After having a weekend off, last weekend, fans can come back to the track this weekend for a full slate of action which includes the Annual Firecracker Sportsman 150. This Saturday night there will be regular points’ racing in the Leisure Family RV.com Street Stock and AOW divisions as well as the Firecracker 150 for the Martin’s Home Heating Sportsman.
Taylor Makes Long Awaited Return to OPS Victory Lane
by: Caleb Lamb
OXFORD, Maine – The Oxford Plains Championship Series returned to action for the first time since the TD Bank 250, and the familiar names found their way to victory lane.
The Call of the Wild RV Center Sport Trucks represented the first feature of the night. Jeff Schmidt jumped out to an early lead in the ten lap event, but it was clearly evident that Ryan Farrar had the fastest truck on the track. Farrar continued to chase down Schmidt, lap after lap, using the high groove to gain speed. Farrar reached the Schmidt’s rear bumper, who tried to slide his truck up a racing groove coming out of turn four to block Farrar’s lane. However, the move backfired and Farrar simply ducked underneath, took the lead, and ran away with the win. Farrar struggled in Wednesday’s Acceleration Series event but made the right move in fine tuning the handling on his machine for Saturday’s race. Schmidt, ever the picture of consistency, crossed the line second, and Corey Williams rebounded to finish third after failing to even take the green flag on Wednesday. Duane Booth and John Reynolds rounded out the top five.
Mark Brown and Leon Dugan Have the Golden Touch at Big Daddy’s
To punctuate the move from Sunday to Saturday racing at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl, Leon Dugan pulled off a hat trick, finishing first in the Bandit and the Mini-Stock divisions as well as the 50-lap Enduro. Mark Brown won a great Super Street main event, his first of the season. Al Crossman Trucking of Wentworth, NH was the evening’s title sponsor, with sponsorship from Central Metals for the extra payoff for the Mike’s Automotive Outlaw Late Models. The Enduro trophies were sponsored by the Heath Family.
Dugan ran the same #71 car in both the Camaro Heaven Bandit and OE Parts Direct features and came away with both first-place trophies. In the Bandit class, Marcus Jenness (19) was second and Alicia Smith (88) third. In the Mini-Stocks it was Josh Sunn (11) and Brandon LeMere (1) rounding out the top 3. Josh Sunn pulled off a neat trick of his own, winning second place in both the Mini-Stocks and the Modifieds.
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VERSUS BROADCAST TEAM TO MEET AND GREET WITH FANS AT STAFFORD SPEEDWAY’S
20TH ANNUAL TOWN FAIR TIRE 150
(Stafford Springs, CT)— With the Whelen Modified Tour coming to Stafford
Motor Speedway for the 20th Annual Town Fair Tire 150 on Friday, August 6th,
Versus will also be making a stop at the Connecticut half-mile to provide
tape-delayed television coverage of the race. The Versus broadcast team
consisting of Jack Arute, Jimmy Spencer, and Ralph Sheheen, will meet and
greet with fans and sign autographs at the Town Fair Tire booth following
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Hudson NH – Eric Vilandre won the Mario “Fats” Caruso Memorial Race for the New England V-6 Modifieds on Sunday evening August 1st at Hudson International Speedway. It was a nostalgic night with Caruso’s Worcester Sand and Gravel Coupe on hand and announcer John “Spider” Spence back behind the mic for the first time in fifteen years at Hudson Speedway.
Caruso was a local racing legend whose career spanned six decades beginning in 1949 and ending in 1991. Nicknamed “The Shrewsbury Flash” Caruso won races all over the Northeast and started two races in what is now Sprint Cup. He spawned two more generations of racers with his late son David Caruso and two grandsons Jeff and Keith Caruso.
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Two for Tuesday Special Event
Fans filed into the stands for Two for Tuesday racing at the fastest 1/4 mile in the East. The working man’s show began at 7 pm and featured all divisions of racing trying to get in as much competition due to weekend rain outs.
Tour Type Modifieds were the only one to pull heats races. Rusty Ball, a competitor since the track opened, would dominate his heat race. The red flag flew in the second heat when Brandee Tree and Todd Patnode would get together. Patnode would take the brunt and have to be slung between to wreckers and taken to his pit. The field had a third heat which set the position for the feature.
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TOUR-TYPE MODS RETURN TO THOMPSON-BUD 150 ENTRIES NEAR 30.
THOMPSON, CT. The third of four Tour-Type Modified shoot out races will be held this Thursday, August 5th, at the Thompson International Speedway. These exciting, open competition style Modified races have been a big hit with Thompson fans and with this week’s event and another scheduled for Thursday, September 2nd, these 40-lap shoot outs could easily become a staple in annual race schedules.
Top Modified drivers have indicated that they love the short, 40-lap dash format. It means flat out racing from start to finish and, for many, it brings back what has been called the golden era of Modified racing in New England.
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Jon Moore Takes The High Road At Whip City Speedway
BY MARK McKEON
WESTFIELD, MA – Former champ Jon Moore solidified his points lead with his second win of the season in the marquee 1200cc class. “We had a pretty good race,” Moore said. “It seemed like I was racing with Jerry Sehn all night. I got underneath him in the heat and got by him. He wasn’t about to let that happen again in the feature, so I had to make a run for the high side going down the backstretch and I got by him coming off turn four. I think he was having a good time; I know I was.” (more…)
Sylvain Lacombe Wins Ste-Eustache 100
Ste-Eustache, QC – Terrebonne, QC’s Sylvain Lacombe earned his 14th career Serie ACT Castrol Edge win in the Ste-Eustache 100 at Autodrome Ste-Eustache on Saturday, July 31. Lacombe led the final nine laps of the event to take the win.
DJ Shaw Derailed From Potential Podium Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): DJ Shaw was well on his way to a top-three finish at Lee USA Speedway in Friday night’s NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125. But a spin on lap 89 took the 20-year-old driver out of contention and the JLM Precision race team had to settle with a 12th place finish.
“I got wrecked,” said a dejected Shaw. “We probably had the second place car. It was a bad day for me. I hadn’t even started going yet. I felt like I could have passed Eddie (MacDonald) at any time on a long run, and if Ryan (Truex) had been patient he probably would have won that race.”
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