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Countdown to the 2013 Championship
Bruce Boland – Third Place
CAYUGA, ONTARIO (October 23, 2025) – Veteran Pro Modified Racing Association driver Bruce Boland has been known for showing up at the track with a new race car each season. He has always been able to get the maximum out of his race cars, and 2013 was no exception, as the Stoney Creek Ontario driver placed third in PMRA Championship Point Award Series.
Starting with his 1953 Corvette Pro Modified for the season opener at Martin, Michigan, Boland qualified number two but could not make the elimination rounds. After doing some damage to his car during testing for the next event at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park and not being able to compete, Boland got back in the hunt qualifying fifth for the next event at Cayuga, and going into the semi-final.
Derek Hawker – Fourth Place
CAYUGA, ONTARIO (October 17, 2025) – Driving a new car for most of the 2013 Pro Modified Racing Association Series, Derek Hawker placed fourth in the Championship Point Award Series for the season.
Hawker, of Corbyville, Ontario competed in all of the PMRA points races of the year, using his 1963 Corvette and then a new 1968 Firebird-bodied Pro Modified after a crash during the season.
He qualified fifth with his Corvette at the season opener in Martin, Michigan, and was eliminated in the semi-final. He did not participate in eliminations during the second race after crashing his Corvette at the Cayuga Dragway of Toronto Motorsports Park, but with his new Firebird ready to go for the next event, qualified third and was taken out in the first round.
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Paolo Giust – Fifth Place
CAYUGA. ONTARIO (October 8, 2025) – Competing in his first full year of Pro Modified Racing Association competition, Paolo Giust made a fine showing finishing the 2013 year fifth in Championship Point Award Series.
The highlight of the rookie’s season was a race victory during the year.
Giust, from Osgoode, Ontario, drove the 1963 Corvette Sting Ray Pro Modified owned by him and wife Shannon at five of six events during the year, the ninth full season for this popular Pro Modified drag race series.
Although Giust did not race in the opening PMRA round at Martin, Michigan, he qualified for the next events with his Corvette, which features a Brad Anderson (BAE) 526-cubic inch supercharged Hemi engine sitting in an LJ Chassis and coupled to a Bruno’s Automotive Products, Inc. – Lenco transmission and utilizing a Resolution Racing Service fuel system.
PMRA’s Rocky Di Lecce wins big in Maryland, taking International Pro Mod Challenge at Budd’s Creek over the weekend, with Bruce Boland runner-up
Canadians fare well in the inaugural Canada-versus-US challenge
BUDDS CREEK, Maryland (September 22, 2025) – Rocky Di Lecce is one happy man. The 2013 Pro Modified Racing Association Champion had a fitting end to his season, winning the first International Pro Mod Challenge held at Maryland International Raceway this weekend.
The weekend race, part of MIR’s 28th Annual Snap-on Tools Superchargers Showdown and featuring the PMRA against the Northeast Outlaw Pro Mod Association, brought some of the best teams in Pro Mod to the Maryland track to do battle in a Canada-versus-USA challenge.
So when the rounds were finished and the dust had settled, Di Lecce, of Mississauga, Ontario, flew the Maple Leaf proudly as the victor of this prestigious event.
And Di Lecce met up with one of his prime PMRA opponents in the final round, three-time champion Bruce Boland of Stoney Creek, Ontario, making the race an all-Canadian final after eliminating a strong US team of Pro Modifieds.
