by Jay | Jul 24, 2009 | ACT, New England
Barre, VT- Cris Michaud of Northfield, VT captured the first ever victory for a Ford Crate Engine in American Canadian Tour history at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Casella Waste Management Night. Michaud drives the lone Ford engine in ACT competition since its inception this season. Countless hours of testing and tuning by Michaud and his crew have made the Ford Crate Engine competitive both at Thunder Road and on various tracks visited by the ACT Tour.
Michaud got by Doug Murphy with five laps remaining in the 50 lap main event. Murphy would hold on to second and his second straight podium finish. Reno Gervais worked his way from the seventh starting position to finish third followed by Trampas Demers and Jerry Lesage rounding out the top five. Phil Scott came all the way from 15th to finish sixth, Nick Sweet seventh, Jamie Fisher eighth, Joey Becker ninth and Dave Pembroke took tenth.
The NAPA Tiger Sportsmen Casella Waste Management Feature saw a three car breakaway for the win. Eric Badore of Milton won his second feature event of the 2009 season and his NAPA Tiger Sportsmen career. Badore held off runner-up finisher Ray Stearns and third place Shawn Fleury as they broke away from the rest of the field. Pete Ainsworth and Brian Delphia finished fourth and fifth respectively while David Finck, Ricky Roberts, Neal Foster, Mike Billado and Joey Laquerre filled the sixth through tenth positions.
Tucker Williams of Hyde Park, VT captured his third Allen Lumber Street Stock Feature win of his rookie career in the Casella Waste Management feature. Jason Allen inherited the second place after Jeff Martin had issues in the tech line due to too much left side weight. That also allowed Martin Ingram to move into third followed by Troy Gray and William Hennequin finishing in the top five. Sixth through tenth was Greg Adams, David Allen, Scott Weston, Mike Martin and Tim Campbell.
Northfield’s John Prentice took home the Power Shift Junkyard Warriors Monza style feature. The first eight laps the Warriors drove in reverse before turning around for the final 25 laps. Prentice was given the win for finishing third in both segments. Kevin Streeter came home second after losing the tie-breaker to Prentice. Apparent third place finisher Mark LaFleche was disqualified in the tech line for too much camber, handing third place to Ken Christman. Kevin Wheatley and Kevin Dodge rounded out the top five.
Next Thursday, July 30th is WDEV/Calkins Night with special guest Richard Petty. “The King” will be on hand for a Meet and Greet session for fans from 5:45 to 6:30. Petty will also be the Grand Marshall for the annual Porta-Potty Grand Prix. This year’s contestants are Jean-Paul Cyr representing the Late Model division, James Hebert for the NAPA Tiger Sportsman, Gary Mullen in the Allen Lumber Street Stocks and Donnie Yates from the Power Shift Junkyard Warriors. Also next week is the $5,000 to win M&M Beverage Enduro on Sunday, August 2nd.
Unofficial Late Model Feature Results – 1. Cris Michaud (6) Northfield, VT, 2. Doug Murphy (4) Tunbridge, VT, 3. Reno Gervais (12vt) Island Pond, VT, 4. Trampas Demers (85) South Burlington, VT, 5. Jerry Lesage (74) Winooski, VT, 6. Phil Scott (14) Montpelier, VT, 7. Nicholas Sweet (88) Barre, VT, 8. Jamie Fisher (18) Shelburne, VT, 9. Joe Becker (16) Jeffersonville, VT, 10. Dave Pembroke (44) Montpelier, VT, 11. Craig Bushey (05) Cambridge, VT, 12. Mike Bailey (00) Barre, VT, 13. Jean-Paul Cyr (11vt) Milton, VT, 14. Brooks Clark (68) Fayston, VT, 15. Eric Chase (40vt) Milton, VT, 16. Matt White (42vt) Northfield, VT, 17. John Donahue (26vt) Graniteville, VT, 18. Dylan Smith (34) Randolph, VT, 19. Grant Folsom (81) Waitsfield, VT, 20. Rich Lowrey (8vt) Charlotte, VT, 21. David Whitcomb (25) Essex Jct., VT, 22. Kyle Caron (22) Colchester, VT, 23. Steve Fisher (24) Shelburne, VT, 24. Tony Andrews (1) Northfield, VT.
