PASS North Series: Bobby Timmons
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
FALMOUTH, Maine – Bobby Timmons III of Windham, Maine, will attempt to make his second career PASS North Series start when the tour opens its 2013 season with the Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Sunday, April 21. Timmons made his series debut last October, also at Oxford Plains, and finished eighth after completing his rookie campaign in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at nearby Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Timmons’ Mulkern Racing No. 48 Community Pharmacies/Timmons Machine Dodge will be joined at Oxford by the team’s full-time PASS North Series entry, the No. 84 Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep Dodge driven by veteran driver and team owner Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine.
THE FACTS
WHO: Bobby Timmons III, Windham, Maine
TEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 48 Community Pharmacies/Timmons Machine Dodge
CREW CHIEF: Bobby Timmons Jr., Windham, Maine
BEST CAREER OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY FINISH: 8th (October 2012)
LAST RACE AT OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY: 8th (October 2012)
WHAT: PASS North Series Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150
WHERE: Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)
WHEN: Saturday, April 20 – 11 a.m., practice; Sunday, April 21 – 10 a.m., practice; 2 p.m., qualifying; 4:30 p.m., race
PASS North Series
NEXT RACE: May 4, Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 150, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
DID YOU KNOW?
Bobby Timmons scored his first career Super Late Model win in a 50-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series feature event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in July of 2012.
Bobby Timmons qualified 16th for the PASS 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway last October and recovered from contact midway through the event to post his first career Top-10 in PASS competition.
Bobby Timmons and his father, Bobby Timmons Jr., have spent part of the offseason building a small-block Supermodified. Timmons Jr. raced Supermodifieds during his driving career.
Bobby Timmons spends his off weekends during the summer working on the crew for Scott Mulkern both during PASS race events and at other Super Late Model events around the country.
WHAT THEY ARE SAYING
BOBBY TIMMONS III, Driver of the Mulkern Racing No. 48 Community Pharmacies/Timmons Machine Dodge, On returning to PASS North Series competition this weekend: “It’s all about seat time and having fun. We’re coming off a Top-10 run there last year, and we’re bringing the same thing this time around – just with a lot more confidence. I’m really just looking to improve on that.
“We’re really focused on what we’re doing with Mulkern Racing. When we’re not racing ourselves, we’ll go and help Scott’s team at the track with whatever they need.”
On the biggest thing he learned in his PASS North Series debut last season: “You learn something every time you get behind the wheel of a car – it doesn’t matter – from practice to qualifying to racing. Myself, Corey (Bubar), Alan Tardiff, we all race weekly at Beech Ridge, and we all ran up in the Top-10 of that race (at Oxford Plains) in October. I feel like we can match up with the regular guys that are there with PASS every week.
“I think the big thing I learned is how crucial track position in those races. We were really good early in that race, and then we got turned around. We were just as fast as the leaders at the end, but we just couldn’t get all the way up through again. For 150-lap race without any pit stops, the most crucial thing in the race is track position. Once you lose it, it’s hard to get it back.”
On his plans for future PASS races in 2013: “As of right now, this is the only one we’re planning on. The three (PASS races at) Beech Ridge are all up in the air. We don’t want to exhaust our whole budget and wear out our resources for the year when it comes to our weekly stuff.
“The ones in the middle of the season or at the end of the season, it really depends how things go for us. It’s just going to be on a race-by-race basis.”
UP NEXT
Bobby Timmons returns to the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway for the season opener on Saturday night, May 25… Timmons recorded one feature event win in the Pro Series and finished sixth in the final 2012 standings – just 24 points out of the championship lead.