May 15, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Emily Packard
Double Duty: Devil’s Bowl Speedway and Airborne ACT Race
EAST MONTPELIER, Vt. – This weekend is a busy one for Packard as she heads to Devil’s Bowl Speedway Friday night for the Whelen Engineering/Mobil 1 event with her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels Ford. Once the night is complete it’s back to the shop to swap out cars and head to Airborne Park Speedway for Saturdays ACT 100 Spectacular race with her 9x Northstar Fireworks/Packard Fuels Chevrolet.
“I’m excited to be heading to Devil’s Bowl this weekend,” said Packard, “I love the track, it’s a great facility, and a real driver’s track.” After a couple weeks off Packard looks forward to getting back to the track. “It’s been a long winter and this is the first race for some of these guys.” said Packard. “I think I have a slight advantage going into this race having run some longer races already this season.” This will be the season opener for Devil’s Bowl, and is the first time that the season starts under the lights on a Friday night.
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May 13, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT –Thunder Road International Speedbowl will host the 52nd running of the Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic on Sunday, May 25. The double-header program will once again feature 100 laps for the ACT Thunder Road Late Model division, and a special 50 lap main for the NASCAR Modified division that competes regularly at both Devil’s Bowl Speedway in Fair Haven, VT and Airborne Park Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY.
Derrick O’Donnell from North Haverhill, NH won the “King of the Road” title in 2013 and also the 2013 Mekkelsen Memorial Day Classic. “We had a great year in 2013. I sure like starting our title defense at the opening Classic event again. A good finish can really jumpstart your season,” said O’Donnell. O’Donnell and two-time Thunder Road Champion Nick Sweet were both in contention racing each other for the opening day Merchants Bank 150 win before they were sidelined in a late race wreck.
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May 12, 2014 | American Canadian Tour, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT –The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will head for one of their favorite tracks, Airborne Speedway, on Saturday, May 17, 2014. The fast, progressively banked one-half mile speedplant has seen some of the most competitive events in the long history of ACT racing.
“It’s just one of those tracks that you love to race at. Of course, I love it since I won the $25,000 in the ACT International last year. This race will be different than the International with the three segments, or the 200-lap traditional Fall Foliage that we run at Airborne. It is longer in length than most of our short tracks, but it is also faster and things can happen pretty quickly,” said Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. from Hudson, New Hampshire. Pole currently sits in third place, just 16 points from leading the points race.
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May 12, 2014 | PASS, Touring Series News
photo by Norm Marx
Epping, NH – DJ Shaw grabbed his second win in his fourth race of 2014 last Saturday night at what is quickly becoming one of his favorite tracks, Star Speedway. The third race for the Pro All Stars Series North saw the #60 Precision JLM Chevrolet keep in contention all night through the 150 lap feature event, and come on strong at the finish to take the checkered flag. This is Shaw’s second straight win at Star after winning the Granite State Pro Stocks Series event at the track last season.
“I’ve taken a liking to this place, we had a great car tonight and I can’t thank my team enough for bringing these fast racecars to the track,” Shaw jubilantly said in victory lane, “Starting up front helped us tonight and we were able to stay clean for the most part and towards the end there when it was time to go I was able to get up there and grab the lead. We had some great racing with Johnny and Cassius all night and I hope the fans enjoyed it.”
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May 11, 2014 | PASS, Touring Series News
PASS SUPER LATE MODELS
FINISH, CAR#, DRIVER
1, 60, DJ SHAW
2, 33, RICHIE DEARBORN
3, 24, MIKE ROWE
4, 97, JOEY POLEWARCZYK
5, 54, JOHNNY CLARK
6, 35, DEREK RANSTROM
7, 21, DAVID OLIVER
8, 7L, CLEN LUCE
9, 7, CURTIS GERRY
10, 55VT, BRENT DRAGON
11, 4N, BEN ROWE
12, 23, DAVID FARRINGTON JR.
13, 77, CASSIUS CLARK
14, 53NH, TYLER FISCUS
15, 73, JOEY DOIRON
16, 12, DEREK GRIFFITH
17, 32X, NICK JENKINS
18, 17, TRAVIS BENJAMIN
19, 10, SCOTT DRAGON
20, 00, BRYAN KRUCZEK
21, 98, STEVE DICKEY JR.
22, 27NH, WAYNE HELLIWELL JR.
23, 2, MATT MATHESON
24, 03, JOE SQUEGLIA
DNS, 38, BAQBE BRANSCOMBE
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May 10, 2014 | PASS, Touring Series News
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ALTAMAHAW, NC (May 9) – Current points leader Tyler Church passed race long leader Trevor Noles with six laps to go to win his first Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model race of the season Friday night at Ace Speedway. Church’s win in the Ace’s Wild 150 was his first in a year that has that has already seen him finish second twice and third on one occasion.
“The car was a little tight and I started moving around a found something over in turn four and man, this car came alive,” said Church after becoming the fourth different winner in four PASS South events at Ace Speedway. “This was a hard race. Me and my daddy, we work so hard on this car. This race is for him.”
Due to thunderstorms in the area, qualifying was delayed for over two hours as series and track officials attempted to dry the track. PASS officials made the decision to go to a “European style” qualifying format which saw groups of cars take to the track for 10 laps with the lineup being determined by group speeds. Rookie Jared Irvan claimed his first career PASS South quick qualifying time with a lap of 15.228 seconds around the tricky 4/10 mile speedway. Following the traditional PASS top 10 qualifier redraw, Irvan would drop back to third while Trevor Noles and Joe Ryan Osborne moved up to the front row for the start of the race.
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