by Jay | Sep 27, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Thompson
With the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing presented by Town Fair Tire and Xtra Mart only three weeks away, the Thompson International Speedway if in full swing preparing for the incredible three-day racing spectacular.
This year’s World Series event, October 12-14, will be the biggest World Series ever with special attention directed to the Saturday night portion of the program. In previous years, roughly half of the participating divisions ran their feature events on Saturday night in front of large crowds who enjoyed the incredible diversity of race cars and race trucks. This year, that same Saturday night fun will be significantly increased with the addition of a Valenti Modified Racing Series 75-lap feature event. Divisions that will be part of the feature event lineup on Saturday will qualify on Friday except for the Valenti Modifieds. VRMS competitors will qualify and race on Saturday. The divisions racing on Sunday will qualify early Saturday afternoon.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2012 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road, Vermont
Barre, VT – Thunder Road Officials have announced a fifty thousand ($50,000) dollar bonus to be awarded to any competitor that can win all three segments of the 50th People’s United Bank Milk Bowl on the weekend of September 29th and 30th.
The $50,000 award is an added bonus to posted awards already exceeding $120,000, making the race one of the biggest sporting events in Vermont’s history. In the Milk Bowl’s long history, three drivers have completed the feat of winning all three segments: Larry Demar (1967), Dave Dion (1975), and Robbie Crouch (1986). Others have come dangerously close, and no one more than Williston’s Brian Hoar.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2012 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Brett Moffitt and the Hattori Racing Enterprises (HRE) #11 Toyota team headed to New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) in Loudon, NH for the 11th race of the 2012 season, taking with them a 20 point lead in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East championship point standings. Thanks to Michael Waltrip Racing (MWR) and Travis Pastrana, Moffitt was able to bring the same car he drove to Victory Lane at NHMS in 2011. The #11 HRE team hauled the car to the “Magic Mile” and crewed it, so the weekend’s racing was genuinely a joint endeavor by the two teams.
In addition to being the defending race winner and having 2 previous pole awards at NHMS, Moffitt also brought a string of 5 consecutive top-five finishes to Loudon, where 40 cars attempted to qualify for the 36 positions on the starting grid in the G-Oil 100. The entries represented 15 states and 5 foreign countries.
Moffitt and the #11 Nitro Circus The Movie 3D Toyota were 3rd on the speed charts after practice, with a speed of 29.981 seconds (127.040 mph). When it came time to qualify, Moffitt got up on the wheel and laid down a lap of 29.648 seconds (128.467 mph) to capture his 4th Coors 21 Means 21 pole award of the 2012 season, setting a new track qualifying record in the process. Moffitt has been on the pole in 4 of the series’ 11 races to date. This was Moffitt’s 3rd pole at the “Magic Mile” and the 8th of his NASCAR K&N Pro Series East career.
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by Jay | Sep 24, 2012 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
NORTH WOODSTOCK NH (9/22) Derek Ramstrom won a restart battle with Mike Landry on lap 48 of Saturday night’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park and the young veteran stayed out front the rest of the way to capture his second PASS North Super Late Model feature win of 2012. Travis Benjamin chased Ramstrom to the line and Scott Dragon claimed the final spot on the podium. Ben Rowe had a solid day, finishing fourth, and Johnny Clark completed the top five.
The race was Ramstroms’s fifth career PASS North Super Late Model win. His first win of 2012 came at his home track, Thompson (CT) International Speedway, where he recently captured his third Super Late Model division Championship.
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by Jay | Sep 24, 2012 | Connecticut, Modified, New England, Thompson
The 2012 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series track champions at Thompson International Speedway have been named following the conclusion of the regular weekly race programs. The final review of the points standings for each race run since the season-opening Icebreaker has been completed and a champion for each of the track’s seven racing divisions has been declared.
Ryan Preece, the 21 year old from Berlin, CT., claimed the Sunoco Modified title. The track’s premier division ran 19 races in the 2012 season and Preece won 10 of them. He managed to bank some 922 track points in the process and, in so doing, bested some of the most talented Modified drivers in the northeast. Preece had an outstanding year driving for Al and Kathy Moniz of North Falmouth, MA. Veteran Kerry Malone, the 2008 division champ, finished second and was followed by Rookie Dennis Perry, 2003 and 2010 champ, Ted Christopher and the 2006 title holder, Woody Pitkat.
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by Jay | Sep 23, 2012 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS, Touring Series News
Eddie MacDonald battled his way from deep in the field in both the K&N Pro Series East and American Canadian Tour events on Saturday as part of the big NASCAR Cup weekend at the Magic Mile. The three time winner fought an ill-handling car in the G-Oil 100 at the beginning of the race to post an impressive eighth place finish as the checkered flag flew. The Grimm Construction/ Hancock Electric Pontiac took the green flag in the 26th position due to the luck of the draw in the Bond Auto Parts ACT Invitational only to have the exciting run end in disappointment.
MacDonald started the 11th race in the K&N series in the 18th position with MacDonald saying, “It really was a surprise we didn’t qualify better. The car handled good but we just didn’t get it done to start where we wanted to be. But Rollie and I thought we would be okay for race, but obviously we had some problems right away.”
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