Jan 8, 2011 | NE Racing News
BURLINGTON, VT – The Vermont Motorsports Magazine website (www.vtmotormag.com) has announced the nominations for its second annual “Driver of the Year” awards. The fan-voted awards will recognize stock car drivers from Vermont or racing in Vermont for their efforts during the 2010 season across ten categories.
A diverse group of sixty-two drivers from asphalt, dirt, full-fender, and open-wheel disciplines make up the ballot.
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Jan 7, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Green Flag with Ben Ashline
Ben Ashline, of Pittston, ME likes to go fast, especially driving the #15 DS Norton Construction late model. Which has been tearing up the track at Oxford Plains Speedway and in the American Canadian Tour. Ben had an up and down 2010 season with some big wins and some big wrecks.
RPM. What are you plans for the 2011 Race Season?
Ben. Right now, our plans are to run oxford plains speedway for points. Our goal is the championship. We are going to try to make an attempt to qualify for four American Canadian tour races if our budget permits it at that time, We are going to attempt to qualify for the td bank 250, and we are hoping to get an invite to the invitational race at Loudon. (more…)
Jan 7, 2011 | NE Racing News
MaineRacing.Com Northeast Motorsports Expo Launch
January 7th, 2011 – MaineRacing.Com Launches their new website at the Northeast Motorsports Expo. The site has a cleaner look, loads pages faster. The new site provides support for rich media such as video, and other new features. The site will allow for tracks and other media sources to publish press releases directly to MaineRacing.Com.
A lot of effort went into converting the news from the old site to the new updated site. Searching for past news stories will be faster and provide for more searching options. The forum remains unchanged since the last update.
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Dec 7, 2010 | NE Racing News
LEE, NH – The Lee USA Speedway announced plans and changes for the 2011
season at a general meeting for the track held in Rochester, New Hampshire
on December 4th. The changes were met with a very positive response from
the 78 race teams that were represented.
Highest on the list of changes discussed for next season was the change to a
four division format. The Late Models and Road Runners will no longer
compete at the track, allowing a purse increase for the remaining divisions.
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Nov 22, 2010 | NE Racing News
Manchester, NH – Lee USA Speedway honored the 2010 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series champions on Saturday night, with Wayne Helliwell, Jr. and car owner Bruce Bernhardt collecting the hardware for their second
consecutive Late Model title.
Miles Chipman took home second place and Most Improved in the Late Models, with Pat Floyd, Bryan Kruczek, Sportsmanship award winner Tom Fuller, Rookie of the Year Travis Canney, J.R. Baril, Moe Lattime, Jeremy Harclerode, and Hard Luck winner A.J. Panessiti recognized for finishing third through tenth.
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Nov 10, 2010 | NE Racing News
Concord, NC (November 6, 2010) – The CRA Super Series North-South Shootout 125 presented by WearCrete Diamond Concrete Polishing at Concord Speedway had a little of everything – a car on its top on the second lap and another on lap 106, the leader running out of fuel during a caution with only 14 laps left and a first time CRA Super Series winner, Colt James.
Bobby Measmer, Jr. WearCrete Racing with Jeff Fultz Fast Qualifier set fast time during qualifying on Friday evening with a time of 15.688 seconds, just ahead of Jimmy Weller who turned a lap of 15.700, putting Measmer on the pole for the start. The heat races used to set the lineup for 10th through 20th for the North/South Shootout 125 were cancelled due to inclement weather when rain settled in for the evening. The lineups were then set using qualifying times only.
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