{"id":1215,"date":"2008-08-10T08:42:19","date_gmt":"2008-08-10T08:42:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/maineracer.com\/wp\/?p=1215"},"modified":"2008-08-10T08:42:19","modified_gmt":"2008-08-10T08:42:19","slug":"martin-lacombe-wins-ugly-capital-city-100","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/2008\/08\/martin-lacombe-wins-ugly-capital-city-100\/","title":{"rendered":"Martin Lacombe Wins Ugly Capital City 100"},"content":{"rendered":"<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OTTAWA, ON &ndash; Late Model stock car driver Martin Lacombe of Terrebonne, QC won the Toromont CAT 100 at Ottawa&rsquo;s Capital City Speedway for the Serie ACT Castrol on Saturday night.&nbsp; The race, delayed for two hours by an unexpected rain shower, was&nbsp; marred by 22 caution periods and lasted two hours and seventeen minutes.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Lacombe, who started fifth on the 28-car grid, recovered from a scrape with leader Jean-Francois Dery of Quebec City during a lap 82 restart, then stretched out to a margin of victory of five car lengths over Milton, VT driver Brent Dragon. Dragon&rsquo;s runner-up finish came in his first-ever Serie ACT Castrol start; he led 77 laps before Dery took over.&nbsp; Alexandre Gingras of Val-Belair, QC finished third over teenager Brandon Watson of Stayner, ON.&nbsp; Veteran Claude Leclerc of Lanoraie, QC finished<br \/>fifth.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dave Baldwin of Carleton Place, ON and Sean Kennedy of Dunrobin, ON were the top-finishing Capital City Speedway regulars&nbsp; in sixth and seventh, respectively.&nbsp; Dery recovered for eighth place.&nbsp; Polesitter Karl Allard of St-Felicien, QC and Capital City driver Rick Rump of Carp, ON rounded out the unofficial top ten.<br \/>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Qualifying heats were won by Allard, Leclerc, Dragon, and Gingras.&nbsp; Eighteen of the 28 starters were running at the finish&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; The Serie ACT Castrol is back in action at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jonction, QC for the Luminaire Napert 150 on Saturday, August 16.&nbsp; For more information, call (802) 244-6963 or visit <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laserieactcastrol.com\/\">www.laserieactcastrol.com<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.acttour.com\/\">www.acttour.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">UNOFFICIAL FINISH &ndash; Toromont CAT 100<br \/>Serie ACT Castrol &ndash; Capital City Speedway &ndash; Ottawa, ON<br \/>Saturday, August 09, 2008<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">(# &#8211; denotes rookie)<\/p>\n<p align=\"left\">Pos.-Driver-Hometown<br \/>1.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Martin Lacombe, Terrebonne, QC<br \/>2.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brent Dragon, Milton, VT<br \/>3.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Alexandre Gingras, Val-Belair, QC<br \/>4.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Brandon Watson, Stayner, ON<br \/>5.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Claude Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC<br \/>6.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dave Baldwin, Carleton Place, ON<br \/>7.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Sean Kennedy, Dunrobin, ON<br \/>8.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jean-Francois Dery, Quebec, QC<br \/>9.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Karl Allard, St-Felicien, QC<br \/>10.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Rick Rump, Carp, ON<br \/>11.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stephane Durand, Quebec, QC<br \/>12.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Yvon Bedard, St-Nicolas, QC<br \/>13.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Ken Baird, North Gower, ON<br \/>14.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #Spencer MacPherson, Carleton Place, ON<br \/>15.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jonathan Desbiens, Levis, QC<br \/>16.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tim Kirby, Carleton Place, ON<br \/>17.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Kevin Roberge, Levis, QC<br \/>18.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Jacques Poulin, East-Broughton, QC<br \/>19.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Dany Ouellet, La Pocatiere, QC<br \/>20.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #Patrick Hamel, St-Edouard, QC<br \/>21.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Daniel Descoste, St-Joseph-du-Lac, QC<br \/>22.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Tim Dorning, Snow Road, ON<br \/>23.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; #Justin Holtom, Ottawa, ON<br \/>24.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Larry Jackson, Oakville, ON<br \/>25.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Bob Hudon, St-Etienne, QC<br \/>26.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Steve Munro, Carp, ON<br \/>27.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Stephane Descoste, Oka, QC<br \/>28.&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; Eric St-Gelais, St-Nicolas, QC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp;&nbsp; OTTAWA, ON &ndash; Late Model stock car driver Martin Lacombe of Terrebonne, QC won the Toromont CAT 100 at Ottawa&rsquo;s Capital City Speedway for the Serie ACT Castrol on Saturday night.&nbsp; The race, delayed for two hours by an unexpected rain shower, was&nbsp; marred by 22 caution periods and lasted two hours and seventeen [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1215","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-american-canadian-tour"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1215"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1215\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1215"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1215"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maineracing.com\/legacy\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1215"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}