by Jay | Oct 25, 2012 | New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
24 Hours of Lemons, Hooptiefest kick off wild, wacky weekend at NHMS
LOUDON, N.H. (Oct. 25, 2012) – It’s time to make lemonade at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The 24 Hours of Lemons, a door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper endurance-race series that features cars that cost $500 or less, returns to “The Magic Mile” this weekend (Oct. 26-28). With over 10,000 participants spread across tracks coast to coast, no other event creates bigger, weirder, more hilariously crazy challenges than these weekend-long blowouts of intense and immensely fun competition between cars that are due for the scrapheap.
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by Jay | Oct 23, 2012 | Granite State Pro Stock, Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire, Touring Series News
Granite State Pro Stock Series Set for Vampire 100 at Monadnock Speedway
Cabral, Baillargeon to settle championship in season finale
WINCHESTER, NH — Veteran stock car racers Bobby Cabral and Bobby Baillargeon will settle the Granite State Pro Stock Series championship battle this Saturday, October 27, at Monadnock Speedway in the Vampire 100.
Point leader Cabral carries a 14-point margin over his closest competitor headed into the final race of the Granite State Pro Stock Series season. Cabral, of East Kingston, NH, scored a win earlier in the season at Hudson Speedway in July and has finished inside the top-five in four of the five series race this season.
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by Jay | Oct 16, 2012 | Hudson, Media, New Hampshire, Photos
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by Jay | Oct 15, 2012 | Hudson, New England, New Hampshire
Hudson NH- Hudson Speedway concluded its 65th consecutive racing season on Sunday October 14th. Racing got started late after an hour and half rain delay but with the help of drivers and spectators driving around the wet oval in race cars and personal vehicles the track was dried quickly.
The first feature to race was the B and L Used Auto Parts Thunder Lights. Max Chaput of Nashua NH led the first half of the feature while Nick Dombroski of Derry NH and Andrew Morin of Nashua NH were closing in on him. Dombroski got to Chaput first and took to the outside lane. Dombroski spent four laps on the outside of Chaput finally getting by him with two laps to go. Dombroski held on to the lead till the end of the race. Chaput had a career best second place finish followed by Morin, Kris Schroeder and Jarrod Howard. Chaput won the heat.
Andrew Morin is the 2012 B and L Used Auto Parts Thunder Lights points Champion.
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by Jay | Oct 8, 2012 | Hudson, New Hampshire
Hudson NH – Todd Warren was the man to beat in the Outlaw Sportsman on Sunday Oct 7th at Hudson International Speedway. Warren has been slowly improving the last few season and finally got his breakthrough first win in the last appearance of the Outlaw Sportsman at Hudson Speedway in 2012. Warren had a few podium finishes and led a lot of laps this season and put it all together to go home with the winners spoils.
Warren started on the outside pole and spent a lap or two in overtaking polesitter Ron Lord. Warren stretched his lead while perennial front runners Geoff Rollins and Dean Wendell were making their way up through traffic. At the half-way point of the thirty lap feature Rollins had caught Warren and Wendell was just a car length or two behind Rollins. From that point on Warren made no mistakes slicng through lapped traffic better than Rollins and Wendell and was hung onto to drive under starter Bob Munroe’s unfurled checked flag for a well deserved victory.
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by Jay | Oct 8, 2012 | Granite State Pro Stock, New Hampshire, Touring Series News
Championship showdown now set for Saturday, October 27
WINCHESTER, NH — Seventeen Granite State Pro Stock Series cars were prepared to determine the first JBH 100 winner before unfavorable conditions forced Monadnock Speedway management to postpone the event until Saturday, October 27.
The JBH 100, which has been unfortunately postponed four times since its original August 4th date, is held in memory of late Granite State Pro Stock Series co-founder John Hoyt, who unexpectedly passed away last year. The JBH 100 will be the final race in the 2012 Granite State Pro Stock Series season.
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