Cavan, ON – The 32nd annual Autumn Colours Classic featured a packed line-up of touring series finales and special races to conclude the season at Peterborough Speedway. Despite daytime rain on Saturday, all divisions were able to complete their feature events by end of day Sunday, with a full campground and overflow pit areas once again greeting the event known as the ‘Super Bowl of Stock Car Racing.’
Here’s a brief overview of feature winners, along with our video interviews from the weekend.
Autumn Colours Race Winners
Electric City 167: Jake Sheridan
The Pro Late Model feature headlined the Autumn Colours Classic on Sunday afternoon. The ‘Electric City’ name comes from Peterborough being the first municipality in Canada to use electric street lights, in 1884, while ‘167 laps’ is in honour of when the track first opened in 1967.
The first half of the race featured lots of cautions for on-track incidents, while the second half saw a variety of challengers towards the front. In the end, Jake Sheridan led from flag-to-flag to claim his first victory in the event, followed by Rick Spencer-Walt, Dale Shaw, Dan McHattie and Gord Shepherd rounding out the top-five.
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Ontario Legend Car Series (40 laps): Mitch Wright
Mitch Wright led for most of the race to win the Ontario Legend Car Series feature at Autumn Colours for the second straight year. While he came up just short of defending his series title, he did record his fifth victory of the season in front of a contingent of his fans, with his family’s business, B&G Towing and Recovery, sponsoring this year’s event.
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OSCAAR Hot Rods (40 laps): Tyler Hawn
Tyler Hawn battled closely with Tom Walters in the first half, before pulling away on a late restart to win the feature. Hawn previously clinched the series championship at the points-paying finale at Delaware Speedway.
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OSCAAR Modifieds (50 laps): Amanda Balson
Amanda Balson, making her first series start in her first season of Modifieds racing, claimed an Autumn Colours winners trophy for the first time. Balson held off Max Beyore and TJ Edwards to secure the victory.
*Note: Balson was later DQ’d, but is still considered the winner by Max Beyore. Details in Balson’s post here. We’ll link to the penalty report when available.
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Outlaw Midgets (25 laps): Robin McLean
Robin McLean took the lead from Mike Bradley late in the race to win at Peterborough for the third time this season, with this also being his second victory at Autumn Colours. Bradley and Mikey Homewood rounded out the podium.
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Super Stocks (50 laps): Shawn Chenoweth
Shawn Chenoweth, who also ran in the Pro Late Model event, took the victory over Daniel Hawn, who led early in the race. The front four, which also included Marlie Owen and Lane Zardo, battled closely on a few restarts.
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Ontario Bandoleros (20 laps): Landon Sellers
Originally scheduled for two 15-lap features, the Ontario Bandoleros ran a single 20-lap race on Saturday night due to the schedule adjustments needed following a rain delay. The event paid double points and saw Landon Sellers take the victory to claim the inaugural series championship.
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Ontario Modifieds Racing Series/SportsMods (25 laps): Chad Strawn
Junior Late Models (20 laps): Josh Davenport
Bone Stocks (40 laps): Phil Givens
Mini Stocks (67 laps): Doug Butler
Champions Crowned
With the marquee event taking place on Thanksgiving weekend, it also meant champions being crowned for multiple series that concluded their seasons, including Mike Bradley in the Outlaw Midgets and Dawson Drimmie in the Ontario Legend Car Series. Bradley had four wins and seven podiums in 11 races to win his second series title, while Drimmie had three wins and 10 podiums in 15 races to claim his first series championship.
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Charitable Efforts
Among the charitable efforts taking place at Autumn Colours were Ontario Legend Car Series driver Keaton Pipe’s fifth-annual fall food drive, and the season finale for bone stock driver Chris Burling’s Fast Laps for Brave Kids. We interviewed the two drivers about their fundraising efforts.
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