by Jay | Apr 29, 2011 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS
Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, kicks off his first full-time season of PASS North Series competition with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. Sommerville has competed several times as a part-time fixture in PASS North with his own team, but this season marks his move to Mulkern Racing to run the entire slate. Sommerville has some experience at Beech Ridge, most notably having led the PASS 300 at the track for several laps last September.
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by Jay | Apr 28, 2011 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS
Scott Mulkern: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, heads to his home track for the PASS North Series season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. Mulkern, races the three PASS races at Beech Ridge each season as part of his part-time schedule and he has a best career finish of third on several occasions at the facility in PASS North competition. This season marks the 30th anniversary of Mulkern Racing, as Mulkern began his racing career at Beech Ridge in 1981 in the the Limited Sportsman class.
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by Jay | Apr 28, 2011 | Maine, New England
Mulkern, Sommerville Ready To Join Forces In 2011
FALMOUTH, Maine – They take two different approaches to their racing, but in the end they have a common goal. Mulkern Racing’s drivers just want to win.
“Obviously, in my mind I want to win the championship,” said the latest addition to the Mulkern Racing lineup, Canadian driver Lonnie Sommerville. “But I’m not going to finish sixth when I could have won the race because I’m worrying just about points. If you win races, points will take care of themselves.
“But at the same time, you have to be smart about it – but that’s what makes good race car drivers.”
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by Jay | Apr 28, 2011 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS
Joey Doiron: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Joey Doiron aims to collect his first career PASS North Series win when the series opens the 2011 season with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. Doiron won the 2010 Rookie of the Year award in the series, a march he started with a career-best finish of fourth in this very race. Doiron started his racing career at Beech Ridge and considers it his home track. Doiron is coming off a DNF at “The Race” at North Wilkesboro Motor Speedway earlier this month after a blown tire ended his day prematurely.
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by Jay | Apr 28, 2011 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
TED CHRISTOPHER HAS WINNING MOMENTUM ON HIS SIDE AS HE SEEKS FOURTH CONSECUTIVE CARQUEST TECH-NET SPRING SIZZLER CROWN
(Stafford Springs, CT)—When the green flag comes out for the 40th Annual
CARQUEST Tech-Net Spring Sizzler this Sunday, May 1st at Stafford, there
will be one driver in the starting lineup who has all the momentum in the
world on his side. Ted Christopher, who will be attempting to win the
Sizzler for the fourth consecutive year, has won 9 races in 6 different
states thusfar during his already busy 2011 season.
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by Jay | Apr 28, 2011 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Preview
THE STORY
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, looks for a second straight Top-10 to open the season when the ACT Late Model Tour competes in the Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Sunday, May 1. Theriault finished seventh in the season-opening event at Lee USA Speedway two weeks ago in his debut with RPM Motorsports, and he’s returning to the site of one of the most impressive performances of his 2010 rookie season. Last June, Theriault finished seventh in his first-ever trip to Thunder Road, prompting ACT president Tom Curley to call it “the most impressive Thunder Road since Dave Dion.”
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