Oct 28, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Therrien, Pilotte Claim 2012 Championships
Barre, VT – Two-time Thunder Road Champion Dave Pembroke persisted through a wild 50th Milk Bowl to kiss the cow on a payday worth over $10,000 for the second time in his career. Eight-time ACT Champion Brian Hoar came up just short through a day of major adversity to finish second, and Maine’s Glen Luce earned third overall. 2012 ACT Champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. battled to fourth, and 7-time ACT Champion Jean Paul Cyr rounded out the top five.
The day began with second place starter Brian Hoar blowing an engine in practice, with a new engine arriving from his Georgia, VT shop 45 minutes before the drop of the green. The RPM team changed the motor, and sent Hoar out just as the field fired for the pace laps to make the start. Hoar and Pembroke battled side-by-side for the first ten laps, before Hoar soared to the lead and began to slice through lap traffic. Just as Hoar began lapping the middle of the field, a nasty wreck involving ACT Champion Helliwell and others, developed directly in front of Hoar, but he slipped through the carnage to retain the lead. Hoar cruised to the segment win with Pembroke, 2012 King of the Road Nick Sweet, and multi-time Thunder Road Champion Cris Michaud on his heels.
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Oct 28, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – American Canadian Tour officials have announced a major inaugural weekend event for the 2013 season: The International 500. The landmark event will be run at Airborne Speedway in Plattsburgh, NY on the weekend of July 20th and 21st.
The ‘500’ will be comprised of (300) three hundred laps for ACT Late Model Championship teams from throughout New England and Eastern Canada. The Late Model portion of the ‘500’ will be run similarly to Thunder Road’s famous Milk Bowl with (3) three 100-lap segments.
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Oct 25, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
24 Hours of Lemons, Hooptiefest kick off wild, wacky weekend at NHMS
LOUDON, N.H. (Oct. 25, 2012) – It’s time to make lemonade at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The 24 Hours of Lemons, a door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper endurance-race series that features cars that cost $500 or less, returns to “The Magic Mile” this weekend (Oct. 26-28). With over 10,000 participants spread across tracks coast to coast, no other event creates bigger, weirder, more hilariously crazy challenges than these weekend-long blowouts of intense and immensely fun competition between cars that are due for the scrapheap.
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Oct 23, 2012 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
The Hancock Electric/Grimm Construction Chevy took the green flag for the final time this season in the 50 Lap Late Model feature to score a second place finish. Eddie MacDonald returned to the family owned speedway where he cut his teeth racing as a teenager for the huge annual Lee Oktoberfest and did not disappoint the hometown fans with two patented runs from the rear.
MacDonald started last in Saturday’s qualifying event, then went on to capture the win in the ten lap event saying, “The car was really tight in practice so we loosened it up quite a bit for the heat. The weather heated up so the change we made helped the car a lot.”
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Oct 21, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Report
OXFORD, Maine – Bobby Timmons of Windham, Maine, led the Mulkern Racing effort in the PASS North Series season-ending PASS 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, October 20, finishing eighth in his series debut. Timmons was part of a three-car effort that included full-time driver Lonnie Sommerville, who finished 14th, and team owner Scott Mulkern, who finished 18th in his seventh start of the season. Timmons recovered from an early spin on the backstretch to post the Top-10 finish in the No. 48x Timmons Machine/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet, while both Sommerville and Mulkern fought ill-handling race cars throughout the day and made several pit stops under caution for adjustments.
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Oct 20, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS, Touring Series News
OXFORD, Maine – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, won his first career Super Late Model race on Saturday evening, leading the final 110 laps at Oxford Plains Speedway to win the PASS North Series 150 in just his second career start.
Theriault, the Brad Keselowski Racing development driver, started third in the 32-car field and led on two different occasions. He has made several Super Late Model starts in other series across the country this season, but this was only his first PASS start since finishing sixth at Seekonk Speedway in August.
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