by Jay | Aug 14, 2012 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Dale Shaw, Joe Pastore top Mod, Sportsman fields
NORTH WOODSTOCK NH (8/12) Center Conway New Hampshire’s DJ Shaw charged from deep in the field to take the lead on lap 53 of Sunday afternoon’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super late model feature,earning his second win of 2012 at North Woodstock New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park. Shaw kept Lonnie Sommerville and Cassius Clark in his mirrors for the final seventy laps in a rain shortened 123 lap feature.
Kyle DeSouza and Lonnie Sommerville led the field to the green and Sommerville quickly dispatched with DeSouza for the early lead. Sommerville’s team mate and car owner Scott Mulkern raced past DeSouza on a lap 27 restart and took the lead from Sommerville when the pair restarted after a lap 34 yellow. 15 laps later Sommerville reclaimed the lead but Shaw was ready to take up the challenge, moving up to second on lap 49. Shaw, who has a White Mountain late model track title to his credit, drove by Sommerville on lap 53 and opened up a commanding lead despite two more restart challenges from Sommerville. Mulkern’s good day came to an end after a dust up with John Donahue sent him into the turn one wall, just as mother nature let loose with showers that ended the race.
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by Jay | Aug 13, 2012 | ACT, Canada, Touring Series News
RPM Motorsports: ACT Late Model Tour
Brian Hoar Sanair Super Speedway Race Report
SAINT PIE, Quebec – Brian Hoar of Williston, Vt., finished second in the rain-delayed ACT 100 at Sanair Super Speedway in Saint Pie, Quebec, on Sunday, August 12. The eight-time ACT Late Model Tour champion moved into sole possession of third-place in the current Tour standings, just 45 points out of the lead with three races remaining. The combination event with the ACT Castrol Series was completed on Sunday, after being halted by rain with seven laps complete the night before. Hoar started 12th in the field when weather washed out qualifying and the starting grid was set via practice times. After falling back early in traffic, the No. 37 GossCars.com Dodge Charger closed onto eventual winner Wayne Helliwell Jr.’s bumper with under five laps remaining on the .875-mile triangle.
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by Jay | Aug 12, 2012 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Lonnie Sommerville WMMP Race Report
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished second in the PASS North Series 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Sunday, August 12. The race was shortened to 123 laps by rain. After starting on the outside pole, Sommerville led a total of 40 laps in the event in the Mulkern Racing No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet and never fell out of the Top-2 in the event. It was the second straight Top-5 finish for Sommerville, who finished fifth last weekend at Seekonk Speedway.
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by Jay | Aug 12, 2012 | ACT, Canada, Touring Series News
Helliwell Flies High, Claims Victory in Sanair 100
Saint-Pie, QC – American Canadian Tour point-leader Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, NH beat the rain and nearly 40 other competitors to claim the victory at Sanair Super Speedway in St-Pie, QC on Sunday, August, 12. Helliwell was hunted by eight-time Champion Brian Hoar who finished on his tail in second, and young sensation Austin Theriault to complete the podium. Rowley, MA’s Eddie Macdonald took fourth, and former Serie ACT Castrol Champion Karl Allard rounded out the top five.
After completing seven laps before getting rained out the previous night, Patrick Laperle re-assumed the lead in the early laps stretching out over fellow ACT Castrol Champion Karl Allard, and Helliwell. The race was slowed by just one yellow, when the car of rookie Etienne Cliche spun on lap 35. With the field back together, Helliwell mounted his attack, passing Allard for second and finally diving hard underneath Laperle for the lead on lap 55. From there, Helliwell sliced through lap traffic, leaving only 16 cars of the 39 car starting field on the lead lap.
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by Jay | Aug 12, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, New England, Vermont
Simmons with First DIRTcar Win in Bear Ridge Nailbiter; Horniak in John Poor Memorial
Holcomb with 2nd USAC win; Ellsworth, Bell turn bad seasons around with victories
Hometown dirt track stock car driver Richie Simmons waited through a two-hour rain delay to etch his name in the record books as a 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified winner for the first time at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday night, winning the 40-lap Walker Motor Sales feature event in a thrilling finish.
Simmons, in his first full year in a Modified, jumped into the lead at the second lap after passing rookie Troy Comeau of Rumney, NH. Simmons held through a spate of early caution periods and held an extensive advantage in the middle stages of the race, but Comeau reeled the leader in as Simmons negotiated lapped traffic late in the going. Comeau nosed ahead to lead with five laps remaining, but Simmons fought back to lead lap 36.
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