Barre, VT – Shelburne’s Dennis Demers showed his son, and the rest of the Late Model field, how it was done on WDEV/WLVB/Calkins night at Thunder Road on Thursday, August 2. Demers was chased by late charging Nick Sweet and South Barre’s Mike “Beatle” Bailey to the checkers.
Jeffersonville’s Joey Becker took the early lead from pole-sitter Bailey, but it only took until lap 12 for Bailey to find his groove in the outside lane and reclaim the lead. Bailey ran from the field while father-son duo Dennis and Trampas Demers stormed through the field nose to tail from mid-pack. By lap 20 the pair had reached second and third and engaged in a no-holds-barred family duel for the second position. Father Dennis Demers on the high side, son Trampas below, they battled it out until lap 30 when Dennis finally surged ahead. Seven laps later he slipped underneath Bailey for the lead, while point-leader Nick Sweet methodically picked off the top five one by one in the last ten laps of the race. Sweet broke up the family affair by claiming second in the closing laps, leaving Bailey to third place, Trampas Demers to fourth, and Brooks Clark to round out the top five. Three-time Champion Phil Scott finished sixth, and Becker, Chip Grenier, Eric Chase, and Cody Blake rounded out the top ten. (more…)
Waterbury, VT – For the first time since July of 2006, American Canadian Tour officials have announced a return to the historic Sanair Super Speedway in St-Pie, QC on Saturday, August 11. To add to the event, the 7/8 mile triangular oval will present the race under the lights for the first time in history.
Mulkern Racing: PASS North Series
Lonnie Sommerville Seekonk Race Preview
THE STORY
Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, joins the PASS North Series in its return to Seekonk Speedway in Seekonk, Mass., for the PASS 150 on Saturday, August 4. Sommerville finished fourth in this event a year ago in the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet and is looking for a return to form on a track very similar to his home track. The tight, .333-mile Seekonk Speedway layout is akin to Speedway 660 in Geary, New Brunswick, where Sommerville is a two-time Auto Value 250 champion. (more…)
Barre, VT – Championship point races at Barre’s Thunder Road remain tight as competitors prepare for a special event at WDEV//WLVB/Calkins night this Thursday, (August 2). The race will feature the famous Porta-Potty Grand Prix at intermission, where point leaders from mid-season will engage in an all-out drag race with porta-potties down the front stretch of Thunder Road.
Midseason point-leaders Nick Sweet, Jason Allen, Nick Pilotte, and their respective race teams, will face off in the annual Porta-Potty Grand Prix on Thursday. Sweet, the lone veteran of the race, feels great about his chances. “I think we have a great shot at winning it, if my boys don’t get pooped,” he laughed. (more…)
NAPLES ME (7/31) It’s no easy deal racing against the Northeast’s Super Late Model super stars. They have the team, the talent and the equipment to take on any speedway’s home town heroes and leave with the checkered flag and the big trophy. But there’s always an exception to any rule, and when the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North race teams roll into Seekonk (MA) Speedway for a short track Saturday night the drivers that follow the traveling race show all over the Northeast will be out to even the score.
Seekonk has a talent laden field of Pro Stocks (the forerunner to today’s Super Late Models) and they know every inch of asphalt at the historic short track. They’re hard to beat on their home turf; Tom Scully Jr. and Dave Darling are living proof. They’ve both prevailed over the PASS North regulars at Seekonk. In fact it took three trips to the Action Track of the East before six time PASS North Champion Johnny Clark could break the locals’ strangle hold on victory lane. (more…)
Gonyaw, Smith Take Feature Victories
