by Jay | Jun 10, 2010 | ACT, Lee USA, New England, New Hampshire
Austin Theriault: ACT Late Model Tour
Lee USA Speedway Race Preview
Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, continues his drive to become the ACT Late Model Tour Rookie of the Year when the series heads to the NH Governor’s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H., on Friday, June 11. The 16-year-old Theriault made his 2010 debut at Oxford Plains Speedway last month, leading laps early in the race before finishing 16th. He heads to Lee USA having competed there last weekend in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Late Model event.
WHO: Austin Theriault, Fort Kent, Maine
TEAM: No. 57 Varney Insurance/Hogan Tire/Daigle & Houghton Ford Fusion
BEST CAREER LEE USA SPEEDWAY FINISH: N/A
LAST RACE AT LEE USA SPEEDWAY: N/A
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by Jay | Jun 10, 2010 | NASCAR, New England
Results Eldora Speedway – Prelude to the Dream
ROSSBURG, Ohio – Results Wednesday of the Gillette Fusion ProGlide Prelude to the Dream Dirt Late Model event June 9 at the half-mile Eldora Speedway, with order of finish, starting position in parentheses, driver, laps completed and reason out (if any):
1. (1) Jimmie Johnson, 30
2. (4) Clint Bowyer, 30
3. (17) Carl Edwards, 30
4. (2) Kyle Busch, 30
5. (24) Denny Hamlin, 30 (more…)
by Jay | Jun 8, 2010 | ACT, Lee USA, New England, New Hampshire
Joey Polewarczyk Jr.: ACT Late Model Tour
Lee USA Speedway Race Preview
Joey Polewarczyk Jr. will try and earn Ford Racing its first ACT Late Model Tour victory when he heads to the NH Governor’s Cup 150 at Lee USA Speedway in Lee, N.H., on Friday, June 11 — the first night race of the ACT season. It’s been a rough go for Polewarczyk through the first two events of the year, including a DNQ at Oxford Plains Speedway in May, but he’s hoping to rebound at one of his best tracks on the circuit. The 2008 winner of the NH Governor’s Cup 150 at Lee, Polewarczyk finished second in the event last year.
WHO: Joey Polewarczyk Jr., Hudson, N.H.
TEAM: Pole’s Automotive/NH Precision No. 97 Ford
BEST CAREER LEE USA SPEEDWAY FINISH: 1st (April, 2008)
LAST RACE AT LEE USA SPEEDWAY: 2nd (April, 2009)
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by Jay | Jun 7, 2010 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, Thunder Road, Vermont, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Tom Therrien Wins Bond/WIX Tiger Tour at White Mountain
North Woodstock, NH – Hinesburg’s Tom Therrien earned the first win on the 2010 Bond/WIX Tiger Tour at White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday, June 5. Therrien started in 17th and didn’t take the lead until lap 83, when he got by the 2009 Thunder Road Champion Jimmy Hebert. Therrien would hold off Hebert in a three lap sprint setup by a caution on lap 97. Therrien took the checkers just infront of Hebert in second and his brother Bobby Therrien in third. Hebert had led the majority of the race after the early leader Tony Rossi spun on lap 33.
Thunder Road Late Model star Dave Pembroke finished fourth followed by Jason Bonnett rounding out the top five. ACT Late Model Tour regular Chip Genier took sixth, Joey Roberts seventh, Mike Ziter eighth, Derrick O’Donnell ninth and Eric Badore completed the top ten.
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by Jay | Jun 7, 2010 | New England, Seekonk Speedway
Modified Racing Series Heads to Seekonk Speedway Saturday Night
Seekonk, MA – After competing in New York and Vermont the last three weeks, the Modified Racing Series, sponsored by BobValenti AutoMall.Com, returns to familiar territory Saturday night, June 12, 2010, when the touring division featuring open-wheel modified race cars invades the famed Seekonk, Speedway, Rte 6, Seekonk, MA. for the first of three race dates at the popular oval.
The New England based series, now in its seventh season, has seen five different winners in five races to date.
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by Jay | Jun 7, 2010 | Connecticut, New England, Stafford
KEITH ROCCO SET TO DEFEND TITLE IN 37TH ANNUAL COORS LIGHT SK MODIFIED® 100 AT STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford’s SK Modified® division takes to the track
for the first of two extra distance events of the 2010 season with the 37th
Annual Coors Light SK Modified® 100 on June 11. Keith Rocco has been the
man to beat in the SK Modified® division thus far in 2010 at Stafford,
winning three of the first five races. Rocco outlasted Stafford’s all-time
winningest driver Ted Christopher in a duel for the ages in last year’s
Coors Light SK Modified® 100, swapping the lead no less than 5 times over
the final 35 laps of the race, and he looks to once again reign supreme in
the extra distance classic. (more…)
