ACT photos at Star Speedway
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Joey Polewarczyk Jr picks up his 3rd straight ACT victory after a great 75+ lap battle with 2012 ACT Champion #27 Wayne Helliwell Jr.
Credit: Eric LaFleche
NEMST at Star Speedway: Rookies Swap Points Lead As Cayer Wins Again
8/26/12 – Seventeen cars lined up at Star Speedway for the seventh event of the 2012 Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour season. As practice rounds were clicked through the front wheel drive vehicles showed a definite advantage on the tight Epping, NH course. The track had lots of grip early on due to the high outside temperatures.
After practice the NEMST drivers were gathered for the drivers meeting. NEMST regular Loren Smith won the Tater’s NASCAR Merchandise cash bonus and drew the $90 chip out of the bucket. Teams were given the lineup for the two qualifying heats and made final preparations before lineups.
Emerson Cayer drew the pole for his heat with tour points runner up Danny Field right to his outside. Point leader Shawn Swallow would start fifth in the first heat along with Field and Cayer. Cayer would prevail for the heat win as a strong battle ensued behind him between Field and Swallow. Swallow took home the second place. Mike Parker worked his way through the field in the second heat passing Matt Sonnhalter and Billy Osborne before claiming the checkers. Cayer drew an inversion of 6 rows for the feature lineup.
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Johnny Clark Takes PASS North Win at Star Speedway
Rusty Bryant scores first PASS Mod win
Johnny Clark overcame mechanical problems and a shot gun starting position to win Saturday night’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North 150 at Epping New Hampshire’s Star Speedway. Clark gave race leader Travis Benjamin the bump and run on lap 144 and led the final six laps to capture his first win of the young season. Benjamin settled for second with Quebec racer Martin LaTulippe finished in third. Beech Ridge winner Joey Doiron raced under the checkers fourth and Ben Rowe was fifth.
Engine issues kept Clark out of the qualifying rounds but the defending series champ worked his way into the top five before the half way mark. Benjamin had taken over the top spot from Ben Rowe at lap 62 and it looked like he had the car to capture his first PASS super late model win since 2008. Clark took the lead on a lap 103 restart and held it until Benjamin reclaimed it under green on lap 126. Five laps later a power surge darkened the entire race track, setting up a red flag period that miraculously saw all competitors come to a safe stop. Once power was restored Benjamin held the point with Clark, Donnie Whitten and defending race winner Derek Ramstrom all giving chase .Ramstrom had gone from front to back several times and Whitten was about to make a charge at the lead but both made off track excursions in the closing laps, relegating Ramstrom to 13th and Whitten to 10trh at the stripe.
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Lonnie Sommerville Finishes 9th In Wild PASS Star Speedway150
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Star Speedway Race Report
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished ninth in a caution-filled PASS North Series Star 150 at Star Speedway in Epping, N.H., on Saturday, May 12. Sommerville, who started on the pole and led on two different occasions in the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders Chevrolet, was involved in three separate incidents over the course of the night. He was able to make several repairs and adjustments on pit road during the race to fix the handling on his car and salvage a Top-10 finish for the night on the quarter-mile bullring.