Patriots/Sox Tickets to Benefit Ricky’s Race for Kids at Canaan
Canaan, N.H. — With the 3rd annual Ricky’s Race for Kids to benefit David’s House happening next month, those responsible for the event, in honor of the late Ricky Miller,
are hard at work preparing for the annual fundraiser.
A racing accident left Miller with a severe concussion which ultimately led to his passing in 2004, at the age of 34.
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Trevor Sanborn: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Sanborn Wins 2nd Straight Outing At The Ridge
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Trevor Sanborn continued his dominance of the 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday night, winning the track’s 40-lap Pro Series feature. It was Sanborn’s second straight victory to open the season at Beech Ridge, and his 10th career Pro Series win. The race was shortened by rain to 39 laps, and it was unfortunately marked by the untimely passing of multi-time track champion Bub Bilodeau. Bilodeau, an early mentor of Sanborn’s racing career, suffered a heart attack following the event while still in his race car.
WHO: Trevor Sanborn, Parsonsfield, Maine
TEAM: Cushman Competition/Pleasant Hill Auto Sales/Knight’s Flooring No. 29 Ford
WHAT: NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, Pro Series division
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 20th
FINISHED: 1st
LED: 1 time for 34 laps
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TOMMY BARRETT, JR. BECOMES YOUNGEST WINNER IN STAFFORD HISTORY; GALLO,
PITKAT, GAMBACORTA, AND WOOD ALSO SCORE USG EVENT NIGHT FEATURE VICTORIES
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Friday, June 4th was USG Event night at Stafford
Motor Speedway and it was a history making night. Three weeks after Joey
Cipriano became the youngest driver to ever win a feature race at Stafford,
Tommy Barrett, Jr. lowered that record by winning the 20-lap SK Light
Modified feature for his first career win. There were two other first time
winners at Stafford as Matt Gallo scored his first career SK Modified®
victory in the 40-lap feature, and Josh Wood was a first time career winner
in the 15-lap DARE Stock feature. Woody Pitkat continued his white hot
start to the 2010 season with his second consecutive and third overall win
of the year in the 30-lap Late Model feature, and Kevin Gambacorta nailed
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BOND/WIX TIGER TOUR HEADS TO WHITE MOUNTAIN SATURDAY
Waterbury, VT – White Mountain Motorsport Park (WMMP) will open the Bond/Wix Tiger Tour this Saturday, June 05, 2010. The popular Bond Tiger Sportsman cars from throughout the region will begin their championship run in the first of four events for the 2010 race season.
“White Mountain was a natural for us to begin the 2010 campaign,” said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour, (ACT), which sanctions the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman Division. “WMMP took a major step to bring the ACT rules for the Tiger Sportsman division to the track this season, and we want to do whatever we can to try and help get this division in a growth trend at WMMP. We have encouraged the Thunder Road Tiger teams to visit WMMP whenever they can in 2010.”
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PUTTING THE PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER
Circumstances allow Austin Theriault to seize opportunities in racing
FORT KENT, Maine — Austin Theriault remembers with a laugh his first spin behind the wheel of a stock car.
“It was the ‘Young Guns’ class,” the 16-year-old high school sophomore recalls. “What I remember was how those guys took racing so seriously. They were going circles around me. My left front tire was 4 inches up off the ground.”
What Theriault has learned since that firsthand introduction to the sport was that soon he would take a racing career just as seriously. Just 12 months ago, Theriault never imagined anything more than running in the weekly 4-cylinder division at Spud Speedway in Caribou. Fast-forward to 2010, though, and Theriault plans to run the complete ACT Late Model Tour slate and select PASS North Series events.
“Looking back just a year ago, it all happened pretty quick,” Theriault said. “The biggest thing is just the good people I’ve been meeting along the way… I’ve gone from a little 4-cylinder car a couple years ago to Super Late Models, and it’s just the right people we’ve been lucky enough to have met, I guess.
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Brent Dragon: Bear Ridge Speedway
Sportsman Modified Race Preview
Coming off a 10th-place finish in the Memorial Day Classic 100 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl last weekend, Brent Dragon takes a break from Late Model racing this weekend. The Milton, Vt., driver plans to compete for the second year in a row in an exhibition race at Bear Ridge Speedway, a quarter-mile dirt track in Bradford, Vt. On Saturday night, Dragon will join his father, Beaver Dragon, his uncle Bobby Dragon and his cousin Scott Dragon in a pair of 10-lap Sportsman Modified races. Brent raced in the event last year, winning one of the two races and then finishing 10th in the track’s regularly-scheduled 30-lap Sportsman Modified feature at Bear Ridge. Dragon is expected to compete in a car owned by track owner Butch Elms.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
WHAT: Dirt Sportsman Modified Exhibition Event
WHERE: Bear Ridge Speedway, Bradford, Vt. (.25-mile dirt oval)
WHEN: 6 p.m., Saturday, June 5
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