by Jay | Jun 19, 2012 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Modified, New England, Vermont
Jesse Smith, Brian Chaffee grab first career victories
Veteran stock car and sprint car driver Dan Douville wowed the crowd at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday night with a back-to-front performance in the 25-lap WYKR Sprint Cars of New England (SCoNE) feature on Jiffy Mart of Bradford/P&H Truck Stop Night as part of the 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series. A jammed pit area saw a total of 110 race teams from seven states competing on the seven-division card.
Douville’s team made wholesale changes to the setup of its No. 7x Kondrat Kustoms/Coastal181.com-sponsored Eagle chassis after qualifying, and they paid off. The Bridgewater, NH veteran started 15th on the 19-car SCoNE field and sliced his way through traffic with relative ease, taking the lead from outside polesitter Brandon Valley at lap 10 and never looking back. By the time the checkered flag fell, Douville had lapped nearly half of the field.
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by Jay | Jun 16, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway welcomed the beginning of summer
with it’s 12th Annual Town Fair Tire Summer Blast-Off Fireworks program on
Friday night, June 15th. Providing the fireworks on the track were Ted
Christopher, who picked up his second win of the season in the 40-lap SK
Modified® feature, Woody Pitkat, who picked up his first win of the season
in the 30-lap Late Model feature, Jay Goff, who picked up his first career
victory in the 20-lap SK Light feature, Josh Wood, who took a thrilling
fourth win of the season with a last lap pass in the 20-lap Ltd. Late Model
feature, and Austin Bessette, who scored his first career victory in the
15-lap DARE Stock feature.
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by Jay | Jun 10, 2012 | Massachusetts, Modified, New England, Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk Speedway, Touring Series News, VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Seekonk, MA, — He is known as ‘Lightnin’ Louie Mechalides for
good reason. ‘Lightnin’ quick when he has too. The Tyngsboro,
MA., veteran driver was pressured right to the finish Saturday night,
holding on to win the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series
event at Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, MA.
The win was Mechalides’ sixth career VMRS victory. He first and
last win at Seekonk was six years ago.
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by Jay | Jun 9, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Stafford
WHEELER & SAUNDERS SCORE COORS LIGHT SK MODIFIED® 100 FEATURE WINS AT
STAFFORD; RAIN POSTPONES REMAINDER OF PROGRAM TO JUNE 29th
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Speedway returned to racing on Friday,
June 8TH with the 39th Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100. Taking wins
were Harry Wheeler in the SK Light feature and Cliff Saunders in the DARE
Stock feature event. Rain postponed the remainder of tonight’s program to
Friday, June 29th and rain checks from tonight’s program will be honored on
June 29th.
In the 20-lap SK Light Modified feature event, Harry Wheeler took the lead
from Payton Henry at the start of the race and he began to set the pace in
the early laps. Henry was second, with Joey Ferrigno, Jay Goff, and Bob
Charland lined up behind him. Ferrigno moved by Henry to take over second
on lap-3. Rick Dyer spun coming out of turn 2 to bring the caution out with
4 laps complete.
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by Jay | Jun 8, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Thompson
Rain Showers could not dampen the excitement in Thompson’s Thursday Night Thunder as the track played host to a first time winner in the Thompson Lite Modifieds and a crowd pleasing door-to-door battle in the Mini-Stock division. Ryan Preece held off Keith Rocco for the Sunoco Modified win while Mike Scorzelli took the checkers in the Late Models.
Preece was “just having fun” as he held off a determined Keith Rocco in the 30-lap Sunoco Modified division Thursday night. Preece took the lead at lap 10 and never looked back despite Rocco’s bumper in his rear view mirror. Kerry Malone took over the lead at the drop of the green flag with Ted Christopher closing in on his bumper. Preece made it a three-way battle when he dove to the bottom of Christopher for second. Christopher shut the door on his challenges, and made his own bid on Malone out front at lap two. Christopher took the lead with Preece in tow relegating Malone to the third position. Preece was all over Christopher as Keith Rocco made his way into contention. On lap seven, Rocco dropped to the bottom and drove by Malone for the third position with Todd Ceravolo following. As the race approached lap 10, Preece got up alongside Christopher in a tight battle that lasted until turn four when Christopher went high. Preece was able to drive to the lead with Rocco taking over second and Christopher recovering for third. Rocco closed in to Preece’s bumper and dove low in turn four of lap 23 in a challenge for the lead. Preece wasn’t about to give it up that easy, however, and closed the door on his challenge. Rocco kept the pressure on and tapped Preece’s bumper through the turns – constantly reminding Preece he was there. Preece was not intimidated, however, and held the lead until the checkers dropped.
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by Jay | Jun 6, 2012 | Massachusetts, Modified, New England, Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk Speedway, Touring Series News, VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Two-time series champion Jon McKennedy of East
Chelmsford, MA., takes a slim 10-point lead over Rowan Pennink,
of Huntingdon Valley, PA, to Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, MA,
Saturday night, June 9, when the Valenti Modified Racing Series returns
to action after a three-week layoff. The race is the first of three scheduled
at Seekonk this season for the VMRS.
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