Williamstown, VT’s Jimmy Hebert earned his second American-Canadian Tour win of the season at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, August 30. (Daniel Holben photo)

Oxford, ME — Williamstown’s Jimmy Hebert finished a job he had come close to so many times before by winning the Oxford Plains 150 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, August 30. Hebert took the lead for good from Turner, ME’s Ben Rowe with 57 laps to go and was never seriously threatened from there on his way to becoming the first repeat winner of the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) season.

For Hebert, it was a victory that had been within reach on multiple occasions prior to Sunday. In nine previous starts at Oxford, he had posted six top-5 finishes with a pair of runner-up results. His elusive first win at the historic 3/8-mile track also put him in the driver’s seat for his first ACT championship with three point-counting events remaining.

Hebert started 10^th in the 28-car field and spent the first third of the event conserving his Hebert Excavation Chevrolet as the field tussled in front of him. Polesitter Marcel J. Gravel of Wolcott, VT led the first five laps before Steuben, ME’s Rowland Robinson Jr. got underneath him on the backstretch to snatch the top spot. Robinson’s stay at the front was also short-lived as Candia, NH’s Jimmy Renfrew pulled a similar move six laps later to lead an ACT event for the first time.

Renfrew paced the field for the next 42 circuits as Robinson, Gravel, Rowe, Ryan Kuhn of East Bridgewater, MA and others fought to position themselves for the long haul. Rowe was up to the second spot by lap 40, and after looking to the outside of Renfrew multiple times, he finally made it stick on the high groove to move in front on lap 54.

The long green-flag run came to an end on lap 69 when Robinson and Renfrew tried to split a lapped car on the front chute. Robinson bounced off Renfrew’s driver-side door entering turn one, and the contact sent Robinson spinning to bring out the first caution. His misfortune moved Milton, VT’s Dylan Payea into the third spot with Hebert right behind him for the restart.

When the green flag came back out, Hebert decided it was time to go. He had slashed his way to the second spot when the second caution flew seven laps later after Connor McDougal got turned around. Hebert restarted outside Rowe and rode the rim to put a nose out front for the next four circuits.

The point leader couldn’t make it stick, though, and fell back in behind Rowe on lap 81. After stalking the multi-time Pro All Stars Series (PASS) champion for the next 13 laps, Hebert got a great run through turn two and dove beneath Rowe exiting the corner to fly into the lead.

After dodging a bullet on lap 98 when Matt Anderson and Dave MacDonald spun right in front of the leaders coming out of turn four, Hebert pulled out to a huge advantage with New Sharon, ME’s Dillon Moltz moving into second. However, the gap was instantly erased when Jimmy Linardy spun in turn three to trigger caution number four.

On the backstretch following the restart, Rowe slid underneath Moltz on the back chute to regain second. Both Moltz and Payea then went for the low lane entering turn three and got together. Each made great saves coming to the frontstretch, but the field got bunched up behind them, and Anderson was the innocent victim as he looped it for the fifth and final yellow.

That meant one last 15-lap sprint to decide the winner. Hebert easily outpowered Rowe on the restart, and although Rowe tried to keep pace, Hebert was simply too strong as he captured his seventh career ACT Late Model Tour victory.

Rowe finished second for his best run of the year in a limited ACT schedule. Newmarket, NH’s Bryan Kruczek continued his mid-season resurgence by completing the podium after making several passes in the third groove. Payea had his best career ACT result in fourth. Moltz, Kuhn, D.J. Shaw, Renfrew, Robinson, and Derek Gluchacki completed the top-10. The result unofficially gives Hebert a 39-point edge over Shaw in the overall standings.

The ACT Late Model Tour makes its second visit of the year to Barre, VT’s Thunder Road on Sunday, September 6 at 1:00pm for the Optical Expressions Berlin Labor Day Classic. Both the ACT and Maplewood/Irving Oil Late Model regulars will go at for 200 green-flag laps. They’ll be joined by Thunder Road’s Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers, Allen Lumber Street Stocks, and Burnett Scrap Metals Road Warriors.

Admission is $25 for adults and $5 for kids ages 12 and under with limited fan attendance. Advance tickets are on sale now at https://happsnow.com/event/Thunder-Road-Speedbowl. Please visit www.thunderroadvt.com for information on face mask policies and other health and safety guidelines. For those who can’t attend in-person, the Northeast Sports Network is offering a $25 live pay-per-view broadcast at www.NSNsports.net/sponsors/racing.

