by Jay | Oct 13, 2015 | NASCAR
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – VICTORY LANE INTERVIEW – “We had a great car. Todd Gordon and this Shell/Pennzoil team, all of Team Penske, you always want to win it. Charlotte is everybody’s home turf and you want to make it happen here. What a great car. We led a ton of laps and I just have to thank Ford and Shell and AutoTrader, SKF, Coca-Cola – everyone that supports what we’re doing. This makes Talladega way easier. I know that’s on everyone’s mind when this round starts and last year we won Kansas when it was the first race of this round and now we were able to get it this time at Charlotte. We’ll get lots of sleep here the next couple of weeks.”
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by Jay | Oct 9, 2015 | Snocross
daSilva Racing welcomes new marketing partners for 2015-2016 season
HAMPSTEAD, N.H. (Oct. 7, 2015) – As the temperatures continue to fall here in northern New England and another season of snowmobile racing draws closer, one of the Granite State’s top snocross teams is proud to welcome four new high-profile marketing partners.
New Hampshire-based daSilva Racing competes on the East Coast Snocross (ECS) series, and in select events on ISOC’s AMSOIL Championship Snocross Series. The team is pleased to announce the addition of Western Power Sports (WPS), FLY Racing, Triple 9 Optics and Snap-On Tools to their fine family of marketing partners for 2016.
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by Jay | Oct 8, 2015 | ACT, Touring Series News
Emily Packard Finishes 13th in the Fall Foliage 200
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – In the American Canadian Tours final visit to Airborne Park Speedway of the 2015 season, Emily Packard and her Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels team brought home a 13th place finish, closing the gap to just three points out of the 4th position in the championship battle.
Practice saw Emily and the team working on trying to loosen up a tight race car and dialing the car in to her liking for the heat race. “The car was okay during practice,” said Packard. “We weren’t spectacular but we were about the same as we have been in the past few times we have run here at Airborne, with an okay race car.” As they lined up for the heats, the 18-year old started from the 4th position, on the outside. She found herself running as high as second, but was passed late in the heat race to finish fifth, and it was on to the consolation race.
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by Jay | Oct 5, 2015 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
JEFF TAYLOR WINS PASS NORTH FINALE AT OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY
MIKE ROWE IS 2015 AIM RECYCLING USA PASS NORTH SUPER LATE MODEL CHAMPION
Oxford, Maine — Jeff Taylor of Farmington nailed down his first victory of the season in dominant fashion, outrunning all AIM Recycling USA PASS North Super Late Model rivals as the touring series closed out its’ 2015 championship season Sunday afternoon at Oxford Plains Speedway.
An eighth-place finish was plenty good enough for Maine Hall of Fame racer Mike Rowe to add yet another championship to his extensive short track racing resume, this one the AIM Recycling USA PASS North Super Late Model title.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | NASCAR, NHMS
Joey Logano, driver of the No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion, is the defending champion of this weekend’s race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway and a repeat win would guarantee advancement into the Contender’s Round of the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup. He visited the infield media center earlier today and talked about a number of topics.
JOEY LOGANO – No. 22 Shell/Pennzoil Ford Fusion – HOW IS YOUR CONFIDENCE GOING INTO THIS WEEKEND? “I feel pretty good about it. This has been a good race track for us the last couple of years. Obviously, this is my home track so I talk about that a lot when I come up here, but I really want to win here again. I feel like we’re in good position after last week. We had a solid finish and that positioned ourselves pretty good to race fairly aggressive through this race and try to get a win like we did last year.”
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | ACT, New England, New Hampshire, NHMS, Touring Series News
Bonus Money on the Table for Bond Auto New Champions at NHMS
Waterbury, VT – American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Model drivers from seven U.S. states and the Canadian province of Quebec will vie for pride, glory, and a guaranteed $7,500 first-place prize when they visit New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) for the 7th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational on Saturday, September 26. But a little extra will be on the table for members of the Bond Auto New Champions program.
As part of their sponsorship of both the 50-lap Invitational and the New Champions, Bond Auto Parts has posted $2,500 in awards for New Champions–eligible drivers participating in the Invitational on the 1.058-mile oval. The top-five finishing New Champions drivers who have competed in at least five ACT-sanctioned events this season prior to the Invitational will each receive a $500 bonus.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | New England, New England Motorsports North
NEW ENGLAND MOTORSPORTS NORTH FOR SEPT 24, 2015
By Lou Modestino
Williamstown, VT’s Jimmy Hebert has filed the first official entry for the 53rd Northfield Savings Bank Milk Bowl on Sunday, October 11. The 2015 edition of the “toughest short-track stock car race in North America” has more than $60,000 in posted awards with $10,000 guaranteed to the winner of the annual Thunder Road Speedbowl season finale.
The Milk Bowl is one of the most celebrated auto racing events in the United States with its unique race format and tradition. The special event for American-Canadian Tour (ACT) Late Models is run in three 50-lap segments, with the starting grid for the second and third segments set by inverting the finishing order of the previous segment. Drivers receive one point per position, per segment, with the lowest combined finish for all three segments earning the overall win.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | Devils Bowl, Vermont
Quenneville Wins First Asphalt Modified Championship at Devil’s Bowl Speedway
Late Model champion Masterson wins 100-lap finale; Gordon and LaVair crowned
WEST HAVEN, VT – The stars aligned for Vince Quenneville Jr. at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Saturday night, September 19, and the popular veteran stock car driver finally wrapped up his first championship on the asphalt half-mile oval. Quenneville finished first and second in a pair of 50-lap races for the Bond Auto Parts Modified division, and came from behind to win his first title in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series presented by Yandow Sales & Service and John Deere.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | Bear Ridge, Vermont
Jordan Fornwalt becomes the 11th winner in the DIRTcar Sportsman Modifieds earning his seat in the Bear Ridge Growler on September 26th
Buster Kathan FINALLY grabs his first win in the DIRTcar Sportsman Coupes
BRADFORD, VT – Lucky’s Trailer Sales Championship night finds the championships set in each division but with plenty of moving action still available for the remainder of the top ten, with time trial points up for grabs this Saturday Sept 26th on the Penny Davis Crate Motor Nationals night.
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by Jay | Sep 25, 2015 | Connecticut, Stafford
Doug Coby Looking to Recapture Stafford Magic in NAPA Fall Final 150
(Stafford Springs, CT)—Whenever the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour visits Stafford Motor Speedway, Doug Coby is usually among the favorites as to who will take the checkered flag. Of his 14 career NWMT wins, 6 of them have come at Stafford, including his very first win in the NAPA Spring Sizzler in 2006. But the 2015 season has been a bit of a mixed bag for Coby and the #2 Dunleavy’s Truck & Trailer Repair team with finishes of third in the NAPA Spring Sizzler back in April, thirteenth in the June TSI Harley-Davidson 125, and second in the August CBYD 150. As he sits 25 points behind Ryan Preece and 24 points behind Woody Pitkat in the chase for the championship, Coby knows he needs to win and get the maximum number of bonus points if he wants to eliminate that deficit.
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