by Jay | Sep 18, 2010 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 18, 2010)—At the end of a long two-man duel between polesitter and race winner Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick, James Buescher came within a whisker of stealing the show.
Driving his own No. 18 Toyota, Busch, however, surged ahead off Turn 2 Saturday at 1.058-mile New Hampshire Motor Speedway after a restart with two laps left in TheRaceDayRaffleSeries.com 175 to win the NASCAR Camping World Truck Series race by .280 seconds over Buescher, who took issue with Busch’s tactics on Lap 174.
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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 18, 2010 | Maine, New England, New Hampshire, PASS, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Dearborn wraps up PASS season on a White Mountain high note Johnny Clark claims unprecedented fifth Championship
Naples ME (9/18) –Hollis Maine’s Richie Dearborn got the best of Travis Benjamin on a late race restart to capture Friday night’s 150 lap Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super late model feature at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock New Hampshire. Benjamin, who had led from the green flag, held off Cassius Clark to finish second,..743 seconds behind the winner.
The victory was Dearborn’s first since PASS visited White Mountain in the fall of 2009 and his fifth in PASS super late model competition. It was the third time Dearborn and his Chadwick-BaRoss/Dayton Sand and Gravel team earned the win in the fall PASS visit to the fast quarter mile nestled at the foot of Franconia Notch.
Without that late race restart the results could easily have been different. Benjamin looked like he might run away from the field, hungry for his first series win since 2008. Benjamin has been strong in one of Richard Moody’s first rate rides, and he seemed able to pull away from the field at will for the night’s first 130 laps. But Dearborn was on a charge too, taking second away from Adam Bates on lap 120 and lookimg for a way to get to Benjamin. But the night’s second caution flew on lap 132 ,giving Dearborn the shot he needed and the PASS veteran got the job done when the green flag flew. At the stripe it was Dearborn, Benjamin, Cassius Clark, Trevor Sanborn and Ben Rowe first through fifth under the checkers.
Johnny Clark was in the mix from the start, charging up to third before rear suspension issues sent him to the pit area for the night with just 33 laps in the books. The rare DNF left Clark 21st at the finish but the Farmingdale Maine super late model super star’s point cushion heading into the season finale held up.Tthe Clark’s Car Crushing/Port City Race Cars team earned a third straight PASS northsuper late model title, their fifth overall. The Championship broke a deadlock with Ben Rowe for most PASS North titles earned. Rowe kept the point race close until a DNF of his own at the PASS 300 took the four time PASS North titlist out of contention.
Thirteen cars completed all 150 green flag laps. Two caution flags slowed the race which took just thirtyeight minutesto complete.. Heat race wins went to Johnny Clark, Travis Benjamin and Dustin Hubbard.
The PASS North super late model season is in the books, but there’s still plenty of PASS racing on tap up and down the eastern seaboard. The PASS South super late models head for the fabled Hickory Motor Speedway on Saturday September 25th and both the PASS South and PASS National titles will be decided on October 16th when the Mason-Dixon Meltdown premieres at Newport (TN) Speedway. The PASS North Sportsman series champion will be crowned at Groveton New Hampshire’s Riverside Speedway on Saturday October 16.
Unofficial Results: PASS North 150 – White Mt. Motorsports Park – 9/17/10
1 Richie Dearborn 2 Travis Benjamin 3 Cassius Clark 4 Trevor Sanborn 5 Ben Rowe 6 Donnie Whitten 7 Adam Bates 8 Scott Dragon 9 Derek Ramstrom 10 Tom Scully 11 Steve Legendre 12 Nick Ribbe 13 Joey Doiron 14 Mark Patten 15 Gary Smith 16 Sam Gooden Jr. 17 Billy Brady 18 Scott Alexander 19 Kelly Moore 20 Randy Turner 21 Johnny Clark 22 Dustin Hubbard
