The dismal skies and occasional rain on Saturday forced Speedway 95 officials to cancel the racing program scheduled for Saturday night. Owner Del Merritt said the 50 lap Gardner Construction Enterprises series race for the Sportsman cars will be run Saturday night August 18 along with the 35 lap Strictly Street Pepsi Beverage Company series race scheduled for that night. Merritt also announced that the racing season will be extended two weeks to compensate for the two race dates rained out this season. Racing will be scheduled for Saturday September 29 and Saturday, October 6, with a 5 p.m. start time for both nights. Merritt added that the regular points races would end on September 22 as scheduled, and most likely some special events will be scheduled for the added dates. (more…)
Barre, VT – Thunder Road International Speedbowl officials have announced the make-up date of the postponed Make-A-Wish/Bond event as Sunday, August 19. The event, which was postponed due to rain on Thursday, August 9, will now be a Sunday twilight show with a 4:30pm post time. The grandstands will open at 3:00pm with the pits opening at 2:00pm.
It will now be the second to last Late Model point counting event in the 2012 “King of the Road” battle as the champion will be decided on Thursday, August 23. The Make-A-Wish/Bond event will feature all three Thunder Road divisions plus the annual Run-What-U-Brung and for the first time ever the Tough Truck Tug-O-War on the August 19 make-up date.
Thunder Road point battles continue next Thursday, August 16 with the VP Racing Fuel night. Post time will be 6:30pm.
THE BIG PAYOFF: Chiasson Earns 1st Late Model Win
Oxford Plains Speedway Veteran Builds Off Recent ‘250’ Success
SOUTH PARIS, Maine – It’s not the checkered flag being waved over his car, the Victory Lane ceremonies or even the final pass for the lead that Gary Chiasson will remember most.
Nope, what Chiasson will remember most about his first career Oxford Plains Speedway Late Model win was one of the smaller moments that stock car drivers cherish most.
“I looked up and there were two laps to go and I was running into lapped traffic, and I saw the flagman waving the passing flag to those cars ahead of me,” said Chiasson, of Peru, Maine. “That’s when I figured I was really going to win it. He was pushing over those lapped cars down to the inside, and I’ll never forget it.” (more…)
Bob Seger Jr. of Frankfort won the Big Enduro feature Wednesday night and made it three for three in the Big Enduro Series at Speedway 95 this summer as he won all three qualifiers and features in the series, ending with a perfect 300 points. Alvin MacNevin of Clifton gave chase to Seger in the series finale but was only able to get as close as Seger would let him get in the closing laps. MacNevin finished second with his brother, Shawn MacNevin of Hudson finishing third after a race long battle with Shawn Racilla of Dover-Foxcroft for the position. Racilla finished fourth with Melanie Mitchell of Milo finishing fifth.
In the Little Enduros, Darren Durrell of Newburgh took the lead from Andrew Crosby of Hermon on a lap 11 restart and held on for the win after working his way up from the rear of the field at the start. Crosby hung on to second with Milford’s Garett Hayman right on his bumper to finish third. Kyle Gallant of Veazie fell to fourth in the late stages of the event, and Charles McKusic of Abbott finished fifth. (more…)
Despite having 100 pounds added to his car in the interest of competition, having a distributor break in his qualifying race and starting 18th in a 20 car field of Dysart’s Late Models, Mike Hopkins of Hermon methodically worked his way up through the field and, with the aid of 5 caution flags closing the field up, took the lead for good from Ellsworth’s Andy Saunders on a lap 37 restart and led the final 13 laps to win the 50 lap Sinclair Towing Service series event. Andy Saunders of Ellsworth finished in the second spot after leading for 23 laps until Hopkins took the top spot away in the closing laps. Brenton Parritt of Steuben finished in third with Dean Smart of Bradley running a strong race to finish fourth. Phil Richardson of Hermon challenged Smart for the position over the final five laps, but Smart was strong enough to relegate Richardson to fifth place finish. Rounding out the top 10 were pole sitter Wayne Parritt of Steuben in sixth, Shane Clark of Winterport recovering from an early race spin to finish seventh, Duane Seekins of Stockton Springs eighth, Joey Doyon of Winterport ninth and Ryan Deane of Winterport tenth. Seventeen of the 20 starters finished the race that was slowed by the caution flag a total of 6 times for minor incidents involving only one or two cars each time, mos tof whom recoverd and continued the race. Don Alexander Jr. of Carmel was thhe only driver towed to the pit and unable to continue in the race following a lap one collision with Nick Kinney of Danforth and the front stretch wall, that sent him to the pit with a severly damaged race car. (more…)
The dismal skies and occasional rain on Saturday forced Speedway 95 officials to cancel the racing program scheduled for Saturday night. Owner Del Merritt said the 50 lap Gardner Construction Enterprises series race for the Sportsman cars will be run Saturday night August 18 along with the 35 lap Strictly Street Pepsi Beverage Company series race scheduled for that night. Merritt also announced that the racing season will be extended two weeks to compensate for the two race dates rained out this season. Racing will be scheduled for Saturday September 29 and Saturday, October 6, with a 5 p.m. start time for both nights. Merritt added that the regular points races would end on September 22 as scheduled, and most likely some special events will be scheduled for the added dates.
