by | Jun 21, 2014 | Beech Ridge, Maine
Scarborough, ME
Newcastle’s Charlie Colby won the 50-lap Pro Series feature event. On a late race restart, Colby battled side-by-side with Tyler King, of Livermore Falls, for five laps until he was able to edge King going into the first turn.
Mike Landry, of Oakland, paced the 22-car field to the green flag and was able to take the lead going into turn one. Landry and veteran Steve Carrier, of Saco, battled for the top spot until Carrier was able to edge Landry on lap four.
Carrier opened up his lead over Landry until a caution on lap eight bunched the field back together. On the restart, Carrier choose the outside lane and it proved successful as he was able to re-claim the lead. Carrier and Landry battled nose to tail and pulled away from the rest of the field over the short green flag run.
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by | Jun 21, 2014 | Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
By Lisa Maguire
It was a beautiful day last Saturday at the Wiscasset Speedway. The sun was shining, and fans gathered to watch the group two division of races including Thunder 4’s, Strictly Street, Mini Trucks, and Late Model Sportsman. The flex race of the week was a New England Pro 4 Tour feature. The tour visited the track last year, and Bryan Lancaster from Skowhegan was last year’s winner
First on the track was the spotlighted race of the week, a 35 lap Strictly Street feature. Starting on the pole was the #36 of Richard Spaulding. The # 32 of Tasha Dyer, and Gerry Freve of the #39 were behind him.
Freve passed Dyer during lap two on turn one for second. Freve and Dyer battled for second. Dyer was able to claim second back after a caution during lap seven caused a restart. Dyer passed Freve on the inside of turn one when racing action resumed. Back in the pack was Corey Morgan of the #26. Morgan was weaving through lap traffic, and had moved to fourth position from his thirteenth place start by lap six. Morgan also used the caution to his advantage and passed Freve for third on the inside of the backstretch.
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by | Jun 20, 2014 | ACT, Touring Series News
Barre, VT – Graniteville’s John Donahue captured his 14th career Thunder Road Late Model win during Casella Waste Management Night on Thursday, June 19. Donahue started fifth in the 22 car field and battled late in the 50-lap event with rookie driver Eric Badore. Thunder Road has not seen a repeat winner yet this season as across its three divisions there have been 12 different feature winners.
Badore and Donahue swapped the lead several times over the late stages of the event, but the veteran got the edge over the last several laps. Donahue and Badore were followed across the line by another rookie in Josh Demers to complete the podium. Phil Scott and a third rookie in Jason Allen completed the top five. Cody Blake, Eric Chase, Nick Sweet, Dave Pembroke and Trampas Demers rounded out the top ten. (more…)
by | Jun 19, 2014 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway
The legendary Bentley Warren will be hosting a fan meet and greet autograph session sponsored by Coastal 181 immediately following Friday night’s ISMA Super Modified event presented by Locke Crane Services at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine. The meet and greet will be held on the Speedway at the conclusion of the night’s activities. All fans will be invited to come down and meet Bentley, get his autograph and a picture with him.
Bentley will be signing copies of his book, Wicked Fast, Racing Through Life with Bentley Warren. This highly entertaining book is quick reading and extremely enjoyable. Make sure you plan on attending the event, and be a part of history as Bentley Warren steps back behind the wheel of a Super Modified after a four year absence.
by | Jun 19, 2014 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway
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Photo Credit: JAR PHOTOGRAPHY
Wednesday night Oxford Acceleration Series held its second event of 2014, and not even a passing shower could slow down the pace on a great night of racing. Winners included Josh Toothaker, Gerry Mikenna, Missy Morgan, Jamie Heath and Will Dunphy.
A solid field of Outlaws once again put on a highly competitive 20 lap race, and when it was all over, Josh Toothaker picked up his first win of the season. Toothaker pulled out the victory with a solid outside pass of Chris Burgess on turn four of the final lap. Burgess held on for second ahead of Bryce Mains, Dale Lawrence, Brady Romano. Heat checkers flew for John White Jr., and Dustin Salley.
