Bicknell Racing Products (BRP) CanAm Series Tour By The Numbers
…Points, Winners, Events …
St Catharines, ONT…As the Bicknell Racing Products (BRP) CanAm Series Tour prepares for an Independence Day weekend double-header we will look at the Tour by the numbers. Tour will be back in action at Little Valley on Thursday July 4 and Black Rock on Friday July 5. On Saturday July 6 Woodhull will host a Series weekly event while Raceway regroups with an off weekend.
By the Numbers:
2013 Points: After four completed events and four rainouts Mother Nature tops the list with four wins; however, she has been disqualified! The top 10 of 38 that have earned points on the Tour are: John Waters - 395, Jeremy Wonderling - 375, Glenn Whritenour - 330, Jason Knowles - 288, Bruce Miller - 287, Brian Knowles - 286, Ray Bliss - 272, Brady Wonderling - 270, Jay McConnell - 247, and Mike Wonderling - 246. Bliss and McConnell are leading Rookie of the Year candidates. The Series Champion will earn a minimum of $5000 while the Miles-Agency.com Rookie of the Year will earn $1000 plus point fund earnings.
Winners: 130 Tour completed Tour events have produced 39 different winners. A three way tie at the top of the Winners List shows Jeff Chesebro, John Waters, and Jeremy Wonderling each with 13 wins. Waters and Wonderling plan to add more to their totals while Chesebro is “catching up on business” at home and at Cheez’s Garage. Cheez has no plans to return to race, but he will have a role in the “Return To Our Roots” event at McKean County Raceway when the Series returns there on Thursday July 11. Fourth on the win list is Bruce Miller, the defending Series Champion, with 11 wins including the first ever BRP CanAm event which took place at Little Valley Speedway in July 2003. Those four are the only drivers with double-digit wins.
Other winners that continue to compete in BRP CanAm racing include Jim Johnson, Jon Rivers, and Glenn Whritenour each with three wins. Dave DuBois, Jason Knowles, and Quinn Sutherland each have a pair of BRP CanAm Tour event wins. Also the other Wonderling boys, Brady and Mikey, each have one win to their credit.
A complete list of the 39 winners will be posted at BRPCanAmSeries.com in the near future.
Venues: The 130 Tour events have been held at 15 different venues. Black Rock tops that list with 26 events completed at Dean Hoag’s race place. Close behind Black Rock is Little Valley Speedway with 25 events completed at the beautiful Cattaraugus County Fair Grounds track. Woodhull Raceway has hosted 17 Tour events since 2004. An interesting note here is those events have been under the direction of three different track owners. In the early years it was Scott and Amy Drake. The Drakes sold to Vern Wasson who continued the tradition. Last year Ted White bought the Steuben County facility and now hosts a very successful BRP CanAm Series program with both weekly and Tour events. McKean County Raceway has hosted 13 events, but none since 2010. That will change on Thursday July 11 when the Tour returns to the East Smethport track. The only other track with double-digit events is Merrittville Speedway with 11 events in the BRP CanAm Record Book. Tracks with single-digit events include: Canandaigua Speedway (9), Cayuga County Fair Speedway (3), Eriez Speedway (1), Freedom Raceway (1), Humberstone Speedway (6), Penn Can Speedway (1), Raceway 5 (9), Ransomville Speedway (6), and Utica-Rome Speedway (1). The Raceway 5 events were held when the track was known as Genesee Speedway. The Tour will return there on Thursday July 18 during the County Fair. It has been a great 130 event ride at these 15 tracks and we will add I-88 Speedway in Afton, NY to the record book with our event there on Wednesday July 24.
Numbers, numbers, and more numbers with more numbers to come as the Series rolls through its 11th Anniversary season.
See you at Little Valley on Thursday July 4 and Black Rock on Friday July 5………….
The 2013 Bicknell Racing Products (BRP) CanAm Series is presented by: Bicknell Racing Products, ACL Bearings, BC Designs, Beyea Custom Headers, Close Racing Supply, Cousins Designs, Damon’s Dyno’d Race Engines, Dick Berggren’s Speedway Illustrated, F/A Products, Felpro Gaskets, Gater Racing News, Hoosier Tires, ISKY Racing Cams, Lias Tire, Miles-Agency.com, Melling Performance Engine Parts, National Parts Peddler, Phair Enterprises, Scat Crankshafts, Signs Plus of Kanona, Total Seal Rings, Wiles Racing Driveshafts, Winters Performance Products, and Wrisco Racing Aluminum
