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Sleeping Single was two lengths in front of a fast clos- ing Kendal Kalypso for Carman Hie with Armbro Icecapade third another length and a quarter back for Doug Hie. It was the fifth win of the season for Sleeping Single as she surpassed the $51,000 plateau for owner Paul Wood of Niagara Falls, New York and trainer Doug Berkeley. McKnight also captured the se- cond division with Armbro In- deed, another Armbro Omabha fil- ly. She picked up her seventh win of the season to close within $497 of the charmed $100,000 mark in lifetime earnings. The John Burns trainee also raced from off the pace through fractions of :28 - :58 -1:28.4 enroute to her 1:58.4 win. McKnight said 'I had even more horsg, this time." Burns shares ownership with Fritz Hoffmann of Mississauga and Desmond Morris Sr. of St. Catharines Armbro In- deed was three lengths in front of Sensational Spring and Ross Bat- tin while Murray Brethour finish- ed third with Winsome Whitney. A third Armbro Omaha filly, Nine Across, was the winner of the rain soaked tenth race for Dave Wall. She cruised to a 1:59.1 victory over the sloppy footing, a neck in front of Too Sharp and Carman Hie. Both fillies collared pace-setter Tantallon Star and Bill Megens in the stretch. This John Grant owned filly surpassed the $157,000 mark in lifetime ear- nings with her sixth win of the season. Ians Fling broke the Armbro Omaha sweep when she pulled the upset of the night. The daughter of Fundamentalist scored her first win of the year in 1:58.4 for Dave Paiement. "A change in shoeing really helped her tonight,"' said Paiement after his filly equalled her lifetime mark winning by nearly two lengths over Shes A Nine and Ross Battin with favoured Hornby Salem and Dave Wall finishing third, Paie- ment trains and co-owns Ians Fling with Paiement Stable of Campbellville. On Thursday, the second leg of the 1990 Coca Cola Classic created a couple of great races again. Hammers Macho Man, a four year old Plymouth Lobell gelding cruised to his third consecutive win in a personal best 1:58.2. Guy LaRush got the catch drive from owner-trainer Tom Stacey of Roseneath. Hammers Macho Man went wire to wire through fractions of :29.3 - :59.3 - 1:28.3 and as driver LaRush said after- wards "if they want to roll, then let them roll." In the other division, EDs Carli- sle paced a 1:57.2 trip for his se- cond straight win in the Classic. Gord Brown got the call to drive from trainer Murray Fife to replace the injured Allan' Nicholls. This was the fifth win in nine starts for the four year old Keystone Howell fielding owned by Dr. Errol and Dr. Gregory McWatt of Phelpston, EDs Carli- sle now leads the money list as the field shapes up for the $7,600 final on September 1. Saturday also saw 2:00 mile number 100 when Roger Roy took a personal best 1:59.2 in the se- cond race for driver Steve Skene. That total reached 104 when Nine Across won with tenth race. From Corner Five by John "Wally" Nesbitt Ya gotta have heart and lots and lots and lots of parts... So goes the rallying cry of the Toronto Star 24 Hour Escort World Challenge Race staged last weekend at Mosport. Twenty-five cars ranging from Corvettes and Nissans to Hondas and a lone Suzuki Swift took the green flag at exactly 1:00 p.m. on Saturday under gray and threatening (and even- tually rainy) skies. Exactly 24 hours, 1 minute, and 36.060 seconds later (Yes, the SCCA people do time things that closely) and still under gray skies, the checkered flag fell on the Morrison Mobil 1 Corvette No. 98. Running basically trouble free Andy Pilgrim, Tommy Morrison and Leighton Reese circled around Mosport a total of 825 times completing 2029 miles at an average speed of 84.4 miles per hour. Second place went to the second Morrison Corvette pilotted by Toronto area drivers Robin Buck and Kenny Wilden with series regular Boris Said rounding out the team. Things did not run as smoothly for everyone else. One of the pre-race favourites had to be the local John Powell Motorsports Team. On their home track the Powell crew arriv- ed with an immaculately prepared Corvette and a stable of top notch drivers including R.K. Smith, Claude Poirier, former Player's/GM champion Peter Lockhart and ARS sensation Paul Tracy. As the race approached the three hour mark the Powell Cor- vette was leading when Poirier tangled with