For more information, contact the ACT offices at (802) 244-6963, media@acttour.com, or visit www.acttour.com. You can also get updates on Facebook and Twitter at @ACTTour.

ACT LATE MODEL TOUR

OXFORD PLAINS 150

OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY

SUNDAY, AUGUST 30, 2020

UNOFFICIAL RESULTS

Pos., Start Pos., Driver, Car #, Hometown, Laps

1. ( 10 ) Jimmy Hebert ( 58VT ) , Williamstown, VT , 150 Laps

2. ( 4 ) Ben Rowe ( 4ME ) , Turner, ME , 150 Laps

3. ( 8 ) Bryan Kruczek ( 19NH ) , Newmarket, NH , 150 Laps

4. ( 9 ) Dylan Payea ( 7NH ) , Milton, VT , 150 Laps

5. ( 14 ) Dillon Moltz ( 5ME ) , New Sharon, ME , 150 Laps

6. ( 11 ) Ryan Kuhn ( 72MA ) , E.Bridgewater, MA , 150 Laps

7. ( 17 ) D.J. Shaw ( 04VT ) , Center Conway, NH , 150 Laps

8. ( 2 ) Jimmy Renfrew Jr. ( 00NH ) , Candia, NH , 150 Laps

9. ( 3 ) Rowland Robinson, Jr. ( 28ME ) , Steuben, ME , 150 Laps

10. ( 16 ) #Derek Gluchacki ( 03MA ) , Dartmouth, MA , 150 Laps

11. ( 19 ) Brockton Davis ( 47NH ) , Whitefield, NH , 150 Laps

12. ( 15 ) Christopher Pelkey ( 64VT ) , Graniteville, VT , 150 Laps

13. ( 5 ) Max Dolliver ( 0NH ) , Londonderry, NH , 150 Laps

14. ( 18 ) Jesse Switser ( 25NH ) , W. Burke, VT , 150 Laps

15. ( 7 ) Ryan Olsen ( 61NH ) , N. Haverhill, NH , 150 Laps

16. ( 12 ) Stephen Donahue ( 2VT ) , Graniteville, VT , 149 Laps

17. ( 21 ) Connor MacDougal ( 8NH ) , Rochester, NH , 149 Laps

18. ( 1 ) #Marcel J. Gravel ( 86VT ) , Wolcott, VT , 149 Laps

19. ( 25 ) Reilly Lanphear ( 21VT ) , Waterbury, VT , 148 Laps

20. ( 22 ) James Linardy ( 77MA ) , Somerville, MA , 148 Laps

21. ( 26 ) Mike Benevides ( 50RI ) , Westerly, RI , 148 Laps

22. ( 23 ) #David MacDonald ( 69ME ) , New Gloucester, ME , 147 Laps

23. ( 27 ) Matt Anderson ( 49NH ) , Andover, NH , 147 Laps

24. ( 13 ) Joey Laquerre ( 15VT ) , E. Montpelier, VT , 115 Laps

25. ( 6 ) John Donahue ( 26VT ) , Graniteville, VT , 80 Laps

26. ( 28 ) Garret Leiter ( 20ME ) , Winslow, ME , 64 Laps

27. ( 20 ) #Tom Carey III ( 5MA ) , New Salem, MA , 1 Laps

28. ( 24 ) Jeff Lebrecque Jr. ( 12NH ) , Rochester, NH , 0 Laps

Lap Leaders: Marcel J. Gravel, 1-5; Rowland Robinson Jr., 6-11; Jimmy Renfrew Jr., 12-53; Ben Rowe, 54-76; Jimmy Hebert, 77-80; Rowe, 81-93; Hebert, 94-150. (6 lead changes among 5 drivers)

Time of Race: 1 hour, 6 minutes, 16 seconds   Margin of Victory: 0.791 seconds

Cautions: 5 (laps 69, 76, 98, 134, 135)

Heat Winners: John Donahue, Ryan Olsen, Bryan Kruczek

Consi Winner: Derek Gluchacki

Source: American-Canadian Tour Media Director

Source: NASCAR Gander Truck Series

By Holly Cain NASCAR Wire Service August 30, 2020 

Sheldon Creed won his second NASCAR Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series race in the last three weeks, holding off former series champion Brett Moffitt by a mere .881-seconds to take the trophy in Sunday afternoon’s CarShield 200 Presented by CK Power at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

It was the 22-year-old Californian’s third career win and, notably, his second victory in the season’s three-race Triple Truck Challenge just this month, which earned him a total of $150,000 in bonuses.

