wayne Adamczak, Bob Babbitt, Ron Baker, Don Barnes, Justin Chaddock, Dustin Croft, Jay Deming, Dave Dubois, Paul Grigsby, Bill Holmes, Jim Johnson, Darren Kish, Bill Maloy, Andy Miller, Wayne Mohawk, and newcomer Darren Peters. All are welcome and everybody that enters will share in the Cash! Payout [US$] for the 10 lap Dash is: $125, $100, $95, $90, $85, $80, $75, $70, $65, $60, $55, $50 plus $40 each for other entries.

The BRP CanAm Super Stock Series will move from Merrittville Speedway to the first full points show of 2004 at Little Valley Speedway on Sunday May 30. Most of the BRP CanAm teams have begun their weekly racing programs at Bradford Raceway, Freedom Raceway, Genesee Speedway and McKean County Raceway.

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 cars are perhaps best described as 360 Dirt Late Models. 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.