by Jay | May 19, 2016 | Connecticut, New, Thompson
Wood Leads Night of Repeat Winners With Limited Sportsman Long Distance Victory
(THOMPSON, CT) – The Xtra Mart Limited Sportsman Series took center stage at Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park on Wednesday, May 18th for their marathon event, the Limited Sportsman Long Distance, presented by Circuit One Events, and the first Wednesday night of racing for the 2016 season at the Big-T. The forty-lap feature doubled the traditional distance of the Thompson division and has been a highlighted event on the calendar for many of the series regulars, but it was a familiar name that came out on top with Josh Wood taking the checkered flag on his 22nd birthday.
It was the second time Wood has won on his birthday, but the first time he has done it in the Xtra Mart Limited Sportsman Series. Wood took the lead fifteen laps into the forty-lap feature and never looked back but had to survive a series of cautions late in the race and a hard charging crew of experienced series veterans to claim his second straight win of the 2016 season.
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by Jay | May 19, 2016 | New, Thunder Road, Vermont
Waterbury, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl announces the continuation of a thirty-seven thousand ($37,000.00) point fund program for their weekly competitors’ 2016 season. Started in 2014, the three divisions – ACT Late Models, Bond Auto Tigers, and Allen Lumber Street Stocks – have enjoyed one of the largest weekly point funds in the country.
The Thunder Road Late Model Champion is awarded $7,500.00 at the end of the season. The top 15 positions in both the Late Model and Tiger divisions battle throughout the race season for positions in the point standings. The Late Models receive a total payout of $25,000.00; the Tiger division has a total of over $7,500; the 4-cylinder Street Stock division has a point fund through 20 positions that will pay over $4,400.00 in post season awards.
“Thunder Road has been known for paying some of the best weekly purses around the country, and certainly some of the best point funds. When I was racing the purse for Late Models was around $6,000 on the quarter mile. When you added in the year-end point fund, together it really helped with the expenses to race at the level we raced at. I think the same thing applies to the two other divisions,” said former three time-track champion and current ACT race director, Cris Michaud.
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by Jay | May 19, 2016 | New, PASS
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NAPLES, ME (May 18) – For racers and fans across the United States, the month of May looms large. And it’s no different for the Pro All Stars Series (PASS), which will feature the best in Super Late Model and Modified racing throughout the remainder of the month.
Following a rainy Sunday afternoon at Speedway 95 for the PASS North Super Late Models which saw Garrett Hall prevail over Derek Griffith for his second triumph of the season, attention focuses back on the rescheduled Support 50 Legs 150 at New Hampshire’s Star Speedway. Saturday afternoon’s Support 50 Legs 150 will help raise awareness for a cause affecting far too many Americans. Steve Chamberland’s 50 Legs organization helps provide amputees with the necessary care and prosthetics, that they could not otherwise afford, and to help them live a happier and healthier life.
So far this season, there have been three different winners in the first four PASS North Super Late Model events. PASS young gun Garrett Hall captured the checkered flag at Thompson Speedway in the season opener and last weekend at Speedway 95 and now sits just six points behind championship leader, DJ Shaw. Shaw is coming off a win of his own at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway that saw him get the best of Joey Doiron on a late-race restart. While 4-time PASS North champion Ben Rowe took the checkered flag at Oxford Plains Speedway in a thriller over Shaw and Johnny Clark.
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by Jay | May 19, 2016 | Granite State Pro Stock, New, Touring Series News
WALPOLE, N.H. __ The Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS) is proud to announce the contingency awards and bonuses for the 2016 season of racing, which begins this Saturday, May 21, at White Mt. Motorsports Park in New Hampshire.
More than 13 different businesses have come on board to award drivers on the GSPSS for their accomplishments this upcoming season. Some of them return from 2015, but others are welcomed to the series this season with many thanks. Drivers have the chance to win awards in heat races, the feature races and also at the annual awards banquet at the conclusion of the racing season.
Drivers will compete in heat races for points and feature starting spot, but also for multiple different bonus awards. Sunoco Race Fuels will present each heat race winner five gallons of Sunoco Fuel for the duration of the season and MacLellan Metal Finishing will present all the heat race winners with a check for $25. MacLellan will also present a check for $300 to the driver who scores the most heat race wins during the entire season.
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by Jay | May 18, 2016 | Connecticut, New, Thompson
Limited Sportsman Take Center Stage at Thompson Wednesday Night
May 16, 2016 (THOMPSON, Conn) The XtraMart Limited Sportsman competitors will take center stage Wednesday night as racing action returns to Thompson Speedway’s 5/8-mile oval. Competitors in the full body division will double down to run 40 laps presented by Circuit One Events, which is twice the usual distance.
Josh Wood comes into the race after finding victory in the season opening Icebreaker, doing so in dominating fashion and is expected to be strong again for event number two. Even though he is one of the younger competitors in the class he is still considered a favorite and speaks with a veteran’s perspective.
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by Jay | May 18, 2016 | Canada, New
LUCAS OIL 100 KICKS-OFF 2016 SEASON THIS SATURDAY AT SCOTIA SPEEDWORLD
(Halifax, NS, May 17, 2016) The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour is greased up and ready for the Lucas Oil 100 this Saturday at Scotia Speedworld. The Lucas Oil 100 will open the 16th season of the elite stock car racing series. The season opener will launch the 12-race schedule that will take the Tour to five Maritime markets throughout the summer. Atlantic Tiltload Qualifying for the Lucas Oil 100 gets underway at 4:00 PM with Grandstands gates opening at 1:00 PM.
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