Jul 31, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
TRAVIS BEALE TAKES MODIFIED ENDURO WIN AT 95
Travis Beale of Hampden started ninth in the 12 car Modified 4/6/8 cylinder Enduro division feature Wednesday night at Speedway 95 and by lap 10 was in a fierce battle for the lead with Milo’s Dustin Lancaster, who had led from the pole to that point. Beale and Lancaster raced side by side, swapping the lead almost every lap until Beale took the lead for good with 3 to go. Beale was first under the checkers, followed by Lancaster in second. Third went to Rhonda Cain of Hermon, a former champion in the Ladies division, with Dixmont’s Rick Gomm in fourth. Fifth place went to Hermon’s Andrew Crosby.
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Jul 27, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
EMMA LIBBY CAPTURES CAREER FIRST SPORTSMAN WIN AT 95
Sixteen year old Emma Libby of Glenburn led the first 13 laps of the 25 lap Darling’s Ford Sportsman feature at Speedway 95 Saturday night, but lost it to points leader Kris Matchett of Skowhegan on a lap 14 restart. As Matchett pulled away from the teen driver, Libby held on to the second spot until Matchett unexpectedly slowed on the 23rd lap. Libby was able to overtake him and cruise to her first win as a rookie in the division. Dean Clements of Brooks, making his first appearance since an early season wreck sidelined his activity, took second with Jay Robichaud of Eddington, also returning after several weeks away following an accident that seriously damaged his car, finished third. Fourth went to pole sitter Karl Stanhope of Hampden with Matchett limping home in fifth with a sick engine. Matchett won the division’s single qualifying race.
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Jul 27, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
SAM BETTS TOPS WACKY WEDNESDAY MODIFIED ENDUROS
Sam Betts of Brewer won his first feature race of the season in the Modified 4/6/8 cylinder class at Speedway 95 on Friday night when the make-up race from a July 2 rain out was run. Betts started on the outside pole for the 20 lap event and took the lead from Bangor’s Scott Bonny on the second lap. Betts led the way to the checkers, finishing ahead of Hermon’s Andrew Crosby, who finished second and last week’s winner, Travis Beale of Hampden, who came from an eleventh place start to finish third. Fourth went to Hermon’s Rhonda Crain, a past champion in the former Ladies Division, and Brownville’s Dustin Lancaster was fifth. The race went the full 20 laps without a caution.
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Jul 17, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
TRAVIS BEALE TAKES WACKY WEDNESDAY WIN
Travis Beale of Hampden passed Milo’s Dustin Lancaster on lap 19 of the 20 lap Modified 4/6/8 cylinder Enduro feature at Speedway 95 Thursday night, making it two for two on the season. Lancaster had led from lap 11, after wrestling the lead away from Hermon’s Andrew Crosby, but was unable to hold off Beale in the final laps. Lancaster finished second with Rick Gomm of Dixmont finishing third, Fourth went to Crosby with Alvin MacNevin of Clifton finishing fifth.
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Jul 6, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
Andrew McLaughlin came back from last week’s disappointing fourth place finish after leading for 35 laps to finishing half a lap ahead of the field in the 40 lap Dysart’s Late Model feature at Speedway 95 Saturday night. Starting on the outside pole, McLaughlin battled side by side with pole sitter Nick Jenkins of Milo for the first two laps, but took the lead for good on lap 3 and led to the checkers in the caution free race. McLaughlin stretched out his lead while Jenkins battled with John Curtis Jr. of Hermon for over 20 laps for the second spot, which Jenkins took for good on lap 28 and held to the finish. Curtis then engaged in a battle for third with Orrington’s John Kalel II for laps 30 through 38, with Kalel taking the spot for a third place finish. Brenton Parritt of Steuben then got by Curtis on the final lap to take fourth, with Curtis ending up in fifth. Dean Smart of Bradley and Brenton Parritt of Steuben won the night’s qualifiers Zach Audet of Skowhegan led the Coca Cola Sport 4 35 lap Street Landscaping series event #2 from pole to checkers, holding off Cornville’s Brad Bosworth through three cautions to take the win. Bosworth missed a shift on the original start and played catch up for the whole race, finishing in second just ahead of his brother Jayson Bosworth, also of Cornville, who finished third. 12 year old Dylan Street of Old Town ran a strong race, finishing in fourth, holding off a stiff challenge from Milford’s Garett Hayman, who came from the back of the pack following a lap 5 spin into the turn three wall to finish fifth. Sixth place in the series event went to Carmel’s Ted Ryder, with Hermon’s Andrew Crosby in seventh. Jeremy Scott of Carmel, Ed Archer Jr. of Clinton and Darren Durrell of Newburgh rounded out the top ten in that order. Audet and Bosworth were the heat race winners and started the event on the front row.
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Jul 4, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Speedway 95
For the second week in a row, Speedway 95’s attempt to kick off its Wacky Wednesday season was thwarted by Mother Nature, as rain began to fall just prior to the beginning of the night’s activities. In attendance and ready to participate were cars in the new 100% stock 4/6/8 cylinder Enduro, Modified 4/6/8 cylinder Enduro, Stars of Tomorrow and Full size pick-up trucks. This night’s racing will be made up on Friday, July 25 as an added race to that week’s scheduled racing. All Wacky Wednesday divisions will race twice that week, with the regularly scheduled show on Wednesday, July 23, then the make up night on Friday. July 25. With only 10 race meets scheduled for the brief season, track owner Del Merritt wanted to give the racers an opportunity to race as often as possible within the 10 weeks scheduled between June 25 and August 27a.
Following it’s regularly scheduled show on Saturday, July 5, Speedway 95 will resume it’s Saturday night racing on July 26, after a two week lay-off, with no racing scheduled for Saturday, July 12 and Saturday, July 19. Speedway 95 will present “Monster Truck Mayhem” on Friday July 18 and Saturday July 19.