Unofficial NAPA Tiger Sportsmen Feature Results – 1. Eric Badore (04) Milton, VT, 2. Ray Stearns (89) E. Corinth, VT, 3. Shawn Fleury (31) Middlesex, VT, 4. Pete Ainsworth Jr. (80) Middlesex, VT, 5. Brian Delphia (55) Waterbury, VT, 6. David Finck (37) Barre, VT, 7. Ricky Roberts (9) Washington, VT, 8. #Neal Foster (19) Waterbury, VT, 9. #Mike Billado (8) Essex, VT, 10. Joey Laquerre (15) E. Montpelier, VT, 11. Joe Steffen (00) Essex Jct., VT, 12. Jeff French (06) Northfield, VT, 13. Joey Roberts (50) Georgia, VT, 14. Mike Ziter (26) Williamstown, VT, 15. Cody Blake (99) Barre, VT, 16. Bobby Therrien (4) Hinesburg, VT, 17. Matt Potter (23) Marshfield, VT, 18. Kris Grout (49) Waterbury, VT, 19. Mark Barnier (0) Essex Jct., VT, 20. Joel Hodgdon (36) Craftsbury, VT, 21. Lance Allen (18) Barre, VT, 22. Tony Rossi (90) Barre, VT, 23. Brendan Moodie (94) Wolcott, VT, 24. James Hebert (58) Williamstown, VT, 25. Derrick O’Donnell (68) Bradford, VT, 26. Tom Therrien (48) Hinesburg, VT, 27. Richard LaFond (84) Colchester, VT, 28. John Drinkwine (98) Barre, VT.
Unofficial Allen Lumber Street Stock Feature Results – 1. #Tucker Williams (99) Hyde Park, VT, 2. Jason Allen (88) Northfield, VT, 3. Martin Ingram (7) Essex Jct., VT, 4. Troy Gray (00) Fairlee, VT, 5. William Hennequin (47) Morrisville, VT, 6. Greg Adams Jr. (38) Hardwick, VT, 7. David Allen (11) North Troy, VT, 8. Scott Weston (04) Berlin, VT, 9. Mike Martin (01) Craftbury Comn,VT, 10. Timmy Campbell (34) W. Topsham, VT.
Unofficial Power Shift Junkyard Warriors Feature Results – 1. John Prentice (87) Northfield, VT, 2. Kevin Streeter (61) Waitsfield, VT, 3. Ken Christman (4) Cabot, VT, 4. Kevin Wheatley (31) Williamstown, VT, 5. Kevin Dodge (8) Barre, VT, 6. Troy Kingsbury (7) Waitsfield, VT, 7. Alex Whitcomb (78) Montpelier, VT, 8. Lance Donald (52) Williamstown, VT, 9. Donny Yates (05) N. Montpelier, VT, 10. Keith Fortier (35) Hinesburg, VT.
by Jay | Jul 24, 2009 | ACT, Beech Ridge, New England
Waterbury, VT – Eddie MacDonald from Rowley, MA has entered the American Canadian Tour (ACT) championship at the Beech Ridge Motor Speedway (BRMS) this Saturday night. The winner of the TD Bank 250 at the Oxford Plains Speedway last Sunday will take his Rollie Lachance-led team to BRMS to compete in the ACT point-counting event.
Red MacDonald, the owner of Lee USA Speedway and father of one of New England’s brightest stock car stars said, “Eddie wanted to work on his NASCAR Camping World East car this weekend to get ready for a race at Adirondack Speedway in a couple of weeks. I told him it was just a one-day race at Beech Ridge and we needed to go race this Saturday. I told him I would put the ACT Late Model back together after the tear down last Sunday night if he was willing to head up the road about an hour this Saturday.”
