Johnny Clark: PASS North Series
White Mountain Motorsports Park Race Report
Johnny Clark of Farmingdale, Maine, won his fifth PASS North Series championship with a 21st-place finish in the season-ending PASS 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., on Friday, September 17. Clark suffered mechanical issues early in the main event after winning his heat race and working his way to third position on the race track. Still, Clark earned his series-record fifth title and won an unprecedented third straight series championship. In 13 starts, Clark won five races, posted 10 Top-5 finishes and 12 Top-10 runs and finished with a final margin of victory of more than 40 points.
WHO: Johnny Clark, Farmingdale, Maine
TEAM: No. 54 Clark’s Car Crushing/Port City Chevrolet
WHAT: PASS North Series PASS 150
WHERE: White Mountain Motorsports Park, N. Woodstock, N.H. (.250-mile oval)
STARTED: 11th
FINISHED: 21st
LED: 0 times for 0 laps
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JOHNNY, HOW DOES IT FEEL TO BE A CHAMPION AGAIN?
It’s pretty cool. It shows how good of a car we really had all year. To have five championships and three championships in a row — I mean, it just puts it into perspective when you realize that nobody can do that again until 2013. It’s pretty amazing.
It’s huge. It was a great year for us. And the championship is obviously a great way to cap off the year.
WHAT HAPPENED TO YOUR CAR?
We broke a panhard bar in the rear end. We were a rocket, too. We won our heat, started 11th and made it to third in 16 laps.
It just happened all at once. We went into the turn and ‘Boom!’ Race over. We thought we were going to go and do it in the right fashion and go straight to victory lane and celebrate.
But it was a simple part failure and that was it.