by Jay | Oct 10, 2012 | Canada
CENTRE for Speed was once again the host of the Atlantic Stock Car Championships this past weekend. One hundred and twenty five teams competed in this years “racing celebration” from throughout Atlantic Canada including the largest number of team from Newfoundland since the events inception at a total of 4 in Sportsman, Bandolero, and Pro Stock divisions. The total car count was an improvement over 2011 due mainly to the absence of rain and spurred by mild temperatures on all three days. Registered competitors totaled 143 with 18 “no shows” due mainly to a rain date conflict at another contributing speedway.
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by Jay | Oct 9, 2012 | ACT, Airborne, New York, Touring Series News
RPM Motorsports: ACT Late Model Tour
Brian Hoar Airborne Speedway Race Report
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., finished fourth in the season-ending Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Sunday, October 7. Despite qualifying inside the Top-10, leading a race-high 80 laps and posting his eighth Top-5 finish in 10 starts this season, Hoar finished second in the final ACT Late Model Tour standings, just 16 points out of the championship. The RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge Charger used an early pit stop strategy to gain track position and was leading on a restart with 10 laps to go before finishing fourth.
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by Jay | Oct 9, 2012 | ACT, Airborne, New York, Touring Series News
AT Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Austin Theriault Airborne Speedway Race Report
PLATTSBURGH, N.Y. – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished second in the ACT Late Model Tour season finale, the Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., on Sunday, October 7. Theriault started 22nd in the 30-car field, charged into the Top-10 by Lap 50 and closed out the 2012 ACT campaign with his eighth Top-5 finish in 10 races. The driver of the No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion was the only driver in the series to finish inside the Top-10 in every race on the 2012 schedule.
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by Jay | Oct 9, 2012 | Connecticut, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. The 2012 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship will once again be decided at the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing at the Thompson International Speedway. Going into the final event, three drivers are still very much in the hunt for the title with only 18 points separating all three.
Doug Coby has lead the points chase much of the season but goes into the final event of the year at Thompson with an advantage of only 17 points over Ryan Preece. Only 1 point behind Preece is the defending WMT champion, Ron Silk. Anyone of these three could emerge with the 2012 WMT crown following a tough 150-lap race on Sunday, October 14th.
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by Jay | Oct 8, 2012 | Hudson, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Todd Warren was the man to beat in the Outlaw Sportsman on Sunday Oct 7th at Hudson International Speedway. Warren has been slowly improving the last few season and finally got his breakthrough first win in the last appearance of the Outlaw Sportsman at Hudson Speedway in 2012. Warren had a few podium finishes and led a lot of laps this season and put it all together to go home with the winners spoils.
Warren started on the outside pole and spent a lap or two in overtaking polesitter Ron Lord. Warren stretched his lead while perennial front runners Geoff Rollins and Dean Wendell were making their way up through traffic. At the half-way point of the thirty lap feature Rollins had caught Warren and Wendell was just a car length or two behind Rollins. From that point on Warren made no mistakes slicng through lapped traffic better than Rollins and Wendell and was hung onto to drive under starter Bob Munroe’s unfurled checked flag for a well deserved victory.
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