Joey Doiron Racing: PASS North Series
Stafford Motor Speedway Race Preview
Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, joins the PASS North Series for its inaugural visit to Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford, Conn., for the PASS 125 on Sunday, August 26. Doiron has never competed on the historic half-mile track in the heart of NASCAR Modified country, but he enters the weekend off a Top-5 finish last time out at White Mountain Motorsports Park on August 12. Doiron currently sits seventh in the PASS North Series standings with four Top-5s and seven Top-10s in 11 starts this season.
THE FACTS
WHO: Joey Doiron, Berwick, Maine
TEAM: Joey Doiron Racing No. 73 JBJ Machine/Scarborough Downs Chevrolet
CREW CHIEF: John Doiron, Berwick, Maine
BEST CAREER STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY FINISH: N/A
LAST RACE AT STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY: N/A
WHAT: PASS North Series 125
WHERE: Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Conn. (.500-mile oval)
WHEN: Sunday, August 26 – 1:30 p.m., practice; 4 p.m., qualifying; 6:30 p.m., race
PASS North Series
LAST RACE: August 12, White Mountain Motorsports Park, N. Woodstock, N.H. (4th)
NEXT RACE: September 8, White Mountain Motorsports Park, N. Woodstock, N.H. (.25-mile oval)
CURRENT POINTS POSITION: 7th
DID YOU KNOW?
Joey Doiron is one of three finalists in the “2012 Maine Young Guns” competition, with the winner earning the right to drive for Go Green Racing in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East G-Oil 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on September 22.
Joey Doiron has twice as many Top-5 finishes this season (4) as he did in his first two PASS North Series seasons combined.
Joey Doiron has never finished higher than eighth in the PASS North Series standings.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
JOEY DOIRON, Driver of the No. 73 JBJ Machine/Scarborough Downs Chevrolet, On heading to a new track this weekend: “I’ve never even been there, and I don’t know much about it. Talking to Dale (Shaw) – it’s a lot like Star (Speedway), at least in how you drive it. It’s a half-mile, so it’s a lot bigger than Star, but it’s similar in how you drive into the corners and off the corners.
“I enjoy going to new places, especially when it’s a new place for everybody. It puts everybody on an even playing field. For a while when we were new to this, we were just trying to get a handle on everywhere with a baseline setup to go to. When you go to a new track for everybody, it’s something that you have to change some stuff up. I think we’ll be pretty good. We’ve adapted pretty well over the last couple of years when we’ve gone to new places.”
On whether the team discovered what was causing excessive heat in the car at White Mountain Motorsports Park: “No. We took the motor to Rick Paya. He dynoed it, and I guess the carburetor was off a little bit. But we really have no idea what the problem was, so we have a whole new exhaust on it now.”
On how important it would be to the team to get a win in the final weeks of the season: “I think it’s important. In the middle of the season, we had fast cars but we didn’t have any luck. If we could pick up a win in one of these last four races, it would get everybody fired up for next year and get us firing on all eight cylinders as a team.
“If you look back through the year, except for Beech Ridge (in July), the weeks we’ve been off haven’t been really setup stuff. We’ve had a lot of bad luck – just being in the wrong place at the wrong time or having something go wrong that’s totally out of our control. Oxford, Seekonk – races like that – I think we had one of best cars at those places but didn’t get anything to show for it.”
UP NEXT
The PASS North Series makes its third stop of the season and second in three races at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., for the PASS 150 on Saturday, September 8… Joey Doiron finished fourth at White Mountain earlier this month for his fourth Top-5 finish of the season.