by | Sep 4, 2013 | PASS
NAPLES, ME (September 4) – The eyes of the short track racing world will be on Quebec’s Autodrome Chaudiere as the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models travel there this weekend for the final leg of the Autobus La Quebecoise Triple Crown. The Thunder Valley 200 will feature North America’s top short trackers competing for $10,000 to win, with an additional $20,000 in guaranteed lap leader money. But in addition to the winner’s large payday, there will be three separate points battles going on at the same time that will also peak fan’s interest.
First, PASS North points leader Joey Doiron looks to build on his slight advantage in the standings over Cassius Clark and Travis Benjamin. Doiron just completed a dream weekend in New Hampshire that saw him sweep the White Mountain Twin 150’s and will be looking to make it three PASS North wins in-a-row at Autodrome Chaudiere. Second, this is the final leg of the Autobus La Quebecoise Triple Crown, a separate championship comprised of the races at Chaudiere with a bonus point fund totaling over $30,000. After struggling through a dismal 2013 season, 6-time PASS North Champion Johnny Clark comes to this weekend’s Thunder Valley 200 seeking his first win of the season and clinging to a slim lead with only 20 points separating the top eight drivers. And finally, Saturday night’s race will be the fourth of five races that comprise the PASS National Series. PASS South Super Late Model points leader Jay Fogleman leads a strong contingent of drivers from the Southeast, including his son Tate, all of whom will be competing at Autdrome Chaudiere for the first time.
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by | Sep 2, 2013 | PASS
Ross Kenseth led the most laps, but had to fend off a furious late race challenge from rookie Jared Irvan to win the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model SoBo 100 Saturday night at South Boston Speedway. With his win, Kenseth completed a sweep of both PASS South events held at South Boston Speedway this year.
“It’s always fun coming back here, heck of a job by Jared Irvan, he raced us really clean and it was fun racing him for the win,” said Kenseth after his 4th career PASS South Super Late Model win. “I felt like we were really good, but if we got pinched down to the bottom it would take us about two or three laps to get going. Real proud of the guys, we brought the same thing back here as last time and it work really good again.”
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by | Aug 30, 2013 | PASS
PASS North Series: Bradley Babb
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Preview
THE STORY
WINDHAM, Maine – Bradley Babb of Windham, Maine, joins the PASS North Series for a rare doubleheader with two PASS 150s at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Saturday, August 31. The starting field was set for the first PASS 150 before the main event was rained out on August 4, while the second PASS 150 will be the one originally scheduled for the date. Babb finished third – his best career PASS North Series finish – at White Mountain in 2011, the last time he competed on the scenic, high-banked quarter-mile. Babb sits 21st in the current PASS North standings, despite making only four starts, with two qualifying race wins and one Top-10 finish. The 2012 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Maine state champion is hoping to rebound at White Mountain after a blown engine at Oxford Plains Speedway during qualifying forced him out of the TD Bank Oxford 250 last month.
THE FACTS
WHO: Bradley Babb, Windham, Maine
TEAM: No. 4 Babb Wood Contractors/McGoldrick Bros. Blasting Chevrolet
CREW CHIEF: Bobby Babb, Windham, Maine
BEST CAREER WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK FINISH: 3rd (September 2011)
LAST RACE AT WHITE MOUNTAIN MOTORSPORTS PARK: 3rd (September 2011)
WHAT: PASS North Series Twin 150s
WHERE: White Mountain Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H. (.25-mile banked oval)
WHEN: 4 p.m., Saturday, August 31
PASS North Series
LAST RACE: August 6, Budweiser 150, Autodrome Chaudiere, Vallee-Jonction, Que. (N/A)
NEXT RACE: September 7, PASS 200, Autodrome Chaudiere, Vallee-Jonction, Que. (.25-mile oval)
CURRENT POINTS POSITION: 21st
DID YOU KNOW?
Bradley Babb became the first third-generation champion in Beech Ridge Motor Speedway’s top division when he won the 2012 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series championship at the track. His father Bobby Babb and grandfather Robert Babb are both multi-time Beech Ridge champions in the top division.
Bradley Babb was honored at the NASCAR Hall of Fame convention center in Charlotte, N.C., in December as both a state and track champion in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series.
Bradley Babb finished second in a 50-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series feature event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on June 1.
Bradley Babb won the pole for his most recent start at Oxford Plains Speedway in April, led nearly a third of the race and had a solid Top-10 run going when he was shuffled back by contact from another car on a green-white-checkered restart at the end of the 150-lap event.
Bradley Babb was the 2010 ACT Late Model Tour Rookie of the Year.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
BRADLEY BABB, Driver of the No. 14 Babb Wood Contractors/McGoldrick Bros. Blasting Chevrolet, On heading to White Mountain Motorsports Park this weekend: “It’s my favorite track. I’ve always liked going there and watching races, even. The first time I went there, I didn’t have any luck. I ended up losing power steering, but it was still so much fun to drive.
“It was the first place I ever ran besides Beech Ridge. The next time we went back, I had the fastest car all day and had a chance to win an ACT race there. It’s always been my favorite place to go, even though I’ve never had the luck when I’ve gone there.”
On how racy White Mountain Motorsports Park is: “Some guys can’t figure out the top, but if you figure out how to drive out there, there definitely is an outside groove. Maybe you wouldn’t run it if you were alone, but you can go out there and make passes.
“It’s a driver’s track, once you get the hang of it.”
On if his approach to races has changed now that he’s no longer chasing points: “Not really. The way my whole season’s been going, I’m sort of looking for more of the same of what we had at Oxford the week before the 250 – where we had a good run. If we can just come out of there with a good run, don’t stove anything up and have a good finish, hopefully we can run some more races this year.”
UP NEXT
The PASS North Series returns to Autodrome Chaudiere in Vallee-Jonction, Que., for the PASS 200 on Saturday, September 7.
by | Aug 29, 2013 | PASS, White Mountain Motorsports Park
NAPLES, ME (August 28) – As far as the weather goes, the 2013 season has not been kind to racers of the Pro All Stars Series (PASS). An unprecedented number of cancellations has made an already long season even longer for North America’s top short track racers and left fans clamoring for more events. This weekend, thanks to 2013’s unruly weather, PASS competitors from New Hampshire to Virginia will be making history. Saturday’s scheduled 400 laps of competition between PASS North’s Twin 150’s at White Mountain Motorsports Park and PASS South’s 100 lap make up event at South Boston Speedway will mark the most laps of PASS Super Late Model racing action ever held in a single day.
The historic day of racing will begin Saturday afternoon at New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park with a truly unique day of competition. For the first time ever, PASS North Super Late Model competitors will compete in two points paying events in the same day. The first 150 lap race will be a continuation of an event that was cancelled due to rain on August 4 and will be lined up based on heat races held that day. Following the first 150 lapper, PASS North teams will reset and hold heat races on Saturday to determine the starting lineup for race two.
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