PRO STOCK TOUR HEADS TO RIVERSIDE FOR RON MacGILLIVRAY CHEV BUICK GMC 150
(Halifax, NS, June 7, 2016) The Parts for Trucks Pro Stock Tour is heading to the high banks of Riverside International Speedway this Saturday, June 11th for the Ron MacGillivray Chev Buick GMC 150. This will be the first event of the season for the track located just outside of Antigonish in James River, NS and round two of 12 for the popular stock car racing series. Grandstand gates for the Ron MacGillivray Chev Buick GMC 150 open at 3:00PM; Atlantic Tiltload Heat Race Qualifying gets underway at 6:00 PM. (more…)
CHARLOTTE, NC (June 8) – As the weather continues to heat up down south, so does the racing. For the first time in series history, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Models will compete on back-to-back nights at Anderson Motor Speedway and Hickory Motor Speedway. The PASS Carolina Doubleheader will take place June 17-18 and will see the best Super Late Models in the south compete at two of the region’s most challenging speedways.
Anderson Motor Speedway in the South Carolina Upstate will host the Electric City Twin 125s on Friday night, June 17th and will feature both the PASS South Super Late Models and the Southern Modified Racing Series (SMRS) Tour Modifieds. Last year, Jared Irvan prevailed over Roger Lee Newton and Clay Rogers in one of the best races of the season. With the addition of the SMRS Tour Modifieds, fans of the Carolinas, Georgia, and Tennessee will get their final opportunity to see two of the fastest divisions in racing compete together prior to the North-South Shootout at Concord Speedway in November. Filling out this exciting card of racing at Anderson Motor Speedway will be the USAC Eastern Midgets, B-M Modifieds, and Front Wheel Drive divisions. (more…)
Waterbury, VT – The popular win in the 54th running of the Memorial Day Classic,
by Tyler Cahoon, Danville, VT was a sign of the emergence of another group of young talent that has arrived at the “Nation’s Site of Excitement”, Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl in Barre, VT.
Cahoon may have won the race, but Thunder Road and race fans also look like winners with the group of talented young teams who have recently become competitive with the ‘old guard’ teams, like fellow Green Mountain veteran racers Nick Sweet, Barre; Phil Scott, Middlesex, VT; John Donahue, Graniteville, VT; Dave Whitcomb, Essex Jct., VT; Trampas Demers, Shelburne, VT and Matt White, Northfield, VT.
NAPLES, ME (June 7) – After a two year absence, the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Models will return to New Hampshire’s White Mountain Motorsports Park this Saturday afternoon for the Foley Oil Company 150.
The race for the 2016 PASS North Super Late Model championship is heated, with seven drivers within 68 points of one another heading to White Mountain this weekend. Of those seven drivers, four are former PASS North champions, led by current points leader and Granite State native, DJ Shaw.
Another former series champion, Ben Rowe, leads all drivers with 8 PASS North wins at White Mountain, but has not gone to victory lane there since 2008. 6-time PASS North champion Johnny Clark has also won at White Mountain, taking the checkered flag there en route to two of his championships in 2010 and 2011.
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.
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. (more…)
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. (more…)
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…)
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…)
Waterbury, VT – The popular win in the 54th running of the Memorial Day Classic,
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.
