by Jay | Aug 3, 2012 | Massachusetts, PASS, Seekonk Speedway, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Lonnie Sommerville Seekonk Race Preview
THE STORY
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, joins the PASS North Series in its return to Seekonk Speedway in Seekonk, Mass., for the PASS 150 on Saturday, August 4. Sommerville finished fourth in this event a year ago in the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet and is looking for a return to form on a track very similar to his home track. The tight, .333-mile Seekonk Speedway layout is akin to Speedway 660 in Geary, New Brunswick, where Sommerville is a two-time Auto Value 250 champion.
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by Jay | Aug 3, 2012 | Massachusetts, PASS, Seekonk Speedway, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Austin Theriault Seekonk Race Preview
THE STORY
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, will make his Mulkern Racing debut when the PASS North Series holds the PASS 150 at Seekonk Speedway in Seekonk, Mass., on Saturday, August 4. The 18-year-old Brad Keselowski Racing development driver, who has not appeared in a PASS North Series event since 2010, is coming off his first career ACT Late Model Tour victory last weekend at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Theriault will drive the No. 18 Southern Maine Motors/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet this weekend in search of his first career Super Late Model win.
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by Jay | Aug 3, 2012 | Massachusetts, Modified, New England, Seekonk Speedway
Matt Hirschman picks up Seekonk’s Modified Madness and the $10,000 to go along with it. Seth Carlson is NEMA winner, while Shaun Buffington winds Legends main.
Matt Wentz and Jon McKennedy brought the 25 car field down to the green flag, and it was Wentz who jumped out front. Matt led the first few laps before VMRS Champion Chris Pasteryak took over and started to pull away. Matt Hirschman, who started sixth, quickly moved behind Pasteryak, and put on the chase. Wentz followed in third until the defending Open Wheel Wednesday winner Doug Coby moved past. At the lap 25 mark, McKennedy had moved back into fourth with Louis Mechalidas was fifth.
By lap 40, Todd Annarummo and Ryan Preece had moved into fourth and fifth. While battling for the lead, Pasteryak and Hirschman got together, and both were taken out of the lead pack. Coby was involved as well, as he and Hirschman locked bumpers. This handed the lead over to Annarummo, with Preece, Todd Patnode, Austin Kochenash and Dave Berghman the top five. Kochenash had already pitted earlier in the event, and had worked his way back through the field.
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2012 | Massachusetts, New England, PASS, Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk Speedway, Touring Series News
NAPLES ME (7/31) It’s no easy deal racing against the Northeast’s Super Late Model super stars. They have the team, the talent and the equipment to take on any speedway’s home town heroes and leave with the checkered flag and the big trophy. But there’s always an exception to any rule, and when the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North race teams roll into Seekonk (MA) Speedway for a short track Saturday night the drivers that follow the traveling race show all over the Northeast will be out to even the score.
Seekonk has a talent laden field of Pro Stocks (the forerunner to today’s Super Late Models) and they know every inch of asphalt at the historic short track. They’re hard to beat on their home turf; Tom Scully Jr. and Dave Darling are living proof. They’ve both prevailed over the PASS North regulars at Seekonk. In fact it took three trips to the Action Track of the East before six time PASS North Champion Johnny Clark could break the locals’ strangle hold on victory lane.
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2012 | Massachusetts, New England, Seekonk Speedway
Four events in five days will put the Seekonk Speedway staff to the test. It starts on Wednesday, August 1, when the 8th Annual Open Wheel Wednesday takes over the speedway for a 100 lap non sanctioned Modified Madness $10,000 to win show. It has become one of the highest paying short track asphalt modified events on the east coast. Competitors from the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, the Valenti Modified Racing Series, Race of Champion Modified Series and independents all have an equal shot at the $10k prize money. Registered drivers include former Open Wheel Wednesday winners Todd and Vinnie Annarummo, Doug Coby, Matt Hirschman, and Chris Pasteryak. Additional names on the entry list include Jon McKennedy, Eric Berndt, 7 time NASCAR Modified Champion Mike Stefanik, Dave Berghman, Steven Masse, 16 year old PA. native Austin Kochenash and 17yr old Tommy Barret, both who are coming into their own in the modified ranks.
Also on the schedule for Open Wheel Wednesday, will be the return of the NEMA Midgets, who will be making their first appearance of the season at Seekonk, and the Nick’s Pit Stop Legends, who compete weekly as part of the Fast Friday series. Adult admission for this event is $26 for 13 and above, with kids 12 and under FREE. Action starts at 7pm.
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by Jay | Jul 22, 2012 | Massachusetts, New England, Seekonk Speedway
Dylan Estrella gains 1st LM Checkered. Rick Martin wins Truck main. Scott Serydynski nabs Street Stock win.
After taking a week off, a rejuvenated 6 time Pro Stock Champion in Fred Astle picked up his third win of the season. In a race that treated the fans to a throwback type of race, he held off Rick Martin and Dave Darling for the checkered.
Dick Houlihan jumped out to the early lead over Kyle Casper, and set the pace for the nine laps, before Astle used a restart to out power Houly to the corners. Once out front, Astle had to hold off the challenges of points leader Darling and Martin, who was competing in his second race of the season in the Pro Stocks.
For the final 20 laps, Martin used the outside lane to move past Darling and make a run at Astle, but the defending champ was up to the challenge, as he held Martin off at the stripe. Darling finished third, as the three crossed the finish line under a proverbial blanket. Houlihan was fourth across the line with Mike Brightman fifth. After post-race tech, Martin failed, moving Houlihan and Brightman to third and fourth, with Craig Weinstein rounding out the top five.
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