by Jay | Jun 25, 2009 | New
THOMPSON SPEEDWAY CELEBRATES THE 4TH IN A BIG WAY
THOMPSON, CT. The 4th of July weekend will get an early and exciting start at the Thompson International Speedway. Midgets and Modifieds will take center stage to kick off the holiday celebration on Thursday, July 2, 2009.
Thompson’s Thursday Night Thompson Thunder (TNTT) race program will shine the spotlight on not one, but two racing divisions. The track’s premier NASCAR Whelen All American Series division, Sunoco Modifieds will compete in a 50-lap holiday feature and the mighty Midgets of NEMA will be on hand to add to the celebration.
The Sunoco Modifieds have two extra distance races during the ’09 season and the first, a 50-lap event, will be on July 2nd. Their next major event is slated for August 6th when they will take on a big 100-lap race.
The Northeast Midget Association (NEMA) will be making its first of two appearances at Thompson on July 2nd as well. The ultra fast and exciting Midgets will compete in a 25-lap race dedicated to the memory of long-time NEMA supporter, Marvin Rifchin. The best Midget racers in the northeast are expected to compete in this event which is very meaningful to racers across the country.
Rifchin was the founder, owner and operator of M&H Tire Company. For decades, Rifchin provided unending support for oval track and drag racers around the United States. Yet, his heart seemed to be with the cars he truly loved, the mighty Midgets of NEMA. Marvin will be remembered as part of the NEMA presentation.
Joining the Sunoco Modifieds and the NEMA Midgets will be Thompson’s Super Late Models, Thompson Modifieds, Late Models, Limited Sportsman and Mini Stocks. It will be an exciting and fun filled night of racing action and a great way to kick of the holiday weekend.
Grandstands will open at 4 PM and qualifying races scheduled to begin at 5:15 PM. A total of 185 laps of feature event racing will be run among the seven different racing divisions.
For more information, visit the Thompson International Speedway web page at www.thompsonspeedway.com
by Jay | Jun 25, 2009 | New
CENTRE FOR SPEED SET TO HOST ‘DOUBLE HEADER’ SUNDAY
WITH MARITIME SUPER SERIES FOR SPORTSMAN 100 AND MINI STOCK 50
(Shediac, N.B.) — The
Centre for Speed, Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and “Metro Moncton’s Playground of Power”, will host a ‘double header’ event with 200 feature laps of stock car racing action on June 28 at 2:00 p.m. with the rescheduled Pepsi Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 along with the Schneiders Mini Stock 50.
As a result of last weekend’s rain cancellation, the CFS has rescheduled the first Maritime Super Series for Sportsman 100 of the 2009 season, featuring top Sportsman drivers from
throughout New Brunswick and Nova Scotia, in addition to this weekend’s scheduled Schneiders Mini Stock 50 along with regular South East Challenge Series points racing in Streetstock and Four Fun divisions.
All school-aged children who are accompanied by an adult will be admitted FREE of charge to this Sunday’s action packed stock-car racing program featuring 200 laps of feature action on top of the various heats and semifinals for all divisions. Front gates and grandstand will open at 1:00 p.m. while pit gates will open at 10:30 a.m.
A number of prizes will awarded during Sunday’s event to children and fathers in attendance as part of the ‘School Out’ and Fathers’ Day celebrations, as well as a special ‘Red Fisher Go Till Ya Blow’ burnout event during the intermission.
During the first stock car racing event of the season on June 14, a total of 47 competitors were on hand for the first event of the South East Challenge Series, a partnership between the CFS and Riverglade Speedway where drivers in all four regular divisions of Sportsman,
Street Stock, Mini Stocks and Four Fun race cars will compete at both tracks for the overall 2009 points championships in their respective divisions.
This action packed ‘double header’ event gets underway on Sunday, June 28th at 2:00 p.m. with admission of $15 for adults and FREE admission for school-aged children.
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 | Jun 24, 2009 | New
Montmagny 250,
Another page of history.
Saturday, July 4th, at 18H, the first green will wave on the 10th annual Montmagny 250. The ACT//Castrol series will be the main event of the night for 250 laps of hard short track racing on the banks of the ultra fast and unforgiving Montmagny Speedway.
To start the night on the right foot, as they buy their tickets for the Montmagny 250, every spectator will receive a free 2 for 1 coupon for the inaugural race of ACT//LMS champions at Loudon on the September Sprint Cup week end. Thanks to ACT.
