After putting on an exciting show in the rain yesterday, the Stadium Super Trucks returned today with an even more exciting show on the dry pavement.
Throughout the course of event, Sheldon Creed and Robby Gordon would trade the lead back and forth and when it was all over, it’d be Sheldon Creed capturing the victory in Sunday’s PEED Energy Formula Off-Road presented by TRAXXAS event. It marks Creed’s third straight Toronto victory after winning the Sunday event last year and Saturday’s event this year.
Paul Tracy would lead till the competition caution at the halfway mark, though would not be as strong on the restart as he would fall back to third with both Creed and Gordon getting by in the span of two corners. Once they were by Tracy, the pair traded the lead on four different occasions before Creed was able to grab the advantage off of turn three on the last lap and capture the victory.
“It was a really good day,” Creed commented. “Started from the back and worked my way up to the front, battling with Robby at every turn as we couldn’t get away from each other. It was really fun. He was right there on the rear bumper, super clean and we were able to come out on top.”
Gordon captured his second straight runner-up finish, despite slipping sideways in turn three on the last lap.
“Our race was much better today in the dry rather than the wet,” Gordon commented, comparing to Saturday’s event. “You could see the difference in the vehicles with how they were hooked up. Yesterday, the track was really slippery. You were probably giving me a ‘Sure, Robby’ but when the pacecar wrecked, you saw how slippery it was. I figured that the pace car would be on the cover today but I looked and that wasn’t the case.”
Scott Steele would finish third making the finishing order for Sunday exactly match the podium from Saturday. Steele’s race didn’t start off that well as he made contact with another truck on the first lap of the race, resulting in the hood being pushed up on his truck. As a result, Steele did not have a clear vision for most of the race till the hood fell off the truck down the Lakeshore.
“My hood was up for most of the race and I couldn’t see that well,” Steele commented. “It was hard down the backstretch as I just judging by about where the wall was – till it flew off on lap seven.”
Tracy would finish fourth with Apdaly Lopez in fifth despite going for a spin in turn three on lap one. Aaron Bambach would slide through the turn three turn when trying to set up a pass on Tracy, resulting in losing the pack and finishing sixth. Nick Vanis and Bill Hynes would round out the field.
The next event for the SPEED Energy Formula Off-Road presented by TRAXXAS is at the Sand Sports Super Show in Costa Mesa, California on September 19th and 20th.