MacDonald headlined a stellar field of cars last Sunday at the 36th annual summer classic at Oxford Plains where he captured over $35,000.00 in prize money, and put his name in the storied history books of winners of the prestigious “Oxford 250”. “We really have fun racing with these Late Models and when we see the mix of veteran drivers like Brad Leighton, Mike Rowe, Brian Hoar, Brent Dragon along with the new stars like Joey Polewarczyk, Nick Sweet and Scott Payea, we know we are going to have to battle all day. It is a lot of fun,” said MacDonald.
Post time for the Beech Ridge ACT 150 is 6:00 pm this Saturday, July 25, 2009.
by Jay | Jul 24, 2009 | New England, New Hampshire, PASS, Riverside Speedway
NAPLES ME – (7/21/2009) There’s something for everyone this weekend when Groveton New Hampshire’s Riverside Speedway once again hosts Summerfest 2009, a weekend of motorized mayhem that promises to be bigger and better than ever.
Presented by Dalton Mountain Motors and the Marshall Insurance Agency, the two day extravaganza kicks off on Friday with the $1,000.00 to win Ray Haskell Memorial 100 for street stocks plus late models, and daredevils. The monster trucks share the spotlight, with Predator and Pouncer on hand to wow the fans. The action gets underway at 7:00 PM.
On Saturday night its PASS time, with the lightning quick Pro All Stars Series super late models taking center stage for 150 laps of green flag racing on the tough quarter mile. The popular PASS Mods share the spotlight with Riverside’s own Cyclones, Daredevils and Angels, plus another round of monster truck thrills and chills with Predator and Pouncer. Saturday’s events kick off at 5:00 PM .
There’s free camping on site and best of all, a two day ticket is just $25.00 for adults, $20.00 for juniors and seniors and eight bucks for kids five to nine. Friday only adult tickets are $12.00, and Saturday’s is $15.00.
2008 PASS North super late model Champion Johnny Clark kicked off his title charge at Riverside last season, earning the victory in a downpour over Travis Benjamin and Derek Ramstrom. Clark currently holds a forty five point lead over Ramstrom in the standings, and Adam Bates trails Ramstrom by just four points.
Andy Shaw has been on a tear in the PASS Mods, winning three of the first five races and topping the point standings by a 30 point margin over Scott Grant. Steve Bennett Jr. trails Grant by two markers in third. Fourth place points man Bill Dixon was the 2008 Summerfest PASS Mod winner, and he’ll be looking to gain ground on Shaw and the others with another Riverside win.
by Jay | Jul 20, 2009 | PASS
Naples, ME 7/20/09– For a second straight season Durham, North Carolina native Jay Fogleman took home the coon skin cap for winning the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Daniel Boone Classic 125 at Newport (TN) Speedway Saturday night. Fogleman, who never raced outside the top three all night long, survived several late race bumper tags by seventeen-year-old Jake Crum and a side by side battle with PASS South series points leader Ben Rowe to capture the win. Rounding out the top five was Preston Peltier and Heath Hindman who earned his best finish of the 2009 season.
The 125 lap event started off with action from the drop of the green flag with the top two drivers in the championship standings bringing the field down to the start with Ryan Blaney to the inside and point leader Ben Rowe up topside. Rowe quickly took command of the race with a solid start leading the first ten laps of racing action before Fogleman took over the point, leading until a turn two spin by Scott Patton brought out the second yellow flag of the night. The traditional PASS series double file restart brought the field back together briefly before Rowe along with Blaney took advantage of a tire spinning restart by Fogleman. The next fifty plus laps went clean and green allowing Rowe to open the largest lead of the night but not before Fogleman managed to reel the Maine native within a four car lengths distance just before the caution would wave on lap eighty-one.
The long run allowed drivers like Hindman, Crum, and Preston Peltier to work their way to the front while Blaney and Justin Wakefield needed the break in action to make adjustments to their fading machines. One final restart with just thirty-one laps left made for some interesting racing. Rowe and Fogleman battled side by side in two for the lead when it was as if Rowe stabbed the brakes to keep his #4 machine from making contact with Fogleman which forced third place runner Heath Hindman into the back of Rowe stacking up the field three wide for fourth, fifth, and sixth position.
