BOWMANVILLE, Ontario — There was a familiar look to much of the NASCAR Canadian Tire Series Full Throttle Energy Drink 200 at Mosport Speedway with championship point-leader Scott Steckly leading the first 126 laps, but an engine failure ended his bid for his fourth victory this season. Steckly’s misfortune ultimately led to Kerry Micks’s first victory in 2008 and his first since winning back-to-back events last August.
Mark Dilley inherited the lead after Steckly lost his engine and led until the final two laps when Micks closed in on Dilley’s Dodge. Micks gave Dilley a little nudge, and it was enough to allow Micks the room to sprint into the lead by a nose. Micks and Dilley crossed the line nearly side by side with Micks’s winning margin of .085 second.
“I got into (Dilley) a little there at the end, but it was just last-lap racing,” said Micks.
Dilley was not entirely sure that he agreed with Micks’s assessment of their contact.
“He tagged me pretty good and it was enough to make me lift off the throttle a little,” Dilley said. “I was a little tight there at the end, but it’s every man for himself at that point, I guess.”
D.J. Kennington spent the entire race in the top five and finished third. Don Thomson, Jr. and Peter Gibbons finished fourth and fifth, respectively.
The finish:
Kerry Micks, Mark Dilley, D.J. Kennington, Don Thomson, Jr., Peter Gibbons, John Gaunt, Andrew Ranger, Jim Lapcevich, Jason Hathaway, Dave Whitlock, Derek Lynch, Ron Beauchamp, Jr., J.R. Fitzpatrick, Brad Graham, Joey McColm, Jason White, Doug Brown, Alex Tagliani, Anthony Simone, Kent Nuhn, Scott Steckly.