Sunday’s victory did not come without controversy, however, as Creed’s No. 2 GMS Racing Chevrolet collided with the race’s most dominant driver, Todd Gilliland, racing hard with just under 40 laps remaining. The contact got Gilliland’s race-leading No. 38 Front Row Motorsports Ford out of shape and forced him into an unscheduled pit stop. And Gilliland, who had already won both Stage 1 and Stage 2 and led a race best 76 of the 160 laps, ultimately finished 24th.

“(The win) feels great, but I want to start by apologizing to the 38 (Gilliland),” Creed said. “It’s so hard to pass here and I got down into his inside and just was really loose getting in. He was really close to my door. They were having such a good day and me and Todd are buddies. I hate doing that to him. They are a strong team. He owes me one.

RELATED: Race results | Sheldon Creed expects payback

“But hats off to my guys. They made great adjustments all day. Came from 17th and had my work cut out for me.”

Championship points leader Austin Hill finished third, followed by 17-year-old Sam Mayer, who led an impressive 24 laps before getting beaten by Creed on a restart with 13 laps remaining. Stewart Friesen, rounded out the top five, his third straight top-five finish in what’s been a largely inconsistent season for the Canadian driver.

Rookies Raphael Lessard and Zane Smith finished sixth and seventh. Grant Enfinger, a two-race winner this season, rallied to an eighth-place finish. Rookies Ty Majeski and Tanner Gray rounded out the top 10.

“I was just trying to play games on the restart and it didn’t work out in my favor obviously,” said Mayer, who was making just his fifth series start. “That’s what I get for playing games. I was a sitting duck really. I am proud of my GMS guys today.”

The vast majority of the race stayed green and early on, especially, looked to be Gilliland’s for the taking. His stage wins were the first for the 20-year-old in two seasons, and a victory would have automatically meant a position in the 10-driver Gander RV & Outdoors Truck Series Playoffs, which begin Sept. 25 in Las Vegas.

“I think he (Creed) knows what happened and I know what happened,” an obviously frustrated Gilliland said after the race. “He just drove in there over his head and got us. That’s racing. I just hate it.

“Had such a good truck there from the beginning going from sixth to first under green,” he continued, “Then to win both stages, gosh, I feel like it was such a good day and it was one of the more dominant truck races I’ve ever run. We just have to keep this up.”

Despite the frustrating result, Gilliland’s two stage wins earned him enough points to keep him inside that 10-driver Playoff cutoff. He is ranked 10th, 13 points ahead of 11th-place Derek Kraus, who finished 13th on Sunday.

The series moves to historic Darlington Raceway for the South Carolina Education Lottery 200 next Sunday afternoon (2 p.m. ET on FS1, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio). It’s the first time since 2011 the Gander Trucks will compete on the egg-shaped track.

The Team With Momentum.
Racing Into The Xfinity Series!

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Brett Moffit drives a NASCAR Xfinity entry for Cape Cod’s Chris Our of Harwich, MA. They had a rough time at Daytona on Saturday , August 29 finishing 27th . They left Daytona after that bad luck and will be heading for Darlington, SC over the Labor Day Weekend looking to turn their luck around,

A love story that’s 40 years old.

As far back as he can remember, Chris Our has always been fascinated by motor sports. Long before he was old enough to drive a car, Chris and his brother John would race dune buggies along the beaches of Cape Cod. The Our boys put their hobby on hold when it came time to raise their own families but now, years later, it’s more than a hobby — it’s a serious business. But even as Chris has led his team to higher levels of the sport, he approaches racing the same way he always has: with passion, respect, and a unwavering spirit of fun.

According to Chris’ team members, Our Motorsports feels more like a family than a business. Based in North Carolina, what the team lacks in size they more than make up for with heart. Racking up a string of top 10 finishes in the ARCA series over the past several years, Our Motorsports will be a full time competitor in the NASCAR Xfinity Series this year.

“This is the big stage. The real deal. The competition is stronger. Tighter. But we have a great team and we’re close,” Chris said.

