by Jay | Aug 18, 2009 | ACT, Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
Wiscasset, ME- The Center of Speed 300 this Sunday is a day that is going down in the record books at Wiscasset Raceway. The weather was perfect, the fans where in the stands and the drivers and crews brought their cars. After 140 laps of action packed racing in the Steel’s Real Rod’s and Custom’s Late Model division the last ten laps made the crowd rise to their feet. Harpswell’s T.J. Watson was able to hold of Adam Chadbourne for the $5,000 dollar payday. Not only did the win put money in Watson’s pocket but it also earned him an invitation to the A.CT. race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway next month. Watson already had a deal going with Sally Graves, a late model car owner from New Hampshire that if he did indeed qualified for the race that their team would supply T.J. with a car and that looks like that will be the case. Chadbourne did finish second with Johnny Clark who was pulling double duty coming home third. Fourth went to Steve Reno out of West Bath and fifth went three time LMS champion Chris Thorne from Sidney
The 150 lap Clark’s Car Crushing Pro Stock race was a thriller as well. Johnny Clark showed his dominance through the entire race but in the Scott Chubbuck would get by the three time P.A.S.S. champion on the outside. Chubbuck would take the checkered flag and the $5,000 check. Clark had his hands full but did finish second right in front of defending champion Randy Turner. Scott Moore of North Anson, ME finished fourth and Newcastle’s Charlie Colby finished fifth.
by Jay | Aug 18, 2009 | Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
Wiscasset, ME- Tasha Dyer is not your everyday 15 year old girl. She’s not into painting nails or make up parties. She is into trying to win races in the Aable Auto Parts Mini Stock division at Wiscasset Raceway on Saturday nights. This past Saturday night she did just that. Tasha held off point leader Ryan Ripley of Waldoboro to get her first career win the division. Ripley would hold on for second with Bob Grady bringing home third. Thomas True would get fourth and fifth would go to Pete McCollett.
The U.S. Cellular Mini Truck division saw new comer Tony Field pick up the victory. Tony held off a late race challenge from Opie Allard and Ryan Hayes for the win. Allard and Hayes would get second and third. Fourth would go to Roger Allard and fifth to Josh Harjula.
Mike Moody picked up win number five on the season in the New England Transmission Strictly Street division. Nate Yeaton would get his second career top three finish in second and Jamie Henderson would bring home third. Fourth and fifth went to Ian Bresnehan and Josh Bailey.
The Verizon Wireless Super Street’s put on a great show over 25 laps. In the end it was Appleton’s Jeremy Glasier picking up the win. Adam Chadbourne jumped down into his super for the night and finished second. Third would go to Josh St. Clair. Bryan Robbins finished fourth and Allan Moeller Jr. fifth.
Tomorrow Aug. 16th The Center of Speed 300. Start time 2pm. BE THERE!!!
by Jay | Aug 18, 2009 | New England
Naples ME (8/17/2009) Seekonk Speedway regular Tom Scully Jr. worked his way to the front of the field at the halfway mark of Saturday night’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Cirelli Foods 150 and kept two of the touring series best in his mirrors to record an upset victory. At the checker it was Scully Jr. followed by Ben Rowe in second and Johnny Clark third. Derek Ramstrom and Dave Darling came home fourth and fifth in the twenty eight car field.
It was the second race in a row that home track advantage played a part in the victory. Former Unity Raceway regular Randy Turner upset the apple cart with a victory at Unity on August 2nd. Scully joins Turner and Chris Staples as a new winner in the traveling super late model road show, and the eighth different PASS feature winner in the eleven events contested to date.
Kelly Moore and Joey Pole led the field to the initial green but contact between the pair brought out the event’s first caution. Moore soldiered on for a tenth place finish but Pole’s night was over.
The PASS regulars battled it out with Seekonk’s’ home town heroes throughout the race. Early on Dave Hutchins was out front, but Rowe and Clark were working their way to the front and for a time it looked like that pair might have the edge. Rowe lead briefly around the one third mark, but Seekonk speedster Ray Parent took the lead away on a restart. By the half-way point Parent had Scully Jr. on his bumper, all the way up from fifteenth on the grid. But Parent had another problem to deal with – a fourteen gallon fuel cell that wouldn’t allow him to go the full 150 lap distance without a stop for fuel. So Parent peeled off for a can of Sunoco under caution and handed Scully Jr. a lead he would never give up, despite the best efforts of Johnny Clark and Rowe to take the race away from him.
