With the final race on the
Go Nuclear Late Model Challenge Series slated for this past weekend, Greg
Belyea was looking for a strong finish in a rare appearance at Brockville
Speedway in the inaugural Go Nuclear visit to the Brockville, Ontario
facility. Belyea has raced at
Brockville in the past, both times against the more powerful open motor Late
Models and was looking forward to returning for the first time with the Go
Nuclear Series.
Belyea lined up in ninth
place to start the 50 lap main event, and after a series of early cautions in
the opening laps, he was up to seventh by lap 10. Just four laps later, the race leader had problems and slowed on
the front stretch, and Belyea had now reached third place. With the race at the halfway point, Belyea
had moved up one more spot to second, and looked well on his way to a solid
second place result until the final lap of the race when lapped traffic
collected Belyea and several others.
Belyea would end up being credited with a ninth place finish.
“We had a great run going
here, until the final lap”, says Belyea after the race. “It is unfortunate, but that is part of
racing. We have had a good cars here at
Brockville in the past, but haven’t had much luck to go with it”.
Charlie Sandercock was also
in action during the Sprint Car portion of the 1000 Islands RV DIRTcar Northeast
Fall Nationals on Saturday afternoon.
31 Sprint cars were on hand and Sandercock finished with a 16th
place result.
The previous week, Belyea
raced at Rolling Wheels Raceway with the World of Outlaw Late Model Series
driving a car from the Boom Briggs/Chubb Frank stables. Look for more out of this combination in
2013 as Belyea intends to race in a few events with this team. After starting the race from the rear of the
field, he moved up to finish 16th.
Belyea will be back in
action this week at Black Rock Speedway as they host a BRP Late Model vs. Crate
Late Model Challenge event. Once the
race is over at Black Rock, Belyea will then head to the shop of Chubb Frank in
Bear Lake, Pennsylvania where he will drop off a car and have it refurbished
over the off-season. The Excel Tower
Racing team plans to have an early start to 2013, racing in the Nesmith Late
Model Series at East Bay Raceway in Florida during the month of February.
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