by Jay | Sep 7, 2012 | ACT, Canada, Maine, Spud, Touring Series News
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Autodrome Chaudiere/Spud Speedway Race Previews
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, will pull double duty in Late Model competition this weekend, starting things in the ACT Late Model Tour “Showdown At Chaudiere” at Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jonction, Quebec, on Saturday, September 8, before returning stateside to head back to Spud Speedway in Caribou, Maine, for the Spud 150 on Sunday, September 9. Theriault is one of 11 ACT Late Model Tour teams pitted against 11 ACT Castrol Series teams in the annual 200-lap event at the popular stop on the banked Quebec third-mile. The following day, Theriault and the No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion will return to Spud Speedway where Theriault got his start racing in entry-level divisions.
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by Jay | Sep 7, 2012 | Beech Ridge, Maine
YOUTH IS SERVED: John Peters Exceeds Expectations
15-Year-Old Caps 2012 As Youngest Champion In Beech Ridge History
WESTBROOK, Maine – John Peters’ first 10 races in a stock car turned out better than even he expected.
After posting two wins, five runner-up finishes and no result worse than fourth during the VIP Thursday Thunder season this summer, Peters earned the championship in Beech Ridge Motor Speedway’s entry-level “Beetle Bug JV” division in 2012 to become the youngest champion in the track’s 64-year history.
“It’s weird to think about it sometimes,” said Peters, 15, of Westbrook, Maine. “When people would start coming up and telling me that I was going to be the youngest champion in history there, I’d think, ‘Oh, that’s nice.’ Then I started looking at Beech Ridge’s old memories and history page (on Facebook), and you see all of the people that have won races and championships there, and you really get thinking about it. It’s a shock. It’s pretty amazing.”
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by Jay | Sep 4, 2012 | Canada, Maine
Joey Doiron: Auto Value 250
Speedway 660 Race Report
GEARY, New Brunswick – Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, finished fifth in his first career start in the Auto Value 250 at Speedway 660 in Geary, New Brunswick, on Sunday, September 2. The annual end-of-summer Super Late Model open competition on the .333-mile oval attracted a handful of PASS North Series regulars as well as a number of Maritime-based Parts For Trucks Pro Stock Tour competitors. Doiron won his heat race and qualified fourth in the 28-car field after being among the fastest cars in practice. He led in the early going, recovered from two small mechanical issues and held on to finish fifth after challenging eventual winner Cassius Clark for the lead late in the event.
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by Jay | Sep 4, 2012 | Canada, Maine, PASS, Touring Series News
Farmington, Maine’s Cassius Clark is the 2012 Auto Value 250 champion. Clark capped off an impressive SpeedWeekend run to take the checkered flag in Atlantic Canada’s biggest short track race of the season. The Pro All Star Series points leader won the race ahead of second place D.J. Shaw from Center Conway, New Hampshire and Matt Harris from Fredericton Junction.
“Wow what a run, the King Racing team of Rollie MacDonald gave me a great car tonight and I am thrilled to be the Auto Value 250 champion” said Clark in Speedway 660’s Victory Lane. “I love Canada and to follow up the Atlantic Cat 250 win at Scotia SpeedWorld with Speedway 660’s Auto Value 250 this year is certainly one of the biggest thrills of my racing career.”
Clark led 120 laps en route to his victory and picked up 21 thousand dollars in prize money. John Flemming captured the Modern Electric half way challenge, led 72 laps, finished 8th and takes home more than 67 hundred dollars in prize money.
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by Jay | Sep 3, 2012 | ACT, Maine, New England, Thunder Road, Touring Series News, Vermont
Austin Theriault Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Report
BARRE, Vt. – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, finished fifth in the ACT Late Model Tour Labor Day Classic 200 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Sunday, September 2. Theriault started 29th in the 30-car field, used pit strategy early in the race to gain track position, and then picked up two spots over the final four laps to finish in the Top-5 for the seventh time in nine ACT races this season. The Brad Keselowski Racing development driver remained the only driver on the ACT Late Model Tour to have finished in the Top-10 in all nine points races, and the AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion has two Top-10s in two races at Thunder Road in 2012.
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by Jay | Aug 27, 2012 | Maine, Speedway 95
Mike Hopkins stared 8th in the 18 car starting field of the Dysart’s Late Model 75 lap Team Morgan Racing shootout at Speedway 95 Saturday night and ended up the winner by taking advantage of a late race caution. On the 68th lap, the yellow flew ending Andy Saunders 49 lap run at the front of the field. After Hopkins took the lead when the green dropped for the final 7 laps of the event, Saunders found himself in a battle for second with Winterport’s Ryan Deane who had led for 18 laps earlier in the race and had worked his way up from the rear of the field following an altercation with Hermon’s Phil Richardson earlier in the night. Deane also had an encounter with Richardson later in the race in an incident that saw Richardson black flagged for unsportsmanlike conduct. Saunders managed to hold Deane off to finish second with Deane ending up third at the finish. Dean Smart of Bradley came in fourth with Josh St. Clair of Liberty finishing fifth. Donny Blanchard of Bangor, the only other driver to lead one lap of the event, finished in sixth. Hopkins said at the end that he never would have been able to catch and pass Saunders if the restart had not given him the opportunity to catch Saunders and race him for the win.
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