Through the years, many top names have been engraved as winners of the grueling event which is the Montmagny 250. The Normand Cliche victory in 2000 was a dream come true for the first time winner. First win ever and on the Montmagny 250 inaugural race!!! Normand was as happy as you can be that day!!!! As we saw other drivers passing out, completely exhausted, Cliche won that race in front of a jam packed house, all standing in front of a titan duel between him and Alexandre Gingras for the last ten laps which included three restarts that Cliche survived to finally climb to the highest honors of the day. Following that emotional win, other champions emerged as winners, like, Alexandre Gingras, Donald Theetge, Sylvain Lacombe, Mario Gosselin with LMS cars. Cassius Clark won the race in 2004, under Pro Stock PASS rules. Dany Ouellet, on his side, won the event in 2002, under Super Sportsman rules.
Are we going to write another well known racer to the list this year? A long list are ready like, Patrick Laperle, Karl Allard, Jean François Déry, Claude Leclerc, Yvon Bédard, Jacques Poulin, Michael Lavoie, Patrick Cliche, Daniel et Stépane Descoste, who all have the talent, experience ans knowledge to accomplish the duty. Or will we have to dig into the new breed of talented and resourcefull racers composed of Patrick Hamel, Kevin Roberge, Jonathan Desbiens, Valérie Chiasson, Spencer Mc Pherson, Étienne Lemay, Pier Luc Ouellette, Stéphane Durand, Bob Hudon, et Éric St Gelais. Does a US or Ontario neigbour can accomplish the achievement? Trampas Demers did very well on his first trek to Montmagny earlier this year. How about John Donahue, Jonathan Urlin, Brandon Watson ou Justin Holtom? Who will be there, who can win? One thing sure, the 10th anniversary will be a magnificient and action packed show with a stars studded starting grid.
Three local classes will also be part of the festvities, World Challenge Series, Sport Compact and Limité. And, as a July 4th, the night will end under a shower of fireworks.
So, Saturday July 4th, 18H, Autodrome Montmagny Speedway, 10th anniversary of the Montmagny 250. Not to miss. Action guarantee and fun for all.
by Jay | Jun 24, 2009 | New
KURT BUSCH LOOKS BACK ON LAST YEAR’S NEW HAMPSHIRE VICTORY:
-Miller Lite Dodge Driver Still Credits Fuel Mileage For Win In 2008 LENOX Tools 301 At NHMS-
LOUDON, N.H. (June 23, 2009) – According to Miller Lite Dodge driver Kurt Busch, the rain that cut short last year’s LENOX Tools 301 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and led race officials to call him the winner after 284 of the scheduled 300 laps only helped expedite the inevitable.
“To this day, there are still a lot of people who don’t realize the whole story when it came to our Miller Lite Dodge Team winning that race,” Busch said of the June 2008 win, his third career victory on the relatively flat, yet very demanding 1.058-mile track. “In our eyes, it will always be a fuel mileage win. I don’t think that the record was ever set straight about what all came down there during the June race last year.
“The bottom line is that we had a pretty good car that day,” said Busch of the team’s “PSC-574” Miller Lite Dodge Charger the team was debuting in the race. “It was the same car we raced at Richmond last September and ran decent with (finished 10th). We haven’t raced that car this season, but its clone (“PRS-576”) is the car we finished third with at Phoenix earlier this season and it’s the car we’ll be racing again this weekend at Loudon.
“Having that good of a car there last June put us in position to stretch our fuel a little bit,” Busch continued. “When we could make it to the end on fuel, we pitted. We needed a few laps to help us. But we were gonna be loaded for bear and ready to rock n’ roll if it came down to the end. When everybody pitted with, I don’t know, 30 laps to go, when I was told, you’re in the lead, there’s 26 laps to go, that’s the most motivation a driver could ever ask for because you want to hold it off and bring it home for your team. So we were gonna have our work cut out for us. I felt we could have held off some the guys right behind us, and our pit strategy worked out perfect.
“We’re confident that with as strong of a car as we had there that day, with enough fuel to make it to the end and with a buffer of cars between us and the fast guys, we would have been able to win anyway. Had the race been run in its entirety, I feel we would still have won.
“So, it was really clear to us – just as clear then as it is now – regardless of the race being called as official due to the rain, we chalked the win up to Pat using great strategy,” Busch said of crew chief Pat Tryson’s calls from atop the pit box that day. “It really chapped us when we heard reports that we would not have won unless the rain came.
by Jay | Jun 24, 2009 | Video
NHMS Mascot Milo Introduction
