by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | ACT, Devils Bowl, New, Touring Series News, Vermont
West Haven, VT – Nick Sweet came out on top of a race-long duel with defending American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. to take the People’s United Bank 100 at West Haven, VT’s Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday, June 4, becoming the first repeat winner of the 2016 season.
The Barre, VT driver had surrendered the lead to Helliwell on the race’s final restart on lap 92 following Ryan Olsen’s spin. But Sweet dove back inside Helliwell two laps later to regain the top spot for the final time. Helliwell then came under attack from Dillon Moltz, allowing Sweet to pull away in the closing laps for his sixth career ACT Late Model Tour win.
Sweet grabbed the lead on the start from polesitter Bobby Therrien and led the 29 laps. Helliwell, a three-time ACT winner at Devil’s Bowl, then swung to his outside to assume command. Although Sweet continued to dog Helliwell through lapped traffic, he was unable to regain command as the race threatened to go caution-free.
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by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | Monadnock Speedway, New, New Hampshire
Kimball Repeats in Sportsman Modifieds at Monadnock Speedway
Winchester, NH: This past Saturday, Monadnock Speedway hosted their regular NASCAR Whelen All American Series divisions along with the Star Antique Racers. There were some familiar faces in victory lane along with celebrations of first of the season wins.
The stars and cars of yester-year, the Senior Tour Auto Racers started the evening’s events. The top three finishers in the Senior Tour Auto Racers’ Modified division were Danny Ferland, Gregg Massini
and Jim Allen. In the Senior Tour Auto Racers’ Sportsman division the top three were Bob Harless , Rick MacDowell and Alan Zemla.
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by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | Lee USA, New, New Hampshire
Lee USA Speedway 6/3/16 race Report
Lee, NH -The Granite State Pro Stock series invaded Lee USA Speedway to join the NASCAR Whelen All American Series season weekly divisions on Friday night, with DJ Shaw of Center Conway taking down the GSPSS 100-lap win in impressive fashion.
Shaw and Jeremy Davis of Tamworth led the field to green for the GSPSS main, with some intense competition that saw the lead swapped several times along the 100-lap distance. Davis quickly moved past polesitter Shaw to gain the point, where he stayed past the 20-lap mark.
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by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | NASCAR, New, New England, Touring Series News
No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion – Brad Keselowski
Start: 1st – 1st pole position of 2016
Finish: 3rd
Status: Running
Laps Completed: 160/160
Laps Led:
Points Position (behind leader): 3rd (-48)
Recap: Brad Keselowski and the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford Fusion team overcame two potentially-disastrous obstacles to finish third in the Axalta “We Paint Winner” 400 at Pocono Raceway on Monday afternoon. After qualifying for his first NASCAR Sprint Cup Series pole position of 2016 – and the 12th of his career – Keselowski and the rest of the field had to wait a day to get the race going as rain showers cancelled the show for Sunday afternoon. When the green flag was finally waved Keselowski surrendered the top spot to his teammate, Joey Logano, before eventually settling into the second position. On lap 24, just as the race was to restart following a caution period, the No. 2 Miller Lite Ford was shown the black flag for an unapproved body modification on the team’s first pit stop of the race, resulting in Keselowski making two trips down pit road as a penalty, one to fix the modification and the other to serve the mandatory green-flag pass through since the black flag was shown under caution. (more…)
by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | ACT, Devils Bowl, New, Touring Series News, Vermont
photo by RPM 360
By: Dick Casey
The 17th place finish for Eddie Mac in the American Canadian Tour’s Merchant’s Bank 100 at Devil’s Bowl Speedway in West Haven, Vermont on Saturday was not the typical run one might expect from the team. After a devastating crash on the last turn of the last lap at the Waterford Speedbowl on May 21, Eddie Mac was forced to activate the old tried but true back-up “flame car” while necessary repairs were made to the EXIT Realty/Hancock Electric Chevy owned by Freddie Peterson.
With time constraints plaguing the team, the usual meticulous preparation in the shop could not happen with crew chief Rollie LaChance saying, “We literally took the car out of moth balls and tried to get it ready for today’s race. We also had to strip the Chevy of the damage, get it to Dale (Shaw) for a new front clip, and take the engine out to be checked out. We lost a lot of time there so we really didn’t have a week to get the car ready. We could only put in a basic set-up and hope we could adjust. We only had three twenty minute practices and that wasn’t nearly enough time to make the adjustments needed. This is a winning car and if we ran it for a number of races, I am sure we could get it performing as it once did. I was hoping for a top half of the field finish but we fell a few spots short.” (more…)
by Jay | Jun 6, 2016 | Devils Bowl, New, Vermont
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – Emily Packard and her Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team had high hopes as they unloaded her car Saturday afternoon at Devil’s Bowl Speedway, unfortunately, things wouldn’t go as hoped and she would end the night with a 15th place finish. “It was a long day,” said Packard, “I was hoping for a better finish. The car was ok, but it wasn’t really handling that great towards the end of the race; I was just trying to make the best of it that I could.”
Readying for practice, Emily and the team rolled the car out, while Scott Coburn, interim crew chief for the weekend, and Joe Polewarczyk Sr., talked over the car set up. After first practice, Packard found herself 20th fastest on the speed charts, but the team went to work making changes and when final practice was over she had moved to third fastest time on the chart. “Practice was pretty interesting,” Emily said, “everyone seemed to be all over the place out there, so it kind of set the tone for the rest of the day. That last practice the car was really good, and I was confident as we headed into the heat race.”
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