PASS North:Sommerville Breaks through at the Ridge
New Brunswick racer claims his first PASS super late model victory
Scarborough ME (7/9) Lonnie Sommerville took the lead for good on lap 116 of Saturday night’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Southern Maine Motors.com 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and drove away from the field to put an exclamation point on his first PASS race win.
Sommerville beat the best of the best. Johnny Clark ran second, Matt Frahm’s third place marked his career best PASS finish and Joey Doiron rallied to come home fourth. (more…)
Lee, N.H. — Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT, passed race leader Joe Doucette on lap 52 to go on and win the Valenti Modified Racing Series, Laticrete “Port City 100” Friday night, July 8, at Lee USA Speedway, Lee, NH.
The win was Pasteryak’s first at Lee, his second of the season, and his fifth career victory with the VMRS, (more…)
NEW ENGLAND TRUCK SERIES ANDY LINDEMAN WINS NETS FEATURE AT MONADNOCK
Andy Lindeman of Poestenkill NY, driving the # 3 Dawson’s Towing sponsored Chevy truck, wins the New England Truck Series feature event at Monadnock Speedway Saturday July 9th tightening up the points battle. (more…)
Canaan, NH – With over $36,000 in purse money posted, and $12,000
going to the winner, drivers from all over the Northeast are expected to enter
Saturday’s 4th annual “Ricky’s Race For Kids” for modified stock cars at Canaan
Fair Speedway, Canaan, NH. This year’s event carries the largest purse in the eight
year history of the Valenti Modified Racing Series.
Mascoma Savings Bank, of Lebanon, NH., and Irving Energy, of Portmouth, NH.
are the Prime Corporate Sponsors for this year’s event. (more…)
Dave Brown photo of Mike Wells attached
Wells keeps digging, hits Airborne paydirt
Airborne recap July 9
South Plattsburgh – Mike Wells of West Chazy had hundreds of underdog rooters on their feet as he retook the lead from Martin Roy with five laps left in the 30-lap DIRTcar Modified feature and drove off to his first career win at Airborne Speedway. (more…)
Unity, Maine – David Folsom II scored his first Late Model feature race victory Saturday night at Unity Raceway in a hard-fought 35-lap race. The Skowhegan newlywed, known as ‘Deuce,’ raced hard for the lead throughout the event – first with veteran hotshoe Jeff Burgess of East Madison who led half the race, then later holding off Freedom teen Dylan Turner in the closing laps.
Turner claimed runner-up honors in one of the most exciting main events of the season, while Burgess had to settle for third-place hardware. Burnham’s Brian Whiney crossed the line in fourth position, followed by the winner’s father, David Folsom I of Skowhegan. Deuce Folsom and Corey Walker of Strong posted heat race victories. (more…)
(Claremont, NH) – Joey Polewarczyk’s 2011 American-Canadian Tour Season may have just turned the corner Saturday Night at Twin State Speedway.
During the practice sessions in preparation for the Heat Races to determine the qualifying order for the ‘Twin State 100’ Joey was very happy with the performance of the Poles Automotive, NH Precision Ford Fusion, Joey would say, “We have a great car and hopefully we draw a good starting spot in the Heat Race”. (more…)
Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, won the PASS North Series Southern Maine Motors.com 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, July 9. The win was Sommerville’s first career victory in the series, and came after he led on two occasions for a total of 35 laps – including the final 34. Sommerville started third after winning his heat race and never dropped out of the Top-5. He used lapped traffic to make the winning move on Lap 117.
VIDEO OF LONNIE SOMMERVILLE AT BEECH RIDGE MOTOR SPEEDWAY:
OVER $25,000 UP FOR GRABS IN STAFFORD’S 8TH ANNUAL CARQUEST SK 150
(Stafford Springs, CT)— The 8th annual CARQUEST SK 150, scheduled for
Friday, July 22 at Stafford Motor Speedway, will feature total posted awards
of over $25,000, making the event one of the most lucrative races anywhere
in the northeast for the 2011 season. (more…)