61-year-old driver from Saskatchewan wins Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship ahead of tour stop in the Hat

By Medicine Hat News on June 13, 2024.

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Luke Tournier won the Bonnyville Chuckwagon Championship with a clean, fast run this past weekend at the WPCA tour event ahead of the Medicine Hat Stampede derby later this month.

Professional chuckwagon drivers will compete at the Medicine Hat Exhibition & Stampede grounds from June 20-23, following a weekend off after Bonnyville.

In that event’s show final, Tournier, the 61-year-old driver from Duck Lake, Sask., clocked a championship heat run of 1 minute 18.07 seconds. Veteran driver Layne MacGillivrey tipped a barrel, and the penalty pushed his time back to 1 minute 22.71 seconds. Chanse Vigen (the show aggregate winner) and Ray Croteau, Jr. rounded out the championship heat.

Tournier moves in to sixth in the circuit standings with a shot to qualify for the high-profile Ponoka Stampede event on the Canada Day weekend.

“I’d like to try to win Ponoka,” Tournier, who competed on the Canadian Professional Chuckwagon Association circuit the past three seasons, told WPCA media. “To be honest, you like to try to win every show.

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