Aaron Turkey in victory lane Saturday night at Merrittville Speedway. (Alex & Helen Bruce Photo)
Aaron Turkey in victory lane Saturday night at Merrittville Speedway. (Alex & Helen Bruce Photo)

Turkey Trots To Merrittville Sprint Car Victory

THOROLD, Ontario – Aaron Turkey claimed a 360 sprint car victory on Saturday night at Merrittville Speedway.

During hot laps for the 360 sprint cars, Liam Martin shattered the track record previously set by Dylan Westbrook. Martin ran around the Thorold, Ontario, facility in a time of 13.020 seconds. The previous record was 13.158 seconds.

In the feature, Turkey outran Cory Turner to collect the victory. Ricky Turner, Jordan Poirier and Chris Steele followed.

James Michael Friesen  scored the victory in the Rick’s Delivery DIRTcar Sportsman. Multi-time Hoosier Stock track champion Dave Bailey won the Hoosier Stock main event. Jeffrey May scored the victory in the RONA/Doidge Building Centre Mod Lite feature event. Jordan Fidler picked up another victory in the James’ Auto V6 division.