Sep 20, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
Castrol Racer Michaud Forced Out After Wreck
Waterbury, VT – Forty two (42) American Canadian Tour teams are primed and ready for the 4th Annual Bond Auto ACT Invitational at New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Saturday, September 22. 43 were invited, but after a wreck in last weekends Série ACT Castrol finale, St Ans Des Pins, QC’s David Michaud will be forced to sit out.
The finale, which crowned St Denis, QC’s Patrick Laperle as the Série ACT Castrol champion and race winner, saw brutal wrecks in the early going, one of them claiming the car of top-five point contender Michaud.
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Sep 20, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News, White Mountain
NAPLES ME (9/20) The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Models head to the quick quarter mile at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock New Hampshire Saturday evening and the topsy turvy battle for the 2012 championship continues to intensify.
DJ Shaw may come to remember this past Sunday’s PASS 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway as the race that took him out of the 2012 title hunt. Shaw went into the day trailing point leader Cassius Clark by nine markers and he looked like a contender Sunday until he was swept up in a mid race wreck, eventually finishing 20th. That result drop kicked Shaw from second in points to third, 45 points back. Shaw and his team never give up, but they will need a heaping helping of luck to get back in the title chase.
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Sep 18, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
The Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour made its return to Canaan Fair Speedway for the first time in two years on a cold windy morning Sunday. The race at Canaan marked the ninth event in the 2012 NEMST points championship. The top 2 cars entered the event with a mere 13 point separation with Danny Field holding onto the lead after the last race at Lee USA.
Practice started shortly after noon with Matt Sonnhalter breaking out as the fastest car on the track and leaving fellow drivers in his tracks. Sonnhalter pushed his Volkswagen down into the 16 second lap times, the only car during the day to achieve that speed.
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Sep 18, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Thunder Road Announces Rare Advance Sale Tickets
Barre, VT – Thunder Road officials have announced rare advance sale tickets are now being sold for the 50th Annual People’s United Bank Milk Bowl that will be held on the weekend of September 29th and 30th. This will allow fans to get their tickets early by calling the ACT office or picking up tickets at their nearest Northern Vermont Bond Auto Parts store, and also offers a $5 discount for purchasing the 2-day ticket before the date.
All eyes are on the Northeast Late Model teams as the biggest stock car race in Vermont’s history approaches. With no championship points at stake, a record $120,000 purse, and the final spot on the face of the Milk Bowl Champion’s granite stone, teams are expected from all over the Northeast and Canadian region. “The Toughest Short Track Race in America” is sure to please, but a 100-lap ‘Reserve’ Milkbowl offering an American Canadian Tour purse with $3,000 to win will be held for those who do not qualify. There will also be a Mini-Milk Bowl for Allen Lumber Street Stocks and Bond Auto Tiger Sportsmen with extra money on the line. Undoubtedly the biggest racing event ever to occur in Vermont, Thunder Road has special events planned for the whole weekend.
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Sep 18, 2012 | Beech Ridge, Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report
SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, finished seventh while teammate and car owner Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, finished 11th in the PASS North Series SouthernMaineMotors.com 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Sunday, September 16. Sommerville started 23 in the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet and led briefly in the second half of the event after gaining track position with a fast pit stop, while Mulkern started seventh after an impressive run in qualifying before battling a handling issue in the No. 84 Southern Maine Motors/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet throughout the afternoon. It marked the fourth straight Top-10 finish for Sommerville this season.
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Sep 17, 2012 | Granite State Series, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Hometown racing veteran takes win at Canaan Fair Speedway
CANAAN, NH — Hometown stock car racer Donnie Lashua took the lead from polesitter Cory Roberts on lap 39 to score his first career Granite State Pro Stock Series win Sunday in the 100-lap event at Canaan Fair Speedway.
Lashua started third in the 18-car field and patiently rode behind Roberts for the first third of the race. The veteran Lashua was able to work inside of Roberts and snag the lead for the remainder of the race, but had to hold him off on three late race restarts.
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