May 26, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
The 100th Anniversary of the Indy 500 is scheduled to take place this Sunday. And capitalizing on the occasion was Gerry Gappens, the vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway in Loudon, NH. He was in the Hub earlier this week at the Fours Restaurant on Canal Street, along with three Indy Car drivers who flew into Logan from Indy, in the effort to set the tone for NHMS’s return to an IZOD Indy Car race to be held there on Sunday, August 14, the date for the Indy Car 225. The fastest open wheel race cars will return to New England after a 13-year absence.
On hand to promote the return engagement was Australian Will Power, now a resident of Charlotte, NC, the center of NASCAR country. Power reflected on his recent qualifying run at Indianapolis, “I expected to be running for the pole but my car wasn’t fast at first. But I’m still happy to be in the second row at Indy (starting fifth).” Will drives the Team Penske Honda and is the point leader in that series after he scored two wins at the Grand Prix of Alabama at Barber Motorsports Park in Birmingham and at the Sao Paulo Indy 300. The other Penske cars didn’t qualify as well as Power did. Will thinks that his biggest opposition will come from Scott Dixon, Dario Franchitti, Townsend Bell and Dan Weldon. “I really haven’t thought about winning the 500 but if I did, it would be a big deal,” he said.
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May 23, 2011 | Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway
May 23, 2011
OXFORD, Maine – Mother Nature struck again this past weekend as rain and persistent mist forced the postponement of the Saturday’s Fan Appreciation Night presented by 99.9 The Wolf.
Fan Appreciation night has been rescheduled for Friday, May 27. Four Speedway divisions, the Late Models, Strictly Stocks, Mini Stocks and Oxford Outlaws, will kick off the season at a special starting time of 7:30.
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May 22, 2011 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, Touring Series News
West Haven, VT – Seven-time and defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT claimed his second straight Spring Green and his second win of the 2011 season at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, May 21. Hoar won a hard fought battle with leader Craig Bushey and later John Donahue to lead the final 36 laps and earn the win. Hoar’s win came in his first event in his new Ford powered ride out of the Rick Paya stables.
Shelburne, VT’s Jamie Fisher and Windham, ME’s Brad Babb swapped the lead early in the event as they sat on the front row after earning +6’s in ACT’s +/- handicap system. Bushey took over from his sixth place starting position on lap seven and would swap the lead with several drivers for the majority of the event including Ricky Rolfe and Fisher before giving up the lead for good to Hoar on lap seventy five and faded to eighth. (more…)
May 21, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS
Todays’ PASS North super late model event at White Mountain Motorsports Park has been postponed due to rain in today’s forecast.
A make up date will be announced as soon as possible.
May 18, 2011 | Maine Racing News, Unity Raceway
“Survivor: Redemption Island” contestant, former Miss Maine USA and U-Maine basketball star to appear at stock car event
Unity, ME – Stock car racing action roars to life for the first time in 2011 Sunday afternoon at Unity Raceway, and the chief survivor gets $1111 for getting to the checkered flag first after 111 opening day racing laps in the top-tier Late Model division.
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May 17, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
NAPLES ME (5/17) The thunder will roll Saturday evening when the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super late models kick off White Mountain Motorsports Park’s 2011 racing season, a track that’s a favorite stop for PASS racers and race fans alike.
The smooth and fast high banked quarter mile will celebrate its eleventh year on the PASS North schedule in 2011 and fans can count on another bull ring barn burner when the first green of the North Woodstock NH speedway’s season flies 4:00 PM .
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