Jul 6, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway
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(Oxford, Maine) – Derek Griffith is by all accounts having a breakout year on the Pro All Stars Series (PASS). Currently sitting fifth in the season points battle, the Hudson, NH youngster took aim at a pair of races held at the Oxford Plains Speedway this past weekend.
“We went up to Oxford to try and just get more seat time, said Derek. That track is certainly tricky; I think the key to getting around it is really just experience.”
Griffith and the No. 12 FEP Insurance/LCM Racing Toyota race team headed up on Saturday to take in a weekly 50-lap event. Unloading very quick has been the norm this year, thanks in part to Crew Chief Louie Mechalides, “Louie has us dialed in, right out of the shop, he is invaluable to what we’re doing this year”, says Griffith.
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Jul 6, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway
Oxford, Maine – Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, New Hampshire raced to a convincing win aboard the Bruce Bernhardt Ford to earn a career-first victory at Oxford Plains Speedway in Pro All Stars Series Super Late Model competition on Sunday evening.
Helliwell’s triumph earned an immediate financial reward of $2000, but more importantly, it nails down a coveted guaranteed spot in the rich, 43rd Annual HP Hood Oxford 250 on August 28 if he otherwise fails to earn a spot in all available qualifying races.
Adam Polvinen of Auburn paced the early stages of the 100-lapper after outgunning Boca Raton, Florida’s Dalton Sargeant early on. Helliwell made steady progress from his 12th starting position, earned by gaining six spots in his heat race, and once in front he had no match on this night.
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Jul 6, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway
10 different winners in 10 weeks for headline Super Late Model class this year
Oxford, Maine – Dennis Spencer, Jr. of Oxford returned to victory lane at Oxford Plains Speedway, claiming his first Super Late Model victory since returning to action last year before a healthy Applebee’s Night crowd.
Spencer led the early stages of the race before yielding the top spot to Scarborough’s Mike Fowler, then stalked the new frontrunner for several laps before powering around him in the outside groove in the closing laps.
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Jun 30, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
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NAPLES, ME (June 30) – With the 43rd Annual HP Hood Oxford 250 less than two months away and with over 40 cars already entered, racers from across the continent are starting to focus their efforts toward one of short track racing’s biggest events. This weekend a huge opportunity will be presented to Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Model racers on the “Road To The Oxford 250.” On Sunday, a special 100 lap event for PASS non-winners and drivers who have competed at Oxford Plains Speedway over the last five years will award the top three finishers a guaranteed provisional for this year’s HP Hood Oxford 250.
Florida’s Dalton Sargeant has made quite an impression since first beginning his stock car racing career in PASS South back in 2014. Since then, he has won a K&N Pro Series race at Irwindale Speedway in California and been among the front runners everywhere he has competed. While a PASS win has escaped him, he challenged for the win recently at Anderson Motor Speedway and finished third in the Over The Moutain 150 at Hickory Motor Speedway. With over 70 cars expected to try and make the field for the HP Hood Oxford 250, the opportunity to get locked into one of short track racing’s most elite starting lineups is not lost on Sargeant.
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Jun 27, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway
Nine winners in nine races for top class, Matt Dufault dominant in Street Stocks
Oxford, Maine – Gary Smith of Bangor drove to victory lane after charging past a few early race leaders to claim a career-first Oxford Plains Speedway Super Late Model win, topping the Budweiser Championship Series stock car racing card on MacDonald Motors of Bridgton night at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday.
Rookie Josh Childs of Oxford led a healthy portion of the Super Late Model 50-lapper’s early stages before yielding to Hebron’s Alan Wilson, who set the pace through the event’s middle stages. Anson’s Scott Moore took the point away from Wilson, but there was no stopping Smith and his unclehenrys.com 75, and when the checkered flag waved Smith was in the spotlight for the first time at Oxford Plains Speedway.
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Jun 21, 2016 | Maine Race Tracks, More Maine Racing News, North East Mini Stock Tour, Oxford Plains Speedway, Touring Series News
Saturday June 18 marked the first leg of the Temp Setters Mechanical Contractors Triple Crown which will also run at Speedway 51 on August 6
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August 28 for the HP Hood 250 weekend. The Texas Roadhouse mini stocks flocked through the gates at oxford alongside the Valenti Modified Racing Series and PASS Modifieds for a night of adrenaline filled racing action. Many new and part time competitors joined the NEMST presented by Twisted Tea for the 2
nd Maine event of the 2016 racing season.
Two fields of 10 cars each rolled out to their heats with multi time heat race winner Haywood Herriott leading the way in his respective heat and Matt Sonnhalter holding on over a hard charging Emerson Cayer to win the second heat race. Haywood would draw an invert of 1 row placing the fast cars at the front while leaving himself in the 11th starting position according to series rules regarding current season feature winners.
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