Ben Rowe: PASS North Series – Canaan Fair Speedway Race Report
Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, won the PASS North Series Firecracker 150 at Canaan Fair Speedway in Canaan, N.H., on Saturday, July 3. The victory was the 33rd career PASS North win for the four-time series champion and his first in the Mulkern Racing No. 48 Community Pharmacies Chevrolet. Rowe led on two occasions, taking the lead for good from series points leader Johnny Clark shortly after a restart near the halfway point of the event. It was Rowe’s fourth career Canaan Fair Speedway win.
WHO: Ben Rowe, Turner, Maine
TEAM: No. 48 Community Pharmacies Chevrolet
WHAT: PASS North Series Firecracker 150
WHERE: Canaan Fair Speedway, Canaan, N.H. (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 2nd
FINISHED: 1st
NEXT: Saturday, July 10, PASS 150, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
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BEN, HOW GOOD DOES IT FEEL TO GET THIS FIRST WIN WITH YOUR NEW TEAM?
It’s huge — but (team owner Scott Mulkern) wasn’t even here to see it, because he was up at camp this weekend. That’s too bad.
But whenever you get that first win it’s great, because everybody’s upbeat now. We know that we have the stuff to get it done, and tonight we went out and showed ourselves that we can.
WHEN JOHNNY CLARK PASSED YOU FOR THE LEAD EARLY IN THE EVENT, WERE YOU WORRIED THAT TONIGHT MIGHT NOT BE YOUR NIGHT?
I was thinking that when I saw him move into second behind me. But I figured I’d pulled away from him a little bit right before the caution came out, and I knew that I was pretty good on the bottom and could probably get by him. Once I did, track position was just huge.
It was that way for everybody. It just seemd that everyone was pretty much done at the end.
TALK ABOUT HOW GOOD YOUR CAR WAS TONIGHT.
It’s a lot easier starting up front, I know that. We started out in practice and we weren’t that good, but we kept working on it and working on it and by the time they dropped the green in the feature, we were really good.
After that, it was just a matter of saving it all for the end of the night.