by Jay | May 26, 2011 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Stafford
KEITH ROCCO READY TO RETURN TO STAFFORD SK MODIFIED® COMPETITION WITH REPAIRED #88 CAR
(Stafford Springs, CT)—After a hard crash during his heat race last Friday
night at Stafford, Keith Rocco’s #88 Wheeler’s Auto team has had his car
repaired and it will be back on track this Friday night with Rocco behind
the wheel. Rocco and his crew will take the car to Thompson tonight to
practice and make sure that there are no further issues before they hit the
track tomorrow night for the TSI Harley-Davidson 125 program.
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by Jay | May 26, 2011 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
Thunder Road practice session a bonus for many teams
Waterbury, VT – Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl fans will see lots of talent during the twin 100 lap events at the Mekkelsen Memorial Day Classic Twin 100’s on Sunday, May 29, 2011. Following a three-hour practice session under perfect weather conditions this week, there is a new corps of Thunder Road racers poised to challenge the veteran teams.
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by Jay | May 26, 2011 | NASCAR, New England
The 100th Anniversary of the Indy 500 is scheduled to take place this Sunday. And capitalizing on the occasion was Gerry Gappens, the vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. He was in the Hub earlier this week at the Fours Restaurant on Canal Street, along with three Indy Car drivers who flew into Logan from Indy, in the effort to set the tone for NHMS’s return to an IZOD Indy Car race to be held there on Sunday, August 14, the date for the Indy Car 225. The fastest open wheel race cars will return to New England after a 13-year absence.
On hand to promote the return engagement was Australian Will Power, now a resident of Charlotte, NC, the center of NASCAR country. Power reflected on his recent qualifying run at Indianapolis, “I expected to be running for the pole but my car wasn’t fast at first. But I’m still happy to be in the second row at Indy (starting fifth).” Will drives the Team Penske Honda and is the point leader in that series after he scored two wins at the Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham and at the Sao Paulo Indy 300. The other Penske cars didn’t qualify as well as Power did. Will thinks that his biggest opposition will come from Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Townsend Bell and Dan Weldon. “I really haven’t thought about winning the 500 but if I did, it would be a big deal,” he said.
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by Jay | May 26, 2011 | Connecticut, Lime Rock Park, New England, Road Racing
Defending Race-Winners Look To Repeat at Lime Rock’s Memorial Day Classic
LAKEVILLE, Conn. (May 25, 2011) – It was all in a day’s work when Max Angelelli and Ricky Taylor drove their No. 10 SunTrust Chevrolet Dallara of Wayne Taylor Racing to a dominating victory in the inaugural Memorial Day Classic for GRAND-AM Rolex Sports Car Series Daytona Prototypes at scenic Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., last May.
They first hit the track for practice at 9:30 a.m. and, by 4:50 p.m., the veteran Angelelli had recorded his 15th career Rolex Series win with his co-driver, then-20-year-old Taylor, earning his first win in 25 Rolex Series starts. They combined to lead a race-high 95 of 174 laps, taking advantage of brilliant strategy and lightning-fast pit work by the SunTrust team in ending the three-race win streak of the No. 01 Chip Ganassi Racing with Felix Sabates duo of Scott Pruett and Memo Rojas, who were essentially out of contention on the very first turn of the very first lap after being shoved off-course and heavily damaging the front of their racecar. (more…)
by Jay | May 26, 2011 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
Barre, VT – American-Canadian Tour Late Model Driver, #97 Joey Polewarczyk Jr of Hudson, N.H. will be racing his Poles Automotive, NH Precision, Hedman Hedders Ford Fusion at Thunder Road Speedbowl, Sunday, May 29 in the non-ACT Points counting; 49th Annual Thunder Road Speedbowl Memorial Day Classic.
This marks a return trip to the event for Polewarczyk Jr, who led 81 of 100 laps in 2009. They did not compete in the 2010 event.
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