Laird to conclude season on Thursday

Another season of local stock racing is about to come to a close this weekend.

Drivers will pull out the stops on Thursday night as the final dash towards a points championship at Laird International Raceway in four of the track's five divisions will take place.

Only Michael Gold, a talented young and emerging 21 year-old driver, has secured a track championship by claiming the late model division honours two weeks ago.

Gold will be absent on the final night of racing as the driver has already left the city to continue his post secondary education in Windsor. SooToday.com had erroneously published last week that Gold was off to Ottawa.

Aside from the late model class, track champions will be decided on Thursday night in the modified, factory stock, pure stock and stock four divisions.

Action begins with qualifying at 6 p.m. followed by racing at 7 p.m.

LIR is located on Lake George Road just east of Echo Bay at the Laird Fairgrounds.

To visit the revamped Laird website, click here.

*** POINTS LEADERS:

The following is an update on the points leaders heading into the final night of action:

Late Model:

Michael Gold - 565 (Clinched Championship) Rick Ellis - 460 Jeremy Van Hoek - 440 Rod Bolduc Jr. - 382 Robert Hiiemaa - 358

Modified:

Kevin Oicle - 586 Randy Hache - 519 Duane Jones - 445 Larry Ebare - 385 Jim Gort Jr. - 169

Factory Stock:

David Slingsby - 516 Steve Kent - 492 John Fragale - 489 Kevin Pace - 447 Mike Corbett - 416

Pure Stock:

Joe Addison - 500 Bill Butler - 431 Ray Golladay - 421 Norm Miller - 342 Len Bibeau - 313

Stock Fours:

Mike Savino - 525 Mike Baraluk - 479 Dave King - 468 Gord Hunt - 429 Nick Jobst - 404

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