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June 28, 1996 Paris Speedway

by Kim Gregory

Another great summers evening, with over one hundred spectators, and five of those travelled over three thousand miles to see this race. Gary Roberts from California, and Steve Wright and his three friends from England had planned their Canadian vacations with this race in mind. Click here for photo: (Gary is second from left, Steve is on the right, I don't remember the names of the other two from Britain). Wes Pierce made a second guest appearance as the announcer for the evening. The American riders from the last race returned and brought along Pat Renolds and Tim Ford from Wheatley as well. Guy Fafard and his son Nicholas traveled ten hours from Quebec to race here tonight.

The track crew had a perfect track ready for us. It was very fast and the racing was very aggressive, causing several spectacular crashes. Gary Hesmer and Jeff Orosz locked horns in the first turn of heat 15 forcing Jeff to ride a borrowed bike for the remainder of the night, and gave Gary some painful bruises. I hit the back safety fence on the third lap while leading heat 16. My bike spun into the path of Dean Bencsics and that was the last that both bikes ran that night. The surprise of the night was the appearance of the Muszynski brothers. This was their first race since returning from Sweden in the Canadian Speedway Team. They were hot all night, and when the final was run, they finished first and second.

Photos: left - Bogdan, right - Sobec, Bogdan with checkered flag.

Division 1 Payout for 3 places in final:
1st Sobec Muszynski
2nd Bogdan Muszynski
3rd Len Dillon
4th Gary Hesmer

  DIVISION 1
Points  Rider     # Heat 1 2 3 7 8 9 13 14 15 20 21 22 Final   Total Points
12 Len Dillon        #83 3         3  3        3        1      = 13
10 Bogdan Muszynski  #18   3   3      2              2  2      = 12
 9 Sobec Muszynski   #15 E       3          3        3  3      = 12
 9 Gary Hesmer       #37 2     2         3        2     0      =  9
 7 Chris Hesmer      #11     3   1    0           3  
 5 Guy Fafard        #23   0       2        2     1
 5 Andy Harris       #19     2 0      1        2
 4 Tim Ford          #42 (1 late)  1     2     E
 3 Jeff Orosz        #31   1     2       E     E
 3 Gene Bonsignore   #64   2   1         F              
 3 Nicolas Fafard    # 6     1     0        1        1
 1 Phil Pedersen     #27 1       0          0     0

  DIVISION 2
Points  Rider     # Heat 4 10a 10b 16 17 23
 8 Dean Bencsics     #88    3      3   2
 6 Pat Renolds       #11x      3       3    (late, 0 in heat 22)
 5 Mark Engel        #69       2          3
 5 Brian Marshall    #87    1      2      2
 4 Darren Altmayer   # 7    2  1       1
 0 Kim Gregory       #97    0      F
 1 John Buster       #16                  1

  DIVISION 3
   Points  Rider     # Heat 5 6 11 12 18 19 23
10 Jason Bonsignore  #64      3     1  3     3
 9 Nicole DeVeau     #29    2       2     3  2
 8 Allen Etchells    #34      2  3        2  1
 6 Carrie Temple     #26    3    2     1     0
 5 Greg Gamm         #47      F     3  2
 3 Andy Luther       #93    1    1        1
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