CANADIAN STOCK CAR CHAMPIONSHIP HONNOURS ITS CHAMPIONS
AND PARTICIPANTS
TREPANIER CROWNED CHAMPION, BERGERON CROWNED ROOKIE OF
THE YEAR
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Trois-Rivières, QC – Saturday
February 23rd 2019, at the Cafe Mondo in Trois-Rivières, Marc
Patrick Roy and Karine Paquette hosted a year-end award ceremony for the 2018
Canadian Stock Car Championship season.
In a warm and festive
atmosphere, awards and prizes associated to the different Owner, Driver and
Rookie Championships were presented in front of the many teams in attendance.
Dany Trepanier of Saint-Edouard de
Lotbiniere claimed top honours in both the Owner and Driver Championships. Trepanier’s name will go in the Canadian
Stock Car Championship (CSCC) record book for being the first ever Champion in
history. It’s the second time for
Trepanier’s name to go in the record book, as he was registered a first time, for
his win on May 20th 2018 at Autodrome St-Eustache, as the first ever
winner in the new racing organisation.
This is a second career Championship for Trepanier, who previously won
the Serie ACT title back in 2015. He can
credit his title, in great parts, to the fact that he avoided mechanical issues
and completed an impressive 1031 laps of the total 1036 laps in the 8-race schedule.
“We had an amazing
year. We notched another achievement on
our belt, thanks in great part to the hard work by my team. We completed 99.6% of the scheduled distance,
missing only 5 laps, thanks to an accident which was out of our control. I would like to thank my sponsors to whom I
am forever grateful. Thank you to Marc
Patrick Roy and his staff. You met the
challenge and delivered under extremely difficult circumstances by putting your
heart and honesty into it. You allowed
us, the drivers, to live our passion” said Trepanier as he accepted his trophy.
Defending 2017 Champion, Jonathan Bouvrette of Blainville, was
crowned vice-champion. In addition to
his trophy and year end prizes, Bouvrette also claimed two of the prestigious
draws of the evening. He won a body
courtesy of Five Star Race car bodies
and a 54 gal drum of VP Racing Fuel
courtesy of DL Performance.
Jean-François Dery of
Quebec and Martin Goulet Jr of Saint-Calixte finished,
by virtue of points, in a tie for 3rd in the Driver’s Championship
standing. Meanwhile Goulet also scored
third in the owner’s Championship.
Goulet was also very lucky that evening and won a raffled car body
courtesy of ARBODIES. Nevertheless, his high of the season was
winning the Grand Prix de Trois-Rivieres road course event, his second career
win in a Late Model car.
Dery had an amazing
season. He competed in only 7 of the 8
races and finished 69 points short of Trepanier. It is easy to imagine he would have been
right in the mix of it with Trepanier and Bouvrette had he not missed the first
race. With three wins, 5 top-3 and 6
top-5 finishes, he led an impressive 288 of the 901 laps he raced in and was
only 10 laps short of his scheduled distance (911 laps).
Rookies were also impressive
The highly contested Montreal Hitch Rookie Championship was
so close; results of the last event had to be taken into consideration to
settle the top 3 positions. A slim 5
points separated the top three rookies. Jean-Philippe Bergeron of Saint-Donat
(85 points) edged out Remi Perreault
of Saint-Paul de Joliette (82 points) and Vincent
Vachon of Saint-Anges (80 points).
Despite their rookie
status, these three drivers finished respectively 6th, 7th
and 9th in the general driver standing. All three of these drivers scored statistics
worthy of veteran drivers, to name just a few, at the Grand Prix de
Trois-Rivieres, they exhibited patience and avoided traps, Perreault and Vachon
finished 3rd and 4th, and the later of the two completed
995 of 1036 laps or 96,04% of the scheduled distance.
Contingency Awards and Door prizes
An important support by our
manufacturing partners and sponsors allowed the distribution of prizes to our
competing drivers but also the people in attendance.
