by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, PASS
Staples masters PASS Mods, Martin snares PASS Sportsman win at the Ridge
Chris Staples has seen success in nearly every Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North division; he’s a two time Mod champ, he’s raced up front in the now dormant Outlaw division, and he has a Beech Ridge super late model win to his credit.
Saturday Staples returned to Beech Ridge one year after his first super late model victory, but this time he was back behind the wheel of his PASS Mod. After a year’s hiatus from the PASS Mod ranks, Staples returned to victory lane in the open wheel series lid lifter at the Scarborough Maine speed plant. Staples now has twelve wins in the fast, fun and affordable series.
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by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS
Mike Rowe scores back –to-front PASS North win at Beech Ridge
Mike Rowe didn’t look like a winner during qualifying for Saturdays’ Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North season opener at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Rowe started the 150 lap super late model feature in the 28th position but the defending Pro Series Champion at the immaculate Scarborough Maine oval picked his way through the field to put his PT Watts Chevrolet on race leader Trevor Sanborn’s back bumper at the half way mark..
Sanborn held Rowe at bay for nearly 50 laps, but the Maine motorsports legend found an opening under Sanborn on lap 120 and led the final 30 laps to capture his sixteenth PASS North Super Late Model feature and two in a row at Beech Ridge. Rowe’s margin of victory was .526 seconds
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road
Nick Sweet Earns First Career ACT Win in Merchants Bank 150
Barre, VT – Barre’s own Nick Sweet earned his first career American Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car win in the 12th Annual Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Sunday, May 2. Sweet started from the 12th position after qualifying through a consi. He battled his way to the front, driving around Patrick Laperle and then Dave Pembroke for the lead. Sweet held off six-time and defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston late in the event. Hoar took second followed by Laperle in third.
Pembroke led the majority of the first half of the race before battling Laperle just after the halfway point in the 150 lap event. Pembroke drove back around Laperle but then lost the battle with Sweet. Pembroke would hold on for fourth and Mark Lamberton took fifth. Craig Bushey, Joey Laquerre, Chip Grenier, Scott Payea and Mark Hayward rounded out the top ten.
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, PASS
Ben Rowe: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
4-time PASS North Series champion Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, finished 3rd in the season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 1. He led on one occasion for a total of nine laps in the Mulkern Racing Community Pharmacies No. 48 Chevrolet, his PASS North debut with his new team and crew chief Seth Holbrook. Team owner Scott Mulkern finished 20th in a second Mulkern Racing car in the event.
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by Jay | Apr 29, 2010 | ACT, New England
ACT 2010 POST SEASON AWARDS TOP $100,000
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will celebrate twenty-five years of sanctioning and managing stock car races in 2010, and the quarter century old sanctioning body will award its race teams with over $100,000.00 in post-season awards. This will mark the first season the various point funds have topped the century mark.
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by Jay | Apr 29, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, PASS
Ben Rowe: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Preview
4-time PASS North Series champion Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, begins his drive for a fifth series title with the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 1. The series schedule was originally slated to start last month at Speedway 95 before inclement weather intervened. Rowe is making his PASS North debut with Mulkern Racing after several seasons with Richard Moody Racing. Rowe owns more victories than any driver in PASS history with 39, more than twice his closest competitor. He’ll debut a brand new Mulkern Racing car built by Distance Racing this weekend.
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