EDMONTON, AB. – Jason Beaulieu extended his commanding lead in the Northern Provincial Pipelines Late Model Series points chase by winning his fifth Feature event of the season Saturday night at Castrol Raceway.  Beaulieu took the lead away from rookie Paul Grundberg with 5 laps to go and drove on to victory.  “It was a bitter-sweet win tonight,” indicates the Campbell River BC driver, “on the track it was a great race.  Getting by Paul near the end wasn’t easy.  They have a great team over there.”  Rookie driver Paul Grunberg placed second in the feature.  “If you got to lose to somebody at least was him,” sighs an obviously disappointed Grundberg, “we ran the tires off this thing but we showed we can run with the top drivers in this series.”  Grundberg credits his crew for even getting him to the Feature. “ We hurt our transmission in the last heat race so it was a scramble.”  Grundberg moves into fifth place in the NPP Series standings and is number one in rookie points this season.  Grundberg and Beaulieu, along with all race teams of the NPP Series, had driver Dwight Kennedy on their minds this particular night. The familiar #81 race car was at the track but Kennedy was not.  “It just felt strange not seeing Dwight at the track tonight,” adds Beaulieu, “I really think we were all racing for him in a way tonight.”  The defending NPP Series Champion was in hospital due to serious throat problems.  “He wanted to be on that race track so bad,” says NPP Series announcer Gord Craig, “Dwight has never missed an NPP event, ever.  The doctors basically had to read him the riot act because he was determined to race.”  An emergency call went out to sprint car driver Sean Moskal who already filled in for NPP driver (Dan Stewart) at a July event in Lethbridge.  “I learned real quick how to drive one of these full bodied race cars that night,” says the Lethbridge Alberta driver, “tonight (Saturday) I had some pretty big shoes to fill.”  Moskal stunned the Castrol Raceway crowd and drove the #81 to a third place finish in the Feature.  “Putting the car on the podium is for you Dwight. Get better real soon.”  Depending on what doctors say, Kennedy plans on being in attendance at Edmonton’s Castrol Raceway next weekend (Aug 17th /18th) as a driver or a spectator for the inaugural Oil City Cup which features the World of Outlaws Sprint Car Series and the NPP Late Model Series.