by | May 11, 2014 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire
Andy Lindeman showed yet again why he is a five time New England Truck Series champion by driving away from the field en route to his first victory of 2014. It was his first victory in the series in two years, and breaks the Monadnock winning streak of Duane Noll, who had won every NETS event at the 1/4 mile high banked speedway for the past two seasons.
Corey Coates started the race on the pole, but outside pole sitter Burt Ouelette got the advantage at the start of the event and moved to an early lead. Lindeman, who started third, was able to move by Coates for second and ran down Ouelette to challenge for the lead by the halfway point. Lindeman moved alongside down the backstretch and took the lead on lap 12, before driving off from the rest of the field on his way to victory. Ouelette would finish second, with Alan Coates and Duane Noll finishing side-by-side for third, and Corey Coates fifth.
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by | May 10, 2014 | New Hampshire, PASS, Star Speedway, Touring Series News
PASS SUPER LATE MODELS
FINISH, CAR#, DRIVER
1, 60, DJ SHAW
2, 33, RICHIE DEARBORN
3, 24, MIKE ROWE
4, 97, JOEY POLEWARCZYK
5, 54, JOHNNY CLARK
6, 35, DEREK RANSTROM
7, 21, DAVID OLIVER
8, 7L, CLEN LUCE
9, 7, CURTIS GERRY
10, 55VT, BRENT DRAGON
11, 4N, BEN ROWE
12, 23, DAVID FARRINGTON JR.
13, 77, CASSIUS CLARK
14, 53NH, TYLER FISCUS
15, 73, JOEY DOIRON
16, 12, DEREK GRIFFITH
17, 32X, NICK JENKINS
18, 17, TRAVIS BENJAMIN
19, 10, SCOTT DRAGON
20, 00, BRYAN KRUCZEK
21, 98, STEVE DICKEY JR.
22, 27NH, WAYNE HELLIWELL JR.
23, 2, MATT MATHESON
24, 03, JOE SQUEGLIA
DNS, 38, BAQBE BRANSCOMBE
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by | May 9, 2014 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway is hosting a field of accomplished current and former championship drivers for this year’s 4th annual Champions for Charities event, which will take place on Friday, June 27th. In the up coming weeks before the event, Stafford Speedway is providing a profile on each of the championship drivers. This week, the spotlight is on both Richie Pallai, Jr., the 2009 Spring Sizzler SK Modified® Champion and 2013 Champions for Charities winner, and David Arute, the 2011 Wild Thing Karts Senior Outlaw Champion. Pallai will be racing for The Catherine Violet Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, and Arute is racing for the Ben Was Here Foundation.
Both Arute and Pallai are competing in the 4th Annual Bill Tamburro, Jr Memorial Golf Tournament to benefit their charities. The Golf Tournament to benefit both foundations, as well as the Lustgarten foundation, will be held at Hawk’s Landing Country Club in Southington, CT on Monday, May 19, 2014 starting at 7:30 AM.
Pallai’s charity, The Catherine V. Hubbard Animal Sanctuary, started as a collaborative labor of love between the Hubbard Family and The Animal Center in Newtown to recognize Catherine’s dream. Catherine, a first grader lost in the shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary, had a passion for animals and insects alike and often created special “homes” for the animals she encountered each day. Possessing strength and kindness beyond her years, at the end of each day Catherine would send her special friends off with a kiss and whispered request of, “Tell your friends I am kind,” in the hope that they would return.
To carry on Catherine’s legacy of providing homes for animals in need, the Foundation is working with the Animal Center in Newtown to build the CVH Animal Sanctuary. The Sanctuary will provide a loving, nurturing environment for all animals in need of a home, featuring a dog and cat adoption area, a farm animal rescue, and a wildlife rehabilitation center. Visitors can also participate in humane education programs through the learning center, spend time surrounded by beautiful butterflies in the butterfly garden, and tour a gallery featuring Catherine’s artwork.
