story by Chris Roy
Jacob Dore of Sanford, is one of 3 Maine drivers competing in the Valenti Modified Racing Series this season. The Valenti Modified’s ran their 1st race of the season 2 weeks ago at Waterford Speedway and Jacob was able to come away with a top 10 finish to start the season off. This weekend the drivers and teams are heading to Monadnock Speedway, in Winchester, NH. for race number 2.
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Waterford CT– Second-generation driver and former series champion Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, (CT), roared to victory Sunday afternoon winning the 100-lap Budweiser Blastoff at the Waterford, (CT) Speedbowl. The race was the season opener for the Valenti Modified Racing Series.
After flagman John Spence Jr dropped the green flag on the brand new season, the front row starters turned out to be the show.
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Canaan, NH. — Two-time Waterford Speedbowl Late Model champion Timmy Jordan
of Plainfield, CT, will move to open-wheel racing and the Valenti Modified Racing
Series when the tour opens its 2011 season at the famed race track Saturday and Sunday, April 2 & 3. The two-day event marks the second consecutive season the VMRS will be part of the annual Budweiser Blast-Off Weekend.
Jordan, who started his racing career at Waterford in the mini-stock division, moved
to the full-bodied Late Models where he garnered 22 wins over the last five years. Although open wheel racing will be new to the 26-year-old high school teacher, Jordan feels he has good experience to tap into, to lean on for information and input. (more…)
Canaan, NH — As he did back in 2003 when he threw his support at the new Modified Racing Series, Monadnock Speedway promotor Larry Cirillo has agreed to two race dates for the new Granite State Pro-Stock Series.
Series director John Hoyt has announced a meeting was held this past week opening the door for a visit to the Winchester, NH., speedway for two dates and possibly a third.
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Canaan, NH. – Valenti Modified Racing Series standouts, Doug Coby, Milford,
CT., and Jon McKennedy, E.Chelmsford, MA., will be in “defense” mode when
they embark on the historic Waterford, CT, Speedbowl, Saturday and Sunday,
April 2 and 3, for the 2011 season opener, the annual Budweiser Blastoff weekend.
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Lebanon, NH — Already paying the largest purse in the eight-year history of the Valenti Modified Racing Series, thanks to the financial support of prime corporate sponsors, Mascoma Savings Bank, of Lebanon, NH, and Irving Energy, of Portsmouth, NH, Ricky’s Race for Kids founder, Donnie Miller SR. announced today, a four-race series that will carry it’s own purse and point fund giving modified racers another opportunity to add to their winnings from the July 16 race and that events $36,350 purse. (more…)