by Jay | Mar 23, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Kobyluck Headed To Greenville With Eye On Top-Five
Waterford, Conn. (March 22, 2010): This weekend, Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun race team expect nothing but a top-five finish at Greenville-Pickens Speedway. A championship run almost demands it.
“With the schedule as it is this year, you can not afford to have a bad week,” said the driver of the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Chevrolet on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. “We start off our season like the Cup ends their season. You have to come out strong and ready to go. It’s the beginning of our Chase.”
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by Jay | Mar 21, 2010 | ACT
HELLIWELL LOOKS TO JUMP START FORD BLUE OVAL CUP CHALLENGE AT WATERFORD
Waterbury, VT –Lee USA Speedway 2009 Champion, Wayne Helliwell, Jr. is looking to get a head start on the other ACT Ford team members in the 2010 season-long campaign. It was announced today by car owner Bruce Bernhardt that the team will head to Waterford Speedbowl for the opening event at the ‘Bowl’ over the weekend of March 27-28.
“We are definitely planning to go to Waterford for the practice on Friday, and if things go as we hope they will, we will plan to run the 50-lap Late Model feature,” said Bernhardt. Waterford is an affiliate track of the American Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model program. With the ACT system of universal rules, it allows teams from throughout the northeastern United States and Canada to travel to a large number of tracks in the region.
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by Jay | Mar 21, 2010 | ACT
BELLEROSE AND LAQUERRE TEAM UP AGAIN FOR 2010 SEASON AT THUNDER ROAD
Waterbury, VT – It has been a decade since Tracie Bellerose from Gorham, NH made history at Thunder Road International Speedbowl (TR) in Barre, VT. She became the first woman to win a major championship at one of the nation’s most famous and toughest short tracks. In a surprise today, Bellerose announced that she would be returning to full time racing with the same crew chief and team that brought her to national prominence in 2000.
“When the opportunity came calling, this kid (Bellerose) knew exactly what she wanted and that was to go back to racing competitively. I tried golf, but the golf carts were too slow, I then bought a Harley, but wrecking that on the highway was way worse than a couple of memorable wrecks I had at Thunder Road. Quite frankly, I have not even been able to visit Thunder Road as a spectator – I have missed racing so much. Obviously, I am pretty excited,” said Bellerose.
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by Jay | Mar 21, 2010 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Fadden Racing Announces Development Program With Julian Camilo Albarracin
Fadden Racing, Inc. announced today that they have added Columbian Julian Camilo Albarracin as a primary development driver for the 2010 season. Albarracin will begin the year competing in a Late Model in New England before moving into the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in June. The young and upcoming driver will pilot the No. 54 Fadden Racing Chevrolet’s.
Albaraccin’s background is based on road courses with extensive experience in the Skip Barber Series. In 2008, Albaraccin placed second in the Mid Western Regional championship points and then backed that up with a seventh place finish in the National point standings in 2009. In just nine starts last season, Albarracin posted one top-five and seven top-10 finishes. He began his career in Karts in 2001 and also competed in Formula Renault where he traveled to Mexico, Ecuador, Guatemala, Costa Rica, and Puerto Rico to race.
“We’re very excited to add Julian to the Fadden Racing family,” said car owner Mike Olsen. “We did some testing with him and he has a lot of potential to do very well in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series. We want him to have some time for a learning curve instead of rushing him right into everything so we decided it would be best to start him out in a Late Model and do some testing in the East Series car before we actually start competing.”
Albaraccin turned nearly 400 laps at White Mountain Motorsports Park in a private test that allowed the driver to get acclimated to the heavier, full-bodied stock cars. His pre-season training will include tests at several different venues in addition to the Late Model schedule that is still yet to be determined.
“We’ve already made important steps in his progression to the K&N Pro Series,” said Olsen. “He communicates well with the crew and he’s making huge strides in his transition between car types.”
For more information on Fadden Racing, visit www.faddenracing.net.
by Jay | Mar 15, 2010 | PASS
Ryan Blaney Dominates for First Career PASS South Win
Naples, ME 3/15/10- Fans who have followed the PASS South series for the last year and a half have all wondered and even asked him to his face, “Ryan when are you going to win your first race?” That question along with a statement on who might be the guy to beat for the 2010 PASS South series championship was answered in front of a stellar crowd at the Dillon Motor Speedway in Dillon, South Carolina as fifteen-year-old Ryan Blaney stole the show and earned the win, dominating the South Carolina Clash 150.
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by Jay | Mar 11, 2010 | ACT, NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series, New England, PASS
HUDSON, N.H. — The old adage tells us that consistency wins championships, and Joey Polewarczyk Jr. hopes he can prove it true once again in 2010.
The 20-year-old stock car driver will have plenty of chances to find consistency on the track, committing to run the full ACT Late Model Tour season this year as well as a partial NASCAR K&N Pro Series East schedule. Polewarczyk, who owns four career ACT wins and finished a career-best fourth in the final 2009 standings, is looking forward to getting back behind the wheel.
“It’s going to be a busy summer, for sure,” Polewarczyk said. “I’m excited about it. It’s going to be a lot of fun.”
Polewarczyk started making waves for himself last June when he beat two-time Sprint Cup Series champion Tony Stewart — plus a full field of Late Models — in the Vermont Governor’s Cup at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, Vt. But as good a season as Polewarczyk had, it was his offseason that’s been even more productive.
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