At the Short Track Night of Champions as part of the Motorama Custom Car and Motorsports Show, Andrew Gresel would be honored with the top spot in the Inside Track Motorsports News/London Recreational Racing Short Track Power Rankings.
“I’d like to thank London Recreational for supporting this event,” he commented. “2014, man, it was an awesome year for us. Every year, it’s hard to finish in the top-five and good finishes like that every weekend. I don’t know – it was an awesome year, and I hope to have another one as good as this.”
Gresel gave credit for the successful to the whole team, and the work that they put in behind the scenes to make sure the car was prepared.
Last season, the driver of the No. 81 SAUBLE Falls Tent and Trailer Park, CUSW, London Recreational, Hy-Grade roofing and Raden Givari of eHomes Realty SLM had an impressive year that saw him score five victories en route to the championship. He started off the 2014 season right near the top with a fourth place finish at Sunset Speedway, only to back it up with a win at Kawartha Speedway. He then put together a string of three top-fives throughout June, before winning three straight wins in a row. He then round off the season with a second at Sunset Speedway, fifth at Peterborough Speedway and second at Sunset Speedway, before claiming his second straight Autumn Colors Classic feature victory in dominating style.
Gresel said he enjoyed his time in the series with how it was organized by Dave Gainforth and the series officials.
“It allows guys to try different stuff and change body styles, and basically do everything you want to do to the car,” he commented. “It’s awesome that way and I had a lot of fun last year running with the OSCAAR series.”
Now with his focus set on the 2015 season, Gresel plans on running the full APC United Late Models of Ontario Tour, as well as five to six OSCAAR Super Late Model races. Looking to top this past season is something that Gresel recognizes being a tough challenge ahead of him.
“We got a lot of good drivers getting involved with this APC tour,” Gresel commented. “Even for our team, we’ve kind of switched chassis so we’re in a Port City deal and everything is going to be different, new to us. It’s going to be a big challenge to try and win as many races as we won last year.”
