by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | Connecticut, Stafford
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Since Ryan Posocco joined the #48 Davidson Company
sponsored Kretschman Motorsports team prior to the 2008 season, that
combination has been the team to beat when it comes to Late Model
competition at Stafford Motor Speedway. This past Sunday at Stafford,
Posocco and the Kretschman team locked up their third championship in the
past four seasons, which was Posocco’s record sixth Late Model championship
at the track. The championship run brought to a possible end one of the
dominant driver/team combinations that has been seen at Stafford in any
division.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | Canada
October 6, 2011 – Shediac (N.B.) – With Mother Nature forecasting lots of warm temperatures this coming weekend, drivers from the four Atlantic Provinces are set to converge at the Centre for Speed (CFS), Atlantic Canada’s Super Speedway and Metro Moncton’s ‘Playground of Power’, for two days of action-packed racing as part of the 12th Annual Atlantic Stock Car Championships.
Upwards of 85 drivers from throughout New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Prince Edward Island, as well as two drivers from Newfoundland and Labrador have so far registered to compete in FIVE stock car division events with additional drivers expected on race day. This weekend’s (October 8 & 9) end-of-season stock car celebration will include the Wilson’s Fuels / Go Stores Pro Stock 150 as well as a ‘door-handle-to-door-handle’ Streetstock 100 on Saturday, with over 30 Streetstock drivers registered. On Sunday, Atlantic Championship racing continues with heart-stopping action in Late Model Modified Sportsman, Atlantic Open Wheel (AOW) Modifieds, and Bandolero divisions.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | NASCAR, NASCAR K&N Pro Series
Dave Davis Motorsports Team Makes Improvements, Sets Sights On ’12
DOVER, Del. – If there’s any driver on the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East that didn’t want to see the season end last weekend at Dover International Speedway, it was Cody Hodgson.
Hodgson finished 16th in the season-ending Dover 150, an impressive effort for the rookie who was forced to pit under the green flag for a flat tire. After being among the fastest of the 33 entries in both final practice and qualifying, some good old-fashioned bad luck took the No. 03 Ocala Gran Prix Dodge out of contention for a win early in the main event.
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by Jay | Oct 7, 2011 | Video
A look back at the Late Model and Street Stock events from the October 1, 2011 events at the Waterford (more…)
by Jay | Oct 6, 2011 | Video
A look back at the final Saturday night SK Modified event at the Waterford Speedbowl on October 1, 2011, won (more…)
by Jay | Oct 6, 2011 | Video
Local Canterbury resident Jan Duisendecker lost his wagon during the NASCAR weekend, but NHMS was able to replace it!
by Jay | Oct 6, 2011 | Video
A look back at the two INEX division event held at the Waterford Speedbowl during it’s October 1, 2011 event. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York
SOUTH PLATTSBURGH – Patrick Laperle is up in the air about his strategy for the 40th American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-a-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway Saturday, October 8.
Laperle has the 2011 Séries Castrol title in hand and is seeking his third straight Fall Foliage win. He has won the event four times. His Gestion MN/Patriote Auto race team fields two cars – one Ford powered, one with a GM motor. Recently, ACT mandated Ford engines must run a restrictor plate on tracks of Airborne’s size (1/2 mile) or longer.
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by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | ACT, New England, New York
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rent-A-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway this Saturday, October 8, 2011 will have some surprise entries.
Perhaps the most surprising entry came from the star of the ACT Invitational at the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) two weeks ago: Eddie MacDonald, from Rowley, MA who has entered the 200-lap event following his second ACT Invitational win. “I have heard how great Airborne’s half mile races have been, and since our season on the NASCAR K&N Series will be over (MacDonald finished 5th at Dover Downs International Speedway last weekend) this should be a lot of fun. I really enjoy racing with the ACT guys and just maybe Nick (Sweet) and I can have another battle….that would be pretty special,” said MacDonald. Sweet, from Barre, VT, has now finished second to MacDonald in two of the three Invitational events at NHMS. He will be driving the #57 RPM Ford for the Rick and Michelle Paya team to finish out the 2011 ACT points season. (more…)
by Jay | Oct 5, 2011 | NASCAR
KANNAPOLIS, N.C., (Oct. 5, 2011) – ABC’s Wide World of Sports spanned the globe to bring you the constant variety of sport, but for the part about the thrill of victory and the agony of defeat, you need only to watch Tony Stewart race at Kansas Speedway in Kansas City.
Stewart has two NASCAR Sprint Cup Series victories at the 1.5-mile oval, the most recent of which came in 2009. But sandwiched between that win and his first Sunflower State triumph in 2006 where he successfully gambled on fuel mileage, Stewart played the role of Vinko Bogataj – the ski jumper whose spectacular crash on March 21, 1970 was featured on Wide World of Sports from the early 1970s onward as the late Jim McKay uttered, “…and the agony of defeat”.
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