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lass Page 1 1 Sports Outlook COLIN Herald Sports Keith Perkins Jr enjoys driving in the fast lane By COLIN GIBSON Herald Sports Editor I sure it has happened to all of us Well at least I know it has hap pened to yours truly You pull up to a red light and glance over at the car just pulling up alongside Inevitably it some dude in a hot car revving the engine and inching slowly ahead waiting for the light to turn green As if by magic the Beach Boys song Little Deuce Coupe comes blaring out of the car radio and it Show Time A little nudge on the gas pedal and all of a sudden the dude beside you is wearing a crash helmet and bears an eery resemblance to Wild Bill Elliott Maybe Rusty Wallace maybe even the king of stock car racers Richard Petty The light turns green you floor the gas pedal the car stalls and all of a sudden horns are blaring behind you people are giving you the finger as you sit in the middle of the intersection and harsh reali ty returns The car radio is now mockingly blasting out Little Old Lady From For 19yearold Keith Perkins of Glen Williams the dream lives on thanks to his father Keith Sr Keith a Grade student at Georgetown District High School is racing at Varney Speedway located just north of Mount Forest in the street stock class He is a natural driver ac cording to both his father and fnend and fellow stock car en Peter Conway Keith Sr drove late model stock cars for three years at River View Speedway near Trenton so knows of what he speaks Pete Conway drove the same car Keith is driving Good Old Number 64 for two years at the Varney Speedway The car had been but Keith Jr kept urging his father to let him try his hand in Hon The racing bug was still in Keith Sr and Pete Conway so the car was prepared by the two for the younger Perkins Vamey Speedway sports a mile oval and Number a somewhat hybrid 1977 Oldsmobile Cutlass was entered in the street stock class with the young Mr Perkins behind the wheel As Keith Sr noted We had to give him a chance to get it racing out of his system It will either make or break him According to Interested onlookers as well as the proud father Keith s initiation into the ntes of racing went better than expected First race jitters got to Keith in his initial attempt to qualify for the 200 lap feature His street stock class is mainly for beginners but no quarter is asked or given once the green flag is dropped Keith finished his first race second from last but withstood the bumping and intimidating tactics of a number of other drivers His second time out the now battlehardened youngster placed third to qualify for the 200 lap feature He was running well in the feature in the early going then on The 15th lap his brakes failed The gutsy tyro driver survived through 95 laps before being forced to retire The younger Perkins has been given a taste of life in the fast lane and now wants a bigger bite of the pie Keith Sr construction manager with Canada Limited in Burlington has given his son the green flag to continue The elder Perkins estimates it costs approximately to run at for the season and the team will continue this year until the season ends in October Depending on how Keith Jr fares over the balance of this KEITH PERKINS of Glen has lasted life In the fas I lane ol stock car drhing He now wants a bigger bite of the pie Herald photo year s racing season he will either Look out Wild Bill Rusty and return to street stock racing next all the rest of the Good Old Boys year or move up to the more a red haired youngster from Glen ting and dangerous late model Williams is looking to shut you class down OLD NUMBER fU mothballs and spruced up for was taken another stock car racing The car has a historj of its own and original drlen Peter NUMBER might preferred to remain in mothballs following Kctlli Perkins Jr left initiation into the world of stock car racing Father Keith Perkins Sr right estimates it costs approximate W0 to run for one season In the street model slock car class Herald photo Sabres host New Hamburg Acton Sabres of the MidOntario Junior Hockey League are back In exhibition game action tonight Saturday 8pm at Got don Memorial Arena with a game scheduled against New Hamburg Sabres are coming off two tough exhibition game losses to twotime Georgian Bay Junior C Hockey League champions Siskens and are looking to get into the win column Sabres return the favor to New Hamburg with an exhibition game in New Hamburgs borne arena this coming Friday night then prepare Tor 108B4O regular season action The Acton team opens 198990 MidOntario Junior C regular season play Oct 6 with a game in The Sabres will be strutting their regular season stuff before hometown fans Oct against arch rival Orangeville at the Acton Community Centre Soccer standings STANDING AND RESULTS DIVISION 1 SECTION A W A Crown and Anchor I 3 J DIVISION SECTION Ancknt Mariner J 1 I 3 2 United DIVISION BECTION A AU I DIVISION B SECTION B Trcxcon 2 Milton 3 1 3 RESULTS DIVISION I 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