Three cars disqualified at Riverside International Speedway, Kenny Wallace wins

Declared winner Kenny Wallace and disqualified winner comment on the inspection

On July 15, Kenny Wallace ventured to Canada to run a late model race. The race took place at Riverside International Speedway in Antigonish, Nova Scotia.

Kenny Wallace finished 3rd in that event. However, following a post race inspection the 1st and 2nd place finishers were disqualified. Kenny Wallace was declared the winner.

Pro Stock Tour Announcement

There was a brief delay in declaring the official winner of the event. Two days later, the sanction finally announced the results of the post race inspection. The winner and runner-up were disqualified.

“Thank you for your patience fans!”

“Following post-race inspection at the IWK250 at Riverside International Speedway three cars were disqualified for unapproved carburetors.”

“#13 Cassius Clark, #48C Dave O’Blenis and #84 J.R. Fitzpatrick. The top three podium finishers are officially Kenny Wallace, Cole Butcherand Craig Slaunwhite.”

Kenny Wallace
Kenny Wallace celebrates 3rd at Riverside

Kenny Wallace statement

Kenny Wallace flew from Canada to Eldora. He was set to work on the broadcast team the following day at the NASCAR dirt race.

“This is a unbelievable turn of events for me.. As I sit here at Eldora Speedway I just got the word… My official comment is… ‘I would have rather finished 3rd and those 2 teams in front of me be legal.. I accept the BIG WIN and I am incredibly honored.’ ”

Cassius Clark statement

Cassius Clark was the initial race winner of the race. Following the DQ, he was relegated to a 28th place finish.

“Unfortunately our win was stripped due to post race technical inspection. I feel bad for Andrew, Rollie, our entire team as well as the race fans who or listened to the race. It was a great event with tons of fans at an awesome track,” Cassius Clark stated.

“Racing certainly has its highs and lows, luckily I’ve been at it long enough to know you take your lumps move on and go get em next time around. Which is what we’ll certainly do.”

“As far as the infraction the tours release was pretty vague so I just wanted to give everyone a little better clarification from what I understand. I’m just the dumb driver but it’s nice to know what your getting thrown out for.”

“This won’t mean a lot to most but The rule book states that you have to run a stock Holley 4150HP carb with the Chevy crate, which is what we run. The rule then states ‘Carburetor must pass Maritime Pro Stock Tour No-Go gauges.’ ”

“That’s kind of the grey area we got into I guess. Our carb passes all the tools of the “no-go” gauges listed for all the kits that I’ve seen advertised, however the tour apparently has their own pin gauge to check the idle air bleed jets and has a specific size tolerance they go by which unfortunately is the only adjustable jet that they have a specific size for, but don’t have the size listed in their rules.”

“So without knowing that size unless your carb had ever been checked by that tool than you would never know. I’ve raced off and on with the King team since 2012 and finished in the top 3 more often than not and had our carb checked multiple time but never with such tool. So obviously we were oblivious and stunned to find out after what we thought was such a great day.”

“Anyhow talking to Andrew ours was a couple thousandths over their tool and there is no tolerance with them, resulting in our disqualification. A very trivial thing with no performance advantage to be thrown out for in such a historic event but rules a rule so we have to accept it and move forward.”

“I’ll attach a few pictures first being the carb and you can see the 8 tiny jets that were being teched as well as a standard “no-go” gauge kit with listed tools. None of which are the gauge we were thrown out for.”

“In closing id like to thank all the fans for your support and kind remarks and I’ll make sure I drive every lap like it’s my last and I know Andrew and the guys will do everything in the shop and the track to give me the best possible legal car to compete with.”

2018 IWK 250 Results
Riverside International Speedway

— Official results following inspection follow below —

Pos | Driver

1. Kenny Wallace
2. Cole Butcher
3. Craig Slaunwhite
4. Braden Langille
5. Nicholas Naugle
6. Kent Vincent
7. Dylan Gosbee
8. Darren MacKinnon
9. Dylan Blenkhorn
10. Sarah McKay
11. Russell Smith Jr
12. Chris Hughes
13. Shawn Turple
14. Jonathan Hicken
15. Shawn Pierce
16. Waylon Farrell
17. Kyle Reid
18. Jason Hathaway
19. John Flemming
20. Greg Proude
21. DJ Casey
22. Robbie MacEwen
23. Donald Chrisholm
24. Steve Halpin
25. Jarrett Butcher
26. Greg Fahey
27. Chris Reid
28. Cassius Clark
29. Dave O’Blenis
30. JR Fitzpatrick
31. Ashton Tucker
32. Stephen Lively
33. Nevin Scott
34. Terry Dougay
35. Allison McKinnon
36. Josh Collins

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Kenny Wallace | Pro Stock Tour | Riverside International Speedway

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