by | Aug 13, 2013 | Canaan, New Hampshire
Veteran leads 49 of 50 laps; point standings tighten
CANAAN, NH – Multi-time Modified stock car racing champion Kenny Tremont, Jr., earned his first-ever victory on the Northern Modified Challenge Series on Sunday, August 11, taking a convincing win in the Subway Fresh Fit 50 at Canaan Fair Speedway. The win was the 303rd feature event victory of the West Sand Lake, NY veteran’s celebrated career.
Tremont was strong in his qualifying heat at the fast 1/3-mile asphalt oval, finishing second to point leader Jessey Mueller. By virtue of a blind draw, Tremont started on the outside of the front row in the 50-lap main event, lining up next to Brandon, VT’s Vince Quenneville, Jr., who also won a qualifying heat.
The opening laps took their toll, drawing four caution periods in the first eight circuits. The restarts set up an entertaining faceoff between Quenneville and Tremont, however, and Tremont surprised even himself in using the tricky outside lane to grab the lead each time. Quenneville was able to lead only the second lap of the race before Tremont pulled out to a comfortable advantage.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | Bear Ridge, Dirt Track, Vermont
Champagne wins USAC Dirt Midgets, Giguere again in Limited Late Models
BRADFORD, VT – Northfield, VT stock car driver Tim Tucker negotiated a slicker than normal track to etch his name in the record books as a 99ROCK Weekly Racing Series Bond Auto Parts DIRTcar Sportsman Modified winner for the first time at Bear Ridge Speedway in Bradford, VT on Saturday night, winning the 40-lap Walker Motor Sales feature event in a thrilling finish.
Tucker jumped into the lead at the green after passing rookie Derek Barker on the initial green. Tucker ran to a large lead in the mid stages of the event while Chris Donnelly was working his way to the front from his 18th starting spot. Donnelly arrived on Tucker’s bumper with a handful of laps remaining and used the topside to pull even with Tucker but could not complete the pass. Tucker took the victory by .115 seconds with Donnelly second and rookie Jordan Fornwalt third. Adam Pierson and current point’s leader Kevin Chaffee completed the top five.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | ACT, Thunder Road, Vermont
Greg Adams Takes Street Stock Special Win
Barre, VT – Bill Davis of Monson, MA won his second career M&M Beverage Enduro and pocketed a cool $3,000 at Barre’s Thunder Road on Sunday, August 11. Davis was the only competitor to complete all 200 laps of the thrashing and crashing event.
Don “Dipstick” Tofani led for a good portion of the race before having to pit out of the lead. He recovered to take second with 198 laps completed. Andrew Botala, Mike Cormier, and Nick Gilcris all completed 196 laps and completed the top five. Kelly Miller, Jr., Brandon Gray, Jason Gray, Dan Rae, and Beverly Menard rounded out the top ten.
Greg Adams, Jr. claimed his fifth win of the season in the Allen Lumber Street Stocks 50-lap special. He bested Tommy Smith and Garry Bashaw in the top three. Jadon Perry and Dean Switser, Jr. scored top fives. Jamie Davis, point leader Bunker Hodgdon, Kyle Streeter, Kevin Dodge and Troy Kingsbury completed the top ten.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | Granite State Pro Stock, New Hampshire, Star Speedway
On Saturday night, August 17th, the Granite State Pro Stocks return to the Star Speedway for their first visit of the season. This is the seventh event of eleven on the 2013 schedule for the GSPSS.
Matt Frahm is the defending winner of this event, and with two wins on the season, is one of the favorites going into this event. Matt has two wins on the season, and sits fifth in the championship standings.
Jeremy Davis leads the points standings going into the Star Speedway, and has one win so far, that coming at his home track of Canaan Speedway on Saturday, May 4th, his first of the series. Mike O’Sullivan was runner-up in August, 2012, but a win on July 7th at Hudson International Speedway put him right back into the championship standings, as he sits only 6 points behind Davis. Barry Gray, coming off his first win of the season at Monadnock Speedway, moved into third in points, with Larry Gelinas and Frahm fourth and fifth.
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by | Aug 13, 2013 | Massachusetts, Seekonk Speedway
Dave Darling wins Phil’s Propane Triple Crown Championship. Gerry DeGasparre Jr, John Paiva and Gerard Berthelette win mains.
Dave Darling took over from Tom Scully Jr with one lap remaining in the 75 lap Pro Stock Phil’s Propane Triple Crown Championship, and held on for the final 1/3 mile to pick up his fifth win of the season.
Bob Hussey and Mike Brightman battled for the lead early on before Brightman took over at the top of the leader board. Brightman held on to the top spot through the one-third mark, with Tom Scully Jr and Ryan Vanasse second and third. They ran that way until Brightman spun. On the restart with 40 laps remaining, Scully, Vanasse, Darling and Craig Weinstein set up for a 40 lap battle for the win. Darling moved past Vanasse on the restart, and started to put pressure on Scully. Darling darted from the inside and the outside trying to find a way by.
