Timmons Earning His Racing Stripes At Beech Ridge
FALMOUTH, Maine – Bobby Timmons is showing that he’s a quick study.
Timmons, 19, had never driven anything more than go-karts and Legend cars before this month, but the up-and-coming talent on the New England stock-car circuit is quickly adapting to life in a Super Late Model. Timmons has just three career starts at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, but he’s already opening eyes.
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Nick Sweet: ACT Late Model Tour
Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl Race Preview
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Nick Sweet of Barre, Vt., hopes to put a home field advantage to good use this weekend when the ACT Late Model Tour competes in the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt., on Sunday, September 4. Sweet, the 2010 track champion, will make his third appearance for RPM Motorsports in the No. 57 Saint J Auto/RPM Racing Engines Ford and first in the car at Thunder Road. Though Sweet has never won the longest race on the Thunder Road schedule, he is the most recent ACT winner at the track – having taken the checkered flag in the Merchants Bank 150 in May while driving for his family-owned team.
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Racers Ready for 150 Laps of Action
Even though the 2011 Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South season is winding down, the chase for the championship is heating up as the series heads to Ace Speedway in Altamahaw, North Carolina, for The Labor Day Classic on Saturday, September 3rd. The return to the facility will be the 11th event of the 13-race 2011 season for the Super Late Model series.
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Naples ME (8/30) Call them what you will ; Wildcats, Strictly Stocks, Bombers – there’s dozens of names for the entry level class that many racers use to get their start in motorsports or keep themselves involved due to the divisions’ relatively economical nature. It’s action packed, fender rubbing racing with plenty of thrills, spills and excitement for drivers and fans alike.
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BRISTOL, Tenn.—Brad Keselowski’s phoenix-like rise from the ashes continued Saturday, with an improbable victory in the Irwin Tools Night Race at Bristol Motor Speedway—his third win of the season and his second since breaking his left ankle Aug. 3 in a crash during testing at Road Atlanta.
Keselowski grabbed the lead on a restart with 80 laps left in the 500-lap Sprint Cup race and held on to win for the fourth time in his career. The victory all but assured Keselowski of at least a wild-card position in the upcoming Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup.
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ACT Can-Am 200 at Riverside Postponed Due to Rain
Ste-Croix, QC – The ACT Late Model Tour and Série ACT Castrol combined Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste-Croix, QC scheduled for Saturday, August 27 has been postponed due to rain.
Forty-one cars attempted to qualify for the event with thirty-six making the field. The field of 36 was set before the rains came following the B-Feature. Those 36 cars will return on Sunday, September 11 to complete the 200 lap distance. (more…)