Thunder Road Officials have made the difficult decision to postpone Five Star Roofing Night in the interest of precaution due to severe thunderstorms forecasted throughout the day Thursday to a new twilight special on Sunday, August 9.
With the move the first round in the Myers Container Service Triple Crown for the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers has been added to the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic make-up event this Sunday, June 21.
“We held out hope but with the most severe weather coming through between two and four this afternoon, followed by scattered showers throughout the evening, we made a decision in the interest of everyone,” said Thunder Road managing partner Cris Michaud. “We look forward to seeing everyone on Father’s Day Sunday.”
JTB Towing & Recovery offered plenty of racing excitement for the fans. Two of the three rained out features from Valley Floors night were completed, along with the ever popular kids bike races, lots of fun at intermission.
The third event from Valley Floors night that was rained out, The Sabil & Sons DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds will be run on June 20th.
The feature winners of the 59th consecutive season week five sponsored by JTB Towing & Recovery were: Jason Gray in the Sabil & Sons DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds; Michael Danforth Jr in the Wells River Chevrolet DIRTcar Sportsman Coupes, and Todd Buckwold in the makeup race from Valley Floors night; Shawn King in the Dad’s 4 By Tool & Supply Sportsman Modifieds Limiteds; Will Hull in the Xtreme DIRTcar DMA Midgets, Ryn Christian in the High Country Dispensary Late Models; Andrew Fitzgerald in the LaValley Building Supply Dirt Stocks; and in the Woodsville Power Equipment Bobcat Ridge Runners Kevin LaForest and in the Valley Floors makeup Madness Segment three Ryan Sayers, Madness OVERALL Riley Chaffe.
The Farmyard Store Flying Tigers are back on top this Saturday at White Mountain Motorsports Park for the second annual Tiger $2K. With $2,000 going to the winner at the end of 100 laps, it’s sure to be a battle to the very end!
In three events so far, The Farmyard Store Flying Tigers have been the division to watch at White Mountain. Chandler Potter barnstormed to the HK Powersports 75 win on opening day, Nate Hamblett battled kidney stones and the field to take the first 35-lapper of the season the next week and young Luke Peters fought off fellow youngster Austin Sicard for last week’s win.
With $2,000 on the line in this week’s 100 lap main event, it remains to be seen if veterans like Shane Sicard, Mike Clark or John Donahue can pick up the check versus the youngsters like point leader Kyle Willis, Cameron Ouellette and Owen Cheney, to name a few!
Disaster in the front of the field on lap 1 of the Late Models sidelined Aaron Plemons and Shawn Gaedeke immediately. This left Jordan Hadley and Ray Christian at the point, but only for another lap when contact between the two send both to the rear. Diego Monahan and Jason Palmer now took point with Monahan working hard to keep Palmer at bay. They stayed side-by-side for much of the race as Christian rallied forward and a visiting Jeff Belyea waited patiently behind. That patience wore off just after halfway when Christian dove underneath the low groove running Palmer, and picked off the high groove running Monahan shortly after. He ran off to safely win race number two of the season.
After a couple rough and tumble SK Light races, the drivers put on a green to checker affair. Sami Anderson started off strong after some bad luck races pulling away from Evan Bourgeois and Kevin Cormier. Her large lead was slowly getting whittled away as the laps clicked down with Bourgeois and Cormier running nose to tail. Lapped traffic came into play in the closing stages but Anderson was able to both maneuver that and hold off Bourgeois to pick up the win.
The 59th season of racing is getting off to a rough start at the Ridge with opening day festivities canceled for bad weather. A wet spring was capped with persistent showers scheduled for all day on May 2nd, forcing promoter C.V. Elms to make the decision to pull the plug.
The wet weather did settle in the area, and despite a few breaks did not move out until Sunday. It is always a tough decision for Elms who prides himself on doing everything possible to put on the show for the competitors and the fans. This decision proved a wise one, and now the Elms will set their sights on May 9th as opening night of their 59th consecutive season of racing.
Milton CAT American-Canadian Tour heat winners Kaiden Fisher and Gabe Brown earned the front row of the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 by each earning a +5 in qualifying action. After suffering with ignition issues all of Friday practice, Fisher made his presence known by leading the early circuits before Jimmy Renfrew Jr. got around him on the lap 7 restart. Renfrew kept pace ahead of the pack while the 32-car field spread out, easing the pressure on their Hoosier Racing Tires against the rough, aged surface of Lee USA Speedway.
A rough outing for rookie Holdyn Sullivan took a turn for the worse, spinning off of turn two and hard into the outside wall. Back under green, former Quebec champion Jonathan Bouvrette made a strong run to the front along with Gabe Brown as Brown took over the lead. With 50 laps remaining, Bouvrette continued to gain on lap times but lap traffic worked in Brown’s favor.