Crum used this opportunity to muscle his way to the front, coming within striking distance of Fogleman’s #4 machine with just a handful of laps remaining. It wasn’t quite enough as Fogleman stretched his lead with one to go before capturing his third PASS South series win this season. The win also tied Fogleman with Corey Williams as the all time PASS South series wins leader throughout the series’ four year history.
For more information including schedules, standings, and results for all five PASS sanctioned touring series visit their home on the web at www.racewithpass.com. or www.proallstarsseries.com . For marketing or media questions contact Norm Desjardins at 603-539-3368 or for technical information contact Scott Reed at 207-625-3230.
Official Finish – PASS South super late model Daniel Boone Classic – Newport Speedway, Newport TN – 7/18/2009
1 4s Jay Fogleman 2 99 Jake Crum 3 4n Ben Rowe 4 26 Preston Pelitier 5 91 Heath Hindman 6 98 Justin Wakefield 7 10 Ryan Blaney 8 9 David Flynn 9 35 Devin Jones 10 23 Jimmy Weller 11 1 Jimmy Garmon 12 92 Mart Nesbitt 13 48 John Batten 14 02 Scott Patton 15 8 Ed Surrette 16 88 Lee Tissot
by Jay | Jul 17, 2009 | PASS
Naples, ME 7/16/09- This weekend thePro All Stars Series (PASS) South super late models s will make their one and only stop in the state of Tennessee as they tackle the ultra high banked Newport Speedway, just thirty miles north of the world famous vacation town of Gatlinburg.With twenty-five degree banking gracing the corners of the 4/10th mile oval there won’t be much time for vacationing once the green flag flies for the 125 lap event. Deemed to be one of the most physically demanding tracks on the tour, Newport Speedway presents new challenges unlike any other.
One of the main challenges that championship point contenders will have their hands full with will be fending off Newport Speedway locals. Veteran drivers Mart Nesbitt and Ed Surrett have each filed an entry and are expected to be in attendance. Youngsters Scott Patton and Jake Crum are also expected to make up the group of locals that will hope to defend their home turf. Last season Corey Williams, who finished second in the season standings just sixteen points behind eventual champion Alex Haase, got caught up in a wreck battling local racer Gary Helton. The two tangled and destroyed Williams’ racecar which cost him the 2008 championship as Helton went on to an impressive top five finish in his one and only start in the series that year.
Ben Rowe started the season out by winning back to back PASS South events at the Dillon Motor Speedway followed by a win at Hickory Motor Speedway has been winless since then but has built a comfortable yet reachable forty-six point lead over fourteen-year-old Ryan Blaney as Ben has not finished worse than seventh all year long. This may be the weekend that Rowe gets back to his winning ways as he has teamed up with Gary Crooks to pilot Crooks’ brand new Chevy Impala in three of the remaining six PASS South events after Rowe has raced his own older equipment the last two events. Prior to that Rowe’s PASS North team of Richard Moody Racing had made the long haul from the state of Maine for each of the first five PASS South events catapulting him to the top of the standings.
The driver who will have everyone watching him this weekend is the driver that has made the longest haul and has competed in every PASS South event since the 2007 season, Heath Hindman. Hindman and his TS Racing team will be in front of a home town crowd this weekend and with Newport Speedway being his home track on the tour, look for big things out of the #91 team. A couple of drivers who will pull into Newport with a ton of momentum on their side after each picked up a win in the Fourth of July weekend double header just a week ago are Jay Fogleman who won at Greenville-Pickens and Justin Wakefield who won at Hickory. Neither driver lead early or often but both showed their veteran knowledge of being there at the end gives you the best chance to win races.
Tickets still remain for the hottest event of the year at the Newport Speedway. For more information and directions to the eastern Tennessee facility visit their website directly at www.newportspeedway.com or call 423-623-2182.