As a top finisher, Chris knows he can give potential sponsors the most financial impact for the least investment. He points with pride at his car, his equipment his drivers, his pit crew. Chris knows that the values he pours into Our Motorsports are shared with most brands around the nation. Trust. Dedication. Hard work. Doing the right thing. No short cuts.  And winning the right way.

“If you don’t have a love for racing, I don’t want you on the team,” Chris summed it up. Judging from his team, he doesn’t have to worry.

REPORT

Hamilton takes masterful fourth win at Spa from Bottas as Ferrari finish out of the points

Following his dominant pole on Saturday, Hamilton resisted the first lap slipstreaming contest down to Les Combes to hold onto the lead, before retaining it for all 44 laps to close out his fifth victory out of seven races this year. Bottas came home around eight seconds behind his team mate, with Verstappen a further seven seconds down the road.

Renault’s Daniel Ricciardo led home the team’s best finish of the year in fourth, crossing the line under four seconds behind Verstappen after some rapid final laps, with Esteban Ocon overtaking the Red Bull of Alex Albon on the final tour to take fifth, Albon just holding onto sixth from the McLaren of Lando Norris.

An impressive drive from Pierre Gasly saw him take eighth for AlphaTauri, while the final points were taken by the Racing Point pair of Lance Stroll and Sergio Perez in P9 and P10 – with the Ferrari drivers Sebastian Vettel and Charles Leclerc finishing out of the points in P13 and P14 respectively.

McLaren’s Carlos Sainz was unable to take the race start after a power unit led to an exhaust issue, while there was a Safety Car after 11 laps of 44, after a big crash for Alfa Romeo’s Antonio Giovinazzi, with Williams’ George Russell arriving on the scene and hitting Giovinazzi’s wheel, which forced his own retirement – although both drivers were okay.

Meanwhile, Hamilton’s fourth Belgian Grand Prix win sees him draw equal with Jim Clark and Kimi Raikkonen on third in the all-time list for Spa victories, behind Michael Schumacher and Ayrton Senna.

More to follow…

FORMULA 1 ROLEX BELGIAN GRAND PRIX 2020

Race results

POSITION	TIME	POINTS
1  Lewis HAMILTON Mercedes	1:24:08.761	25
2  Valtteri BOTTAS Mercedes	+8.448s	18
3  Max VERSTAPPEN Red Bull Racing	+15.455s	15
4  Daniel RICCIARDO Renault	+18.877s	13
5  Esteban OCON Renault	+40.650s	10
6  Alexander ALBON Red Bull Racing	+42.712s	8
7  Lando NORRIS McLaren	+43.774s	6
8  Pierre GASLY AlphaTauri	+47.371s	4
9  Lance STROLL Racing Point	+52.603s	2
10  Sergio PEREZ Racing Point	+53.179s	1

• Source: Mendards ARCA Racing Series

Ty Gibbs, driver of the #18 Monster-Terrible Herbst-ORCA Toyota, celebrates after winning the Dutch Boy 150 for the ARCA Menards Series at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway in Madison, Illinois on Saturday, August 29, 2020. (Jeff Curry/ARCA Racing)

BY STAFF REPORTS WWW.ARCARACING.COM AUGUST 30, 2020

MADISON, Ill. — Ty Gibbs didn’t wait until the last lap this time.

Returning a year later to the site of his first career ARCA Menards Series victory, the 17-year-old North Carolina driver put on an impressively dominating display Saturday night in the Dutch Boy 150 at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

Despite a late-race restart, Gibbs pulled away from the field easily and drove his No. 18 Monster Energy/Terrible Herbst/ORCA Toyota across the finish line 1.716 seconds ahead of runner-up Chandler Smith.

Gibbs has now won four of nine series starts this year, and picked up his Sioux Chief Showdown victory.

It was the sixth career ARCA Menards Series win in 20 starts for Gibbs, and his ninth win across the ARCA Menards, East and West series over the last two season.

Win No. 1 came at Gateway last June, when Gibbs passed Mayer in the final turns of the final lap.

There was no such dramatics this time around.

Gibbs, who was fastest in practice, started fifth as the race lineup was set based on Sioux Chief Showdown owners points. But he quickly marched his way forward and powered past pole sitter Michael Self on Lap 12.

Mayer finished third at Gateway for the second consecutive year, while Max McLaughlin and ARCA Menards Series West points leader Jesse Love were fourth and fifth, respectively.

