Dec 6, 2013 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Center Conway, NH – DJ Shaw and the #60 Precision JLM team will be racing in the Sunshine State of Florida this weekend in one of the biggest Super Late Model races in the country, the Snowball Derby. The Snowball Derby is a 300-lap race held annually at the half-mile Five Flags Speedway in Pensacola, Florida. The race has been contested every year since 1968 and is always run on the first weekend in December. Some of the best short track drivers travel to this event each year, with 65 entries filed for this year’s event. Past winners include Darrell Waltrip, Kyle Busch and last year’s winner Erik Jones. Shaw will be running in both the Snowball Derby on Sunday and the Pro Late Model Snowflake 100 lap event on Saturday night.
“It’s huge for us, it’s possibly a one-time thing and we want to make sure we are prepared the best we know and hope for the best,” Shaw said earlier this week in an interview on Mainely Motorsports, “We’ve talked to a few guys from up here like Johnny Clark so we kind of know what to expect with tech inspection and the race.”
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Dec 6, 2013 | Granite State Series, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Walpole NH – In a joint announcement made today between Lee USA Speedway General Manager Bill Callen and GSPSS president Mike Parks, the Granite State Pro Stock Series will be making their first appearance ever at the Lee USA Speedway on Friday night July 25th. “We are thrilled that we were able to make this happen, this is one of the tracks that all our teams have been asking about going to”
Stated Parks. Lee USA Speedway is a perfect fit for our series it’s in the heart of NH where we have a lot of fans and race teams from that area. The 2014 schedule is coming together nicely and will be announced in its complete form on Friday Dec. 27th at 2013 GSPSS awards banquet which will be held at the Executive Court in Manchester NH. For more information and the latest news you can find us on Facebook or at GSPSS.net
Dec 6, 2013 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
TO DRIVE VTCARS.COM #1 FOR HALLSTROM MOTORSPORTS IN 2014
“Spherion Staffing, Oil-N-Go, and Camp Ta-Kum-Ta also on-board for the season.”
(NORTHFIELD, VERMONT) December 3, 2013 – Long time Thunder Road Speedbowl and ACT Late Model team, Hallstrom Motorsports, is putting the plans in place for a huge 2014 season. Defending Champion in the Thunder Road Tiger Sportsman class, Shawn Fleury, will make the move to the Late Model division in 2014, driving the VTcars.com #1 Late Model for Hallstrom Motorsports. The team will run the full schedule at Thunder Road Speedbowl in the Late Model division along with select events on the American Canadian Tour.
Dec 6, 2013 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Barre, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl honored its 2013 Champions with the annual Banquet of Champions at the Barre Elks Club on Saturday, November 30. Rookie Derrick O’Donnell received the top honors in the Late Model division, while Shawn Fleury and Bunker Hodgdon claimed the Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen and Allen Lumber Street Stock Championships respectively.
O’Donnell of North Haverhill, NH was dominant in his first season behind the wheel of a Late Model at the “Nation’s Site of Excitement.” He claimed his first career Late Model win in the first point counting event of the season on Memorial Day weekend. He took home another victory just a few weeks later. And to cap it off, the former Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen Champion became the first rookie driver to claim a Late Model “King of the Road” title. (more…)
Dec 6, 2013 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Thunder Road, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced a nine-race schedule for the Série ACT 2014 season. Entering the eighth (8th) year of championship stock car racing, both the opening ACT event to be held May 24, 2014 and the final event, September 14, 2014 will be held at the Autodrome Ste Eustache (ASE) outside of Montreal. ASE will also host a third event on July 05, 2014.
Circuit Riverside Speedway in Ste. Croix, QC is the oldest affiliated track with ACT. Promoters Jean and Guilluame Bergeron host three events. Events will be held on May 31, 2014 and August 02, 2014. The spectacular 5/8th mile track that sits along the St. Lawrence River, just minutes from Quebec City, will also host the 5th annual Can-Am 200 on Saturday, August 23rd. The event will see the very best of the Quebec teams compete in a grueling 200 laps against the best of the ACT US teams.
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Dec 6, 2013 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Kenley, NC – In one of the most anticipated short track races of the year, Joey Doiron and the 73 Wild Willy’s Burgers/JBJ Machine team made the trip south to Kenley, North Carolina for the 8th annual Mason Dixon Meltdown at Southern National Motorsports Park. It was the final event in the Pro All Stars Series National, which Doiron went into the event trailing Jay Fogelman by 40 points in third place. In their first trip to the high banked 4/10th mile racetrack, they struggled in qualifying but came away with a top five finish after being forced to fight hard throughout the entire 200 lap feature.
The lineup was set by time trials, which differs from the heat races that the PASS North Series uses to set their lineups. Fighting a tight car, Doiron was only able to set the 22nd fastest lap of the 28 cars. (more…)
