by Jay | Jun 4, 2010 | ACT, New England, Vermont
BOND/WIX TIGER TOUR HEADS TO WHITE MOUNTAIN SATURDAY
Waterbury, VT – White Mountain Motorsport Park (WMMP) will open the Bond/Wix Tiger Tour this Saturday, June 05, 2010. The popular Bond Tiger Sportsman cars from throughout the region will begin their championship run in the first of four events for the 2010 race season.
“White Mountain was a natural for us to begin the 2010 campaign,” said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour, (ACT), which sanctions the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsman Division. “WMMP took a major step to bring the ACT rules for the Tiger Sportsman division to the track this season, and we want to do whatever we can to try and help get this division in a growth trend at WMMP. We have encouraged the Thunder Road Tiger teams to visit WMMP whenever they can in 2010.”
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by Jay | Jun 4, 2010 | Maine, New England, PASS
PUTTING THE PUZZLE PIECES TOGETHER
Circumstances allow Austin Theriault to seize opportunities in racing
FORT KENT, Maine — Austin Theriault remembers with a laugh his first spin behind the wheel of a stock car.
“It was the ‘Young Guns’ class,” the 16-year-old high school sophomore recalls. “What I remember was how those guys took racing so seriously. They were going circles around me. My left front tire was 4 inches up off the ground.”
What Theriault has learned since that firsthand introduction to the sport was that soon he would take a racing career just as seriously. Just 12 months ago, Theriault never imagined anything more than running in the weekly 4-cylinder division at Spud Speedway in Caribou. Fast-forward to 2010, though, and Theriault plans to run the complete ACT Late Model Tour slate and select PASS North Series events.
“Looking back just a year ago, it all happened pretty quick,” Theriault said. “The biggest thing is just the good people I’ve been meeting along the way… I’ve gone from a little 4-cylinder car a couple years ago to Super Late Models, and it’s just the right people we’ve been lucky enough to have met, I guess.
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by Jay | Jun 4, 2010 | New England, Vermont
Brent Dragon: Bear Ridge Speedway
Sportsman Modified Race Preview
Coming off a 10th-place finish in the Memorial Day Classic 100 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl last weekend, Brent Dragon takes a break from Late Model racing this weekend. The Milton, Vt., driver plans to compete for the second year in a row in an exhibition race at Bear Ridge Speedway, a quarter-mile dirt track in Bradford, Vt. On Saturday night, Dragon will join his father, Beaver Dragon, his uncle Bobby Dragon and his cousin Scott Dragon in a pair of 10-lap Sportsman Modified races. Brent raced in the event last year, winning one of the two races and then finishing 10th in the track’s regularly-scheduled 30-lap Sportsman Modified feature at Bear Ridge. Dragon is expected to compete in a car owned by track owner Butch Elms.
WHO: Brent Dragon, Milton, Vt.
WHAT: Dirt Sportsman Modified Exhibition Event
WHERE: Bear Ridge Speedway, Bradford, Vt. (.25-mile dirt oval)
WHEN: 6 p.m., Saturday, June 5
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by Jay | Jun 4, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine
Trevor Sanborn: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
Sanborn returns to victory lane in return to weekly racing at home track
SCARBOROUGH, Maine — Trevor Sanborn opened the 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway by winning last Saturday night’s 40-lap Pro Series feature. It was the ninth career victory at the track for Sanborn, who returns to weekly competition on a full-time basis for the first time since 2006. Sanborn led every lap of the event, surviving one restart after starting on the outside pole in the 22-car field.
WHO: Trevor Sanborn, Parsonsfield, Maine
TEAM: Cushman Competition/Pleasant Hill Auto Sales/Knight’s Flooring No. 29 Ford
WHAT: NASCAR Whelen All-American Series, Pro Series division
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
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by Jay | Jun 2, 2010 | PASS
PASS South races at Ace Friday
The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South super late models make a Friday June 4 appearance at Altahmahaw North Carolina’s Ace Speedway, a fast 4/10 mile speed plant that will be hosting the stars and cars of PASS for the first time.
Ace should be considered a wild card in the race for the 2010 PASS South championship, joining North Wilkesboro Speedway as one of two tracks on the schedule where the series has yet to make an appearance.
