Cassius Clark with Rollie MacDonald and the Ling Racing crew (photo - Ken MacIsaac)Clark Dominates to Win Pro Stock Tour Season Opener May 22, 2016 Regional HALIFAX, NS – Cassius Clark (Farmington, ME) took the lead on the third circuit of the Lucas Oil 100 and led all but two laps from that point on to take the win in the first Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour feature of the season. Clark, driving for Pictou-based King Racing, battled with Craig Slaunwhite (Terence Bay) just past the halfway point in the feature but flexed his muscle in the No. 13 King Competition Fabrication and Parts Chevrolet to pull away in the final 23 green laps to the checkered flag. Race Results Greg Proude (Springvale, PE) wound up second with Slaunwhite third. Fourth place belonged to Darren MacKinnon (Charlottetown, PE) with defending series champion Donald Chisholm (Antigonish) in fifth. Dylan Blenkhorn (Truro), MacKinnon, Proude, and Clark won the Atlantic Tiltload Heat Races. Clark captured the Linde Most Laps Led Award while DJ Casey (Prospect) nabbed the King Freight Future Winner Award. Nicholas Naugle (Dartmouth) was the top Exide Batteries Rookie of the Year contender in the race with a 13th place finish. By virtue of his heat race win, the new-for-2016 qualifying format saw Blenkhorn start on the pole for the Lucas Oil 100; he finished sixth. Clark had a 0.536-second margin of victory at the finish. The race saw seven cautions with the most damage of the day appearing to be when marty prevost slammed the front concrete retaining wall hard while running second to Clark and passing a lapped car. Cole Butcher (Porter’s Lake) did double duty on the day finishing seventh in his pro stock entry and winning the 50-lap Upper Clements Park Maritime Legends Tour feature. The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour rolls to Riverside International Speedway for the Ron MacGillivray Chev Buick GMC 150 on Saturday, June 11 – round two of 12 for the series 2016 season. Advance tickets will be available starting this week at www.riversidespeedway.ca. The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour (PST) is considered the highest level of stock car racing in Canada. The Tour is recognized in the industry as one of the healthiest stock car racing series in North America. PST visits five tracks throughout the Maritimes during its May through September season. The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour is owned and operated by Maritime Pro Stock Tour Limited. For more information, call the administration office at 902.481.2531 or visit www.maritimeprostocktour.com. Scotia Speedworld (SSW) is a 3/10-mile asphalt oval racing facility. SSW is the only track in Nova Scotia to host a weekly racing series, which runs May through September and features six different classes of racecars. SSW also hosts special events, including Monster Jam and the Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour. SSW is located at Exit 6 on Highway 102, across from the Halifax Stanfield International Airport. For more information please visit www.ScotiaSpeedworld.ca or call the Event Hotline at (902) 873-2277 or the office at (902) 481-2514.
