Jun 24, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News, White Mountain
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Waterbury, VT – The American Racer Three Star program is designed to recognize three teams in no particular order of performance that had outstanding races at American-Canadian Tour (ACT) U.S. Tour events. There are no specific criteria for deciding who might receive the award of a free American Racer Tire (value $125.00), but a special effort by a team, exceptional race, just plain old hard luck, or any other accepted reason is used to decide the award recipients.
The Three Stars are chosen by ACT officials and will receive certificates for use of a free American Racer tire at a race of their choosing during the 2015 season.
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Jun 24, 2015 | Granite State Series, Touring Series News
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WALPOLE, NH – After a dominant performance at his home track, Hudson International Speedway, Derek Griffith looks to stay hot as the Granite State Pro Stock Series travels to Star Speedway for the Star 100, June 27.
Griffith, after picking up his second victory of the season (Claremont, Hudson), has slightly increased his point lead over Barry Gray, due in part to his spectacular streak to begin the 2015 campaign. The Hudson, NH native has yet to finish outside the top four in a Granite State Pro Stock Series event this year.
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Jun 24, 2015 | North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
Toby Wells has shown dominance within the NEMST over the new 2015 season. Winning the first 4 events of the year and setting up for the largest mini stock race in the country at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on July 5. Wells will have one more struggle to overcome while racing on the 1-mile oval for the second year in a row, a $200 bounty on any car that beats him* during NEMST competition.
Last year NEMST placed a $100 bounty on Wells after winning four straight races once again with Wells suffering a mechanical failure at Star on 7/19/14 making the bounty invalid. At the following event (NHMS) on 8/3/14 Justin Larsen beat Wells to the line winning the first ever 1 mile oval event and collecting the bounty on Wells.
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Jun 24, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News, White Mountain
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N. Woodstock, NH – Wayne Helliwell Jr. showed that it’s best to be lucky and good on Saturday night, winning the White Mountain 150 at White Mountain Motorsports Park.
The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) point leader was running third when Brandon Atkins and Eddie MacDonald tangled racing for the lead on lap 115 of the 150-lap event. Dover, NH’s Helliwell inherited the lead and then pulled away from rival Joey Polewarczyk Jr. for his third win of the season and 10th of his ACT career.
“This is one of the toughest races we’ve had on the Tour in a long time,” Helliwell said. “We made some big wholesale changes to the car in practice and learned some stuff in the heat race, which transferred over to the feature. But at the beginning of the race, I thought all the changes we made were the wrong ones, because the car just went backwards…as the race unfolded, it kind of came to us. And then we lucked out on some things and were in the right spot at the right time.”
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Jun 19, 2015 | American Canadian Tour, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
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Barre, VT – Derrick O’Donnell rebounded from a tough opening Thursday night in a big way by winning the Casella Waste Management Trophy Dash at Thunder Road on Thursday, June 18.
N. Haverhill, NH’s O’Donnell took the lead from Brett Gervais following the race’s second caution on lap 36 of 50 for Mike Bailey’s spin. The two-time defending “King of the Road” then held on through a final restart on lap 39 before pulling away for his second win of the season.
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Jun 17, 2015 | Granite State Series, Touring Series News
Rules Infraction at Hudson International Speedway
WALPOLE, NH – The No. 37ME team that competes in the Granite State Pro Stock Series has been penalized for a rules infraction discovered during post-race inspection, June 14, at Hudson International Speedway. This infraction violates the following Section of the 2015 rule book:
12: Fuel
C. The “Official Fuel” will be supplied on-site at all GSPSS events and must be used for practice, qualifying and the race exactly as supplied by NERF. You will be fully responsible for any and all fuel purchased in bulk passing a fuel tech inspection.
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