Bob Hackel’s impressive roll continues on at the Devil’s Bowl Speedway in W. Haven, VT
Bobby Hackel’s impressive roll continued at the Dirt Track at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, August 28, as he picked up win number five on the season in NASCAR Whelen All-American Series competition. The Rensselaer, N.Y., racer won the highly competitive Charlie LaDuc Memorial “Ol’ Reliable 54,” while Matt Mosher and Mike Ryan were also winners at the event. Continue reading
Wayne Helliwell, Jr. had suffered through more than his share of disappointment over the years in competition at Oxford Plains Speedway, but a turnaround in fortune for the Bernhardt Motorspots team came full circle Sunday night with victory in the 43rd Annual H.P. Hood Oxford 150, worth about $30,000. Continue reading
| New Hampshire’s Wayne Helliwell, Jr. took the biggest Super Late Model 43rd Annual Oxford 250 at the Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday night. (Credit: Oxford Plains Speedway photo) | |
| 1) 27 – Wayne Helliwell Jr. – 250 Laps 2) 7 – Travis Benjamin. – 250 3) 60 – DJ Shaw. – 250 4) 4n – Ben Rowe. – 250 5) 97 – Joey Polewarczyk. – 250 6) 13 – Cassius Clark. – 250 7) 94 – Garrett Hall. – 250 8) 54 – Johnny Clark. – 250 9) 7nc – Ben Lynch. – 250 10) 7L – Glen Luce. – 250 11) 73 – Joey Doiron. – 250 12) 48 – Bobby Timmons. – 250 13) 15 – Mike Hopkins. – 250 14) 41 – Tracy Gordon. – 250 15) 55 – Dalton Sargeant. – 250 16) 59 – Reid Lanpher. – 250 17) 50 – Jeff White. – 250 18) 09 – Jeremy Davis. – 250 19) 46 – Dennis Spencer. – 250 20) 94x – Shawn Martin. – 250 21) 21 – David Oliver. – 250 |
22) 24 – Mike Rowe. – 250 23) 64 – Garrett Evans. – 249 24) 23 – David Farrington. – 249 25) 25 – Shawn Knight. – 247 26) 12g – Derek Griffith. – 247 27) 8F – Tate Fogleman. – 245 28) 45 – Kodie Conner. – 223 29) 35 – Derek Ramstrom. – 202 30) 88x – Jeff Taylor. – 193 31) 22 – Scott Farrington. – 178 32) 00 – Bryan Kruczek. – 174 33) 09x – Justin Drake – 159 34) 4 – Jeremy Whorff. – 124 35) 57 – Austin Theriault. – 122 36) 47 – Kelly Moore. – 120 37) 36 – Scott Robbins. – 112 38) 16me – Travis Stearns. – 104 39) 44 – Kyle Treadwell – 62 40) 60b – Tim Brackett – 46 41) 01x – Jake Crum – 8 42) 61 – TJ Brackett – 7 |
Source: OPS PR
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On Thursday nightsThunder Road Speedbowl always tries to live up to its motto “The Nation’s site of excitement!
Jason Allen of Barre ran down pole-sitter David Whitcomb of Essex Jct. halfway through the race and stayed on top the rest of the way to claim victory in the Thunder Road Late Models on Jet Service Envelope/Accura Printing Night on the final Thursday night event of the season.
Another Wednesday night NASCAR racing program at the Thompson Speedway in Connecticut with Twin 25 lap features for the Sunoco Modified Series as the 2016 season draws to a close for the NASCAR Whelen All American Series.
Thompson Speedway Motorsports Park gave local kids a little pre back-to-school action on Wednesday, August 24th with the venue’s Pepsi Back To School Night featuring twin 25-lap features for the Sunoco Modified division as well as Thompson’s three other NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions as the championship season begins to draw to a close. Continue reading
Bellingham’s Steve Masse made a big $10,000 score when he won the Tri Track Modified Open at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl last Thursday night. (Credit: Yankee Racing.com photo)
Steve Masse captured his first career NorthEast Race Cars and Parts Tri Track Open Modified Series checkered flag on Thursday at New London-Waterford Speedbowl, rocketing into victory lane behind the wheel of his No. 13 and collecting the big prize of $10,000. Continue reading
Labor Day Weekend is always offers great historic racing at the 1.6 mile Lime Rock Park in Connecticut.
