by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Monadnock Speedway, New Hampshire
Successful Opening Night at Monadnock Speedway
Winchester, NH: Opening Day for the Monadnock Speedway can be summed up by new word “Wow”. That was what the Sportsman Modified Division feature winner Ricky Labrecque said when interviewed trackside after his win. Race fans were treated to the first of many, action packed Saturday nights at the fastest high banked quarter mile in the East. Labrecque picked up his first win in the Sportsman Modifieds, followed closely by Nick Boivin in second and Bill Kimball in third.
Race features for the night began with the mighty Mini Stock division. Chris McTaggart (last year’s division champion) would, after valiant effort, finish second to Joey Kendall who put his #13 in the lead and never looked back. Tim Jackson picked up a podium finish in third.
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by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, PASS
Staples masters PASS Mods, Martin snares PASS Sportsman win at the Ridge
Chris Staples has seen success in nearly every Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North division; he’s a two time Mod champ, he’s raced up front in the now dormant Outlaw division, and he has a Beech Ridge super late model win to his credit.
Saturday Staples returned to Beech Ridge one year after his first super late model victory, but this time he was back behind the wheel of his PASS Mod. After a year’s hiatus from the PASS Mod ranks, Staples returned to victory lane in the open wheel series lid lifter at the Scarborough Maine speed plant. Staples now has twelve wins in the fast, fun and affordable series.
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by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Connecticut, Thompson
THOMPSON, CT. The Thompson International Speedway will open the race track for practice sessions for the next two Thursdays. The speedway will be open on Thursday May 6th and again on May 13th between the hours of 3 PM and 8 PM for teams to fine tune their race cars before the track kicks off its Thursday Night Thompson Thunder (TNTT) series of May 20th.
These traditional open practice sessions are designed to give valuable track time to race teams so that they will be race ready when the first green flag falls on the regular weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series races. The grandstands will not be open for these practice dates.
Many of the race teams that plan to participate in Thompson’s Tour-Type Modified races have expressed interest in getting some valuable track time during these two open practice sessions. The interest in the four Tour-Type Modified 40-lap shoot outs on Thompson’s schedule is high and these two opportunities are looked at with great interest by many of the top race teams that will compete in these events.
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by Jay | May 3, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England, PASS
Mike Rowe scores back –to-front PASS North win at Beech Ridge
Mike Rowe didn’t look like a winner during qualifying for Saturdays’ Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North season opener at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Rowe started the 150 lap super late model feature in the 28th position but the defending Pro Series Champion at the immaculate Scarborough Maine oval picked his way through the field to put his PT Watts Chevrolet on race leader Trevor Sanborn’s back bumper at the half way mark..
Sanborn held Rowe at bay for nearly 50 laps, but the Maine motorsports legend found an opening under Sanborn on lap 120 and led the final 30 laps to capture his sixteenth PASS North Super Late Model feature and two in a row at Beech Ridge. Rowe’s margin of victory was .526 seconds
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | Video
Week #5 at the Speedbowl featuring the Late Model division. Only 11 cars started the feature and unfortunately not all (more…)
by Jay | May 2, 2010 | New England, Whip City
Todd Bertrand Romps to Whip City Win,
Cupid Shoots Arrow Through Mark Irving’s Fuel Tank
BY MARK McKEON
WESTFIELD,MA – Todd Bertrand used his equipment to full advantanage at Whip City Speedway, winning his heat and then defeating 17 competitors to capture the season opening 270cc Mini Sprint feature.
“Our Skeetz motor gave us plenty of power, and the anti-roll adjustment package that Danny Drinan built for the RTS chassis let me adjust the car to run where the track was good,” Bertrand said. “It’s the same chassis package that Damien Gardner is using on his USAC Midget.”
Bertrand led from green to checker, often accumulating long leads that were wiped out by numerous caution flags. His only serous competition came from fellow heat winner Mark Irving, until Irving ran out of fuel halfway through the 20 lap feature.
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | Monadnock Speedway, New England, New Hampshire
Jarvis Wins Monadnock Bond Auto Parts Spring Dash 100
WINCHESTER, NH – With a large opening night crowd on hand, Ascutney, VT., racing veteran Dwight Jarvis scored his first win of the season Saturday night capturing the Bond Auto Parts Spring Dash 100 for modified race cars at Monadnock Speedway.
Jarvis’ victory was his fifth career win with the Modified Racing Series, sponsored by BobValentiAutoMall.Com, and his third score at the Winchester, NH., oval. Jarvis is ranked fourth on the all-time win list for the MRS.
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | ACT, New England, Thunder Road
Nick Sweet Earns First Career ACT Win in Merchants Bank 150
Barre, VT – Barre’s own Nick Sweet earned his first career American Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car win in the 12th Annual Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Sunday, May 2. Sweet started from the 12th position after qualifying through a consi. He battled his way to the front, driving around Patrick Laperle and then Dave Pembroke for the lead. Sweet held off six-time and defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston late in the event. Hoar took second followed by Laperle in third.
Pembroke led the majority of the first half of the race before battling Laperle just after the halfway point in the 150 lap event. Pembroke drove back around Laperle but then lost the battle with Sweet. Pembroke would hold on for fourth and Mark Lamberton took fifth. Craig Bushey, Joey Laquerre, Chip Grenier, Scott Payea and Mark Hayward rounded out the top ten.
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, PASS
Ben Rowe: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
4-time PASS North Series champion Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, finished 3rd in the season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 1. He led on one occasion for a total of nine laps in the Mulkern Racing Community Pharmacies No. 48 Chevrolet, his PASS North debut with his new team and crew chief Seth Holbrook. Team owner Scott Mulkern finished 20th in a second Mulkern Racing car in the event.
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by Jay | May 2, 2010 | Beech Ridge, Maine, New England
Scarborough, ME – May 1, 2010 – The RF Logic / Bot-L-Gas Pro Four Modifieds of New England successfully completed their second race of the season this Saturday as part of Beech Ridge Motor Speedway’s Pro All-Stars Series opener event. The special 35 lap main event was preceded by two qualifying heat events, where #25 of Tyler Anderson and #01 of Adam Norton took the checkers.
Stan Mertz of Whitinsville, Ma and Phil Lausier of Hudson, NH lead the field to the initial green of the feature. Lausier stayed in the high grove to make the pass on the green while fourth place starter, Anderson, followed in line. Rob Richardi, Jr. quickly jumped in line and also made the pass.
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