DIRTcar: Hearn Leads Border Patrol With Advance Auto Parts Series Win At Drummond

By Tom Skibinski, Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series PR Director

DRUMMONDVILLE, QC - All-time Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series winner Brett Hearn continued to add to the record as he dominated the 30th Annual Hyundai 100 on Monday night at Autodrome Drummond. Hearn’s tour best third victory of the season gave him his first points lead of the summer, one that Tim Fuller (7th) had held since the beginning of June.

Super DIRT Week Rite Aid 200 Championship preferred starter Steve Paine slipped under Danny Johnson on the final lap to secure second-place while the race’s only other leader Frank Cozze and Gary Tomkins rounded out the front-five.

Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series action comes back stateside to open the new month as Brewerton Speedway hosts the ‘Fernandez Auto Mall 100’ on Friday, August 3. The 100-lap main event at the D-Shaped DIRT Demon pays out $6,000 to the winner plus offers valuable points towards the overall Hoosier-Sunoco Mr. DIRTcar Championship for Big-Block Modifieds.plus a guaranteed starting spot in the recently renamed Rite Aid 200 at Syracuse during Super DIRT Week XXXVI on Oct. 7.

Advance Auto Parts Super DIRTcar Series Race #11 – Autodrome Drummond, July 23, 2007 30th Annual Hyundai 100 Big-Block Modified Event Summary
FIN STR CAR# DRIVER
1 1 20 Brett Hearn/Sussex,NJ ($6,000)
2 9 7x Steve Paine/Waterloo,NY
3 5 27j Danny Johnson/Rochester,NY
4 2 44 Frank Cozze/Wind Gap,PA
5 13 84 Gary Tomkins/Clifton Springs,NY
6 3 91 Billy Decker/Unadilla,NY
7 11 19 Tim Fuller/Edwards,NY
8 4 77x Dale Planck/Cortland,NY
9 7 98h Jimmy Phelps/Baldwinsville,NY
10 16 22 Mario Clair/St-Edmond,QUE
11 15 46 Kayle Robidoux/St-Constant,QUE
12 22 2 Michel Dusseault/Victoriaville,QUE
13 8 49 Billy Dunn/Watertown,NY
14 27 172 Andre Gauthier/Granby,QUE
15 14 23 Dany Bilodeau/Victoriaville,QUE
16 12 21 Yan Bussiere/Drummondville,QUE
17 10 14j Alan Johnson/Middlesex,NY
18 21 48 Patrick Picotin/Drummondville,QUE
19 24 96 Gino Clair/St-Edmond,QUE
20 20 44g Sebastien Gougeon/Drummondville,QUE
21 25 81 Eric Landry/Trois-Rivieres,QUE
22 19 66 Frederic Gamache/Granby,QUE
23 23 7 Patrice Demers/St. Magorique,QUE
24 28 66w Wallace Stacey/Kahnawake,QUE
25 29 29 Gilles Bessette/Drummondville,QUE
26 17 39 Clement Therrien/Victoriaville,QUE
27 18 1 David Hebert/St. Damase,QUE
28 6 44s Matt Sheppard/Waterloo,NY
29 26 2b Steve Bernard/St Paul Abbotsford,QUE
DNS 30 90 Martin Roy/Napierville,QUE
DNS DNQ 19p Michel Pelletier/Ste-Anne de Sorel,QUE
GATER NEWS LAP LEADERS: Hearn (1-29), Cozze (30-45), Hearn (46-100).
CAUTIONS: 5 for 6 laps
RITE AID 200 QUALIFIER: Steve Paine (P).
BERT HARD CHARGER: Andre Gauthier.