Brad Babb Racing: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Race Report
Brad Babb of Windham, Maine, finished eighth in the 45-lap NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Pro Series feature event at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, August 25, to unofficially retake the division point lead with one race remaining. Babb started 19th in the 23-car field, cracked the Top-10 by the Lap 20 mark and then battled in heavy traffic to hold onto the eighth position. It was Babb’s second-straight Top-10 finish in the No. 4 Babb Wood Contractors/McGoldrick Bros. Blasting Chevrolet and earned him a 14-point lead in the standings with only next Saturday night’s final point race remaining on the schedule. Babb’s father, five-time Beech Ridge Motor Speedway track champion Bobby Babb, finished a season-high third on Saturday night. (more…)
St-Croix, QC – Eight-time American Canadian Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT outdueled Quebec’s Jean-François Déry for his third straight Can-Am 200 win at Circuit Riverside Speedway on Saturday, August 25. Hoar and Déry ran nose to tail with Déry out front for the majority of the event as the two lapped all but the top nine cars. As the ten laps to go signal was given, Hoar turned up the pressure and began his assault for the lead.
The two swapped the lead several times over the next three laps, but Déry held the lead each time at the line. Hoar completed an incredible inside-out move in turn one on lap 192 to complete the pass for the win, his third of the season. Déry was followed to the line by defending Série ACT Castrol Champion Patrick Laperle and Donald Theetge in third and fourth respectively. (more…)
Fourteen year old Emma Libby of Glenburn led from the drop of the green flag to the checkers in the Ladies Division at Speedway 95 Wednesday night and won the 25 lap series event by overlapping all but the second place car on her way to the win. Her only challenge came from Danielle Beal of Hampden, who led briefly on the restart after a lap 3 caution, but was passed by Libby by the time they were on the backstretch. Five laps later the caution flew again when a rear wheel broke on Beal’s car, sending off turn one and rolling on to her roof. She was uninjured, but was out of competition for the night. Libby led the remainder of the race. Amy Hood of W. Enfield took the second spot with Winterport’s Chelsea Young finishing third. Fourth went to Angela Davis of Frankfort with Becky Elston Burns in fifth. Libby won the three race series with a perfect score of 300, winning all three of the series features. She also won the 10 lap qualifier, startng her on the pole for the feature. (more…)
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Stafford Motor Speedway Race Preview
Mulkern Racing will bring a two-car effort back to the Nutmeg State when the PASS North Series holds the inaugural PASS 125 at Stafford Motor Speedway in Stafford, Conn., on Sunday, August 26. Full-time driver Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, will pilot the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet, while multi-time Stafford champion Ted Christopher of Plainville, Conn., will make his second start of the season in the No. 18 Southern Maine Motors/Community Pharmacies Chevrolet. Christopher previously joined the team at Thompson International Speedway in Connecticut back in July, while Sommerville heads into the series’ first-ever race at the half-mile in the heart of Modified country off a second-place finish last time out at White Mountain Motorsports Park. (more…)
PASS North travels to Stafford Motor Speedway Sunday
Three PASS North touring series tackle the famed speedway for the first time
The long awaited Pro All Stars Series appearance at Stafford Motor Speedway is just a few days away and competitors in all three PASS North touring series are scrambling to prepare for their first ever trip to the Connecticut oval.
The PASS stars and cars have appeared at many of the Northeast United States and Canada’s oval tracks during the series twelve year history, but only a few of the traveling pros have ever taken a lap around the historic speedway. (more…)
Brad Babb Racing: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series