by Jay | May 1, 2012 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS, Touring Series News
The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) will kick off it’s twelfth northeast racing season on Saturday May 5 at Scarborough Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, and its an event that racers and race fans alike have looked forward to since the final checker of 2011. Southern Maine Motors.com has returned as presenting sponsors for all three PASS appearances at the Cusack’s immaculate speed plant
PASS North’s three touring series are slated for competition, and all three series defending champions will be back to try and duplicate their 2011 titles.
Johnny Clark captured the super late model segment of this event in 2011 on his way to an unprecedented sixth PASS super late model title. The Farmingdale Maine speedster won seven of the series’s fourteen 2011 events and only landed outside the top five on one occasion. He’ll be looking for a fifth straight championship when the season wraps up in October, but on opening day every team is tied in the point standings and there are plenty of drivers who’d like nothing better than to break Clark’s streak.
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by Jay | Apr 29, 2012 | Maine, New England, Unity
Defending Unity Raceway Late Model champion Jeff Burgess of Fairfield kicked off the 2012 points-earning season the way he ended the 2011 campaign at Maine’s Toughest racing Oval – in victory lane.
Burgess chased down early race leader (and opening day winner) Brian Whitney in the 35-lapper, then held off a stiff challenge from Burnham’s Justin Drake to earn his first trip to the top step of the podium this season.
Ajay Picard of Palmyra bounced back from an early spin to post a third-place finish. Oakland’s Mike Landry rebounded from a visit to the pit and a trip to the rear of the restart lineup to claim fourth position. Whitney, won won the heat race, crossed the line in fifth position.
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by Jay | Apr 29, 2012 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Touring Series News, Vermont
14th Annual Merchants Bank 150 Weekend
Thunder Road International Speedbowl
PITS NOTES SATURDAY APRIL 28, 2012
· 109 cars attended the annual Car Show held at Thunder Road
· 46 ACT Late Models participated in practice in preparation for Sunday’s Merchants Bank 150.
· Joey Polewarcyzk Jr. of Hudson, NH had the fastest lap time of 13.069.
· Other fast times were set by defending Late Model Champion Dave Pembroke, two-time defending Merchants Bank 150 Champion Nick Sweet, Lt. Governor Phil Scott, former Rookie of the Year Cody Blake, as well as Ben Rowe, Brooks Clark, Randy Potter, and Cris Michaud in the Merchants Bank Ford Fusion.
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by Jay | Apr 29, 2012 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, Touring Series News
A solid eighth place finish for Eddie MacDonald in the K&N Pro Series East Blue Ox 100 at Richmond International Raceway successfully capped an earlier day of frustration for both driver and crew. With the run, the Grimm Construction Chevy gained five positions in the point’s race into ninth.
Rain postponed the scheduled practice time one hour, so the two scheduled practices were blended into one. After changing spark plugs at the start of practice, the car returned to the track and quickly discovered the car would just not turn in the corners on the banked three-quarters of a mile oval. After numerous adjustments the car was still not right with MacDonald saying, “The car was so tight in the center of the turn the nose would just push up the track so I couldn’t get back to the throttle. We made a lot of changes but nothing seemed to work. It was a pretty frustrating practice. Driving that track is nothing like Loudon or Dover so it was hard to get a handle on it. We knew we had to make changes for qualifying and they did help.”
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by Jay | Apr 27, 2012 | Devils Bowl, New England, Vermont
Downtown Rutland to host Devil’s Bowl Speedway Car Show
Community celebration kicks off Vermont track’s new era
The cars and stars of Devil’s Bowl Speedway are coming to the heart of one of Vermont’s biggest cities. On Saturday, May 5, stock cars and drivers from four NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions will line the streets of Downtown Rutland to usher in a new era of racing at the nearby track. The inaugural Downtown Rutland car show in will be in support of the Spring Green 112, the track’s season-opening event, on Sunday, May 6.
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by Jay | Apr 27, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, Stafford
The 41st Annual CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler
will kick off the 2012 race season at Stafford Motor Speedway and Richie
Pallai, Jr., driver of the #39 CARQUEST Filters / Bosch Spark Plugs
Chevrolet, is hoping for a repeat of the 2009 Sizzler where he collected his
first SK Modified® feature victory. Pallai finished 14th in the season
opening event at Thompson, and although he was caught up in a multi-car
wreck, he has confidence in his car and team with how well they ran as they
prepare for the 200-lap test that is the CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler.
“We’re looking forward to the Sizzler more than we have in the past,” said
Pallai. “Stafford has kind of been one of our worst tracks. You would
think it would be one of our better ones, but it just hasn’t been. We ran
really good at Thompson, we were eighth when we pitted and we pitted with
all the leaders. We restarted 14th and we were up to 10th right before we
wrecked, so realistically we had about a 7th or 8th place car without a
problem. We didn’t qualify as good as we wanted to, which hurt us because
it’s tough to pass, but we’re looking forward to Stafford. We had a lot of
problems with the car last year that we figured out during the winter and we
switched to Bruneau engines. We have the best equipment that we’ve had in
three years, so it’s nice to know that going into the race.”
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