Arute will be racing for the Ben Was Here Foundation, in memory of his cousin, Ben Buckley, who passed away as a result of a severe asthma attack in January of this year. Ben was in the 2nd grade and was an aspiring artist who enjoyed baseball as well as building Lego’s. The Buckley family has established this educational scholarship fund in his memory.
Both Arute and Pallai plan on trumping the competition in their fundraising efforts once again after Arute raised $7,205 for the Lustgarten Foundation, earning him the pole position, and Pallai raised $4,246 for the Catherine V. Hubbard Animal Sanctuary. Both drivers have competed in the Champions for Charities event since it started back in 2011. Pallai is the reigning champion of last year’s event, and both he and Arute look forward to being competitive on the mini-mile track.
Having had years of experience in the Wild Thing Karts Program on Monday nights, as well as being the 2011 Senior Outlaw Champion, Arute is looking forward to running in the 4th year of this event.
“After my little cousin passed away in January I wanted to find a way to help his family in their efforts to get word out about asthma,” said Arute. “So when the family established the Ben Was Here Foundation I knew that racing in the Champions for Charities race to raise funds for the Foundation would be a perfect tribute to Ben. I’m looking forward to the golf tournament on May 19th in which the proceeds will be donated to Ben’s Foundation and the CVH Animal Sanctuary. The Champions for Charities race will be held on Friday June 27th and I’m hoping my car will be hooked up so that I can make a good run in memory of Ben. I think champions have gotten used to the karts and racing on the mini-mile and it should be an exciting race again this year with 3 and 4 wide racing.”
After winning last year’s race, Pallai is ready for the chance to have a second consecutive victory. The 2009 Spring Sizzler SK Modified® Champion is eager to get back into a Senior Outlaw kart and race with fellow open-wheeled champions for the title.
“Outside of family and sports, animals are my next love,” said Pallai. “Raising as much money as we did last year for the CVH Animal Sanctuary and then winning the race was pretty cool. My relationship with the Hubbard family has developed into a friendship since I first met the Hubbard family. At first, I wasn’t really sure how to approach it with all the family had been through, but I talk with Jenny Hubbard at least once a week. It’s turned into a really great friendship. Their son Freddy is just old enough to understand about racing and he is a big fan of mine and I was able to find a go kart over the winter that I got running and I’m going to bring it up to him. I know it’s only a charity race but it was really nice to win the race last year for Pete and Fran Lawlor, who let me use their Senior Outlaw Kart. And being able to win the race when the Hubbard family was there at the track watching me was a huge bonus in addition to the money that we raised.
The Champions for Charities event will take place around the Stafford Mini-Mile track for a 15-lap feature during the Friday June 27th race program.
by Jay | May 8, 2014 | Granite State Pro Stock, Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire, Touring Series News
Walpole, NH- With one race already in the books for the Granite State Pro Stock Series (GSPSS), competitors are preparing for a date with Monadnock Speedway May 24.
The ¼ mile bullring is located in Winchester, NH, and has been host to four events in the early life of the GSPSS, and creates tight, door-to-door battles and good, hard racing. Drivers like Barry Gray and Matt Frahm are no stranger to this speedway, as both have picked up wins in the series at this facility.
To say Gray could drive Monadnock Speedway with his eyes closed may not be a huge stretch for the Belchertown, MA driver. Gray has at least 6 championships between Late Models and Pro Stocks at Monadnock, including a New Hampshire State Championship involving the Winchester, NH speedway and Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH. Gray has two wins at Monadnock with the GSPSS, and has finished outside the top 10 once in four starts, boasting an average feature finish of 5.5. The driver of the Meadows Motor Car/ Hawley’s Auto Repair Chevrolet looks to this track to surge forward in the standings. “There’s so many good competitors in this series, it’s going to be tough no matter where we go,” Gray states. “But our chances are better than average at Monadnock, as long as luck is on our side.”
