Sep 16, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
This past Friday night Lee USA Speedway crowned its 2013 champions and recognized the season-long accomplishments of all its competitors. This past season has been one of the more competitive in years with near record number of feature winners in all divisions.
In the Bensons Lumber & Hardware Small Block Supermodified Division Tommy Tombarello successfully defended his title by a mere 7 points over Mike Netishen and 33 points over Sparky Maciver. Nine drivers, nearly half of the entire roster, went to victory lane in 2013.
Tombarello got off to a great start winning three feature events by mid-summer, but his season faltered as Netishen’s surged in August and early September. The Auburn, NH driver also won three times and came within a whisker of taking it all away from the two time champ on Pepsi Championship Night. More importantly nine drivers experienced the thrill of victory, some in spectacular fashion. Ryan Gath and Ricky Wolf won twice. Wolf was ecstatic with his first win in the supers after winning feature events in every other division at Lee USA.
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Sep 10, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – The final week of racing in the 2013 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series track championship season went into the record books at Lee USA Speedway on Friday night, with Tommy Tombarello, Jr. wrapping up the season title in the track’s headline division, the Benson Lumber and Hardware Small Block Supermodifieds.
Tombarello’s impressive season aboard the Bobby and Ed Witkum-owned Witkum Brothers Racing machine made it back-to-back championships and three overall for the Haverhill, MA native, who also put in a strong bid for the 2013 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series New Hampshire state championship in the rain-shortened season.
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Sep 2, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – It was “Back to School” Night at Lee USA Speedway on Friday, with dozens of school kids getting to ride with their favorite race drivers around “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed” prior to the beginning of the night’s racing action.
With the championship season quickly winding down, all of Lee’s weekly divisions were in action, with second place points man Mike Netishen scoring his third win of the 2013 campaign in the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Small Block Supermodified 30-lap Benson Lumber and hardware-sponsored main event.
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Aug 30, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
This past Friday night the Lee USA Speedway and Prime Warehouse and Storage honored the memory of Lance Davis, a popular late model sportsman driver whose life was cut short by illness a decade ago. . Grant Aither continued his winning ways and took the 10th Annual Lance Davis Memorial Late Model Shootout ahead of Nick Maniatis and James Russell. It was his fourth win of the year. Friend and former competitor Luke Tanguay has taken on the task of maintaining this event, and awarded the top ten with commemorative trophies. Davis’ wife Lynn, son Zach, and daughter Lia were also recognized and presented with a plaque.
This season has been one of the most competitive in years at Lee USA as evidenced by the number of first time winners. Last Friday night two of the speedway’s most determined competitors finally found that elusive first checkered flag.
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Aug 27, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, More Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – The main event at Lee USA Speedway last Friday night was the annual Lance Davis Memorial, a 50-lap Late Model Sportsman race held in honor of the popular driver whose sudden passing shocked and saddened the Lee USA community in the summer of 2003.
The Davis family was on hand to present the top ten finishers with trophies commemorating the event, and it was once again Grant Aither taking home the biggest one after a convincing victory in the extra-distance affair for the Prime Storage and Warehouse-sponsored LMS division.
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Aug 19, 2013 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – Former Lee USA Speedway Late Model and NASCAR New England Regional champion Ricky Wolf, Jr. collected his second win of the 2013 season after an impressive run in the Benson Lumber and Hardware sponsored 30-lap feature event for the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Small Block Supermodifieds at Lee USA Speedway on Friday night.
Backing up his first win in the open-wheelers back on July 12, Wolf quickly got past polesitter Leslie Keyser to assume the lead, and he never looked back, leading every lap on the way to a crowded victory lane celebration with his legion of fans, known at the speedway as “The Wolfpack“.
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