The Senior Tour Auto Racers (STAR) Sportsman and Modified divisions will return to Lee USA Speedway this Friday, May 29, for a look back at yesteryear at New Hampshire’s Center of Speed. This event will also feature continued track championship action for the Super Late Models, Tri-City Lining Street Stocks, Ridge Runners, and MLM Diagnostic Crown Vics.
The Massachusetts-based STAR Tour has been in action since 1999, helping to keep motor racing history alive and well in New England. This Friday marks their season opener after supporting the yearly car show at the New England Racing Museum in Loudon earlier this month.
The Lee USA Speedway weekly track championship series kicked off on Friday night with a five division showdown. Starting the evening were the Tri-City Lining Street Stocks for their season debut. A three-way wreck at the start/finish line ended the night early for Connor McDougal while Austin Erickson and Dave Cameron piled in for a rough opening lap. Back under green, Jimmy Renfrew Jr. ran away with the opening day win over Jason Curtis and Erickson who made it back up to third in the end.
The 350 Supermodifieds returned for the first of several planned visits this summer with a 40-lap main event. Ben Tinker showed the way throughout the first 25 laps but had one car on his tail the whole time. On lap 26 the #10 of Ben Seitz finally made his way around Tinker’s #19 and never looked back to take the win with Justin Harris following Tinker across the line for third.
Lee, NH — In one of the most dramatic and exciting events so far in the young 2023 racing season, the American-Canadian Tour put on a barn-burning performance at New Hampshire’s Center of Speed, Lee USA Speedway on Sunday. With the return of the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 150 at the 3/8-mile oval came an interesting group of touring regulars, old friends and young greenhorns. All of them fought each other and the worn-out track itself in an attempt to grasp ACT glory and join a wins list thirty-seven years in the making.
Twenty-four competitors would enter the expansive Lee USA Speedway pit area Sunday morning, many of them facing their third event in just fifteen short days in an extreme stretch of May. After a late driver change, Westbrook, Maine’s Brandon Barker took the wheel of the Sullivan Construction 0NH car to the pole position with current top ACT rookie Andrew Molleur to his outside after both earning +3 in heat race number one.
Oktoberfest up next for the GSPSS at Lee USA Speedway
As the 2019 Granite State Pro Stock Series season winds down, the series takes part in one of the most anticipated events of the year. The two day Oktoberfest at Lee USA Speedway has become a destination event for New England race fans and teams alike.
The last three Lee events for the GSPSS have been dominated by two drivers from just up the road in Maine. They are friends, competitors, rivals and coworkers, as both drivers work at JBJ Machine in North Berwick Maine. The machine shop, owned by John Doiron, not only employs both drivers but makes numerous parts for race cars driven throughout New England.
