by Jay | Sep 12, 2014 | Canada
DARTMOUTH DODGE 200 TO DECIDE 2014 PRO STOCK TOUR CHAMPION
(Halifax, NS, September 10, 2014) The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour will close out another sensational season this Saturday at Scotia Speedworld with the Dartmouth Dodge 200. After 11 events in five cities, over 40 competitors and 1,600 feature laps, it all comes down to the final 200 circuits to decide who will be crowned the 2014 Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour Champion – and who will cash the $10,000.00 cheque! Qualifying for the Dartmouth Dodge 200 gets underway at 3:10 PM with the Atlantic Tiltload Time Trials followed by championship racing set for 4:00 PM. Grandstand gates open at 1:00 PM.
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by Jay | Sep 12, 2014 | ACT, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – The starting field for the 6th annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 20 has been established. A field of 43 teams will compete in the 50-mile event that pays a minimum of seventy-five hundred dollars ($7,500) to win and one thousand dollars ($1,000) for 43rd. Teams have been chosen from throughout the Northeastern United States and the Province of Quebec, Canada to take part in one of the American Canadian Tour’s (ACT) most anticipated events of each year.
Previous Bond Auto ACT Invitationals have been won by some of the most notable names throughout the short tracks of the Northeast. Eddie MacDonald from Rowley, MA has three (3) Invitational wins; Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. (Pole) from Hudson, NH, and Ray Parent from Tiverton, RI each has won an Invitational. Using the unique ACT handicap system, every Invitational winner has come from a starting position no better than 19th-28th to take the wins.
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by Jay | Sep 12, 2014 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Point Battles Decided at Devil’s Bowl Speedway’s Vermont 200
Track, state, NASCAR championship and rookie titles on the line
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway hosts a pressure-packed weekend of racing action at the Mekkelsen RV Vermont 200 Championship Weekend on September 13-14, as nearly a dozen championship and rookie titles are decided during the two-day show. Battles for the track’s weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions will wrap up, along with the Vermont State Late Model Championship Series.
Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT seeks his second-straight Bond Auto Parts Modified division crown.
While his 2013 title was clinched in a 10-win runaway, Stone has been kept in check this year by Joey Roberts and Leon Gonyo. Roberts trails by 35 points (846-811) while Gonyo is another five markers back. Twin 50-lap features and a maximum available total of 105 points mean that the title is far from a lock for Stone.
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by Jay | Sep 11, 2014 | Connecticut, Waterford
Waterford Speedbowl Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday 9/10 Results
Waterford, CT (September 10, 2014) – Waterford Speedbowl put the finishing
touches on the 14th season of Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday, its popular
mid-week motorsports program. A pair of drivers used the final week of
racing to claim their first wins of the year, as Ed Ryan of Preston took
the Super X-Car win and Nickolas Hovey of Chaplin won the INEX Bandolero
feature. Mike Christopher Jr. of Wolcott had a record setting win in the
INEX Legend Cars and Wayne Shifflett of Preston took the X-Car race win.
The night’s two Mechanic Races were won by Charles Beal of Ledyard and
Eric Finkbein Sr. of Manchester, while John Kelly of New London took the
victory in the Officials Race to round out the night’s winners.
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by Jay | Sep 11, 2014 | Canada
Labbe wins Thunder Valley National 200 at Autodrome Chaudiere
The VR Victoriaville #36 of Alex Labbe was disqualified from his heat race in post-race tech due to a ride height infraction. This would place him in the 24th starting position for the feature event where he would eventually work his way to the front and emerge victorious. By the ½-way point in the race, Labbe had moved into the 2nd position where he would battle for the win with the runner up, Joey Doiron in the Wild Willy’s Burger #73. Patrick Laperle of St.-Denis Quebec earned the final podium finish with his Lasalle Ford #91.
Center Conway’s DJ Shaw and Tyler Dippel from Walkill, NY rounded out the top-five in the finishing order. Turner, Maine natives Mike Rowe and Ben Rowe were sixth and seventh across the finish line. Chicoutimi, Quebec’s Michael Lavoie ended up in the eighth position, with Curtis Gerry of Waterboro ninth across the finish line, and Bangor’s Gary Smith rounding out the top-ten.
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