In addition to their
respective prizes, Trepanier and Bergeron, received courtesy of Quarter Master a complete clutch
assembly (Aluminium Bell housing, v-drive clutch, start mount and starter)
valued at more than 2,000$ US each.
The Tom Curley Cup
Remi Perreault was awarded
the prestigious Award presented annually to the person who best describes the
characteristics cherished by the late Thomas
M. Curley, founder of the American-Canadian Tour, promoter and well known
stock-car pioneer in the USA and Canada.
Perreault was singled out as this year’s recipient as he is a true
Ambassador for stock car, the Canadian Stock Car Championship, his
combativeness and respect (of rules, protocol, spectators and of others).
“Remi never hesitates to
promote stock car racing, CSCC and its partners. He gets involved and promotes the sport on
the web, in person and on the track. Any
promoter is well served when he can count on a competitor, such as Remi, to be
part of his show” said Marc Patrick Roy as he presented the impressive Cup.
A successful season all along the line
“I would like to
congratulate and thank all of our champions, but also, all of the drivers and
team members which made it possible for the 2018 season to be a success all
along the line. We had very good car
counts, exciting on track battles and not just for the lead. There were “no field fillers” in the group. Hardcharger and
laps completed also prove how deep of a field we had” said Roy, President of
the Canadian Stock Car Championship.
“The CSCC Management team
joins me in thanking our important business partners and sponsors who make it
all possible. We also extend our thanks
to the families of the team members who make important and frequent sacrifices
to allow the teams to be prepared week after week. I want to direct my last and warm felt thank
you to our fans who have come in large numbers to support and cheer on one or
many favorite drivers. Thank you, we can
claim to have the best fans” said Roy.
The Management of the
Canadian Stock-Car Championship have now turned the page on the 2018 season and
move on to finalize the 2019 season.
For more news about CSCC
LMS visit the website at: www.stock-car.ca, on twitter: cscc_lms or on facebook at
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Driver Championship
Standing
|
|
Pos
|
|
Driver
|
Points
|
|
1
|
|
Dany
Trépanier
|
878
|
|
2
|
|
Jonathan
Bouvrette
|
850
|
|
3
|
|
Jean-François
Déry
|
809
|
|
4
|
|
Martin
Goulet, Jr.
|
809
|
|
5
|
|
Mathieu
Kingsbury
|
758
|
|
6
|
#
|
Jean-Philippe
Bergeron
|
725
|
|
7
|
#
|
Rémi
Perreault
|
701
|
|
8
|
|
Patrick
Cliche
|
696
|
|
9
|
#
|
Vincent
Vachon
|
692
|
|
10
|
|
Simon
Roussin
|
633
|
|
|
Owner Championship
Standing
|
|
Pos
|
Driver
|
Points
|
|
1
|
TRÉPANIER
SPORTS MOTORISÉS
|
878
|
|
2
|
BOUVRETTE
RACING TEAM
|
850
|
|
3
|
GOULET
MOTORSPORTS
|
809
|
|
4
|
DENUX
RACING
|
809
|
|
5
|
LARUE
MOTORSPORTS
|
786
|
|
6
|
DUROKING
CONSTRUCTION
|
758
|
|
7
|
PROLON
RACING
|
725
|
|
8
|
PERREAULT
MOTORSPORTS
|
701
|
|
9
|
CLICHE
MOTORSPORTS
|
696
|
|
10
|
VACHON
MOTORSPORTS
|
692
|
|
|
Montreal Hitch Rookie
Championship Standing
|
|
Pos
|
Driver
|
Points
|
|
1
|
Jean-Philippe
Bergeron
|
85
|
|
2
|
Rémi
Perreault
|
82
|
|
3
|
Vincent
Vachon
|
80
|
|
4
|
Martin
Hébert
|
61
|
|
5
|
Benoît
Lemieux-Ayotte
|
16
|
|
6
|
Maxime
Gauvreau
|
12
|
|
# indicates rookie of the year candidate
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Source: Canadian Stock Car
Championship
514-907-1773
media@stock-car.ca
