August 6, 2025 – More Information Available at www,wpca.com
2025 Battle of the North – Dawson Creek, British Columbia
The temperature was a comfortable 18°C under a few clouds, and the chuckwagon races were run on very good racetrack conditions in front of an enthusiastic opening night crowd. By the time the sun set, Evan Magee opened up the Battle of the North with the Alberta Ag Centre Fast Time of the Night.
Coming off barrel number 4 in heat number 2, Magee, driving the FluidPRO Oilfield Services Ltd. outfit posted a time of 1:14.15 and placed first overall for the day by just 10 one-hundreds of a second over last week’s Strathmore Stampede Champion Jason Glass who placed 2nd for the night. Jamie Laboucane was third, Kris Molle was fourth, with Chance Bensmiller rounded out the top five on the night.
The top driver in the aggregate after Saturday night will get a one-year lease of a 2025 GMC Truck courtesy of Banister GM Dawson Creek. The top 4 drivers in the aggregate after Saturday’s run will go into $30,000.00 Championship Final Heat where the winner will be crowned the 2025 Battle of the North Champion.
Night 2 of the Battle of the North can be heard live action on Thursday night, August 7, 2025, on WPCA Radio starting 9:30pm Eastern, 8:30pm Central, 7:30pm Mountain time, and 6:30pm local time on 96.5 The Ranch, or streaming options are available through the WPCA Website at wpca.com, iHeart Radio website/app or the Radioplayer Canada website/app.
Billy Melville
| Day 1 Results | |||
| Rank | Driver | Sponsor | Total Time |
| 1 | Evan Magee | FluidPRO Oilfield Services Ltd. | 1:14.15 |
| 2 | Jason Glass | Birchcliff Energy Ltd. | 1:14.25 |
| 3 | Jamie Laboucane | Wild Rows Pump & Compression Ltd. | 1:14.37 |
| 4 | Kris Molle | Graf Mechanical Ltd. | 1:14.40 |
| 5 | Chance Bensmiller | LMV Energy Services | 1:14.50 |
| 6 | Obrey Motowylo | VJV Livestock Marketing Group | 1:14.57 |
| 7 | Troy Dorchester | PureChem Services | 1:15.14 |
| 8 | Evan Salmond | De Havilland Twin Otter | 1:15.21 |
| 9 | Dayton Sutherland | Nordic Energy Canada Corp. | 1:15.24 |
| 10 | Lane Tournier* | KB Construction Ltd. | 1:15.42 |
| 11 | Layne MacGillivray | Dash Energy Services Ltd. | 1:15.44 |
| 12 | Logan Gorst | Northstar Hydrovac Inc. | 1:15.46 |
| 13 | Chanse Vigen | Volker Stevin Canada | 1:15.57 |
| 14 | Chad Fike | TOMCO Group of Companies | 1:15.63 |
| 15 | Jordie Fike | Rafter G Land & Cattle Company | 1:15.71 |
| 16 | Rae Croteau Jr.** | EnviroBore Directional Drilling/Scott Hydro-Vac Ltd. | 1:15.86 |
| 16 | Preston Faithful | Medallion Energy Services | 1:15.86 |
| 18 | Troy Flad | Bannister Ford | 1:16.04 |
| 18 | Cruise Bensmiller | Prairie Iron Rentals | 1:16.04 |
| 20 | Kurt Bensmiller | Triple Threat Diesel | 1:16.31 |
| 21 | Tuff Dreger | Pomeroy Inn & Suites | 1:16.33 |
| 22 | Ross Knight | R/T Rentals Inc. | 1:16.34 |
| 23 | Chance Flad | Control Tech | 1:16.83 |
| 24 | Wade Salmond | De Havilland Sherpa | 1:16.95 |
| 25 | Doug Irvine | Swab Pro (2018) Ltd. | 1:17.15 |
| 26 | Cody Ridsdale | Kinetic Energies Inc. | 1:17.18 |
| 27 | Layne Flad | Keddie’s Tack and Western Wear | 1:17.37 |
| 27 | Mitch Sutherland | Bannister GM Dawson Creek | 1:17.37 |
| 29 | Dustin Gorst | Grande Prarie Airport | 1:17.40 |
| 30 | Roger Moore | BDP Traffic Management Ltd. | 1:17.60 |
| 31 | D.J. King | Swamp Donkey Oilfield Services Inc. | 1:17.65 |
| 32 | Darcy Flad | Sniper Services | 1:18.90 |
| 33 | Chance Thomson | Thatchwood Ventures Ltd. | 1:19.18 |
| 34 | Dean Dreger | Northern Mat & Bridge | 1:19.33 |
| 35 | Todd Baptiste | TNT Tank & Trailer | 1:22.22 |
| 36 | Josh Hrynyk | RE/MAX Dawson Creek Realty | 1:31.43 |
| * Lane Tournier drove for Luke Tournier | |||
| ** Chance Bensmiller drove for Rae Croteu Jr. | |||
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