by Jay | Sep 24, 2011 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Wins rain-shortened K&N Pro Series East race at New Hampshire
LOUDON, N.H. — Brett Moffitt kept his NASCAR K&N Pro Series East title hopes alive with a rain-shortened win in the New Hampshire 125 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway Friday.
Moffitt led a race-high 53 laps en route to his seventh career win and first at the “Magic Mile.” The Michael Waltrip Racing development driver cut the points lead of Joe Gibbs Racing’s Max Gresham to 21 entering the season finale Friday, Sept. 30 at Dover International Speedway.
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by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Sept. 21, 2011) – A week ago while on a press junket in Chicago to promote the 10-race Chase for the Sprint Cup, Tony Stewart proclaimed he’d be a “bumbling idiot” if he won this year’s NASCAR Sprint Cup Series championship. After all, the driver of the No. 14 Mobil 1/Office Depot Chevrolet Impala for Stewart-Haas Racing (SHR) hadn’t won a race in 2011 and squeaked his way into the Chase field with only three top-fives and 11 top-10s during the 26-race regular season.
By Stewart’s standards, it had been a miserable season. The two-time Sprint Cup champion (2002 and 2005) had his lowest totals of top-fives, top-10s and laps led prior to the final 10 races of the season than during any of his 12 previous years in Sprint Cup.
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by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
-Shell-Pennzoil Dodge Driver Hoping For More Success On Flat 1.058-Mile New Hampshire Track-
LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 20, 2011) – Shell-Pennzoil Dodge driver Kurt Busch is really looking forward to this weekend’s SYLVANIA 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. With a career record that sports three wins, seven top-five finishes and 11 top 10s, it’s easy to understand the 2004 NASCAR Sprint Cup Champion’s fondness of the flat 1.058-mile track.
“With all the intermediate sized tracks we go to during the Chase, it’ll definitely be a nice change of scenery to get back to Loudon this weekend,” offered Busch, who heads into Sunday’s second of 10 Chase races ranked fourth in the series’ point standings. “The way that you have to slide a car around on a flat track like Loudon requires a loose setup and that’s the way I like to set my cars up. There’s always so much slipping and sliding and getting the forward bite we need is always so critical. Track position is really key and being up front on the restarts is so important. (more…)
by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
HUNTERSVILLE, N.C. (Sept. 21, 2011) – At the outset of the 1992 presidential election, William Jefferson Clinton, with just 3 percent of the vote, finished fourth in the Iowa Democratic Caucus. He was beaten handily by longtime Iowa Senator Tom Harkin, who not surprisingly won 76 percent of the vote, while 12 percent voted “uncommitted,” and 4 percent chose Massachusetts Senator Paul Tsongas.
It appeared as though his campaign was in trouble, but Clinton rallied in the New Hampshire Primary one week later as he finished a solid second behind Tsongas despite trailing by a large margin in most polls leading up to Election Day. (more…)
by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
Dave Davis Motorsports Wants Another Crack At Series’ Biggest Track
DENVER, N.C. – Since he left the speedway back in July, Cody Hodgson has been champing at the bit for another crack at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
When the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East heads to the track for this weekend’s New Hampshire 125, Hodgson will get that crack. Practice and qualifying are slated for Thursday, weather permitting, with the green flag at 5 p.m. Friday afternoon.
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by Jay | Sep 22, 2011 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
(Loudon, NH)- When you think of the ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, you can’t help but think of Joey Polewarczyk Jr. The Hudson, NH native drove his Black #97 Ford Fusion to Victory Lane in the second running of the Invitational in 2010 and then went on to win the Vermont Milk Bowl and the season ending race at the Waterford Speedbowl.
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