Bret Holmes finishes sixth and cut back into Self’s ARCA Menards lead. The latter spin out of a top 10 spot in the final third of the race and limped to a 15th-place finish, five laps off the pace. Holmes now trails by just seven after 13 races.

After seven of 10 Sioux Chief Showdown races, Smith moved back past Self to reclaim the lead. Smith is just two points ahead of Mayer and four in front of Gibbs. Self dropped to fourth, 12 points behind Smith.

Drew Dollar, Taylor Gray, Hailie Deegan and Chase Cabre rounded out the top 10 at Gateway.

The ARCA Menards Series will head south to Missouri’s Lebanon I-44 Speedway for the Zinsser SmartCoat 200 on Sept. 5. That race will also serve as round eight of the Sioux Chief Showdown

Source: NBC Sports/Indy Car

MOTOR SPORTS TALK | NBC SPORTS   

By Nate RyanAug 29, 2020,

Scott Dixon continued his march toward a sixth NTT IndyCar Series championship, capitalizing on a swift green-flag pit stop for a victory Saturday in the first race of a weekend doubleheader at World Wide Technology Raceway at Gateway.

It’s the fourth triumph in eight races this year for the Chip Ganassi Racing driver, who opened the season with three consecutive wins at Texas Motor Speedway, the Indianapolis Motor Speedway road course and Road America.

Dixon finished 0.14 seconds ahead of Takuma Sato, reversing the finishing order from Sunday’s 104th Indianapolis 500 for the 50th victory in the 329th start of his career — joining A.J. Foyt and Mario Andretti as the only drivers with at least 50 wins.

With five races remaining, Dixon has a seemingly insurmountable 117-point lead on defending series champion Josef Newgarden in the championship standings.

BOMMARITO AUTOMOTIVE GROUP RACE 1

RaceSaturday, August 29, 2020

RANK	DRIVER	CAR NO.	STARTS	LAPS	TOTAL TIME	LAPS LED	STATUS	POINTS	AVG.SPEED	PIT STOP
1	Scott Dixon	9	3	200	01:44:30.7944	28	Running	51	143.522	3
2	Takuma Sato	30	5	200	01:44:30.9348	14	Running	41	143.519	3
3	Pato O’Ward	5	2	200	01:44:37.7996	94	Running	38	143.362	3
4	Colton Herta	88	10	200	01:44:38.4963	–	Running	32	143.346	3
5	Marcus Ericsson	8	4	200	01:44:39.1448	–	Running	30	143.332	3
6	Rinus VeeKay	21	14	200	01:44:43.2089	–	Running	28	143.239	3
7	Ryan Hunter-Reay	28	8	200	01:44:43.8500	–	Running	26	143.224	3
8	Felix Rosenqvist	10	12	200	01:44:44.6051	1	Running	25	143.207	3
9	Tony Kanaan	14	21	200	01:44:45.8263	–	Running	22	143.179	4
10	Conor Daly	59	16	200	01:44:46.4665	–	Running	20	143.165	4
11	Jack Harvey	60	7	200	01:44:47.0544	–	Running	19	143.151	4
12	Josef Newgarden	1	6	200	01:44:47.6099	–	Running	18	143.139	4
13	Charlie Kimball	4	18	200	01:44:52.2023	–	Running	17	143.034	4
14	Oliver Askew	7	15	200	01:44:54.8087	–	Running	16	142.975	4
15	Alex Palou	55	11	200	01:44:55.4898	–	Running	15	142.959	3
16	Santino Ferrucci	18	20	200	01:44:57.8882	2	Running	15	142.905	4
17	Will Power	12	1	198	01:44:37.0038	61	Running	15	141.947	5
18	Graham Rahal	15	22	124	01:29:05.1161	–	Mechanical	12	104.394	5
19	Simon Pagenaud	22	13	67	01:18:06.5580	–	Contact	11	64.333	5
20	Ed Carpenter	20	17	3	00:51:41.4960	–	Contact	10	4.353	1
21	Zach Veach	26	23	2	01:16:13.4581	–	Contact	9	1.968	0
22	Alexander Rossi	27	9	0	00:00:00.0000	–	Contact	8	0	0
23	Marco Andretti	98	19	0	00:00:00.0000	–	Contact	7	0	0

Corey LaJoie, son of Randy LaJoie a two time Xfinity Series Champion from Norwalk, CT, came in 21st

Source: NBC Sports

By Dustin Long Aug 29, 2020

William Byron scored his first career Cup win when he needed it most, securing a spot in the 16-driver playoff field Saturday night at Daytona International Speedway.

