by RacingNews | Jul 12, 2015 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway
Oxford, Maine – Timmy Brackett of Buckfield scored his third Budweiser Super Late Model victory of the season Friday night before a large Fan Appreciation Night crowd taking in the Oxford Championship Series stock car racing card at Oxford Plains Speedway.
Brackett’s 50-lap score came from deep in the starting field, working his way into second position behind Shawn Knight of South Paris before prevailing on a late-race restart following the event’s final caution flag with seven laps remaining.
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by RacingNews | Jul 12, 2015 | Thunder Road, Vermont
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RFORD, Vermont (July 11, 2015) – Track owners Paul and Lise Bellefeuille are pleased to announce the seventh annual Northeastern Speedway Reunion and Vintage Celebration will be held at the historic Vermont oval alongside Route 18 on Saturday, August 22.
After a highly-successful 50th anniversary celebration at the speedway on July 18, 2009, fans and former racers have gathered off-site in recent years due to municipal restrictions. For 2015, a permit has been granted for the annual vintage celebration to take place on speedway grounds, with 30 minutes of parade laps allowed for the old Coupes.
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by RacingNews | Jul 12, 2015 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway returned to NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing action with the 2nd Annual NAPA Auto Parts SK 5k, which paid the winner $5,000 out of a purse of over $30,000. With the Dunleavy’s Truck and Trailer Sales Gambler’s Challenge bonus of $7,500, which included a contribution from Rayner Real Estate, the total posted awards were over $38,000. The Gambler’s Challenge was voted on by the fans on how it would be paid out and the top-3 choices were put into a hat in victory lane with Preece pulling a chip with the winning formula on it. He pulled the winner take all chip, giving himself a payday of $12,825 dollars. In other feature action, Michael Bennett scored his fourth win of the year in the Late Model feature, D.J. Burnham scored his second win of 2015 in the SK Light feature, David Arute scored his second win of the year in the Limited Late Model feature, Phil Evans won the 15-lap DARE Stock feature, and Cory DiMatteo won his fourth race of the season in the Legend Cars feature.
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by RacingNews | Jul 12, 2015 | ACT, Touring Series News, Vermont
Waterbury, VT – The third American-Canadian Tour (ACT) International 500 on Saturday, July 18 and Sunday, July 19 at Plattsburgh, NY’s Airborne Park Speedway is already drawing the top Late Model talent from around the Northeast United States and Canada. Hudson, NH’s Joey Polewarczyk Jr. and St-Denis, QC’s Patrick Laperle were victorious in the first two Internationals, but this year a large field of drivers from ACT’s home state of Vermont will try to capture one or both of the 200-lap, $10,000-to-win events for the ACT Late Models and Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models.
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by RacingNews | Jul 12, 2015 | VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Claremont, NH. — In a race that saw Kirk Alexander and Dwight Jarvis,
two of the series top drivers sidelined after contact on the opening lap, close to 90 minutes later Todd Szegedy, himself a victim of a spin and minor contacts , was in victory lane at the conclusion of the Valenti Modified Racing Series ‘Claremont 100’ Friday night.
Szegedy, of Ridgefield, CT, passed race leader Chris Pasteryak of Jewett City, CT, on lap 92, to go on and win his second race of the season before a large crowd at Claremont Speedway, Claremont, NH.
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