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[sledman]

Can-Am on the Royal – 5/27/25

 

Can-Am on the American Royal appears to be a popular class as fourteen racers turned out for this week’s Tuesday Night Retro race at MVH. It was great to see Peter Lentros back at the driver’s panel, joining a rather large group of the usual suspects. To move things along, racing was limited to the middle six lanes over a total of fourteen heats.

 

All but one of the field in Tech

 

The early racing pitted Bob “Woody” Hazelwood against Dave Panich who were running in first and second until the fast guys rotated in. Rob Hayes, Gil Aubin and Cody Pare appeared to have the measure of the Royal as they were posting fast times and high lap totals. Cody ruled high lap counts as Rob dominated the fast times while Gil was just driving very consistently.

 

When time ran out, Cody took the win by ten laps as Gil managed to squeeze past Rob to take second by just over a lap. Woody and Dave ended up two laps apart with Woody six laps off the podium. There was a fourteen-lap gap to sixth place finisher Joe Yates who took the position by a very slim two track sections over Bob Blanchette. Four laps back, Dan Savage beat our Richard Payne for eighth place by one lap.

 

Third place finisher Rob posted the fastest lap of the race with a time of 3.581 on yellow. Woody put up the second fastest time of the evening while race winner Cody had the third best lap, a full tenth slower than Rob. However, Cody’s 279 race lap total bested the current NERR track record by six laps, proving you don’t have to be the fastest to finish first!

 

Driver, laps completed, best lap time and lane:

1. Cody Pare                279/8     3.695    OR
2. Gil Aubin                   269/13   3.736    OR
3. Rob Hayes               268/5     3.581    YL
4. Woody Hazelwood    262/6     3.693    GN
5. Dave Panich             259/21   3.771    BL
6. Joe Yates                 245/23   3.951    YL
7. Bob Blanchette         245/21   3.900    BL
8. Dan Savage             241/15   3.962    YL
9. Richard Payne         240/5     3.931    YL
10. John Mills                 227/4     4.082    YL
11. John Esposito           221/19   4.204    WT
12. Jason Kessel            206/10   4.216    BL
13. Steven Sacchetti       202/18   4.216    OR
14. Peter Lentros            179/4     4.279    BL

 

UPCOMING EVENTS:

 

        MVH Tuesday Night Retro Race Schedule for June:

            June   3   F-1 on the King

            June 10   Coupes on the Figure 8

            June 17   Can-Am on the Aristocrat

            June 24   Stock Cars on the Royal

 

Podium: (L to R):

2nd Place – Gil Aubin, 1^st Place–Cody Pare, 3rd Place–Rob “Pedro Podium” Hayes

 

Cody’s 1st Place Chassis:

 

Gil’s 2nd Place Chassis:

 

Pedro’s 3rd Place Chassis:

[Gil Aubin]

Is it an optical illusion or are the front wheels on Cody's car toed out?  

[JerseyJohn]

Gil it looks like the right front axle is bent in a bit must have took a shot