“That’s awesome man,” Byron said on his radio. “Racing for a championship.”

Matt DiBenedetto finished 12th and secured the final playoff spot.

“We made it,” DiBenedetto told NBC Sports. “I don’t care how we did it.”

Seven-time Cup champion Jimmie Johnson was collected in a late wreck and finished 17th, missing the playoffs for a second consecutive year. DiBenedetto beat Johnson for the final playoff spot by six points.

“Things just got ugly down in Turn 1,” Johnson. “That’s plate racing.”

Chase Elliott finished second and was followed by Denny Hamlin, Martin Truex Jr. and Bubba Wallace.

Byron is only the second driver to ever win a Cup race with the No. 24, joining Hall of Famer Jeff Gordon.

The race changed dramatically two laps from the scheduled distance. Joey Logano was in the middle lane when he had contact with Denny Hamlin and bounced off Bubba Wallace on the outside lane as they raced for the lead. Byron went between them, as the leaders went four-wide in Turn 1 with Hamlin on the bottom.

Byron made contact with Joey Logano, who slowed and was hit from behind by DiBenedetto. That contact turned Logano into Matt Kenseth in the bottom lane. That hit and then contact from behind by Christopher Bell sent Kenseth up the track and into Johnson, slamming Johnson’s car into the wall. Johnson’s car suffered significant damage.

The race was stopped eight laps from the scheduled finish after a multi-car crash triggered when Tyler Reddick moved up in front of Kyle Busch for the lead.

Reddick said on his radio of triggering the wreck: “That was just stupid.”

About 10 cars were collected. That included Busch, who remains winless this season.

Said Ryan Newman, who was in the crash, about Reddick: “The 8 car obviously just ran out of talent. It seems like you can win a couple of Xfinity championships and still stick your head where the sun don’t shine when the time comes right.”

STAGE 1 WINNER: Joey Logano

STAGE 2 WINNER: Joey Logano

WHO HAD A GOOD RACE: William Byron scored his first career Cup win in his 98th career start. … Daytona 500 champ Denny Hamlin placed third for his seventh top-five finish in the last eight races. Bubba Wallace’s fifth-place finish marks his third career top-five finish, his second at Daytona. His other top five came at Indy last year.

NOTABLE: Cole Custer clinched the Rookie of the Year honors by being the only rookie to make the playoffs.

NEXT: The Cup playoffs begin with the Southern 500 at 6 p.m. ET Sept. 6 at Darlington Raceway on NBCSN.

Source: Rich Hayesfoto

Lee, NH – Frankie Eldredge (Late Model Sportsman), Jimmy Renfrew, Jr. (Street Stocks), Brian DeStefano (Six Shooters), and Jon Provost (Pure Stocks) were crowned as 2020 champions at Lee USA Speedway on Friday night in the final NASCAR Advance Auto Parts Weekly Series program of the season.

After running up ten straight feature wins in the first ten races of the year, Eldredge’s perfect 2020 came to an end when Groton, MA veteran Bobby Melvin, Jr. outdistanced the field to score his first win of the season in the Rodfather Late Model Sportsman 40-lapper.

Eldredge’s attempt to win every main in the track’s headline division came up one position short with a runner-up effort, but he had already built a healthy enough lead in the standings that he’ll be adding another championship trophy to his collection. 

Race winner Melvin ended up the year in the runner-up spot, with Jimmy Russell getting a third place finish for the night as well as third in the final point standings.  Kris Miller and rookie Bobby Frappier rounded out the top five.

Renfrew, Jr. put an exclamation point on his championship season in the R&R Public Wholesalers “The Tool Store and More” Street Stocks, taking down the feature win to match Eldredge’s record with ten wins and a single runner-up finish in the pandemic-shortened 2020 campaign.

He moved to the front early, and once again dominated the event to win by a comfortable margin.  Travis Hollins put in a strong run to checker second, with Cam Huntress, Robbie Bodwell, Ben Bosowski, Devon McConologue, Nate Leavitt, Patrick Tanguay, Scott Zilinski, and Eric Hoffman the rest of the top ten.

Heading into the night, the closest championship battle was in the O’Reilly Auto Parts Six Shooters, where DeStefano held a slim two-point advantage over defending champ Adam Knowles.