As the laps wound down the green stayed out and Scully managed to pull away from the pack. Rowe took over second from Clark and chipped away at Scully Jr.’s lead but it was too little too late and the Westport Massachusetts racer, who’s scored two wins and nine top tens in the Speedway’s top division this season, had a PASS winner’s trophy to add to his collection.
Fred Astle, Adam Bates, Rick Martin, Dave Hutchins and Kelly Moore earned fifth through tenth place finishes. Thirteen cars completed all 150 green flag laps. Ben Rowe, Kelly Moore and Derek Ramstrom each scored a heat race win.
The Pro All Stars are back in the Granite State on Sunday August 23rd for a 150 lap showdown at Canaan Fair Speedway. Practice gets underway at noon; racing goes green at 2:00 PM. PASS Mods and Sportsman share the bill with the fastest full fender race cars in the east.
Visit Canaan Fair Speedway on line at www.canaanspeedways.com . For the latest PASS news, results and standings, click on www.racewithpass.com or www.proallstarsseries.com .
Official Finish – Pro All Stars Series super late model Cirelli Foods 150 – Seekonk Speedway-Seekonk MA -8/15/2009
1) 2 Tom Scully Jr., Westport MA 2) 4N Ben Rowe, Turner ME 3) 54 Johnny Clark, Hallowell ME 4) 35 Derek Ramstrom, Worcester MA 5) 52 David Darling, E. Providence RI 6) 30 Fred Astle, Warren RI 7) 98 Adam Bates, Warner NH 8) 88 Rick Martin, W. Warwick RI 9) 96 David Hutchins, Somerset MA 10) 47 Kelly Moore Scarborough ME 11) 60 DJ Shaw, Center Conway NH 12) 17P Ray Parent Tiverton RI 13) 17A Scott Alexander, Orrington ME 14) 33 Richie Dearborn Hollis ME 15) 85 Nick Ribbe, Kingston MA 16) 95 Steve O Brien, Scituate MA 17) 20 Steve Legendre, St. Johnsbury VT 18) 6 Steve Desmarais, Westport MA 19) 58 Kevin Casper, Tiverton RI 20) 12 John Dabrowski , W. Bridgewater MA 21)25 Michael Thomas, Lewiston ME 22) 8 Cassius Clark, Farmington ME 23) 4s Chris Ross, Malta NY 24) 7 Donnie Whitten, Biddeford ME 25 90 Craig Weinstein, Walpole MA 26) 97 Joey Pole E. Providence RI .27) 3 Tom Scully Sr., Westport MA 28) 17 Travis Benjamin, Morrill ME
by Jay | Aug 17, 2009 | Canada
(Shediac, N.B.) — Luc Bourgeois (#88) of Memramcook picked up where he left off last Sunday and captured a flag-to-flag win in the Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 75 to celebrate the Acadian Holiday on Saturday evening at the Centre for Speed (CFS), Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and “Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power”.
Meanwhile, Mike Rayburn (#98) of Hampton made a triumphant return to CFS by capturing the win in the Atlantic Open Wheel (AOW) Modified Series 35-lap feature. A few years ago, Rayburn was a regular driver in the Sportsman division at CFS where victory had always eluded him. On Saturday, he picked up his second career AOW win at the CENTRE crossing the stripe ahead of Shelley Stewart (#43) of Emerald,
PEI and Mark Price (#9) of Rothesay in the main event of the evening.
Stewart had earlier picked up a win in the first heat to go along with a very close second place finish in both the semifinal and feature. Price had als0o visited victory lane after capturing the second semi while Byron Bartlett (#77) of Saint John was victorious in both the second heat and first semi-final before a heartbreaking end to his evening in the feature. Bartlett and Price set the pace in the 35-lap main event and battled hard over the first 28 laps of the event. Coming out of turn #4 on lap #28, Bartlett and Price got together sending
Bartlett’s rear passenger-side wheel flying off into the corner. While he was able to drive the car on three wheels into the pit area, his crew could not make the necessary repairs and his evening was over. Price, who restarted at the tail-end of the lead lap was able to salvage a third place finish after the unfortunate collision.
