Jun 18, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
NAPLES ME (6/18) The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super late models will make the trek to Vallee-Jonction’s Autodrome Chaudiere for their only Quebec appearance of the season on Saturday June 23 for the Habitations Dany Legace 150, and there’s a new man on top of the point standings as the fastest full fender race cars in the USA and Canada travel north of the border.
Travis Benjamin is the new man atop the point standings and he’s having the kind of season that Champions are made of. Benjamin has three top five finishes in the tours’ first four events. He’s finished second twice, both times to defending PASS North Champ and defending Autodrome Chaudiere race winner Johnny Clark. Benjamin leads Clark by two points (852-850) heading into the weekend, and DJ Shaw (847), Cassius Clark (846) and Joey Doiron (838) are all right behind the top pair.
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Jun 18, 2012 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – Defending NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Small Block Supermodified champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. returned to his winning ways in the 30-lap feature event at Lee USA Speedway Friday night, running away to collect his first checkered flag of the 2012 season.
Leslie Keyser moved out to the early lead when flagman Don Horvath unfurled the green flag to let the Benson Lumber and Hardware feature event loose, but just five laps into the race, he was headed to the pits and still looking for his first career win.
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Jun 18, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Eager Competitors Head to White Mountain Motorsports Park
The most competitive battle in the Northeast continues with the American Canadian Tour stock cars this coming Saturday, June 23 at White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, NH. Dover, NH’s Wayne Helliwell, Jr. leads the field by a 2-point margin in search of his first ACT Championship at a track where he finished a stout third in 2011, but his title hopes are under attack from ACT’s biggest stars.
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Jun 18, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Speedway 95
Hermon’s Mike Hopkins took off from the outside pole position in the 50 lap Sinclair Towing Service feature for the Dysart’s Late Models Saturday night at Speedway 95 and won the event by almost half a track over the rest of the field. The real action took place in the battle for second place where Phil Richardson of Hermon and Brenton Parritt of Steuben battled for second and third over the last half of the race. Parritt finally got by Richardson on lap 42 to take the second spot at the finish. Richardson had to settle for third after winning last week’s main event. The battle for fourth and fifth wasn’t decided until the 44th circuit when Nick Jenkins of Milo finally took fourth from Duane Seekins of Stockton Springs, who finished in fifth. Because of the torrid pace set by Hopkins on his way the win, and the last caution period coming on lap 18, only 8 of the 19 starters finished on the lead lap.
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Jun 18, 2012 | Granite State Series, Maine Race Tracks, NE Racing News, Touring Series News, Unity Raceway
Series only visit to the Pine Tree State comes on June 23
The Granite State Pro Stock Series will head to the Pine Tree State on Saturday, June 23 to visit the tricky one-third mile Unity Raceway in Unity, ME for race number two of the season. Over 20 cars are expected for the 112-lap main event and the series only appearance in the state of Maine in 2012.
Drivers from all across New England are expected to travel to Maine’s toughest oval, including 15-year old Derek Griffith of Hudson, NH. Griffith scored a second place finish in his first Pro Stock race in the season opening David’s House 106 at Monadnock Speedway.
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Jun 18, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Unity Raceway
Johnny Clark of Farmingdale made his first appearance in a couple of years pay off, earning over $2500 with a victory in the Twin 59s In Memory of Big John Phippen on Sunday at Unity Raceway.
Clark, who won the first 59-lap race, outpointed second-race victor Frank Moulton of Burnham for the overall victory. Liberty’s Josh St. Clair was third overall, with the top five filled out by Palmyra’s Ajay Picard and Dylan Turner of Freedom.
“This victory means a lot, both to me and my father,” the winner said in victory lane, after performing the familiar Big John Phippen victory lap, running laps around the winning car, owned by Dean Fuller of Albion, while waving the checkered flag. “He won a race here in 1981 and in tech they thought there’s no way he could beat John Phippen without cheating.
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