by Jay | Aug 21, 2010 | Connecticut, Stafford
Pitkat Blisters Field to Score Sunoco Modified Victory
Milestone Victory for Barnett; Linderman Truck Series Winner
Ramstrom, Gentes, Studley & Dorr Weekly Winners
Thompson, CT (August 19, 2010): Woody Pitkat of Stafford, CT, dodged a bullet in the opening laps of the Sunoco Modified feature event and then looked like he was shot out of a cannon to score a dominating win at Thompson International Speedway on Thursday night. Larry Barnett of Moosup, CT, reached a milestone on Thursday night; scoring his 50th Limited Sportsman feature win at Thompson in dominating fashion. Derek Ramstrom of Worcester, MA, scored his sixth Super Late Model feature win of the season while Rick Gentes of Woonsocket, RI, scored his fifth in Late Model action.
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by Jay | Aug 21, 2010 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Donahue Makes It Back to Back on ACE Hardware Night
Barre, VT – Graniteville’s “Irish” John Donahue took his second straight Late Model feature win on Vermont ACE Hardware night at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, VT on Thursday, August 19. Donahue took the green flag from the tenth position and worked his way through heavy traffic after the only caution of the event came on lap one. He battled his way by Shelburne’s Jamie Fisher to take the lead on lap 32 and went uncontested for the remainder of the 50 lap race.
Fisher held on for second followed by Mike Bailey, Rich Lowrey and Senator Phil Scott who made up some ground in the 2010 “King of the Road” title hunt. Nick Sweet’s sixth place finish unofficially brought him within two points of the point lead going into next Thursday’s final point counting event. Matt White took seventh, current point leader Dave Pembroke took eighth followed by Cris Michaud and Cody Blake rounding out the top ten.
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by Jay | Aug 21, 2010 | Maine, Speedway 95
TRAVIS BEALE TAKES 95 LITTLE ENDURO FEATURE
Travis Beale of Hampden won the caution free Little Enduro feature at Speedway 95 Wednesday night, but it wasn’t until lap 14 of the 20 lap event that he went into the lead. Donny Blanchard of Bangor led the early laps until Andrew Crosby of Hermon took the lead on lap 9. Crosby held the lead until lap 14 when Beale went by him and held the lead for the last 6 laps. Blanchard was able to get back by Crosby to finish in second, with Crosby ending up third. Newburgh’s Darren Durrell came from the back of the 21 car field to finish fourth with Brock Worster of Kingman finishing fifth.
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by Jay | Aug 21, 2010 | Maine, New England, Oxford Plains Speedway
TD Bank 250 Scheduled For July 24, 2011
OXFORD, Maine – Oxford Plains Speedway announced today that the 38th annual TD Bank 250 will be held on Sunday, July 24, 2011. Qualifying for the event will begin at 2 pm. For the eighth straight season, the event will be contested on an open date for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series.
“We are looking forward to another great TD Bank 250 in 2011,” Speedway owner Bill Ryan announced. “Our fans have come to expect to watch not only the superstars of the Late Model ranks from throughout New England and Canada, but to also watch NASCAR Sprint Cup drivers compete for the coveted TD Bank win.”
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by Jay | Aug 21, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Laquerre Tops ACT Test and Tune at NHMS Day 2
Loudon, NH – Montpelier, Vermont’s Joey Laquerre topped the speed charts of day number 2 of the ACT Test and Tune session at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Wednesday. Laquerre averaged 119 miles per hour on his fast lap of 32 seconds flat. He came up just hundredths of a second behind yesterday’s fast time set by Brian Hoar.
Turner, Maine’s Ben Rowe, Hudson, New Hampshire’s Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. and Patrick Laperle of Montreal, Quebec were the only other competitors of the day to break into the 32.0 range.
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