Subject to minor changes, the 263-car Racing Entry List for Historic Festival 34 Presented by the Prestige Family of Fine Cars, September 2-5, has been released by Festival Chairman Murray Smith. Continue reading
Kurt Hewins has a winning streak going at the Wiscasset Speedway on the Maine coast
Kurt Hewins of the 55H from Leeds continued his winning streak and solid sportsmanship last Saturday night for Fan Appreciation Night, presented by IGA Food Stores supporting the Dream Ride for Special Olympics. Traveling from cities all over the state, dedicated fans, packing grand stands each week, are the secret ingredient that makes Wiscasset Speedway Maine’s biggest, fastest track year after year. Continue reading
Top NEMA drivers along with Sammy Swindell put on quite a show at the Star Speedway in Epping, NH last weekend.
Legendary open-wheel driver Sammy Swindell of Germantown, TN, a three-time World of Outlaws sprint car and five-time Chili Bowl midget champion, joined the legion of drivers who have turned laps on the storied Epping, NH oval at Star Speedway on Saturday night. Continue reading
Hot Friday night action in southern NH can be found at the Lee USA Speedway.
The New England Pro-4 Modifieds were the added attraction at Lee USA Speedway on Friday night, making for another full night of racing action at “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed”, along with the weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing action.
Robin Berghman, acknowledged as the country’s first female driver to claim a touring series championship, once again rose to the top, outrunning the field to take down the win. Berghman is the daughter-in-law of the legendary Bugsy Stevens, a longtime standout on the NASCAR Modified tour back in the in the 1960’s and ‘70‘s.
Family traditions carried on for the rest of the podium finishers, as second-generation racer Norm Wren III claimed second place honors, with third-generation racer Brett Meservey taking home third place honors.
Wrenn’s father Norm was a standout Pro Stock racer at Lee for years, claiming the biggest win of his career in the Lee USA Downeast Drilling Pro Stock Nationals, while Brett’s grandfather Dan, Sr. first found his way to victory lane on the old Tri-Oval Lee Raceway back in the mid-1970’s in NEMMA (the predecessor to today‘s Pro-4‘s) action.
Phil Lausier in the RF Logic machine grabbed fourth place honors, and Doug Meservey, Jr. rounded out the top five in the Pro-4 division, while veteran Allan Rieser, Jr. claimed the top spot in the Pro-4 Lites, with Mark Charette and Dion Doyle taking second and third.
Lee USA’s weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series EKeys4cars Supermodifieds ran a 30-lap feature event on Friday as well, with Fremont‘s Lance Barthelemy dominating the action to claim his third main event win of the 2016 campaign with a flag to flag run.
Rookie Super driver Dave “Hollywood” Helliwell of Pelham took down second place honors with a late-race charge, followed by veteran Moe Lattime of Kingston, Jim Lowrey, Jr. of Tilton, 2015 Rookie of the Year Mike Keddy, Mike Spurling of Rochester, Auburn’s Mike Netishen, P.J. Murphy of Groveland, MA, Jim Barker of Meredith, and Leslie Keyser of Northfield.
Frankie Eldredge of Stratham scored his first win of the year in the R & R Public Wholesalers Late Model Sportsman division, grabbing the lead from Jesse Bousquet of Pittsfield on lap six, and going the distance from there to collect his first checkered flag of 2016.
Jimmy Russell of Exeter slipped past to lead a couple of laps at mid-race, but he eventually settled for another runner-up finish, with points leader Nate Leavitt of Buxton, ME third. Fourth went to 2015 champ Jay Sands of Hampton, followed by rookie contender Kris Miller of Bedford, George Helliwell of Pelham, Jesse Bousquet of Pittsfield, Trevor Randlett of Holderness, Ray Dinsmore of Waterboro, ME, and Bobby Melvin of Groton, MA.
The David’s Race Cars and Components Hobby Stocks had a pair of 25-lap feature events on the night, with Berwick, ME’s Boe Green taking both wins to collect the overall bonus for the evening. Green’s son Ryan was best of the rest in the second 25-lapper, with Kevin Aberle of Wilmington, MA getting his best finish of the season in the third spot.
Adam Knowles of Seabrook made his second 2016 trip to victory lane in the Tri-City Line-X Ironman feature event, holding off Jamie Holland, points leader Ryan Pitkin of Lee, Rookie Ryan Washburn of Dover, former champ Travis Hollins, Christin DeStefano of Tewksbury, MA, Kaycie Kustra of Lee, Mike Farrington of Rochester, and John Blanchard of Dracut, MA.
Epping‘s Tyler Mailhot scored his sixth win of the year in the Pure Stock main event, holding off Claremont‘s Alex Poisson for the win. John Boomhower of Epping rounded out the podium with a third place run.
Next up at Lee USA is the annual running of the Lance Davis Memorial for Late Model Sportsmen, run in honor of the longtime Lee USA racer who passed away well before his time. The rest of the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series divisions will be in action as well.
Source: Lee USA Speedway PR
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