May 17, 2011 | Maine Racing News, North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
While the weather was not near as nice as opening day at Beech Ridge the Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour rolled into the newly reopened Star Speedway in Epping, NH. Fighting a bleek forecast many teams from all over New England made the trek to the southern New Hampshire speedway.
Practices started off early and had much excitement with many teams having trouble with mechanical problems including Emerson Cayer having a broken steering rack. As the cars rolled through pre race technical inspection teams drew for their heat starting position. Two heat races were held for the 18 mini stocks at Star with the Volkswagens showing the pace. Calvin Rose won the first heat and Loren Smith negotiated the win from the second heat.
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May 16, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Dearborn dominates, late cautions set up wild finish
EPPING NH (5/14) – Derek Ramstrom returned to the site of his first Pro All Stars Series super late model win and claimed the lead on lap 148 of the 150 lap feature to capture his first PASS North win since July of 2009. Ben Rowe raced home in second with Joey Polewarczyk third.
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May 16, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
In Epping New Hampshire on Saturday night the Benjamin Motorsports team would race there second PASS North race of the season. In the qualifing race the team would finish second and the number 17 car would start 4th for the main event.
At the start of the race Travis would move quickly into second. The team would run second for the first half of the race. Just after the mid point of the race the team was in third. With just 30 laps to go the 17 car was in 4th and was getting ready to make a late race charge. Then going for third with 8 laps to go contact with another car would take the radiator out and send the Benjamin Motorsports team to work.
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May 15, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
This weekend we went back to star. We were not sure if the rain would hold out or not, but it did. The first practice there was a problem. We had to change the fuel pump, and some other stuff.
To start the second practice Richie went out and then came in for an adjustment, when he went to fire the car it wouldn’t start. To make a long story short, Richie didn’t get much practice.
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May 14, 2011 | Maine Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, Touring Series News
May 14, 2011
OXFORD, Maine – The American Canadian Tour event at Oxford Plains Speedway scheduled for Sunday, May 15 has been postponed until June 4.
“The forecast is for a 100% chance of rain tomorrow. We know we have teams and fans traveling great distances for this event and did not want them to do it in vain,” announced Oxford Plains Speedway Owner Bill Ryan.
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May 13, 2011 | Maine Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Story by Chris Roy
Well the 2011 PASS racing season has started and Johnny Clark has picked up right were he left off last season, leading the points in the PASS North Series, as he took the checkered flag at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. I asked Johnny about the last 5 laps of the race this is what he had to say, “The last 5 laps was just riding with a decent lead, fingers crossed that we had no more cautions, because the 7 car (Donnie Whitten) was coming!”
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