by Jay | Sep 20, 2010 | NASCAR, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS
LOUDON, N.H.(Sept. 19, 2010) — The picture told the story.
Clint Bowyer’s No. 33 Chevrolet spun in a cloud of smoke as Bowyer celebrated Sunday’s victory in the Sylvania 300 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
In the same frame, Tony Stewart’s No. 14 Chevy coasted slowly across the finish line, out of fuel and out of the running for a race win that had seemed a distinct possibility barely more than a lap earlier.
Bowyer, the last driver to qualify for the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup, and Stewart both gambled on fuel after pitting for the last time on Lap 208 of 300 at the 1.058-mile racetrack.
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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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