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Issue #80 July 2019
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Jim Riddell’s Sports Talk with Area Senior

Ed Lebrun

d Lebrun was born and raised and a couple of other friends got Jeannette suggested that it might be Steel, and Royal Foods. Our pit crew
Ein Cornwall, attended Nativity involved and we were racing semi- best to consider “going out on top”— was Ken Broad, John Brown, Gilles
Boys’ School and following that pro class. Sylvain Latullipe was our so I guess that it was a good time to Burelles, Chris Marsolais, Tim Lozo,
St. Lawrence High School. Ed driver and we ended up winning a quit. “Many of those years we were Harry Choir, Gilles Currier, and Red
worked for a while in both Ottawa few track championships. We got racing several nights a week and doing Gow. We even won a trophy for “Best
and Montreal before joining Domtar another car, moved to the Sportsman work on the car other nights. We were Dressed Pit Crew” one year.
where he was employed for thirty- Modified class and we won a few Edelweiss, Watertown, Eldridge,
One of Ed’s proudest moments

seven years. Ed played fastball and more track championships in 1993. Syracuse, Granby, and Maryland, came at the year end awards
hockey as a youth and returned to That year was very good for us so which is near Mirabel. For a few
ceremony held at Alexandria Bay’s
hockey following his retirement from we bought a new car from Bicknell years we used Fern Leroux’s garage at
Bonnie Castle Resort, where the team
Domtar to play several seasons with Racing out of St. Catherines. We had his auto dealership and the rest of the received recognition for its four track
The Cornwall Hubs. The sport that another good year and Bicknell racing time we used our own garages. We
championships. “I would like to thank
he is best known for is Dirt Track was a really big help to us. We won had about 25 sponsors whose names all of the people that helped me and
Racing which he was involved in for two track championships in 1994 and were on the car and about 30 more
the racing team # 11 for all of those
more than twenty-five years. just missed out on a third. In 1995 silent sponsors. Our main ones were
years, especially our major sponsors.
In 1969 Ed owned his first race car Stephane Lafrance had taken over as the Laframboise Group, Brookshell And I would like to thank all the boys
our driver and we won a couple more Motors (now Seaway GM), Kimko
–“I did like everyone else going into that were on our team.”
racing – I smashed a few cars and track championships”.
did a few roll-overs. I had a decent The pinnacle of success for Ed was
driver, Gerry Lapearle. We raced 1996, as his team took top spot in
at Cornwall, Brockville, Mountain, Cornwall, Edelweiss, Brockville, and
Maxville, and Ft. Covington, but after Frogtown (now Mohawk Speedway)
five years or so we quit for a while. I winning four track championships;
was at the races one night and ran into something that no one had ever before
an old friend and we ended up buying accomplished in a single season.
a used car and getting back in. We
Deciding on whether or not to
had Gilles Burelles as our mechanic continue with the sport Ed’s wife
1996 Four Track Championship Winning Team
Now Mohawk (Frogtown)
Cornwall Speedway, Brockville Speedway, Eidelweiss Speedway,
Building
Building
Front row from left, Eddy Lebrun (0wner), Sharon Kentyle, Vicky
Brown, Denis Larocque (driver), Tanya Larocque, Bernie Kentyle, Gilles
Cuillerier, Brent Lozo, Red Gow (mechanic).
in Pinewood Forest
Back row from left side, Ken Broad, John Brown, Gilles Burelle (crew
chief), Chris Marsolais, M. Lozo, Jim Lozo (mechanic). Photo Submitted

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