by Jay | Sep 4, 2012 | Canada, Maine, PASS, Touring Series News
Farmington, Maine’s Cassius Clark is the 2012 Auto Value 250 champion. Clark capped off an impressive SpeedWeekend run to take the checkered flag in Atlantic Canada’s biggest short track race of the season. The Pro All Star Series points leader won the race ahead of second place D.J. Shaw from Center Conway, New Hampshire and Matt Harris from Fredericton Junction.
“Wow what a run, the King Racing team of Rollie MacDonald gave me a great car tonight and I am thrilled to be the Auto Value 250 champion” said Clark in Speedway 660’s Victory Lane. “I love Canada and to follow up the Atlantic Cat 250 win at Scotia SpeedWorld with Speedway 660’s Auto Value 250 this year is certainly one of the biggest thrills of my racing career.”
Clark led 120 laps en route to his victory and picked up 21 thousand dollars in prize money. John Flemming captured the Modern Electric half way challenge, led 72 laps, finished 8th and takes home more than 67 hundred dollars in prize money.
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by Jay | Jul 22, 2012 | Maine, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Oxford ME (7/21) Cassius Clark nosed ahead of leader Kyle DeSouza on lap 130 of Saturday night’s Dunkin Donuts 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway and raced home with his third Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North win of 2012. Trevor Sanborn came back through the field for second and Derek Ramstrom earned third.
Clark’s win was his first PASS checker at Oxford Plains Speedway and the sixteenth of his PASS North racing career.
Brian Hoar and Kyle DeSouza brought the thirty one car field to the initial green and Hoar got out front first . Glen Luce came up to challenge Hoar early and led for a dozen laps but Hoar quickly reclaimed the lead on lap twenty. Andy Shaw was next to challenge and he got the job done on a lap 39 restart.
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by Jay | May 29, 2012 | Maine, New England, New Hampshire, PASS, Touring Series News, White Mountain Motorsports Park
Cassius Clark made an early outside charge in Saturday nights Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North 150 to capture the lead and score the super late model feature win at White Mountain Motorsports Park. Joey Polewarczyk earned the second spot with defending series champion Johnny Clark third, DJ Shaw fourth and Travis Benjamin fifth.
The win was Clark’s first PASS North checker since the 2009 season and the fourteenth of his PASS North career.
Gary Smith and Travis Benjamin led the twenty six car field to the green and it was Benjamin jumping out to the lead with Joey Pole, Derek Ramstrom, Smith and Ben Rowe in tow. Clark was coming from his eighth starting spot and as the field strung out he rambled up the outside groove, putting his Hight Chevrolet out front on lap eighteen.
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by Jay | Jul 27, 2009 | New Hampshire, PASS
NAPLES ME (July 26) Cassius Clark wrestled the race lead from Donnie Whitten on lap ten of Saturday’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) super late model Summerfest 150 at Groveton New Hampshire’s Riverside Speedway and never looked back to record his first PASS feature win of 2009. Clark’s victory ended a PASS North winless streak dating back to October of 2007 for the 2008 PASS National Championship series titlist. Kelly Moore brought his NAPA Chevrolet home second and pole sitter Donnie Whitten earned his best result of 2009 by finishing third. Ben Rowe and DJ Shaw rounded out the top five.
Only a pair of minor caution periods slowed the 150 lap event that took just forty three minutes to complete. Point Leader and defending race winner Johnny Clark had a subpar night finishing ninth, the last car to complete all 150 laps. Derek Ramstrom was involved in one of the few on track skirmishes, resulting in a 13thplace run. Ben Rowe worked his way up to fourth from his eleventh place spot on the starting grid to gain a little ground in the title chase, and Adam Bates recorded a sixth place finish to keep pace with the title contenders
The victory was redemption for Clark after falling out of the 2008 version of the Summerfest 150 with power steering problems after dominating over two thirds of that event. This year the team discovered their problems in afternoon practice, changing a bad clutch before race time. If the failure had occurred during the race, the results would have been very different.
Adam Bates, Chris Staples, Rookie Steve Legendre, Johnny Clark and Richie Dearborn finished in positions six through ten. Nine cars completed all 150 laps. Whitten and Shaw each scored a heat race win
PASS North will return to Unity (ME) Raceway on Sunday August 2 for the rescheduled NAPA 150. Two for one coupons are still available at your northern New England NAPA stores as well as this week’s edition of the Racin’ Paper. PASS Mods and Sportsman complete the schedule, set for a 3:00 PM start.
For more information visit www.racewithpass.com or www.proallstarsseries.com .
Unofficial Results – PASS North super late model Summerfest 150 – Riverside Speedway – Groveton NH 7/25/2009 – With finishing position, (starting position), car number, driver, home town, (laps completed)
1 (3) 8 Cassius Clark, Farmington ME (150) 2 (4) 47 Kelly Moore, Scarborough ME (150) 3 (1) 7 Donnie Whitten, Biddeford ME (150) 4 (11) 4 Ben Rowe, Turner ME (150) 5 (2) 60 DJ Shaw, Center Conway NH 6 (12) 98 Adam Bates, Warner NH (150) 7 (13) 5 Chris Staples, Brunswick ME (150) 8 (8) 20 Steve Legendre, St. Johnsbury VT (150) 9 (15) 54 Johnny Clark, Hallowell ME (150) 10 (6) 33 Richie Dearborn, Hollis ME (149) 11 (5) 17 Travis Benjamin, Morrill ME (149) 12 (16) 14M Matt Frahm, N Salem NH (149) 13 (14) 35 Derek Ramstrom, Worcester MA (149) 14 (17) 85 Nick Ribbe Kingston MA (148) 15 (10) 17A Scott Alexander, Orrington ME (148) 16 (7) 12 John Dabrowski, West Bridgewater MA (140) 17 (9) 53 Alan Wilson, Norway ME (48)
