Mitch Wright Takes Peterborough Speedway Ontario Legends Opener
With 24 teams in the starting line-up, the Trailers Plus Ontario Legend Car Series – presented by Kevin Ryan Automotive – came to the green flag Saturday, May 31st in the group’s first Peterborough Speedway event of the 2025 schedule.
Youngster Keaton Pipe and Cole McFadden were on the front row for the 25-lap headliner. Pipe took the early race lead, only to surrender the position to Wes Cuthbertson, who subsequently saw hometown favourite Dawson Drimmie become the show’s 3rd different leader within the race’s first 4 laps.
A yellow flag for an incident in the 3rd turn with 5 laps on the scoreboard slowed the early race pace, with Drimmie regaining control of the field on the restart. The pilot of the No. 66 machine would maintain the top spot until reigning series champion Mitch Wright used lapped traffic to take over the lead with 18 laps complete. Another caution – with less than a handful of laps remaining – brought the pack back together, with a multi-car wreck on the frontstretch bringing out a red flag. Several cars were finish for the night as result of the crash, but no injuries were reported.
Wright held the hot hand on the restart and claimed the victory over Wes Cuthbertson, Dawson Drimmie, Pipe and Cole McFadden. Gibson Baker, Nick Portt, Jake Spencer-Walt, Robbie Sikes and Joe Sherman completed the top 10 finishers. Matt Thompson, Chase Stievenart, John Milwain, Andrew McFadden, Nathan Killins, Mark McDonald, Rob Eggleton, Caleb Drimmie, Hailey McNicol, Mackenzie Milwain, Parker Traves, Nathan Huffman, Joshua Milwain and Mark Griffin rounded out the night’s running order.
With his 8th place main event finish, Jake Spencer-Walt was named the JF Enterprises Rookie of the Race.
Jake Spencer-Walt, Mark Griffin, Wright and Dawson Drimmie picked-up the Ontario Legend Car Series qualifying event wins.
Next-up on the group’s 2025 schedule will be a Saturday, June 14th date at Sunset Speedway before the series returns to Peterborough for the Double Toonie/Fan Appreciation Night Saturday, June 28th.
