Sessions’ appetite unfit for seconds in Strictly thriller

Champion Travis Adams puts on show in Oxford Networks Late Model feature

OXFORD, Maine – Sumner Sessions was simply tired of finishing second.
The veteran driver's string of runner-up finishes to open the 2007 Oxford Plains Speedway season was great for Sessions' point total. Ultimately, though, most drivers in the slam-bang Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy Strictly Stock division want to win races and let everything else take care of itself.

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Mark Jr. becomes 11th Childs to win OPS feature; Brackett, Burns, Heath repeat in Acceleration Serie


OXFORD, Maine – When your last name is Childs, you’re pretty much expected to win early and often in your career at Oxford Plains Speedway.
After a solid rookie campaign in 2006, Mark Childs Jr. didn’t waste much time adding his name to the family roll call in the OPS record book. Childs captured the third and final 30-lap Macdonald Motors Runnin’ Rebel feature in his second start of the season Wednesday night at Oxford Plains Speedway.
While Childs’ conquest was a career first, three drivers remained unbeaten on the young season in the second week of Oxford Acceleration Series competition.

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Karkos outlasts Mini field for first-ever win

Karkos outlasts Mini field for first-ever win;
Rolfe captures Late Model opener at OPS

OXFORD, Maine – Justin Karkos played the waiting game to perfection Saturday night, taking advantage of a tangle between leaders Jimmy Childs and Adam Polvinen with eight laps remaining to win the Sunoco Race Fuels 100 main event at Oxford Plains Speedway. 

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Potter, Polvinen, Tompkins ace Opening Day at OPS

OXFORD, Maine – We don't want to call Randy Potter's wire-to-wire victory in the New England Dodge Dealers 150 a major upset, but consider the facts.
Potter, a 40-year-old veteran of Riverside Speedway in his hometown of Groveton, N.H., had never won an ACT race. And the last time he turned a steering wheel around the notoriously tough Oxford Plains Speedway? Just after the beginning of Bill Clinton's second presidential term in 1995.

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Green Flag with Tim Pendergast

Name: TIM PENDERGAST
Age: 41
Hometown: Swanville, Maine
Race Series: OPS Late Model
Car: Henry Hudson Built Chassis, 06 Monte Carlo, #31
Sponsors: Ticket Town In Fairfield Maine (go to tickettown.net)
Brain Injury Association of Maine

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