Desjardins Tops Sportsman-Mod Qual.

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French-Canadian Mathieu Desjardins Tops Sportsman-Modified Qualifying In First NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Appearance

 

SYRACUSE, NY – Oct. 5, 2012 – By Kevin Kovac/DIRTcar Racing P.R. – Mathieu Desjardins of Sorel-Tracy, Que., didn’t take long to make a big impression during NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week XLI at the New York State Fairgrounds.

 

The 26-year-old French-Canadian shocked the Sportsman-Modified field during Friday afternoon’s qualifying session, turning a lap of 34.738 seconds to set fast time for the division’s 30-lap Championship event on Saturday.

“I’ve been coming to Syracuse since I was a kid,” the French-speaking Desjardins said through a translator (Canadian track announcer Brian Mulligan). “This is my first time here as a competitor and it can’t be any better than this.”

 

A three-night-a-week DIRTcar Sportsman-Modified regular in Quebec at Autodrome Granby, Autodrome Drummond and RPM Speedway, Desjardins will start from the pole position in Saturday’s headline event. The top 24 qualifiers in Friday’s time trials locked themselves into the 30-mile battle with the remainder of the starting field determined from the results of two Non-Qualifiers’ races on Saturday.

 

Cody McPherson of St. Catharines, Ont., who won DIRTcar Sportsman-Modified championships this season at Ontario’s Merrittville and Humberstone speedways, timed second-fastest at 34.988 seconds. Gary Lindburg of Ridgeway, Ont., was third-fastest (35.299), followed by Josh VanBrocklin of Watertown, N.Y. (35.348) and James Henry of Niagara Falls, N.Y. (35.354).

 

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NAPA Auto Parts Super DIRT Week Sportsman-Modified Time Trials Results

Pos

No.

Name

Best Tm

Diff

1

1m

Mathieu Dejardins

34.738

2

7

Cody McPherson

34.988

0.25

3

6

Gary Lindberg

35.299

0.561

4

10

Josh VanBrocklin

35.348

0.61

5

21J

James Henry

35.354

0.616

6

55c

Jesse Cotriss

35.363

0.625

7

15L

Adam Leslie

35.386

0.648

8

47S

Corey Wheeler

35.456

0.718

9

80

Steve Barber

35.531

0.793

10

97h

Bobby Hackell

35.661

0.923

11

79

Rocky Warner

35.74

1.002

12

27p

Jeremy Pitts

35.757

1.019

13

66

Dan Wiesner

35.794

1.056

14

14

Brett Wright

35.809

1.071

15

114

Jeremy Pitcher

35.863

1.125

16

92

Martin Pelletier

35.898

1.16

17

m1

Dave Marcuccilli

35.913

1.175

18

63

Chris Herbison

35.925

1.187

19

11k

Dillon Sallows

35.938

1.2

20

28

Jimmy Spellmon

35.952

1.214

21

14x

Scott Duell

35.959

1.221

22

57b

Frank Burnell

35.961

1.223

23

18r

Brad Rouse

36.043

1.305

24

6m

Mike Williams

36.081

1.343

25

14g

Bryan Gleason

36.116

1.378

26

85h

Robert Humphreys

36.123

1.385

27

23

John McAuliffe

36.146

1.408

28

24dc

Devin Caron

36.159

1.421

29

12

Jon Miller

36.165

1.427

30

67g

Eric Giguere

36.189

1.451

31

54

Fred Proctor

36.2

1.462

32

44k

Shane Jablonka

36.268

1.53

33

21

Randy McCulloch

36.27

1.532

34

52

Jessica Powers

36.302

1.564

35

7s

Michael Sabia

36.325

1.587

36

3z

Ray Zemken

36.33

1.592

37

R70

Ryan Arbinout

36.384

1.646

38

220

John Ferrier

36.394

1.656

39

20

Jack Gentile

36.396

1.658

40

27

Andrew Krause

36.428

1.69

41

6

Brandon Easey

36.456

1.718

42

2T

Chris Thurston

36.474

1.736

43

18

Casey Pavlick

36.514

1.776

44

7F

Matt Farnham

36.565

1.827

45

27b

Robert Bublak Jr

36.566

1.828

46

3m

James Maier

36.636

1.898

47

12

Brandon Hagan

36.647

1.909

48

28w

Sandy Pemberton

36.653

1.915

49

99

Brett Martin

36.657

1.919

50

2

Jenna David

36.735

1.997

51

21R

Ryan Darcy

36.786

2.048

52

34

Justin Sharp

36.793

2.055

53

74

Dave Flannigan Jr.

36.877

2.139

54

53

Whitey Slavin

36.889

2.151

55

57J

Jarrett Rozycki

37.031

2.293

56

93J

Steve Ackers

37.126

2.388

57

53

Ricky Thompson

37.146

2.408

58

28f

Jeff Stevenson

37.164

2.426

59

111

Allen Wills

37.531

2.793

60

40s

Sean Letts

37.993

3.255

61

28

Eric Lauziere

38.305

3.567

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