With about 20 laps remaining, Darling went to the outside and pressured Scully hard, trying to get the youngster to make a mistake. But there were no mistakes to capitalize on this time. Scully continued to keep Darling on the outside as Vanasse ran under Darling, the three cars under a blanket. With less than five laps remaining, the defending champion reached deep with his Bristol Toyota Scion Camry, and found something more that he needed. As they came across the stripe under the white flag, Darling had nosed ahead, and followed through turns one and two to hang on for the exciting win by .003 seconds over Scully Jr. Ryan Vanasse was third, with Craig Weinstein and Dick Houlihan fourth and fifth.
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by | Aug 12, 2013 | Canada
The Mercer cousins pulled off their second straight Enduro win of the 2013 racing season at Speedway 660 on Sunday afternoon. Chuck and Clifford, racing out of the Norton area, topped the 21 car field to earn a trip to the Riverview Ford Lincoln Victory Lane.
“It was tough just trying to survive that final 50 laps out there today because things sure got pretty wild” said Cliff Mercer. “We had to work hard just to get our race car here today after we got beat up so bad in the first Enduro of the season.”
Brody Seveck finished second for the second straight Enduro, while Dale Gilbert drove to a third place finish. Seveck led the first 75 lap segment before the Mercer’s took the lead in the second segment.
“We had another pretty good run out here today and are happy to get another second place finish” said Brody Seveck. “The Mercer boys are tough, they’ve won two in a row and are the defending Enduro champs, but we’re gonna come back on SpeedWeekend to see if we can give them a battle for the 2013 championship.”
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by | Aug 12, 2013 | VALENTI MODIFIED SERIES
Waterford, CT. – Meriden, CT’s, Keith Rocco drove to victory Saturday night, August 10, winning the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series feature at Waterford Speedbowl, Waterford. CT.
The win was Rocco’s second VMRS victory in 10 starts. His first was two years ago at Stafford Motor Speedway.
Rocco started fifth in a 26-car field, took the lead on lap eight from Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT., and was never headed. Rocco twice developed full straightaway leads only to be slowed by caution flags for minor spins or crashes.
Rowan Pennink, of Huntingdon Valley, PA., made another late race charge from his 17th starting spot to finish runner-up.
Pasteryak enjoyed another strong third place finish. The two-time series champion never ran outside the top five.
Tommy Barrett, of Millis, MA, and 40-year veteran Dwight Jarvis, of Ascutney, VT, rounded out the top five finish. Barrett started sixth, and Jarvis came from 20th.
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by | Aug 12, 2013 | ACT
St-Eustache, QC – Jean-François Déry of Quebec held off hometown favorite Patrick Laperle to take his second win of the season in the St-Eustache 200 at Autodrome St-Eustache on Saturday, August 10. Déry now has nine career Série ACT wins.
The race began with a major wreck on lap 1 of the 200 lap event. The wreck resulted in a red flag period of five minutes to allow drivers a chance to fix their automobiles. When the race got back underway Dany Trepanier took the point until lap 25 when Jonathan Bouvrette took over the lead.
Déry finally got to the front on lap 42 to take the lead. He battled with Laperle for the remainder of the event. Déry took over the lead for good and didn’t look back after lap 129. Laperle and Trepanier completed the podium. They were chased to the line by current Serie ACT point leader Patrick Cliche and Bouvrette. The top ten was rounded out with Etienne Cliche, Patrick Hamel, Donald Theetge, Stephane Descoste and rookie Christopher Bedard.
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by | Aug 12, 2013 | Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
By Lisa Maguire
Last Saturday was a great day for racing at the Wiscasset Speedway. The day was warm and sunny, and the grandstands were filled with people ready to watch some racing action. On the schedule was the group two lineup of divisions: Strictly Street, Mini Truck, Outlaw Mini’s, and Late Model Sportsman.
First on the track were the Strictly Street’s for a twenty lap race. The No. 39 of Gerard Freve was in the pole position. Behind him were Guy Childs in the No. 5 and Ben Erskine of the No. 43. During the first lap around the track, Childs passed Freve on the outside of turn three for the lead. Moving up quickly from a sixth place starting position was the No. 32 of Tasha Dyer. Dyer had navigated her Morse and Doak Builders Chevy through the pack, and during lap two passed Freve for second. Coming up behind Freve and Dyer was the No. 26 driven by Corey Morgan. Morgan passed Freve for third on the outside of the front stretch coming out of turn four during lap two.
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by | Aug 12, 2013 | Beech Ridge, Maine
Scarborough, ME
Saturday’s NASCAR Nite Pro Series 50-lap feature event was won by Newcastle’s Charlie Colby. Colby has become the only driver to land three wins in the top-level division this season.
At the drop of the green, Durham’s Evan Beaulieu, paced the 24-car field to the green flag and lead the first lap, however was overtaken by Mike Maietta, Jr, of South Portland, the following lap. Maietta led until a caution on lap three which bunched the field back together. On the restart, Maietta maintained his lead over Beaulieu and led until lap nine, when the second caution of the event flew.
Bill Rodgers, of Old Orchard Beach, safely maneuvered his way to the runner-up spot by the caution after starting in his 6th starting spot. Maietta battled side-by-side with Rodgers on the restart for the top position, but was passed by Rodgers when he was able to gain momentum going into the fourth corner.
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Veteran leads 49 of 50 laps; point standings tighten
