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Bryan Kruczek will compete full time in the new PASS Northeast Super Late Model Challenge

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 Bryan Kruczek expects to have a very busy 2015 season on the PASS Super Late Model Tours

(Credit: Bryan Kruczek Motorsports photo)

By Lou Modestino

After two seasons of competing in a partial Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model schedule, Newmarket, NH driver Bryan Kruczek is ready to make the next step in his racing career. Kruczek will compete full-time in 2015 and hopes to contend for the new PASS Northeast Super Late Model Challenge. Unlike the overall PASS North Super Late Model series, the PASS Northeast Super Late Model Challenge will allow drivers to compete for a separate title in the United States events only. For Kruczek, 2015 presented the perfect opportunity to race for his first PASS title.

“I feel like we are making a huge step in our program this year and look forward to stepping out of the shadows in 2015,” said Kruczek of his new opportunity.

Despite only making a limited number of starts over the last two seasons, Kruczek still managed to finish 11th in PASS North points in both 2013 and 2014. In 16 starts over the last two years, Kruczek has one top five finish and three top 10’s during that span of time.

In 2015, Kruczek will once again be joined by crew chief Miles Chapman and will pilot a brand new machine out of the Dale Shaw Race Cars stable. New to the team this year will be major sponsorship from Ouellette Associates Inc. headquartered in Brunswick, ME.

While the focus for Kruczek will be on the PASS Northeast Super Late Model Challenge, the team is currently planning to compete in the PASS North event at Canada’s Autodrome Chaudiere on Saturday, May 16. Depending on the results there, Kruczek could still possibly make a run at the overall PASS North Super Late Model title in 2015.

The 2015 PASS season will get under way on Saturday, March 7 when the PASS South Super Late Models and PASS Pro Late Models take to Dillon Motor Speedway for the 10th Annual South Carolina Clash. The PASS North Super Late Model season is slated to start on Saturday, April 18 with the Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway.

 

Source: PASS Super Late Model Tours photo

Maine’s Ben Rowe hopes to end the year on a strong note at the North-South Shootout at Caraway Speedway in NC

Turner,Maine's Super Late Model driver Ben Rowe hopes to end the 2014 racing season on a high note at Caraway Speedway in NC this weekend. (Credit::National Speed Sport News photo)

Turner,Maine’s Super Late Model driver Ben Rowe hopes to end the 2014 racing season on a high note at Caraway Speedway in NC this weekend. (Credit::National Speed Sport News photo)

By Lou Modestino

Since the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models first began turning laps on the short tracks of New England and Canada in 2001, Ben Rowe of Tuner, ME has been there virtually from the beginning. Rowe, a 4-time PASS North Super Late Model Champion and 2-time winner of the prestigious Oxford 250, has become a modern day short track racing legend thanks to his exploits in PASS over the last 15 years. But, PASS Super Late Model racing’s all-time winningest driver, with nearly 40 checkered flags to his credit, has struggled in recent seasons. Last year, Rowe came South to Caraway Speedway for the North-South Shootout hoping to end the year on a strong note. And, following a late-race caution that eliminated several contenders for the win, Rowe did just that, taking his first win of the season and first in the North-South Shootout. Continue reading →

Hotshoe Austin Theriault enters the Milk Bowl set for this weekend

 

 

The very talented Austin Theriault will substitute for Travis Stearns in the 52nd Annual Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedway. (Credit: NASCAR photo)

The very talented Austin Theriault will substitute for Travis Stearns in the 52nd Annual Milk Bowl at Thunder Road International Speedway. (Credit: NASCAR photo)

By Lou Modestino

The latest entry in the People’s United Bank Milk Bowl, to be held on Sat-Sun, October 04-05, 2014 at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, is Austin Theriault from Fort Kent, Maine. Theriault began his Late Model racing career with the American Canadian Tour (ACT) in 2010 as a sixteen-year-old rookie. Just like newly crowned 2014 ACT Champion, Joey Polewarczyk, Jr, from Hudson, NH, Theriault helped set the standard for the new younger generation of ACT racers in the Northeast.

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