With five of the scheduled thirteen championship events in the books, Concord North Carolina’s Preston Peltier is atop the standings by virtue of his two wins and five top five finishes to date. High Point’s Ryan Blaney won the season opener at Dillon (NC) Motor Speedway and trails Peltier by 20 markers, 1086-1066. Consistency has Tennessean Heath Hindman in third, 46 points back from Blaney at 1,020. Jay Fogleman has yet to visit victory lane in 2010 but he’s only six points behind Hindman, deadlocked with Concord Speedway race winner Andy Loden at 1014.
Ace will serve up a heaping helping of action Friday night with King Extremes, Chick-fil-a Modifieds, Legends, Bandoleros and 150 green flag laps for the short track stars of the Pro All Stars Series.
Pit gates open on Friday June 4 at 1:00 PM and PASS practice gets the green at 2:30 PM. The grandstands open at 5:00 PM and the first race will take to the track at 8:00 PM. The PASS super late models, Legends and Bandoleros will time trial at 6:15 PM.
For more information on Ace Speedway check out www.acespeedway.com on line. A complete schedule for Friday night’s event can be found at www.proallstarsseries.com
by Jay | Jun 2, 2010 | Video
It was another classic battle among the competitors at Thompson Speedway. What a way to open the 2010 Summmer season (more…)
by Jay | Jun 1, 2010 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway
Oxford, ME – Oxford Federal Credit Union Motor Mayhem Round One featured an action packed night, which lasted well after the final firework went off. Dennis Berry took home first place honors in the Spectator Drags competition after fighting his way through the preliminaries and beating Kyle Curtis for the top spot.
In the Smokey Donut show, Jim Pineo kept his Monte Carlo in a tight circle the whole time and after emerging from a blinding plume of smoke, won a standing ovation from the crowd as well as the first place check. Rob Kahkonen took second after kicking up a big cloud of smoke in his Ford Ranger pick-up.
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by Jay | Jun 1, 2010 | Maine, Wiscasset Raceway
OFFICIAL RACING RESULTS MAY 30, 2010
(Wiscasset, ME) Sunday at The Center of Speed, Dave St. Clair told Doug White, owner of the Wiscasset Raceway, that he would need to win at least one race every season to keep bring his car to the track. It looks like we’ll have racing legend Boss Hog around for the rest of 2010 as he takes the checkered flag in the Steel’s Real Rods & Customs Late Model Sportsman feature.
The LMS feature was an exciting race with Buxton’s Danny Smart leading most of the way. Boss Hog in the #14 car kept trying the outside line but was held off by the #6. Lots of door to door racing for the lead on Sunday! There were also great battles in the pack with Rowland “Rockin’” Robinson, Nick Hinkley and Josh St. Clair all fighting for a top spot. Then one of those tough moments in racing, the #6 car was pulling away on the front stretch when the back end got loose and put Danny Smart into a slide. Boss Hog pulled into the lead and kept it to the checkered flag. Danny Smart in the #6 car had a nice recovery and battled back into the top 5.
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by Jay | Jun 1, 2010 | New Hampshire
Granite Mini Sprinters Visit Big Daddy’s Speedbowl
It was a busy night at Big Daddy’s Speedbowl on Rt. 25 in Wentworth.
There were two features left from the previous week, and the track
played host to the Granite State Mini-Sprints club. The Mini Sprinters
with their motorcycle engine-based winged sprint cars made their first
of four appearances at Big Daddy’s. You can learn more about these
great race cars at www.GraniteStateMiniSprint.org
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by Jay | Jun 1, 2010 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire
First Super Stock Win for Brooks
Winchester, NH: Mother nature would play a huge role with tonights feature events as rain shut down the remainder of the feature events just as the pro stocks were taking to the track. But some of the show had already been complete and fans had gotten a taste of fast wheel to wheel racing.
Young Guns were first in their 15 lap feature, which saw pole sitter JT Cloutier put down his first win of the season. Cloutier would set the pace and never look back, leading the race by 1/2 a track. Cloutier, when discussing the win thanked “Mom and Dad” and the folks at Big Boys Racing for some well made adjustments to get him here. Matt Parmenter would take second followed by Adam Manley and his Saturday night BMW.
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