by Jay | Jun 21, 2011 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Defending Outlaw Sportsmen champion Geoff Rollins picked up his second win in as many races on a picture perfect Fathers Day at Hudson International Speedway on June 19th. Long-time racer Matt “Junk Yard Dawg” Bosowski led the opening laps until 14 year old Derek Griffith grabbed the top spot. Rollins had rolled into second place by lap five and gave chase to Griffith. Rollins smoked his outside rear tire off every corner while closing in on Griffith who was starting to overheat. Rollins got beside Griffith going down the back chute and was able to complete the pass on the next lap.
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by Jay | Jun 7, 2011 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Meegan Lord picked up her first career win in dramatic fashion this past Sunday at Hudson International Speedway. Slika Ennis and Jason Carroll also found their way to the winners circle at the historic high banks in Hudson NH.
From the pole position, Lord led the Thunder Light division to starter Bob Munroe’s green flag and led the caution free race from green to checker. In the first corner of the first lap, Chad Wendell was running right behind Lord but got loose and had to gather it back up enabling Lord to put distance between her and the rest of the field.
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by Jay | May 31, 2011 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire
Hudson NH –The Outlaws made their first appearance of the 2011 racing season with defending Outlaws Champion Geoff Rollins picking up the first feature win. Ricky Woodside Jr. held the top spot early in the race before relinquishing it to Ron Lord. Lord held on for a few laps until Rollins chased him down. Rollins spent a lap or two on the high side of Lord, slipped past and wasn’t challenged from that point on.
Fourteen year old Derek Griffith from Hudson N.H. had a fantastic run going until trouble found him. Griffith started last in the field in his first ever Outlaw feature and made his way all the way up to second before a cut tire put him into the wall bringing out the only caution of the race in the closing laps.
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by Jay | May 23, 2011 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire
Hudson NH –Hudson Speedway opened its doors for its 64th consecutive season of auto racing this past Sunday May 22nd with Billy Clement Jr., Justin Beecher, and Johnny Reefer all finding their way to victory lane.
Bob Riopelle had the pole position and took the lead at the drop the green flag of the Rookie Stock feature and held the top spot for the first few laps. Clement Jr. made his way up from the third starting spot to challenge Riopelle for the lead and took to the outside groove and made the pass for the lead a lap later. Clement held the top spot from that point until the finish in the caution free event. Riopelle held off several challenges and came home second. John Morin Jr. also had a podium finish coming in third place. Dan Murphy Jr. had a bumpy fourth place finish and Corrie Merritt finished fifth. After Merritt it was Jerry ‘No Brakes’ Lepage, Scotty Duval, Bill Fiske, Jim Junior, Keith ‘Slika’ Ennis, C.J. McLaughlin, Mike McHugh and Ryan Joyce.
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by Jay | Oct 18, 2010 | Hudson, New Hampshire
Hudson NH –The Helliwell boys ruled at Hudson International Speedway on the final race day of the 2010 season. All three Helliwells that were racing won in their respective divisions with George Helliwell in the Classic Lites, Bill Helliwell in the Rookie Stocks and Dave ”Hollywood” Helliwell in the Roadrunners.
George Helliwell was first to win picking up his second feature win in the Classic Lites. Billy Ryder was second to cross the stripe. Dwayne Skofield finished third. Shane Reinhold had his best finish of the season with a fourth place run. Eddie Gilman was running third most of the race and had third by a large margin on the white flag lap but got sideways in turn one and drove through the infield and by the time he was back on track had slipped to fifth and finished in that spot. Sixth through tenth were Ryan Bishop, Paul Colson, Danny Shields, Craig Lambert and Hulk Harton. Helliwell and Shields won the heats.
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by Jay | Oct 11, 2010 | Hudson, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Ron Lord Jr. won the final Outlaw Sportsman feature of the 2010 racing season on Oct.10 at Hudson International Speedway. Lord was the pole sitter and led from green to checker but it wasn’t an easy win for Lord as he had to fight off the divisions top guns on restart after restart early in the going as there was a bad case of yellow fever in the first half of the race. All the racers settled down by the halfway point and things went green until the end. Sandy Lee was right on Lords bumper the entire race but wasn’t able to make anything happen and came home second. Geoff Rollins finished third followed by Kevin Kephardt, Tom “the Bear Hunter” Tombarello, Pete Fiandaca, Shaun Waites, Matt Robinson, Ronnie Robinson and Pete Jarek. Lord and Lee won the heats.
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