the No. 34 Pontiac Trans Am of Luiz Donizetti in corner four. The 'Vette' bounced into the guardrail and somersaulted, fortunately landing on its wheels. While the Peterborough driver was uninjured, the car was totally demolished. : Other top teams ran into trouble as well, such as the Baker Racing effort who had both of their Corvettes catch fire and the Lotus Esprit that was leading until it spun into the guardrail dur- ing a heavy rain storm. ° One member of the Addison Honda Hyper Drive Racing Team is former Port Perry resident Ted Nesbitt and he explains that their race was not totally uneventful. "The rains hit about an hour and a half in and coming through corner 8 in the wet Peter (Schwartott) lost it and ended up hung up on the tire wall. The marshalls and a bunch of race fans shoved the car off of the tires and Peter drove the car back to the pits. We lost about ten laps replacing the rad." The Honda CRX never missed a beat throughout the night but with three hours to go in the race the car coasted into the pits with a broken half shaft. It took the crew all of 19 minutes to completely remove the front suspension, replace the offen- ding shaft, upright and brake drum and get the car back on the track, racing again. Team drivers Jock Addison, Terry di Francesco, Ian Phillips and Schwartzott gave team owner Bob Wolf his best finish to date with a third in the Super Production class, ninth overall. "It was a pretty good race for us," continues Nesbitt. "We thought we could catch the (Archer Brother's) Talon for second and with a little luck, or a little less bad luck, I think we could have taken the class." If there was ever an award for perseverance it would have to go to the H.A. Racing Suzuki Swift Team of Harvey Allen and Mike Roche. Already competing in the Firehawk Endurance Series, the two men decided to try the 24 hour event but their original team " drivers were not interested. Fortunately for H.A. Racing, Mike Rivet, Bill Clubine, John Sherk and Bill Yearwood were available and eager to give the twice 'round the clock marathon a shot. Scarboro engine builder John Siellecki was then called and told to build a "hot" engine to fit a Swift that was to be "bor- rowed" from the Suzuki compound. The Civic Day holiday weekend was spent basically building the car, installing the roll cage, the seat, the engine and the transmission and readying the car for the race. Finally, to fine tune the car and make it race worthy, Rick Williams of Little Britain, who is one of the top racing mechanics in the area, was persuaded to join the team. The car was suffering from diabolical handling problems in practice which resulted in several off-track excursions. While Williams was able to solve most of these irritants, the mechanical gremlins came back in full force during the race. Two hours into the contest, an intake camshaft gear broke, bending a valve in the process. These parts were quickly replac- ed but two more hours were lost as a crew member had to make a ed dash to Toronto to pick up a head gasket to complete the task. The Swift reentered the race and continued to run well until 1 a.m. when Mike Rivet broke the car (again) and coasted into the pits with a snapped throttle cable. Once more short of replacement parts, the crew did what any team that had wat- ched too many movies would do. Scouting the paddock area, Williams and crew soon located a nice little black Swift GT belonging to some (absent) spectator and after popping the hood, quietly 'borrowed' the required part. And off went racing the No. 21 Suzuki. As if that wasn't enough bad luck, the final straw came when a motor mount broke with just four hours remaining in the con- test. Fortunately.for H.A. Racing, the owner of the Swift in the parking lot had not yet returned so again the black car was can- nibalized for the good of the team effort. Having survived taunts and laughs and insults, the "borrow- ed" Little Car That Could with '"borrowed" replacement parts finally took the checkered flag, completing a total of 554 laps or about 1365 miles. "It was not a fun race," says Williams. "It was a lot of hard work but it was really nice to see that checkered flag. We were out powered, out classed, and grossly out financed but we did OK for a last minute, independent effort." Oh yes - the racing team did replace all of the "borrowed" parts on the donor car. ,