The Hamilton Spectator

APC United Late Model Series announces schedule

TIM MILLER

The races at Flamboro Speedway on June 10 and July 15 will be 100-lap events

The APC United Late Model Series announced its 2023 schedule recently and the Ontario series has come up with some longer races for its nine-race card on the local paved ovals.

The APC, which started in 2015 with the goal of unifying Late Model rules and regulations across the province, will be increasing the lengths of three of its races from the previous 100-lap features. All this starts at Sunset Speedway near Barrie with a 150-lapper May 20.

The races at Flamboro Speedway on June 10 and July 15 will be 100lap events, as will the races at Peterborough and Delaware speedways held between the Flamboro dates. Race 6 at Sauble Speedway will be 150 laps, then two 100-lappers at Sunset and Sauble, and then a 200lap race Sept. 23 at Delaware to finish off the season.

Several weeks ago, the OSCAAR Modifieds and Hot Rod divisions merged with the APC United LM series, and although OSCAAR will compete at next year’s APC events, officials did not have the dates finalized.

SOS points fund

Another recent local racing union, the merger of the 360 Sprint Cars of the Southern Ontario Sprints (SOS) with the Knights of Thunder to run under the SOS banner next season, has received a boost with a recently announced points fund — one with a nostalgic element.

Design firm owners John and Wendy Brush have been involved in motorsport for many years, and have helped the careers of Jessica Zemken, Mike Kruchka and Doug Didero, as well as supporting dirt track series and events. The SOS points fund for 2023 is $10,000.

The Brushes’ media company is known as Tammy Ten Media, named after the Harvey Lennoxdriven Tammy 10 Super Modified that John Brush saw at Flamboro in June 1963, starting his involvement in the sport.

Cayuga builder dies

Jack Greenhalgh, one of the original owners/builders of Cayuga Speedway, has died. He was 92.

Based in Ancaster, Greenhalgh did some racing in the early 1950s, but focused his attention and talents on building racing cars and racing engines. Under the Red Ball and Black Jack banners, about 250 racing and performance engines were built, and not just for oval track cars.

Greenhalgh also built for road racers such as Moe Carter and Eppie Wietzes. He was inducted into the Canadian Street Rodding Hall of Fame in 2014.

Greenhalgh worked with most engines but is well-known locally for his interest and work with Studebaker, a marked contrast to the usual Chevy engines that powered the Sportsman coupes at Hamilton’s Speedway Park and other area clay ovals. In the mid-1960s, with three others, Greenhalgh built and operated Cayuga Speedway. The big oval south of Hagersville was opened in May 1966 as a dirt track but was paved for the 1968 season when it was purchased by local businessperson Bob Slack.

Greenhalgh had a working relationship with famed IndyCar team owner Andy Granatelli, who was head of the STP-Paxton group and the only game around for performance Studebaker equipment. After a Granatelli-supplied engine of Greenhalgh’s went sour, Greenhalgh had words with Granatelli, and got not only a new engine and parts, but tickets to the 1966 Indy 500 (which he attended) and a set of the STP pyjamas race suits that were promoted by Granatelli.

Tune in to Tomas

If you’re interested in how Erik Tomas, Raceline Radio’s writer/host/ etc., got into the business, tune in Sunday, Dec. 11, to his final live broadcast for the show’s 30th season. The veteran announcer and host lets his tires cool down for a few weeks at this time of the year, so each Sunday between Dec. 18 to Jan. 8 Tomas will replay interviews with racing notables such as Al Unser Jr., Romain Grosjean, Todd Paton, Brittany Force, Will Power and Joey Logano. Then, on Jan. 15, Tomas returns live to the airwaves on stations from coast to coast, including Hamilton’s 900 CHML.

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