by Jay | Sep 18, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Joey Pole Claims Second Annual ACT Invitational
Loudon, NH – Hudson, New Hampshire’s Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. took claimed the win in the Second Annual ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, New Hampshire. Pole worked his way through the field from the 27th starting position, taking advantage of a 58 lap green flag run, to lead the final eight laps of the 60 lap event.
Pole passed Jamie Fisher of Shelburne, Vermont while the two fought their way through heavy lap traffic. Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, New Hampshire, who wrapped up the Lee USA Speedway track championship in Lee, New Hampshire on Friday night, followed Pole through the hole for second. Fisher would hold onto third while Brian Hoar, who locked up the ACT Late Model Tour Championship last Sunday in the Fall Foliage 300, came home fourth. The Inaugural ACT Invitational Champion Eddie MacDonald of Rowley, Massachusetts completed the top five.
Série ACT Castrol Edge regular Jean-François Déry of Quebec City took sixth, Albany Township, Maine’s Ricky Rolfe of Oxford Plains Speedway finished seventh, ACT Tour regular Joey Laquerre of East Montpelier, Vermont claimed eighth, Kawartha Speedway regular Dan McHattie of Peterborough, Ontario finished ninth and Série ACT Castrol Edge competitor Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, Quebec completed the top ten.
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by Jay | Sep 18, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Shaw Rallies For 15th Place Finish At NHMS
Loudon, N.H. (September 18, 2010): DJ Shaw had gone into the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East’s New Hampshire 125 with high expectations. The Conway, N.H.-based driver wanted a top-five finish at his homestate track, but instead, battled a transmission problem that cost him valuable positions on the track. The Precision JLM sponsored team, however, remained determined and Shaw was able to salvage a 15th place finish from the night, despite his mid-race struggles.
” It’s like the fourth race in a row that we’ve said ‘we could’ve had a top-five if..’. It just didn’t happen. Eventually something will happen and we’ll get a top-five, a top-three or even a win. We’re going to keep trying,” he said.
Shaw started 21st and maintained his position in the early laps of the race.
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by Jay | Sep 18, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Kobyluck Disappointed With 23rd Place Finish At NHMS
Loudon, N.H. (September 18, 2010): Matt Kobyluck’s best statistics don’t typically show up at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, but the Mohegan Sun Casino team had hoped to improve their numbers in Friday night’s New Hampshire 125. Prior to the race, Kobyluck was more confident than ever, but Lady Luck had other plans for them.
After running as high as 11th place, Kobyluck got caught up in a melee on a lap 79 restart that broke the track bar bracket on his No. 40 Mohegan Sun Chevrolet and forced the team to fix it in the pits. Kobyluck went six laps down and was relegated to a 23rd place finish at the end of the night.
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by Jay | Sep 18, 2010 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
LOUDON, N.H. — Ryan Newman completed a sweep of the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour races at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Saturday with a dominating win in the F.W. Webb 100. It was the third Modified win of the season for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver, who also picked up the victory at Bristol.
Newman led a race-high 45 laps but had his two-second lead erased by a late wreck between Bobby Santos and Ryan Preece. That set up a green-white-checkered finish with Newman briefly losing the lead to Doug Coby before driving back to the front.
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by Jay | Sep 17, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
In a race plagued with late race cautions, it was Ryan Truex behind the wheel of his No. 00 Michael Waltrip Racing Toyota who raced his way to the checkered flag in the New Hampshire 125 sweeping both series races at “The Magic Mile.”
Truex lost the lead with 15 laps to go but when the No. 38 of Allen Tardiff and No. 07 of Corey LaJoie got into each other he took the lead and found his way to victory lane for the second straight time this season.
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by Jay | Sep 17, 2010 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Team Chevy Drivers Score Four of Top-Five Starting Positions at New Hampshire
Loudon, N.H. (September 17,2010) – Four Team Chevy drivers scored top-five starting positions at New Hampshire Motor Speedway for the first race of the 2010 Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
Clint Bowyer, No. 33 Cheerios/Hamburger Helper Chevrolet and the 12th seed in the Chase field, will start on the outside of the front row. Tony Stewart, the sixth seed in the Chase, qualified his No. 14 Office Depot/Old Spice Chevrolet in the third starting position.
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