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By Lou Modestino (for Saturday, 10/30/16)
 Lily Deware, the Oliver Ames High School Senior from Easton and Team BUBBA Burger driver, was looking for her third consecutive BUBBA burger Northeast Divisional Championship. Fellow Massachusetts driver David Woodle was looking for his first. In the end, Woodle broke Deware’s two year strangle hold on the AX (Novice) Class, out dueling her for the win and putting the pre-season favorite also on track to unseat Deware as Champion in the BUBBA burger Junior Hydroplane Championship Series.
The 2016 DAV Fall Classic at Seekonk Speedway is planned for this afternoon, Saturday, October 29 at 2 p.m. The track hopes to see everyone out for the last big race in New England before the winter. The Pro Stock Open 150 posts $6,000 to win and the Late Model 50 Lap feature will pay over $1,800 to win. Also on this afternoon’s card is a 50 lap Street Stock race along with the Sport Trucks. Last night was the final Fast Friday Series that featured Pure Stocks, SYRA Mini Stocks,Sport 4’s and Legends. There’s also a auto swap meet being held in the adjacent flea market next door to the race track starting at 7 a.m. today Saturday, October 29.
The DAV Fall Classic Pro Stock Open 150 is shaping up to be an epic race with a talent laden field. Registrations are pouring in and represents many of the best that Seekonk and touring series have to offer. . Below is the list of confirmed drivers with many more names coming in every day. #7 Dave Farrington Jr., #60 DJ Shaw, #66 Mike Parks, #49 Matt Swanson, #12 Derek Griffith,#73 JoeyDorion, #18, Michael Scorzelli, #28 Josh Varney, #37 Larry Gelinas, #5 Phil Meaney, #30 Fred Astle, #41 Dick Houlihan (Bridgewater), #27 Mike Brightman, #52 David Darling, #14 Rick Martin, #35 Derek Ranstrom, #12 Bobby Pelland III, #97 Joe Pole, #2 Tom Scully Jr, #48 Ryan Lineham, #11 Ryan Vanasse, #80 Bob Hussey, #7 Curtis Gerry and #88 Kyle Desouza.
The Charlestown, NH based Modified Touring Series headed by Gary Knight is expanding in 2017. That tour only ran one race in 2016 at the Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, NH and paid the winner Ryan Preece $15,000 for the Winchester 200 which was the top prize for that $75,000 total purse
The Modified Touring Series announced, after months of talks, the signing of its first three dates of the 2017 racing season at Monadnock Speedway on April 29, July 1 and September 16. Larry and Deneen Cirillo along with Fred Pafume of Monadnock Speedway have been supporters of MTS from the beginning. Hosting its first race, the Winchester 200 in May of this year.
“Teams will be racing the 2017 season for a $40,000 point fund and a per race event of $3,000 to win. We will also be introducing an exciting points chase that will ensure that each race will keep competitors and fans on the edge of their seats every time the drivers hit the track,” said MTS principal Gary Knight. He added, “We are currently in talks with other tracks for more dates for the upcoming season”.
Here is the breakdown of the per Race Purse: 1st $3,000 2nd $1,600 3rd $1,300 4th $1,075 5th $975 6th $925 7th $875 8th $850 9th $825 10th $800 11th $775 12th $750 13th $725 14th $700 15th $675 16th $660 17th $660 18th $660 19th 660 20th $660 21st $660 22nd $660 23rd $660 24th $660. We have been hearing reports that the Tri-Track Series will have a change in management in 2017. That was confirmed following this past Sunday’s Tri -Track Series finale at the New London-Waterford Speedbowl. Starting in 2017 the Pinnink family, father and son and Modified driver Rowan Pinnink and partner Dave Darling of Rehoboth will take over. But Tri-Track Series founder Dick Williams of Connecticut and the rest of his partners,the Racing Guys, will still be present at all of those tour races as consultants. All is quiet, though, in the Valenti Modified Racing Series camp headed by founder Jack Bateman in Canaan, NH who now has to replace the three races he lost to the Modified Touring Series at Monadnock Speedway in NH. Also, losing ground is the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour that saw one of their races dumped by Monadnock Speedway in NH. There are unconfirmed reports that Beech Ridge Speedway in Scarborough, ME has been added to the 2017 Whelen Mod Tour schedule replacing the Monadnock date. New England Dragway in Epping, NH will be putting a wrap on the 2016 drag racing season today Saturday, October 29 and Sunday, October 30 with testing runs starting at 8 a.m. each day. There’s motoX action at the Capeway Rovers in Middleboro on Sunday, October 30 at 9 a.m.(end)
Information for this column came from press releases, schedule and flyers.
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