by Jay | Aug 17, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Thompson
Preece Streaks in Sunoco Modifieds at Thompson Speedway
McDermott, Lowinski-Loh, O’Sullivan, McNeil & Baxter Also Victorious
Repeat winners were once again the storyline at Thompson International Speedway on Thursday night. Ryan Preece of Berlin, CT, took down his fourth straight Sunoco Modified victory on Thursday night. It was much of the same in the Modified support divisions with Cam McDermott of Scituate, RI, in the Lite Modified division and John Lowinski-Loh, Jr. of Milford, MA, in the TIS Modifieds continuing the domination of their respective divisions.
Tommy O’Sullivan of Wilbraham, MA, posted his ninth Late Model victory of the season. Bill McNeil of Putnam, CT, rebounded in the Limited Sportsman division with a victory. Chad Baxter of Pascoag, RI, posted his second win of the season in the Mini Stocks.
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by Jay | Aug 17, 2012 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Steffen, Christman Fly to Feature Wins
Barre, VT – On a night where tough seasons were avenged, East Montpelier’s Cris Michaud took his second victory of the 2012 season, fending second-place point man David Pembroke, and current point leader Nick Sweet off for the feel-good win. Three-time Thunder Road Champion Phil Scott took the fourth position, and Winooski’s Jerry Lesage rounded out the top five.
Lesage, who drove to the early lead, was quickly eaten up by hungry defending Champion Dave Pembroke, who stretched out to a massive lead just before the halfway point. High point drivers Nick Sweet and Phil Scott worked their way through the field, but a lap 33 caution for the spinning car of Trampas Demers bunched the field back together. Pembroke stole the restart, but multi-time Champion Cris Michaud clung to his bumper before swinging high and wide with 10 laps to go. Michaud stole the lead from dominant Pembroke, and survived a late race restart to claim his second win of 2012. Pembroke fought off Sweet for second, while Scott slipped past Lesage in the closing laps for fourth. 2011 Tiger Champion Derrick O’Donnell, Scott Payea, Brooks Clark, Ricky Roberts, and first-time driver Emily Packard rounded out the top ten.
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by Jay | Aug 16, 2012 | Granite State Pro Stock, New England, Touring Series News
Granite State Pro Stock Series Prepare To Go Back-to-Back
Star Speedway hosts Pro Stocks August 18; GSPSS return to Hudson on August 26
The Granite State Pro Stock Series kick off their busiest stretch of stock car auto racing with back-to-back weekends in the southeastern part of New Hampshire. Star Speedway, located in Epping, NH, will welcome the Granite State Pro Stock Series on Saturday night, August 18. One week later, Hudson (NH) Speedway will host the Granite State Pro Stock Series for a second time in the 2012 season on Sunday evening, August 26, in the Hudson Hugger 100.
Current Granite State Pro Stock Series point leader Bobby Cabral leads the series into the back-to-back weekend events with a slim eight point lead over Walpole, NH veteran Mike Parks. Cabral, of East Kingston, NH, is a long time competitor at Star Speedway and claimed the Gate City Classic 100 win earlier in the season at Hudson Speedway. Parks finished second in the Gate City Classic 100.
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by Jay | Aug 16, 2012 | Maine, Speedway 95
Garett Hayman of Milford led all 25 laps of the Little Enduro Series race #3 on Varney Buick-GMC-Mazda’s Wacky Wednesday night at Speedway and, in the process, picked up the series points title with a perfect score of 300. Hayman won the evening’s first qualifier, which placed him on the pole for the main event. He led outside pole-sitter Jeremy Scott of Carmel, who won the second qualifier, for 23 laps until the red came out for a solo spin by Glenburn’s Emma Libby in turn 2. On the restart, Hayman again pulled away from Scott, but Newburgh’s Darren Durrell got in the gas hard and followed Hayman past Scott to finish second, with Scott finishing in third. Kyle Gallant, who battled with Durrell for most of the race finished in fourth with Donny Silva of Hudson finishing fifth in a borrowed car. Hayman also currently leads the Little Enduro season points with 2 race dates remaining in the season.
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by Jay | Aug 16, 2012 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Late Model Championship Coming to a Close
As drivers prepare for weekly championship action this Thursday night (August 16), division titles are nearing the homestretch at the “Nation’s Site of Excitement” Barre’s Thunder Road. Only a handful of events remain for the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen, who are currently locked in one of the closest point battles in recent memory, as well as the Allen Lumber Street Stocks. For Late Models, the championship is just around the corner.
Thursday will mark the beginning of the end for championship hopes in the Late Model division, as in a stretch of seven days they will run their final three point counting events. A rainout event last Thursday has moved the Make-A-Wish/Bond night to Sunday, August 19th, creating a weeklong dash to crown the Late Model “King of the Road.”
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