P.E.I.’s Greg Proude earns biggest win of career
ANTIGONISH, N.S. — A Prince Edward Island driver picked up the most important win of his profession on July 23.
Greg Proude of Springvale, P.E.I., gained the long-lasting IWK 250, and can pocket over $25,000 in purse and contingency funds.
Not solely can Proude add IWK 250 champion to his racing resumé, however his identify may also be etched on the revered John W. Chisholm Memorial Cup.
This was Proude’s second win of the season on the East Coast Worldwide Professional Inventory Tour, which is taken into account the very best stage of inventory automotive racing in Canada.
The win didn’t come straightforward as he needed to deal with a hard-charging Dylan Blenkhorn of Truro, N.S., for the ultimate laps. Blenkhorn, a former IWK 250 champion, settled for second.
Cole Butcher (Hantsport, N.S.) was again in Victory Lane with a third-place end. Ashton Tucker (Lyttleton, N.B.) completed simply off the rostrum in fourth, with Chris Reid (Fort McMurray, Alta.) in fifth.
Different P.E.I. drivers within the 27-car discipline have been Cornwall’s Mike Skinner (twentieth), Charlottetown’s Robbie MacEwen (twenty first), and Brackley Seaside’s Mark LeClair/Tyler Smith (twenty sixth).
Proude, Jarrett Butcher (Porter’s Lake, N.S.), Cole Butcher (Hantsport, N.S.) and Reid gained their respective Atlantic Tiltload warmth races, which set the sphere for the IWK 250.
Tucker gained the Kenny U Pull Laborious Charger Award, choosing up probably the most spots on the sphere. Jarrett Butcher was the Fleet Brake Atlantic Fortunate Canine Award winner.
Proude took dwelling the R&D Efficiency Most Laps Led Award (213 laps) and was the half-way chief.
The race, slowed by 15 cautions, took two hours and forty minutes to finish.
The East Coast Worldwide Professional Inventory Tour returns to Prince Edward Island for the BJ’s Truck Centres 150 on July 30.
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