by RacingNews | Oct 9, 2014 | Connecticut, NASCAR, Waterford, Whelen All American Series
Waterford, CT (October 5, 2014) – Waterford Speedbowl saw 210 racecars jam its pit area for Finale Weekend Sunday, hosting 13 race divisions for a huge day of motorsports. After rain forced the cancellation of Saturday’s scheduled events, track management crammed all racing into a full day of action Sunday. Scoring top honors was Keith Rocco of Berlin, who won the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series feature. In NASCAR Whelen All-American Series races, Corey Barry of Plainfield and Garrett Denton of Hope Valley, RI each used a victory to cement track championships in the respective SK Light Modified and Mini Stock divisions. Ed Puleo of Branford won an entertaining SK Modified feature, Jason Palmer won the Valenti Auto Mall Late Model race, and Josh Galvin topped a thrilling Street Stock finish.
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by RacingNews | Oct 9, 2014 | PASS
CHARLOTTE, NC (October 5) – Pro All Stars Series (PASS) officials announced today the release of the 2015 schedule for the PASS South Super Late Models. The 10th Anniversary season for the South’s top short track series will be highlighted by the return of stock car racing to the triangular shaped, half-mile Concord Speedway on Memorial Day weekend and by the move of the Mason Dixon Meltdown to the legendary Hickory Motor Speedway for the first time in series history. With 15 dates confirmed and an additional date to possibly be added in September, the PASS South Super Late Models will compete at 11 different venues over the course of the 2015 season.
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by RacingNews | Oct 6, 2014 | New Hampshire, Video
Shaun Buffington won Sunday’s Granite State Legends Cars race at the Moat Mountain Road Course at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway. The win capped off a dominating year for Buffington, who never finished lower than second in the road races.
by RacingNews | Oct 3, 2014 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—The 2014 SK Modified® season at Stafford Motor Speedway was a season full of excellent competition on the track and the race for the championship came down to an ultra-tight race between Ted Christopher and Ryan Preece. Preece was the more dominant car with 6 wins and 4 second place finishes over the 17-race schedule, while Christopher was able to win just once. Preece also had 12 top-5 finishes while Christopher had 8, but the difference in the final points table showed up where Christopher’s worst finish of the season was 9th while Preece had 3 finishes outside the top-10.
Both Christopher and Preece established themselves as championship contenders right away and they spent the majority of the 2014 season swapping the point lead back and forth between themselves with neither driver opening up a commanding lead over the other. The largest lead either driver held during the season over the other was 28 points, or 14 positions on the track. Preece began the season strong, accumulating 4 wins, a second, and an eighth place finish in the first 6 races of the season to firmly establish his championship credentials. Although not as dominant, Christopher was not far behind as he racked up top-9 finishes in each of the first 6 races along with his lone victory of the year on June 27.
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by RacingNews | Oct 2, 2014 | ACT, NASCAR, Thunder Road, Vermont
Waterbury, VT – The latest entry in the People’s United Bank Milk Bowl, to be held on Sat-Sun, October 04-05, 2014 at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, is Austin Theriault from Fort Kent, Maine. Theriault began his Late Model racing career with the American Canadian Tour (ACT) in 2010 as a sixteen-year-old rookie. Just like newly crowned 2014 ACT Champion, Joey Polewarczyk, Jr, from Hudson, NH, Theriault helped set the standard for the new younger generation of ACT racers in the Northeast.
Theriault has spent the last two years running in the Super Late Model division in the Southeast and Midwest. He took an opportunity with BKR (NASCAR star Brad Keslowski development program) in 2013, and saw tremendous success. In 2014, Theriault was contracted by JR Motorsports, headed by Dale Earnhardt Jr., to race in the second tier division of NASCAR, the Nationwide Series. He competed at Iowa Speedway, New Hampshire Motor Speedway and most recently at the Kentucky Motor Speedway. He had outstanding results with 15th, 21st and 18th place finishes respectively.
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Waterford, CT (October 5, 2014) – Waterford Speedbowl saw 210 racecars jam its pit area for Finale Weekend Sunday, hosting 13 race divisions for a huge day of motorsports. After rain forced the cancellation of Saturday’s scheduled events, track management crammed all racing into a full day of action Sunday. Scoring top honors was Keith Rocco of Berlin, who won the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series feature. In NASCAR Whelen All-American Series races, Corey Barry of Plainfield and Garrett Denton of Hope Valley, RI each used a victory to cement track championships in the respective SK Light Modified and Mini Stock divisions. Ed Puleo of Branford won an entertaining SK Modified feature, Jason Palmer won the Valenti Auto Mall Late Model race, and Josh Galvin topped a thrilling Street Stock finish.