By Joe Grabianowski
After 50 non-stop laps around Cornwall Motor Speedway, Jacob Nadeau stood on top of the 30-car DIRTcar Sportsman North Region field once again on Sunday.
Nadeau, from Yamaska, QC, finished off the North Region Canadian doubleheader by parking in Victory Lane for the second night in a row. Tristan Ladouceur and Joshua Jock filled out the podium with strong points finishes.
After winning his Heat Race, Jacob Nadeau drew the outside pole position alongside Skylar Ladouceur.
Ladouceur, a hometown hero from Cornwall, ON, led the first 25 laps and maintained second until the race’s closing stages when a mistake dropped him off the podium.
Nadeau made the move for the lead at the halfway point and kept a perfect line for the remainder of the 50-lap Feature. However, behind the leader, second-place finisher Tristan Ladouceur made a late-race move for second.
“I took fourth on lap 20, and I was hoping for a mistake,” said Tristan Ladouceur, the star Sportsman driver from Alexandria, QC. “A mistake came, but the No. 95 ran a perfect race. He never got out of line. I am pretty happy with a second. We’ll take it.”
The strong finish for Ladouceur catapulted him to the North Region points lead by 10 points over Shane Pecore. Sixteenth-place finisher, Brennan Moore, dropped to third in the standings.
Joshua Jock, the only New York driver on the podium, battled inside the top three for the entire race and came away with the podium after a disappointing finish at Autodrome Drummond.
“We unloaded at Drummond and didn’t know what to expect, “said Jock. “But we finished in third place tonight, and that’s what matters.”
Fourteenth-place finisher Bryan Preville received a free right rear tire from Hoosier Racing Tire.
UP NEXT: The DIRTcar Sportsman Series North Region returns to action with its regional finale on Wednesday, July 1, for the Pabst Shootout at Can-Am Speedway. The race will be a combined event with the Central Region.
Joining the DIRTcar Sportsman Series will be the DIRTcar 358 Modified Series and Empire Super Sprints.
DIRTcar Sportsman Series North Region Feature (50 Laps): 1. 95JR-Jacob Nadeau[2]; 2. 92T-Tristan Ladouceur[5]; 3. 03-Joshua Jock[3]; 4. 0-Shane Pecore[4]; 5. 16-Matt Barbour[7]; 6. 88K-Dylan Kirkland[10]; 7. 21L-Skylar Ladouceur[1]; 8. 72B-Brandon Beauregard[11]; 9. 29D-Justin Desrosiers[6]; 10. 9-Logan Brown[9]; 11. 12T-Trey Ladouceur[15]; 12. 48D-Sylvain Dupuis[13]; 13. 52-Jessica Power[16]; 14. 51-Bryan Preville[12]; 15. 88-Jeffrey Lapalme[17]; 16. 35B-Brennan Moore[18]; 17. 37-Marc Olivier McCarthy[19]; 18. 09-Charlotte Morin[22]; 19. 35D-Dylan Moore[27]; 20. 09X-Alex Fortier[23]; 21. 61X-Samuel Fortier[30]; 22. 2-Greg Henry[29]; 23. 2X-Martin Lessard[28]; 24. 42-Kent Miller[26]; 25. 18-Gavin Eisele[21]; 26. 3-Adam Rozon[8]; 27. 72-Samuel Lajoie[14]; 28. 55R-Dan Reif[24]; 29. 98H-Domonick Merkley[20]; 30. 33R-Travis Bruno[25]
