by Jay | Sep 29, 2012 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
RPM Motorsports: 50th Annual Milk Bowl
Brian Hoar Thunder Road Race Preview
Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., will attempt to become only the second four-time champion of the prestigious People’s United Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 30, at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. Hoar, who is the reigning Milk Bowl champion, won the event in back-to-back seasons of 1998-199 and will try and join Robbie Crouch as the event’s only four-time winner of the unique, three-segment event. Hoar and the RPM Motorsports No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge Charger team won both ACT Late Model Tour events at Thunder Road this season, including the Labor Day Classic 200 on September 2.
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by Jay | Sep 28, 2012 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman and Allen Lumber Street Stock seasons have reached the final hour, as both divisions will close out championship point battles this weekend, September 29 and 30, at the 50th People’s United Bank Milk Bowl. The race, which offers extra purse and segment style racing, will be the last point-counting event for both divisions.
Wolcott’s Brendan Moodie, Jr. currently holds a nine-point advantage over a hard-charging Bobby Therrien of Hinesburg coming into the final event. Both drivers are looking for their first-ever Tiger Championship. Two-time Tiger Champion Shawn Fleury sits in third place just 12-points back, with Milton’s Eric Badore and Williamstown driver Mike Ziter completing the top five championship contenders.
The Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen have endured one of the closest championship point battles in recent history, one where seven of the current top ten have led the standings at some point during the year. Many drivers have seen a glimpse of the championship. One will walk away with it this coming weekend.
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by Jay | Sep 28, 2012 | Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Lonnie Sommerville Oxford Plains Race Preview
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, heads to the PASS North Series season finale in the PASS 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Sunday, September 30. Sommerville and the Mulkern Racing No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet sits fifth in the overall PASS North Series standings with the final race of the season remaining, and the team is hoping to cap 2012 with its first win of the season. Sommerville – who enters the weekend off a seventh-place finish last weekend at White Mountain Motorsports Park – posted a pair of Top-10 finishes at Oxford in 2011, including a seventh-place effort in the 2011 season finale won by his car owner and teammate, Scott Mulkern.
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by Jay | Sep 28, 2012 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Joey Doiron Racing: PASS North Series
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, looks to put an exclamation point on the season with the PASS North Series holds its final race of 2012 with the PASS 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Sunday, September 30. Doiron has one win and a career-high five Top-5 finishes in 2012, and last season the No. 73 JBJ Machine/Scarborough Downs Chevrolet posted a pair of Top-10 finishes in two races at Oxford Plains. Doiron is coming off mechanical troubles at White Mountain Motorsports Park last week, and is looking to get things turned in the right direction as the season comes to a close.
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by Jay | Sep 27, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Vermont
Two big shows in one to end 45th racing season on Saturday
Bear Ridge Speedway’s 45th stock car racing season ends with a bang on Saturday with a double-bill for the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series. The final three races of the third annual New England Dirt Track Championships presented by Perry Oil Service and 99ROCK, postponed one week by rain, will kick off the first-ever Vermont Crate Motor Nationals event. Racing begins at early start time of 5:00pm.
Twenty-six Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified cars were on hand for qualifying heats at the New England Dirt Track Championships on Saturday, September 22 before heavy rain washed out the 50-lap, double-points main event. Fairlee, VT racers Adam Pierson and Kevin Chaffee are just 43 points apart for the Modified title; Pierson is trying for his third-straight and eighth overall Bear Ridge championship, while Chaffee guns for his first Modified title.
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