In the Maritime Super Series 75, Bourgeois, who started on the pole, beat back all
challengers to capture his second consecutive Sportsman feature win at CFS to go along with his earlier win in the 10-lap heat. With the win, Bourgeois vaults from 5th to second position in the Series point chase heading into next weekend’s International 145 at Riverglade Speedway. Veteran Dan Bourque (#15) of Grande-Digue crossed the stripe second followed closely by Ken MacKenzie (#85) of Salisbury and series defending champ, Claude Gaudet (#22) of Grand-Barachois. Gaudet continues to lead the Super Series point standings with 91 points, 6 points up on the surging Bourgeois (85 points). Bourque now finds himself in the third spot with 81 points followed closely by MacKenzie at 79 points and Marc Gautreau
(#99) of Grand-Barachois at 74 points.
In Streetstock action, division points leader Victor Vienneau (#03) of Cocagne took advantage of a late race mishap to capture his third feature win of the season ahead of division rookie Gerald Brun (#33) of Moncton and Doug MacEwen of Charlottetown. Gary Stewart (#43) of Emerald, PEI had the car to beat in this division on
Saturday evening having captured wins in both the heat and semifinal. However, the racing gods had a different plan for him in the 25-lap feature. After once again setting leading the field for 22 laps, Stewart’s night came to a sudden end when he blew a rear tire and limped into the pit area in time to see Vienneau cross the finish line for the win.
Both the Mini Stock and Four Fun drivers had the weekend off.
Next Sunday, August 23rd at 2:00 p.m., the action switches to Riverglade Speedway for the 45th Annual International featuring Sportsman drivers from the Maritime Super Series for Sportsman in a 145-lap main event. Regular points racing in Streetstock, Mini Stock and Four Fun divisions will also be part of the program.
The next event at the Centre for Speed (CFS) will be the Maple Leaf MONSTER TRUCK Spectacular and ‘Eve of Destruction’ Demolition Derby on August 29th at 7 p.m.
Full schedule details are available at www.centreforspeed.com
About CFS
The CENTRE for Speed, built in 1996, is home to the Atlantic region’s largest and fastest paved 3/8 of a mile stock car oval as its centerpiece. The
CENTRE overlooks the Northumberland Strait and is located 5 kilometers east of Shediac’s Parlee Beach on Route #133 in the village of Grand Barachois.
by Jay | Aug 16, 2009 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Lakeville, CT (August 16, 2009): Sometimes, no matter how hard you prepare, things just don’t go right.
Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun race team were keyed up about the Mohegan Sun 200 at Lime Rock Park this weekend. Not only was Mohegan Sun sponsoring the race, but Kobyluck’s record to date at the 1.53-mile course has been stellar. They were expecting nothing less than a podium finish. After setting fast time in both practice sessions, all indications were pointing to just that. But then the car stalled in the esses on his first qualifying lap.
Things just went downhill from there.
Kobyluck’s crew cleaned out the fuel cell, including drying out the foam, flushed out the lines, and changed out the carburetor. They replaced spark plugs and got the car running again. Because the NASCAR Camping World Series East event was an impound race, Kobyluck had no chance to take the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet out for a test drive.
The team was still optimistic despite a 21st starting position, but on the first lap of the 200-mile race, Kobyluck’s No. 40 came to a stop in the esses once again. The tow trucks were summoned and Kobyluck went to the pits.
There, he went 32 laps down while the crew addressed the problem once again. He did return to the track and Kobyluck was fast. He posted the second fastest lap of the day and gained a lap back by passing the leaders.
“We changed the fuel pump twice and changed the carburetor on pit road. When we pulled behind the wall we discovered there was a problem with the fuel pick up line. It had collapsed,” said Kobyluck. “When we did get back out there, we were running a second or so faster than everybody. If everything had gone right we had a shot at winning the race, but it is what it is.”
Kobyluck’s bad luck didn’t end there, however. At lap 70, Kobyluck was thrown into a dangerous situation that ultimately ended his day.
“The back end started coming around a little bit on me after I wheel-hopped it going into the corner on the uphill,” explained Kobyluck. “I got into the tire barrier, and I couldn’t back up so I was sitting there waiting for the local caution. It never came. After the 10 tagged me, it spun me around into the middle of the track. No one slowed down. It was one of the most unsafe positions I could be in. I was very fortunate because I was in the racing groove with my driver side door at traffic.”
Fortunately, Kobyluck was not hurt in the incident, but the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet was done. There was damage to both the front and rear of the car.
“It’s extremely frustrating,” said Kobyluck. “We’re out of the championship hunt now. Mathematically we still have a shot, and we will give it everything we’ve got, but with the way the 00 is running it’s going to be hard.”
For more information on Matt Kobyluck, Mohegan Sun Casino, or Mohegan Sun Racing, visit www.mattkobyluck.com.
