by | Aug 13, 2013 | Canaan, New Hampshire
Veteran leads 49 of 50 laps; point standings tighten
CANAAN, NH – Multi-time Modified stock car racing champion Kenny Tremont, Jr., earned his first-ever victory on the Northern Modified Challenge Series on Sunday, August 11, taking a convincing win in the Subway Fresh Fit 50 at Canaan Fair Speedway. The win was the 303rd feature event victory of the West Sand Lake, NY veteran’s celebrated career.
Tremont was strong in his qualifying heat at the fast 1/3-mile asphalt oval, finishing second to point leader Jessey Mueller. By virtue of a blind draw, Tremont started on the outside of the front row in the 50-lap main event, lining up next to Brandon, VT’s Vince Quenneville, Jr., who also won a qualifying heat.
The opening laps took their toll, drawing four caution periods in the first eight circuits. The restarts set up an entertaining faceoff between Quenneville and Tremont, however, and Tremont surprised even himself in using the tricky outside lane to grab the lead each time. Quenneville was able to lead only the second lap of the race before Tremont pulled out to a comfortable advantage.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | Granite State Pro Stock, New Hampshire, Star Speedway
On Saturday night, August 17th, the Granite State Pro Stocks return to the Star Speedway for their first visit of the season. This is the seventh event of eleven on the 2013 schedule for the GSPSS.
Matt Frahm is the defending winner of this event, and with two wins on the season, is one of the favorites going into this event. Matt has two wins on the season, and sits fifth in the championship standings.
Jeremy Davis leads the points standings going into the Star Speedway, and has one win so far, that coming at his home track of Canaan Speedway on Saturday, May 4th, his first of the series. Mike O’Sullivan was runner-up in August, 2012, but a win on July 7th at Hudson International Speedway put him right back into the championship standings, as he sits only 6 points behind Davis. Barry Gray, coming off his first win of the season at Monadnock Speedway, moved into third in points, with Larry Gelinas and Frahm fourth and fifth.
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by | Aug 10, 2013 | Canaan, Devils Bowl, New Hampshire, Vermont
Northern Modified Challenge Series at Canaan, NH still on for Sunday
WEST HAVEN, VT – Devil’s Bowl Speedway will suffer another cancellation on Friday, August 9, as heavy rains and a forecast that includes possible flooding in the West Haven, VT area have wiped out Interstate All Battery Center of Rutland Night presented by Green Mountain Water Environment Association.
The event was scheduled to include NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing for the Bond Auto Parts Modified, Late Model, Renegade, and Central Vermont Motorcycles Mini Stock divisions, as well as kids’ racecar rides and Spectator Racing. No rescheduling announcements have been made to date.
The Northern Modified Challenge Series, a new five-race championship sanctioned by Devil’s Bowl Speedway management, will make its maiden voyage to New Hampshire’s Canaan Fair Speedway on Sunday, August 11 for the Subway Fresh Fit 50. Racing begins at 1:30pm.
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by | Aug 8, 2013 | Canaan, New Hampshire, VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Canaan, NH. – Rowan Pennink, thanks to a late race charge and a fifth place finish last weekend at Scarborough, ME, has emerged as the current point leader heading to Waterford, CT., this weekend, when the Valenti Modified Racing Series competes in the 6th annual Wings ‘n Wheels race program. The popular summer event is scheduled for Saturday night, August 10.
Pennink moved ahead of Tommy Barrett (330-326) after Beech Ridge with Richard Savary, of Canton, MA, sneaking into third (313) only 17 points behind Pennink. Louie Mechalides, of Tyngsboro, MA, and Norm Wrenn, of Nashua, NH, are currently fourth and fifth. The top five point men are expected entries for Waterford.
As the VMRS 10th anniversary season continues, where it started in April,
Pennink is just one of four series regulars entering the open-wheel special with prior success in the Wings ‘n Wheels event. .
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by | Aug 8, 2013 | Canaan, Devils Bowl, New Hampshire, Vermont
Teenager Mueller and veteran Gonyo sit 1-2 in standings
CANAAN, NH – An equal mix of youth and experience lead the all-new Northern Modified Challenge Series stock car tour to Canaan Fair Speedway on Sunday, August 11. Eighteen year-old Jessey Mueller has a small six-point advantage on Leon Gonyo – a veteran of five decades of racing – entering the Subway Fresh Fit 50. The event is round three of the five-race championship sanctioned by Devil’s Bowl Speedway management.
The Canaan event will be the first experience at the fast 1/3-mile New Hampshire oval for most of the Northern Modified Challenge Series drivers. Mueller, of Olmstedville, NY, has a history of success at new tracks; he won the NMCS opener at Thunder Road (VT) Speedbowl in his first start there in May and also won a special event in his first trip to Stafford (CT) Motor Speedway in 2012. Gonyo, of Chazy, NY has accumulated championships and dozens of victories at several tracks since the early 1970s.
The pair finished 1-2 in the first-ever NMCS race at Thunder Road on Memorial Day, and were second and third, respectively, behind winner Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT in the C.J. Richards Memorial at Devil’s Bowl Speedway last week. Mueller has 106 points to Gonyo’s 100 entering Canaan. Hunter Bates of Middlebury, VT is third with 92 points, Vince Quenneville, Jr., of Brandon, VT is fourth at 88 points, and Joe Williams of Scotia, NY sits fifth at 86 points. Stone’s Devil’s Bowl win moved him up to sixth place.
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by | Aug 7, 2013 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire
By Gary Dutton
WINCHESTER, NH – Tyler Janovsky and Michael McGoldrick III each did it for the first time ever Saturday, August 3, at Monadnock Speedway, while Barry Gray added to his long list of conquests at the high-banked speedplant.
Gray, McGoldrick, and Janovsky each took a victory lap at the fast quarter-mile, as did Sportsman Modified feature winner Tyler Jarvenpaa, Super Stock victor Dave Striebel, and Mini Stock strongman Chris McTaggart.
The Granite State Pro Stock Series 100-lapper was Mike Parks’ to lose. Starting on the pole the veteran wheelsman held off Larry Gelinas and Barry Gray for 78 laps, until a momentary bobble on a restart allowed Gray to speed by and then run out the race from the point.
Gray took second from Gelinas on lap 30 and the potent trio then played high-speed bumper tag until the third of three late-70s cautions set up the only lead change of the event. With Gray adding to his long list of Monadnock feature wins, Parks was rock solid as he earned the runner-up finish with Gelinas glued to his bumper as the top three took the checkers under a blanket.
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Veteran leads 49 of 50 laps; point standings tighten