by RacingNews | May 8, 2015 | ACT, Thunder Road, Touring Series News, Vermont
Barre, VT—Brad Babb came into the season looking for his first career American-Canadian Tour victory. He and his Joey Laquerre–owned team earned it in perhaps the most dramatic way possible on Sunday, May 3.
Babb took the lead from Scott Dragon with 18 laps to go and went on to win the Merchants Bank 150 at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road. The win came following a pre-race tribute to Laquerre’s late grandson Joey M. Laquerre, leading to an emotional celebration in Victory Lane.
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by RacingNews | May 8, 2015 | Monadnock Speedway
(Winchester, NH) —The decision to delay the start of the race season by two weeks at the Monadnock Speedway turned out to be just the right call, as Saturday afternoon and evening provided the perfect weather for the green flag to drop for the 2015 season with the Bond Auto Parts 100 Spring Dash.
There was a little extra rumble in the thunder over the mountain as all the usual Monadnock divisions ran their season opening races, and were joined by the NE Classic Lites, the Pro Four Modifieds, and the Valenti Modified Racing Series.
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by RacingNews | May 8, 2015 | Monadnock Speedway, VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Ridgefield, CT, modified veteran Todd Szegedy led the opening 11-laps before turning over the top spot to local favorite Kirk Alexander, of West Swanzey, NH, regained the lead on lap-57 to go on and win the ‘Bond Auto Parts Spring Dash 100’ before a large crowd Saturday night at Winchester, New Hampshire’s Monadnock Speedway.
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by RacingNews | May 8, 2015 | NASCAR, Whelen All American Series
PLATTSBURGH, NY – Airborne Park Speedway played before a huge grandstand crowd to open its 62nd annual season of stock car racing on FedEx Ground Night on Saturday, May 2, and the hometown fans cheered their champion, Nick Heywood, to the biggest victory of his career. The three-time defending champ in the J&S Steel Modified division of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series presented by Yandow Sales & Service and John Deere led every circuit of the 100-lap race, but his win was never guaranteed.
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by RacingNews | May 2, 2015 | PASS
CHARLOTTE, NC (April 30) – Tennessee’s Kingsport Speedway will see its share of firsts next Friday night as the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Models and Pro Late Models make their return to the Volunteer State for the first time since 2012. The Daniel Boone Classic will be the first time PASS has ever raced at the 3/8 mile Kingsport Speedway. It will also be the first time the PASS South Super Late Models have ever been paired with the KOMA Unwind Modified Madness Series. PASS South and the KOMA Modifieds will compete in Twin 125’s in an event no short track fan will want to miss.
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