All eyes were on the pair throughout the feature, with DeStefano gaining the upper hand in the early laps, and eventually beating out Knowles by two spots to claim the 2020 title by a scant six point margin.

While the championship battle was being waged behind him, longtime Lee racer David “Doc” Piper had broken out to the lead early in the 25-lap event, and he went the distance to make a long-awaited first career trip to victory lane, the eighth different winner in 11 races this year.

DeStefano ended his championship season with a strong second place finish, with his wife Christin right behind in third.  Fourth spot went to Knowles, with two-time 2020 feature winner Brandon Mailhot rounding out the top five finishers.

Provost certainly had the most interesting night among the eventual champions, suffering mechanical issues in practice that forced him to borrow his brother Josh’s car for the night.   After starting the main 12^th on the grid, he came home with a sixth place finish, and more importantly, the 2020 title.

Another first time winner got the job done in the MLM Diagnostic Services Pure Stock main, as Erin Aiken held off a last lap challenge from Doug Stone, Jr. to win her first-ever Lee USA feature event by less than a half car length.  Justin Faford, Andrew Harmon, and Chris Roberge were next across the stripe.

Three Enduro classes closed out the night’s racing action, with Jon Fultz taking down the win in the 4-cylinders, Adam Knowles scoring the victory in the V6’s, and Ed Flannigan getting his first checkered of the year with a dominating performance in the Pro V8 Enduro.

Next up at Lee USA will be the Freedom 300 on September 11, featuring a $10,000 to win, 150-lap Pro Stock race and a $5,000 to win 75-lapper for Street Stocks, along with NEMA Midgets, NEMA Lites, and Six Shooters.

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Source: Jayski.com

  AUGUST 28, 2020  AT 9:58 AM

By Rick Houston

Larry McClure had been to the top of the mountain as a NASCAR team owner.

Three times, his drivers won the Daytona 500. In all, they won 14 Winston Cup races. The number 4 Kodak-sponsored car became one of the sport’s most recognizable cars in the 1980s and 1990s. But then … then came the fall.

McClure was eventually sentenced to 18 months in federal prison for pleading guilty to five counts of filing a false income-tax return, obstructing the investigation and lying to IRS investigators. He served his time, and somehow managed to come out the other side a better person.

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Note: Corey LaJoie is the son of Randy LaJoie a two time Xfinity Series Champion who hails from Norwalk,CT

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ByPJ Walsh Special to NASCAR.com August 28, 2020  at 9:46 AM

The Action Network specializes in providing sports betting insights/analytics and is a content partner with NASCAR. 

Superspeedway racing is already unpredictable. Now throw in the added significance of Saturday night’s Coke Zero Sugar 400 (7:30 p.m. ET, NBC/NBC Sports App, MRN, SiriusXM NASCAR Radio) being the final race before the NASCAR Cup Series Playoffs and we have all the makings of a wild night in Daytona.

This should lead to exciting racing under the lights, but what does it mean for NASCAR bettors?

The combination of pack racing and drivers risking it all to earn a playoff berth should lead to plenty of dicey moments and potentially wrecks taking out large portions of the field.

This, in turn, leads to unpredictability which often results in longshots finishing higher than they normally do each week.

As bettors, we can take advantage by pinpointing which of these sleepers are poised for overperformance and grabbing them at juicy numbers for top-10 finishes.

With this in mind, here is the driver I’m betting to finish in the top 10 at Daytona.

NASCAR AT DAYTONA ODDS, BETTING PICKS

Odds as of Friday at 7:30 a.m. ET

Corey LaJoie (+550) for a Top-10 Finish

In the two Cup Series races run at Daytona since NASCAR got rid of restrictor plates, here are the number of drivers who have better average finishes than LaJoie … [crickets].

That’s right, LaJoie is tied with Ryan Newman and Justin Haley (who won the summer race last year by staying out during a rain caution while the rest of the field pitted) with a series-best 7.0 average finish in those two events.

If we expand the sample size to five superspeedway races without restrictor plates by including three events at Talladega, LaJoie still has the fourth-best average finish in the series.

The No. 32 Go Fas Ford doesn’t necessarily run up front all race, but LaJoie is very adept at biding his time, avoiding the “Big One” and inevitably finding himself toward the front of the field as the laps wind down.

There are no guarantees in NASCAR and betting, especially at superspeedways, but +550 is a fine price to take a crack at LaJoie scoring another top 10 at Daytona.