Third Super Late Model win for Timmy Brackett tops Oxford Plains Speedway Budweiser Championship Series stock car racing card

dftdfgdfgOxford, Maine – Timmy Brackett of Buckfield scored his third Budweiser Super Late Model victory of the season Friday night before a large Fan Appreciation Night crowd taking in the Oxford Championship Series stock car racing card at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Brackett’s 50-lap score came from deep in the starting field, working his way into second position behind Shawn Knight of South Paris before prevailing on a late-race restart following the event’s final caution flag with seven laps remaining.

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Packard Eager as ACT Returns to Oxford Plains Speedway

ACTEAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – This weekend marks the return of the American Canadian Tour to Oxford Plains Speedway, and the 18-year old Emily Packard is eager to return to the track. Earlier this season, Packard and her 9ME Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels car raced OPS for the first time, and the end results was a fourth place finish. “I liked racing at Oxford, it’s a unique track and different than other tracks we run,” Packard said. “It’s a low breaking track and it has really helped me to calm my breaking, so I can better attack the track. I am definitely looking forward to returning to race there.”

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Reid Lanpher outruns Oxford Super Late Models on Husqvarna Night

rtyghbnftyfhOxford, Maine – Reid Lanpher of Manchester put the hammer down in the closing stages of Saturday night’s 50-lap Super Late Model main event, topping the Budweiser Championship Series card on Husqvarna Night presented by Dave’s Small Engines at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Veteran Hebron racer Alan Wilson led most of the race, holding off several early challenges, most notably by reigning track champion TJ Brackett of Buckfield. Jeremy Davis of Tamworth, New Hampshire, who earlier in the racing card pulled off a three-wide pass to score a heat race win, started 18th and steadily blazed a trail through traffic, with 16th-starter Lanpher in tow.

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Timmy Brackett best in Applebee’s Night Budweiser Championship Series opener at Oxford Plains Speedway

hfghfgbfgbfOxford, Maine – Former track champion Timmy Brackett of Buckfield took a first step toward reclaiming the track crown won last season by his son TJ with a 50-lap triumph in the Budweiser Super Late Models, topping the card on Applebees night Saturday at Oxford Plains Speedway.

Brackett started on the front row, outgunned New Hampshire racer Andy Shaw at the start, then fended off several challenges by Peru’s Gary Chiasson to put his NAPA Auto Parts=sponsored car number 60 in victory lane.

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MIKE ROWE, JOEY POLE ACE 150-LAP OPENERS AT OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY

gdfgcvbcfghOxford, ME – Mike Rowe of Turner, Maine raced to his 151st Oxford Plains Speedway main event win, earning a trip to victory lane in his maiden voyage aboard Peter Petit’s lucky number 7 in AIM Recycling Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model competition at Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday afternoon, while Joey ‘Pole’ Polewarczyk prevailed in the co-headlining ACT Late Model Tour 150-lapper.

Rowe, a 64-year-old veteran, multi-time track champion and all-around legend at the speedway where he was a track titlist a full four decades ago, waged a race-long battle with reigning series champion DJ Shaw of Conway, New Hampshire for supremacy in a thrilling 150-lapper for the ultra-quick AIM Super Late Models.

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