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(Above and bottom) Lane Zardo (36) survived a penalty and a chaotic race to win the August 12 Qwick Wick race at Sunset Speedway. Photos by Steve Traczyk
QWICK WICK SUPER STOCKS Lane Zardo Wins Late-Summer Feature at Sunset Speedway By Bryce Turner with files from Ashley McCubbin he Super Stocks raced at Sunset Speedway on August 12, where the drama began on a restart with 28 laps remaining, in the 50-lap event. Gerrit Tiemersma restarted on the inside of Lane Zardo, with Shawn Chenoweth on his back bumper. Chenoweth pushed Tiemersma hard into turn one, sending Tiemersma and Zardo up the track, with others collected. “I don’t care about you having to get somebody back, but when you get somebody back at the front of the field, it’s a big disrespect to every other driver that’s behind you,” said Zardo. “If I’m going to go by somebody else’s math, that means everybody behind that incident, that got involved, owes the perpetrator the same move, and you can’t race like that, we can’t go after each other’s heads.” Zardo was deemed as being involved in the wreck, sending him to the back of the field, a move that he disagrees with. “If I’m an involved car, that means I either stopped, I spun out and did a 90-degree sideways turn, I left debris on the race track or I insinuated the incident, which I did none of the four,” said Zardo. “My door got dinged and I went up a few lanes, but I never came to a stop and there wasn’t anything I could see that would actually make me an involved car.” The driver admitted that he needed to be
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calmed down initially, but he was then able to make some three-wide moves on his way back to the front, with the win feeling back within reach when Brandon McFerran and Carson Nagy wrecked while battling for the lead, with 6 to go; Zardo was running fourth. Zardo took the lead on a restart with two to go, snapping a seven-race losing skid in the QWSS. The driver, who won twice at Sunset in local action this year, was quick to thank Brian MacDonald, Kenny Grubb, John Saunders and Andy Schmidt for their work on the car. While happy with the win, Zardo would like to see the success transfer to
other tracks. “Really haven’t been able to get a win all year at Delaware, missed our shot at Peterborough…same as Flamboro,” he said. “With my grandfather’s picnic table, in memory of him, up at the beer gardens, it felt pretty cool to have a beer with them before I got out in victory lane but it didn’t quite scratch the itch because I have some more work to do at these other tracks.” Gord Shepherd, Chenoweth, Tiemersma, and Trevor Collver rounded out the top-five. Zardo led Nagy by a mere three points entering the finale at Delaware Speedway. IT
