Mainely Motorsports TV October 5, 2011 Show
On this weeks show we have the Unity Champions. Then Chris Marley travels to Fantasy Speedway in Unity to bring (more…)
Stafford Speedway 2011 Fall Final Feature Recap
JOHNNY BENSON JR. PICKS UP SECOND STRAIGHT RACING AGAINST CANCER 100 AT SEEKONK
From: Lou Modestino
Last year Johnny Benson Jr. of NASCAR truck fame, came to Seekonk Speedway for the first time to compete in the ISMA 100. He left Seekonk with his career-first ISMA victory after an exciting battle with Chris Perley to the end of the 1st annual Racing Against Cancer 100. Benson duplicated his feat Sunday at the Cement Palace with a few different adversaries, but an equally awesome run. Benson was able to present the $2,500 ISMA check once again to the Racing Against Cancer effort and he also participated in the Cancer Team Walk on Saturday for one fulfilling weekend.
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ACT Wraps Up Season with Doubleheader Weekend
Waterbury, VT – For the first time in American Canadian Tour Late Model history, the season will come to a close with a doubleheader weekend. The ACT Tour, Série ACT Castrol and Bond/WIX Tiger Tour point battles will conclude on Saturday, October 8 with the Rent-A-Wreck Fall Foliage 200 at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY. With the tours completed, many teams will head to Thunder Road in Barre, VT for the 49th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl on Sunday, October 9, rain dated from October 2.
Williston, VT’s Brian Hoar will look to conclude his eighth ACT championship season with a third career win in the Rent-A-Wreck Fall Foliage 200. Patrick Laperle of St-Denis, QC will wrap up his second Série ACT Castrol Championship as he attempts to win his fourth straight Fall Foliage event. Randy Potter, Joey Polewarczyk, Jr., and Brent Dragon will be looking for their first wins of the season, while Wayne Helliwell, Jr., Austin Theriault, Ben Ashline and Glen Luce among others will look for their first career ACT wins.
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Legends Put on Cup Morning Show
The Amsoil Nelcar Legends Tour put on a great show on Cup morning before the SYLVANIA 300.
ECS Snocross News: Jamey Magowan becomes new voice of series
Veteran announcer Jamey Magowan becomes new voice of East Coast Snocross,
Presented by AMSOIL and Woody’s Traction
CHESHIRE, Conn. (Oct. 3, 2011) – One of the most vital positions within any motorsports sanctioning body is the PA announcer, the person in direct contact with fans, sponsors and teams.
With snowmobile racing, those fans expect to learn all about who they’re watching and what goes on behind the scenes. Spectators want plenty of information, yet without the technical jargon.
For fans of the East Coast Snocross (ECS) circuit, that information and more will come booming out of a world-class PA system as veteran radio and motocross announcer Jamey Magowan joins the team for 2011-2012. Magowan, 53, a resident of Winooski, Vermont, has over 10 years of experience in radio and four years of experience announcing motocross for the Vermont Motocross Association.
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CHAMPIONSHIPS ON THE LINE AT THOMPSON’S WORLD SERIES
THOMPSON, CT. The World Series of Speedway Racing will once again be more than a spectacular weekend of auto racing. The three-day race fest will determine divisional championships for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, the ISMA Super Modifieds, NEMA Midgets, Pro 4s and the New England Truck Series.
Ron Silk, the current points leader on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, will enter the Sunoco World Series of Speedway Racing presented by Town Fair Tire and XTRA/MART with an advantage of 57 points over Todd Szegedy. Silk will be seeking his first Tour title while Szegedy, the 2003 champion, will be looking for his second. It will all come down to the WMT 150-lap feature event slated for Sunday, October 16th. Both Silk and Szegedy will have plenty of competition as the best drivers on the WMT are expected for the season finale at Thompson.
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PENALTIES ANNOUNCED FROM OCT. 1-OCT. 2 CARQUEST FALL FINAL PROGRAM AT STAFFORD MOTOR SPEEDWAY
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Stafford Motor Speedway has announced the following
penalties following the running of the October 1-October 2 CARQUEST Fall
Final Weekend NASCAR Whelen All-American Series feature events.
Woody Pitkat, driver of the No. 88 Late Model, and Ryan Posocco, driver of
the No. 48 Late Model, have been penalized for a rules violation committed
this past Sunday in the Late Model feature at Stafford Motor Speedway.
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Save Wiscasset Raceway News Release
Peter Taylor
Wiscasset Raceway
An all volunteer team headed by Tony True of Wiscasset and Dale Chadbourne of Woolwich have worked to put together the tracks first race of the 2011 season. True secured a lease agreement between all interested parties, allowing the event to take place on Saturday October 15th with a rain date on the 16th. Because of financial difficulty the track did not open this season and “there was concern that if we didn’t have one race the town noise ordinance could be changed” said True.
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FOURTH PLACE FINISH FOR EDDIE MACDONALD AT DOVER
Eddie MacDonald and the Grimm Racing Team closed out the K&N Pro Series East schedule with an impressive fourth place finish in the Dover 150 at the Dover International Speedway. After “terrible” practice and qualifying sessions, the #71 Grimm Construction Chevy fought its way from a 26th starting position to post its second top five run in the final two events of the season.
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