Mainely Motorsports TV – March 23, 2016
Mainely Motorsports TV – March 23, 2016
Mohegan Sun to Once Again Host Thompson’s Championship Awards Banquet
Mohegan Sun to Once Again Host Thompson’s Championship Awards Banquet
(THOMPSON, CT) – Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park officials announced on Friday that the Annual Championship Awards Banquet would return to Mohegan Sun in Uncasville, CT on Saturday, December 17. The venue played host to the Banquet for the first time last December, bringing the annual event to a new level of excellence with music, improved trophies and the Champions’ cars on display.
Woody Pitkat, last year’s Sunoco Modified champion, enjoyed having the event at Mohegan Sun as it reminded him of the past NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour banquets. “It’s a great facility. We used to go there for the NWMT banquet, before it was moved down to North Carolina, and it was always a great time… It’s great knowing that it’s going to be back there this year.”
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2016 ACT PREVIEW
Lee, NH – Lee USA Speedway is readying for the 2016 season opener just two weeks from now on April 10, with the annual running of the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 American Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model event. The traditional season-opener will also feature the NEMST Mini Stocks and Northeast Classic Lites doing battle at “New Hampshire‘s Center of Speed“.
Last year’s running of the Governor’s Cup event saw longtime Lee USA regular and eventual 2015 ACT champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of nearby Dover take down his first career ACT win at Lee, with Maine racer Brad Babb and hometown hero Eddie “The Outlaw” MacDonald of Rowley, MA rounding out the podium.
Both Helliwell and MacDonald cut their racing teeth on the fast 3/8th’s mile oval back in the 1990’s, with feature wins and track championships coming early and often in their careers. “Junior” has taken home championship titles in the Late Model Sportsman, Late Model, and Supermodified ranks over the years, with the 2015 Governor’s Cup 150 win among his career highlights.
Chase Dowling Looking for Home Track Win in Stafford’s NAPA Spring Sizzler
Chase Dowling Looking for Home Track Win in Stafford’s NAPA Spring Sizzler
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After a 2015 season that saw him win Sunoco Rookie of the Year on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, 18-year old Chase Dowling is ready to challenge for his first career victory. What better place for Dowling to collect his first Tour win than at Stafford Speedway in the 45th Annual NAPA Spring Sizzler, where he first sat behind the wheel of an open wheel modified car.
“I’m really excited,” said Dowling. “I have a lot of laps at Stafford thanks to my SK Modified® and SK Light experience and it’s always nice to go back to your home track. It’s really hard to win at the Tour level and we don’t expect to win a ton of races, but we’re going to try our best. What’s better than winning at your home track? It would be an honor to win a race especially at Stafford having grown up there and coming through the SK Light and SK Modified® divisions for both myself and the crew. Everyone on this team deserves to be in victory lane.”
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FONTANA: Austin Dillon Captures Pole and Kevin Harvick Qualified 2nd
Austin Dillon, driver of the #3 American Ethanol Chevrolet SS, captures the pole position Friday, March 18, 2016 for a front row start in Sunday’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana, California. Dillon will be joined on the front row with Kevin Harvick, driver of the #4 Jimmy JohnÕs Chevrolet SS who qualified second. (Photo by Harold Hinson for Chevy Racing)
CHEVROLET SS TAKES FRONT ROW AT FONTANA
Austin Dillon Captures Pole and Kevin Harvick Qualified 2nd
FONTANA, Calif. (March 18, 2016) – Austin Dillon captured his second NASCAR Sprint Cup Series career pole position with a lap of 38.200 seconds, 188.482 mph in his No. 3 American Ethanol Chevrolet SS at Auto Club Speedway for Sunday’s Auto Club 400 NASCAR Sprint Cup race. The feat was Dillon’s first pole at the 2-mile D-shaped track, which also gave Chevrolet its 12th pole at the Southern California track.
Kevin Harvick, who was last week’s race winner at the Phoenix stop on the West Coast Swing, was second quick in his No. 4 Jimmy John’s Chevrolet SS, putting Team Chevy on the front row for Sunday’s 200 lap, 400-mile race.
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