by Jay | Aug 3, 2010 | New England, New Hampshire
Mark Brown and Leon Dugan Have the Golden Touch at Big Daddy’s
To punctuate the move from Sunday to Saturday racing at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl, Leon Dugan pulled off a hat trick, finishing first in the Bandit and the Mini-Stock divisions as well as the 50-lap Enduro. Mark Brown won a great Super Street main event, his first of the season. Al Crossman Trucking of Wentworth, NH was the evening’s title sponsor, with sponsorship from Central Metals for the extra payoff for the Mike’s Automotive Outlaw Late Models. The Enduro trophies were sponsored by the Heath Family.
Dugan ran the same #71 car in both the Camaro Heaven Bandit and OE Parts Direct features and came away with both first-place trophies. In the Bandit class, Marcus Jenness (19) was second and Alicia Smith (88) third. In the Mini-Stocks it was Josh Sunn (11) and Brandon LeMere (1) rounding out the top 3. Josh Sunn pulled off a neat trick of his own, winning second place in both the Mini-Stocks and the Modifieds.
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by Jay | Aug 3, 2010 | Hudson, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Eric Vilandre won the Mario “Fats” Caruso Memorial Race for the New England V-6 Modifieds on Sunday evening August 1st at Hudson International Speedway. It was a nostalgic night with Caruso’s Worcester Sand and Gravel Coupe on hand and announcer John “Spider” Spence back behind the mic for the first time in fifteen years at Hudson Speedway.
Caruso was a local racing legend whose career spanned six decades beginning in 1949 and ending in 1991. Nicknamed “The Shrewsbury Flash” Caruso won races all over the Northeast and started two races in what is now Sprint Cup. He spawned two more generations of racers with his late son David Caruso and two grandsons Jeff and Keith Caruso.
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by Jay | Aug 3, 2010 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire
Two for Tuesday Special Event
Fans filed into the stands for Two for Tuesday racing at the fastest 1/4 mile in the East. The working man’s show began at 7 pm and featured all divisions of racing trying to get in as much competition due to weekend rain outs.
Tour Type Modifieds were the only one to pull heats races. Rusty Ball, a competitor since the track opened, would dominate his heat race. The red flag flew in the second heat when Brandee Tree and Todd Patnode would get together. Patnode would take the brunt and have to be slung between to wreckers and taken to his pit. The field had a third heat which set the position for the feature.
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | Lee USA, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire
DJ Shaw Derailed From Potential Podium Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): DJ Shaw was well on his way to a top-three finish at Lee USA Speedway in Friday night’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125. But a spin on lap 89 took the 20-year-old driver out of contention and the JLM Precision race team had to settle with a 12th place finish.
“I got wrecked,” said a dejected Shaw. “We probably had the second place car. It was a bad day for me. I hadn’t even started going yet. I felt like I could have passed Eddie (MacDonald) at any time on a long run, and if Ryan (Truex) had been patient he probably would have won that race.”
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | Lee USA, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire
Kobyluck Rallies To Seventh Place Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun Casino race team had their work cut out for them in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125 at Lee USA Speedway Friday night. After bottoming out in qualifying, the team knew they were going have to pit early and come up through from the back of the pack. Despite more than a handful of wrecks, Kobyluck was able to stay out of trouble and take home an impressive seventh place finish without a scratch on the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet.
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by Jay | Aug 1, 2010 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS
Ben Rowe: PASS North Series
Riverside Speedway Race Report
Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, finished fourth in the PASS North Series Summerfest 150 at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, N.H., on Saturday, July 31. Rowe started 12th in the 18-car field and worked into the top-10 before the 50-lap mark on the high-banked, quarter-mile track. He benefited from a lap 81 restart, gaining a few spots’ worth of track position before running comfortably inside the top-five for the remainder of the event. Unofficially, Rowe gained five points in the title chase on leader Johnny Clark and now trails by just nine points heading into the final four races of the year.
WHO: Ben Rowe, Turner, Maine
TEAM: No. 48 Community Pharmacies Chevrolet
WHAT: PASS North Series Summerfest 150
WHERE: Riverside Speedway, Groveton, N.H. (.625-mile oval)
STARTED: 12th
FINISHED: 4th
LED: 0 times for 0 laps
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