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by | Jun 19, 2014 | ACT, Touring Series News
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt – With Mother Nature winning again this season and canceling the show at Thunder Road, Emily Packard and her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team had a little more time to prepare the car for the American Canadian Tour race at Devil’s Bowl.
Having run the last few weeks at Devil’s Bowl the team went into this race optimistically cautious. Packard’s success in previous weeks was pushed out of her head and she was focused on the task of the day. Starting 8th in the heat and only 10 laps to work with, Packard found herself held up in traffic but finishing in 5th place. This gave her a +3, which was enough to score her the pole for the consolation race. “10 laps is not enough time to pass,” said Packard. “I found myself stuck in traffic, and was just not able to gain one more position.”
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by | Jun 19, 2014 | Connecticut, Stafford
Canaan, NH. – The Valenti Modified Racing Series gets back at it Friday night, June 20, when Stafford Motor Speedway, Stafford, Connecticut, hosts the series for the first of three races this summer. Friday’s race is the 2nd series 17-race schedule. Five different drivers have been to victory lane this season.
Expected entries include reigning series Champion Rowan Pennink, of Huntingdon Valley, Pennsylvania, Connecticut drivers Todd Szegedy of Ridgefield, Chris Pasteryak of Lisbon, Ted Christopher of Plainville, a former VMRS winner at Stafford, Ryan Preece of Berlin, also victorious at Stafford (VMRS) and Matt Zachem, of Preston. Szegedy is the current point leader, a 20-point margin over two-time champion Pasteryak. Current champion Pennink is 23 points back from the top of the standings.
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by | Jun 19, 2014 | Connecticut, Waterford
Waterford, CT (June 18, 2014) – A beautiful summer night greeted race fans in attendance for Waterford Speedbowl’s Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday racing program. An action packed motorsports card landed the first victory of the year for Middletown’s Joey Ternullo in the INEX Legend Cars. Anthony Marvin of Colchester won another INEX Bandolero feature and Zac Thomas of New London was back in the winner’s circle following the X-Car race. Dan Moon of Exeter, RI was awarded his first Super X-Car victory of the year and Art Chartier of Douglas, MA checkered the Vintage Outlaw Modified feature.
Ternullo and Christopher put on a memorable duel in the night’s 25-lap INEX Legend Cars race. Ternullo, last year’s division champion, got to the front first which was a big key in his success. Following a lap-7 restart, Christopher challenged Ternullo’s outside but finally tucked back in line behind him on lap-10. Christopher stayed in Ternullo’s tire tracks and the two pulled ahead to a big lead until the final caution flag of the race came on lap-19.
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by | Jun 19, 2014 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Bond Auto DIRTcar Sportsman Modified Feature (40 laps)
OO Jason Gray
24 Jordan Fornwalt
20 Chris Donnelly
42T Robert Tucker
28 Bob Shepard
X Bryan King
10 Derek Graham
17 Travis Shinn
9 Mike Dunn
34 Richie Simmons
10s Ryan Christian®
15 Adam Pierson
21 Adam Gage
73 Kevin Chaffee
91 Tim Tucker
4 DJ Robinson®
O1 Mike Gendron
42c Josh Currier
1b Derek Barker
27 Ed Patterson
1x TC Forward®
81 Tim Hodge
by | Jun 19, 2014 | Thunder Road, Vermont
Governor’s Cup Date Changed to Thursday, July 10
Barre, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl announced today that NASCAR Sprint Cup star Clint Bowyer from Emporia, Kansas has asked to return for another shot at the famous high banks of Thunder Road. Bowyer raced in the 2013 Vermont Governor’s Cup 150 for the first time. His goal was to have better results than the previous “Cup” visitor, Tony Stewart, who finished 16th. “I want to tackle that ¼ mile again. I didn’t have enough time to figure out the fourth turn, but I learned a lot last year about it, and I really want to get back there–the teams and fans were fun to be around,” said Bowyer.
The original date for the VT Governor’s Cup of Thursday, June 26 has been switched to Thursday, July 10th to coincide with the NASCAR Sprint Cup event being held that weekend at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon. Thursday, June 26 will now be a regular Thursday night race program.
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