Jun 13, 2011 | Touring Series News
#38 John Godfrey (Lower Coverdale, NB) picked up his first ever AOW Modified Tour feature win in the Homestead Restaurant entry. The June 12 win was at the Centre for Speed in Grand Barachois, and it made Godfrey the 2nd driver to pick up their first ever feature win in the second week of the 2011 AOW Modified Tour season. #64 Paul Costain (Moncton, NB) was the other driver who won at Petty International Raceway (Riverglade, NB) on June 4.
#22 Jamie Weston (St. Martin’s, NB) in the Consolidated Services Plumbing and Heating entry had a strong finish coming 2nd and now leads the point standings. #43 Shelley Stewart (Emerald, PEI) came home 3rd in the feature event and is currently 3rd in points. #98 Mike “Sparky” Raeburn (Hampton, NB) finished 4th in the race and is now 7 points behind Weston, giving him 2nd place in the 2011 AOW Modified Tour point standings.
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Jun 13, 2011 | Modified Racing Series, Touring Series News
Canaan, NH. — Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, PA, takes a slim point
lead into Thompson Speedway, Thompson, CT., Thursday, June 16, when the Valenti
Modified Racing Series makes the first of two visits to the famed speedway.
Pennink, leads Chris Pasteryak, Lisbon, CT., by two points and Les Hinckley III, of Windsor Locks, CT., by four, entering the Thursday night program. Swanzey, NH., veteran Rob Goodenough is 22 points back, in fourth place. Nashua, NH., driver
Norm Wrenn sits fifth in the point standings. The top five drivers are expected
entries Thursday.
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Jun 13, 2011 | NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
Speedway 660 Race Report
GEARY, N.B. – Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, fought back at his home track Saturday night to finish 12th in the PASS North Series PASS 200 at Speedway 660 in Geary, N.B. Sommerville broke a wheel on Lap 47 of the event, not long after leading for several laps. The failure ended the chances of winning for the speedway’s two-time Peterbilt 250 champion, but hard work from the Mulkern Racing crew pit-side had Sommerville racing with the leaders as he tried to get back one of the three laps he lost.
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Jun 13, 2011 | NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Joey Doiron: PASS North Series
Speedway 660 Race Report
GEARY, N.B. – Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, finished ninth in the PASS North Series PASS 200 at Speedway 660 in Geary, N.B, on Saturday, June 11. After starting eighth in the two-segment event, Doiron raced in the top half of the field all night en route to posting his second Top-10 finish in three starts this season. Doiron was running sixth at the halfway break before losing the handling on his car over the final 80 laps of the event.
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Jun 13, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
The Benjamin Motorsports race team was back in action this past weekend at Speedway 660. After Qualifying on the pole the team was excited to get the 200 lap main event underway. At the start of the feature the 17 car was out in front and then ran in third until lap 50 when the bad luck returned and a flat tire sent the team to the pits to change a right front tire.
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Jun 12, 2011 | NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Fredericton N.B., June 11, 2011- Speedway 660 fans came out again in big numbers for the 2nd event of the year with the Pro All-Star Series 200 headlining Saturday nights event in the Geary woods. Three divisions on this night would see action including the Martin’s Home Heating Sportsman and the RV World Street Stocks.
In the RV World Street stock division Heidi Cooper led most of the way and had built up a commanding lead but with just two laps to go the caution flag flew and they would be all bunched up for the restart. Benji Ruff with a strong car would be on the outside of Cooper and drove his #8 Ford to the front in the 2 lap shootout. That gave Ruff his first feature victory of the year while the steady veteran Rick Cashol managed to squeak by Cooper for a 2nd place finish. That left Cooper with a 3rd place podium finish and very respectable to start to the season.
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