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by Jay | May 8, 2014 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—This Friday night, May 9th, will kick off the 5-race Xtra Mart Xtra D Series at Stafford Motor Speedway. Stafford Speedway’s Late Model drivers will duel this Friday night in a 60-lap feature with the race winner taking home total posted awards of $1,475. The 60-lap Late Model feature event will carry a larger purse with the winner’s check paying out $1,125 and there is $1,000 in bonus money from Xtra Mart Convenience Stores that will be split evenly among the top-5 finishers. Add in the $125.00 in contingency money from CT Trailers and a $25.00 gas certificate from New England Racing Fuel, and the winner of Friday night’s 60-lap Late Model Xtra Mart Xtra D feature event will take home $1,450 in cash and a $25 gas credit from New England Racing Fuel.
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by | May 8, 2014 | Connecticut, Waterford
Waterford, CT (May 7, 2014) – Waterford Speedbowl hosted its opening Wild ‘n Wacky series racing card of the year Wednesday evening. A quick paced and fiercely competitive night of motorsports entertained a hearty crowd
that turned out. There were no opening night jitters for Mike Christopher Jr. of Wolcott, who used a thrilling final lap move to checker the INEX Legend Cars feature. Hometown driver Dan Butler came out on top in the Super X-Car feature, Rich Nye of Stonington won his first-ever race in the night’s X-Car feature and Groton’s Marc Shafer won the Wacky Toll Booth Race. The INEX Bandolero feature was won by Jonathon Puleo of Branford.
Christopher showed patience over the first half of the 25-lap INEX Legend Cars feature then came on strong in the closing stages. Veteran driver and former champion George Whitney was the second leader of the race, taking command on lap-3 from Michael Blaskey. Whitney benefitted by an intense battle for second position over the middle of the race between Blaskey and Christopher. The pair traded the spot as Christopher tried numerous times to unseat Blaskey’s hold of the runner-up position. Christopher took advantage of a bobble by Blaskey on lap-19 to grab the spot and immediately went on the attack. He quickly ran down Whitney’s slight advantage, tailing him for the next five laps pressing for the lead in a classic battle to the finish. Christopher used a timely tap to Whitney’s rear bumper in in turns three and four on the final lap to dart to his inside, setting up a sprint off the final turn to the checkered flag. Christopher won his second race of the year by just a half car length in exciting fashion with his charge, besting Whitney. Last year’s division champion Joey Ternullo finished third. (more…)
by | May 8, 2014 | Connecticut, Thompson
Following it’s customary spring break, Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park (TSMP) will be back in action on Thursday, May 15, with it’s four NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions and the Lite Modifieds for Food Bank Night, benefiting ACCESS Agency and TEEG.
The Late Model Division will take center stage as they will participate in their segment race. Labeled the “20/20 Sprint,” TSMP’s top-tier fendered division will be showcased in three races, determining one overall winner. The first two races, which will be championship points events – will be 20 laps in distance, and the final sprint will only be 10 laps. A separate point system, crediting drivers with points based upon finishing position, will be used to determine the overall winner. At the end of the total 50-laps, the driver with the lowest number of points will take home the $1,200.00 winner’s purse. The total purse boasts over $7,000 not including special awards.
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by | May 8, 2014 | Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
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Wiscasset Speedway May 3, 2014 Photos
by | May 7, 2014 | PASS
Scarborough, Maine – 15-year old Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine competed in the PASS North Series SLM division, finishing 11th in the Southern Maine Motors 150 at Beech Ridge Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, May 3rd. Lanpher won the first heat race and started from the pole. Lanpher also won his heat race and led 30 laps at this same event last year to become the youngest racer ever to compete in a Super Late Model at Beech Ridge and in a Pass North Race. He also is the youngest ever to win a heat race or to lead a feature event. On Saturday, crew chief Jason Ricker instructed Lanpher to drop back at the start and just ride to gain experience. Lanpher fought a ill handling race car and was unable to make a late race charge as was planned.
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by | May 7, 2014 | Beech Ridge, Maine
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Turner, Maine’s Mike Rowe took over the lead on a lap 101 restart and cruised home to victory in the Southern Maine Chrysler, Dodge, Jeep 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine this past Saturday afternoon. The legendary veteran edged out Travis Benjamin and Austin Theriault for the win.
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