{"id":19869,"date":"2015-09-09T20:39:03","date_gmt":"2015-09-10T00:39:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/?p=19869"},"modified":"2015-09-09T20:39:03","modified_gmt":"2015-09-10T00:39:03","slug":"tombarello-sands-dumas-washburn-and-tellier-secure-lee-usa-speedway-championships-barthelemy-eldridge-evans-horvath-and-mailhot-take-feature-wins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/2015\/09\/tombarello-sands-dumas-washburn-and-tellier-secure-lee-usa-speedway-championships-barthelemy-eldridge-evans-horvath-and-mailhot-take-feature-wins\/","title":{"rendered":"Tombarello, Sands, Dumas, Washburn, and Tellier secure Lee USA Speedway championships, Barthelemy, Eldridge, Evans, Horvath and Mailhot take feature wins."},"content":{"rendered":"
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Lee, NH –\u00a0 It was championship night at Lee USA Speedway on Friday<\/span><\/span>, the final weekly program for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions to decide the 2015 division titles at \u201cNew Hampshire\u2018s Center of Speed\u201c.<\/p>\n

Haverhill, MA\u2019s Tommy Tombarello, Jr. locked up another Supermodified championship title, but his season didn\u2019t end quite the way he would have liked.\u00a0 He was involved in a scary incident during his qualifying heat, slamming the retaining wall and destroying his championship machine.\u00a0 Tombarello was uninjured in the hard wreck and joined the post-race festivities to accept his championship.
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\nLance Barthelemy of Fremont finally shook the monkey off his back and scored win number one on the season in the EKeys4cars Supermodified main event, closing out his sophomore campaign with a trip to victory lane.\u00a0 Barthelemy was a multi-time winner during his rookie season in 2014, and he was thrilled to be back in the winner\u2019s circle after a tough summer on the fast 3\/8th\u2018s mile oval.<\/p>\n

Rookie of the Year contender Mike Keddy of Raymond put in another strong performance, holding off Kingston\u2019s Kyle Sawyer to collect runner-up honors.\u00a0 Fourth went to Mike Ordway, Jr. of Fremont, followed by Mike Murphy of Groveland, MA, Leslie Keyser of Northfield, Jarrod Soucy of Hudson, MA, Rochester\u2019s Mike Spurling, Jim Barker of Meredith, and Moe Lattime of Kingston.<\/p>\n

The R & R Public Wholesale Late Model Sportsman championship was decided during the course of the night, with eventual champion Jay Sands of Hampton coming into the night tied with Jimmy Russell of Brentwood.\u00a0 Sands scored a heat race win and a third place feature run to outdistance Russell by a two-point margin for the season.<\/p>\n

Frankie Eldridge of Stratham ended the regular season the same way he had started it, with a trip to victory lane at the end of the 30-lap feature event.\u00a0 It was Eldridge\u2019s third win of the season, with Russell and Sands next across the stripe.\u00a0 Nate Leavitt of Buxton, ME was scored fourth, followed by Bryan Kruczek of Newmarket, George Helliwell of Pelham, Ray Dinsmore of Waterboro, ME, Ricky Porter of Epping, and Barrington\u2019s Alby Ovitt.<\/p>\n

Nashua\u2019s Dennis Dumas locked up the 2015 title in the David\u2019s Race Cars and Components Hobby Stocks, while veteran competitor Pete Evans of Berwick, ME took down the feature win.\u00a0 Lebanon, ME\u2019s Chris \u201cRooftop\u201d
\nHarding led the first 18 laps, but when he and challenger Brian DeStefano drifted high coming off turn four, Evans made it three-wide and got past for the lead and the eventual win.<\/p>\n

Bill Helliwell of Pelham had another solid run to score the runner-up finish, followed by Kenny Scott of Salem, Dave MacDonald of Tewksbury, MA, DeStefano, Harding, Kevin Bowman of North Grafton, MA, Dumas, Nottingham\u2019s Zac Fraser, and Trevor Randlett of Holderness.<\/p>\n

Shane Horvath of Nottingham dominated the Tri-City Line-X Ironman feature event, making his division-leading fourth trip to victory lane after the 20-lap main.\u00a0 Shane\u2019s brother Evan scored runner-up, followed by Christin DeStefano of Tewksbury, MA, Travis Hollins of Milford, and newly-crowned 2015 champion Troy Washburn of Farmington.<\/p>\n

Washburn will be seated at the head table for the second time, backing up his 2011 Ironman title with a second.\u00a0 Mike Farrington, Hannah Shaw, Greg Brannan, Jamie Holland, and Luke Grammont rounded out the top ten finishers in the Ironman main.<\/p>\n

Jesse Tellier was celebrated as the Pure Stock champion for the second consecutive year, while Tyler Mailhot scored his first-ever Lee USA win in the night\u2019s feature event.\u00a0 Tellier and Rob Carlton rounded out the podium in that one.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Lee, NH –\u00a0 It was championship night at Lee USA Speedway on Friday, the final weekly program for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions to decide the 2015 division titles at \u201cNew Hampshire\u2018s Center of Speed\u201c. Haverhill, MA\u2019s Tommy Tombarello, Jr. locked up another Supermodified championship title, but his season didn\u2019t end quite the way […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[190,112],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19869","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lee-usa-new-hampshire","category-new-hampshire"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19869"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":19870,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19869\/revisions\/19870"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19869"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19869"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newenglandracingnews.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19869"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}