Oct 17, 2011 | Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
The final race of the 2011 season for the Benjamin Motorsports race team was this past weekend at Oxford Plains Speedway. Once again the team brought a very fast car and in practice the team posted the 3rd fastest time and the car was driving very well.
After qualifing 13th out of the 41 cars that attempted to qualify, Travis thought the car was very good. At the start of the 150 lap feature the 17 car was heading to the front. On lap 45 the team had moved into the top 5 and by lap 70 Travis was leading the field. The Benjamin Motorsports team would lead til around lap 100 and then Scott Mulkern made the pass for the lead. On the next restart Travis would take the lead again and lead til lap 112 and then once again Mulkern would make his way past Travis.
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Oct 16, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Scott Mulkern Wins PASS North Season Finale
Veteran Super Late Model Driver Snaps 7-Year Drought
OXFORD, Maine – Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, led the final 15 laps en route to his second career PASS North Series win with a victory in the season-ending PASS Championship 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday.
The race was called by rain after 118 laps. Two unsuccessful attempts were made by series officials to dry the track before the win was granted to Mulkern and the No. 84 Southern Maine Motors/Community Pharmacies Dodge.
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Oct 15, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
FALMOUTH, Maine – Mulkern Racing will field a two-car effort as the PASS North Series puts the final touches on the 2011 season with the rain-delayed PASS Championship 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, October 15. Lonnie Sommerville sits second in the overall PASS North standings heading into the final race of the year, while team owner Scott Mulkern will make his fifth start of the season. Sommerville, who will lock up the Rookie of the Year title with the start on Saturday, finished second to NASCAR Sprint Cup Series driver Kyle Busch when the series last visited Oxford Plains in July, while Mulkern posted a season-best finish of second in his last outing – in the PASS 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last month.
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Oct 15, 2011 | Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Joey Doiron: PASS North Series
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Joey Doiron of Berwick, Maine, joins the PASS North Series for the rain-delayed 2011 season finale, the PASS Championship 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Saturday, October 15. Doiron finished 10th in his last outing at Oxford in July, part of a stretch that has seen the former Rookie of the Year post Top-10 finishes in four of his last five starts. Despite running fewer races than the rest of the PASS North Series regulars as he focused on part-time competition this season, Doiron has already clinched a Top-10 finish in the overall standings in his sophomore year.
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Oct 10, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Unity Raceway
JOSH ST. CLAIR WINS 111-LAPLATE MODEL SPECIAL AT UNITY RACEWAY
Track champions Mo Young, Zach Audet also big winners on Long John Weekend
Unity, Maine – Josh St. Clair of Liberty prevailed in the 111-lap Late Model main event, topping the racing card on Long John Weekend Sunday at Unity Raceway.
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Oct 3, 2011 | Wiscasset Speedway
Peter Taylor
Wiscasset Raceway
An all volunteer team headed by Tony True of Wiscasset and Dale Chadbourne of Woolwich have worked to put together the tracks first race of the 2011 season. True secured a lease agreement between all interested parties, allowing the event to take place on Saturday October 15th with a rain date on the 16th. Because of financial difficulty the track did not open this season and “there was concern that if we didn’t have one race the town noise ordinance could be changed” said True.
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