Jul 21, 2017 | Lee Speedway, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – Lee USA Speedway is proud to announce the latest addition to the annual “Ollie Silva Memorial Classic” program for the International Supermodified Association on Friday night August 11, the 40-lap Rodfather Small Block Super Shootout, and paying $4,000 to the winner.
Les “The Rodfather” Sanborn has been a big supporter of the Supermodified action at the storied seacoast oval for the past several years, and the running of the first annual Small Block Super Shootout brings that support up a notch, with the biggest Small Block Super winner’s purse ever offered at “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed”.
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Jul 21, 2017 | NE Racing News, Thunder Road
Barre’s Jason Corliss celebrates his second Thunder Road Late Model win of the season on FairPoint Communications Night. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, Vt. – Hometown driver Jason Corliss captured his second Thunder Road Late Model win of the season on Thursday, July 20, taking the lead just past the halfway point and holding on for the win on FairPoint Communications Night.
Corliss threaded his way through the field from his 11th starting position before a lap-27 caution brought him alongside polesitter Boomer Morris. After grabbing the lead on the restart, Corliss outgunned point leader Bobby Therrien in the closing circuits for his sixth career win.
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Jul 21, 2017 | Lee Speedway, NE Racing News
LEE, N.H. — The mighty 800-horsepower modifieds of the Valenti Modified Racing Series highlight this Friday night’s 15-race program with two 50-lap feature events at Lee USA Speedway.
Drivers from nine states are in the Modified field with better than 20 of the popular high-speed cars expected.
Troy Talman, of Oxford MA, Todd Annarummo, of Swansea MA, Mike Douglas Jr, of Auburn NH, Russ Hersey, of Swanzey NH, Josh Cantara, of Sanford ME, and Anthony Nocella, of Woburn Ma, are among the Modified drivers in this latest appearance of the open-wheel cars.
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Jul 18, 2017 | NE Racing News, Thunder Road
The Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers are set for round two of the Myers Container Service Triple Crown Series this Thursday, July 20 as part of FairPoint Communications Night. (Alan Ward photo)
Barre, Vt. – Thunder Road enters the heart of its midsummer schedule this Thursday, July 20 with FairPoint Communications Night. As the season nears its halfway point, many teams will be jockeying for championship position in what is shaping up to be an action-packed evening of racing.
Round two of the Myers Container Service Triple Crown Series for the Lenny’s Shoe & Apparel Flying Tigers will highlight the full card of racing. The extended distance feature will award both Triple Crown and Thunder Road weekly points, putting a premium on a good performance for all contenders.
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Jul 17, 2017 | Lee Speedway, NE Racing News
photo by Rich Hayes
After an early-evening rain delay and late night of racing forced postponement of a pair of feature events the week before, Lee USA Speedway racers were once again facing a more than full night of racing on Friday, with both the Rodfather Supermodifieds and the R & R “The Tool Store and More“ Late Model Sportsmen running double features.
In addition, the annual El Camino Night saw a strong contingent of all vintages and colors of beautiful street machinery tour the Lee oval, followed by the annual Autograph Night, where hundreds of fans flooded the speedway to visit their favorite drivers for an up close look at the men, women, and racecars that put on the weekly show for them.
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Jul 17, 2017 | NE Racing News, Thunder Road
Barre, Vt. – Thunder Road officials have announced that the track will host Amanda Pelkey Night this Thursday, July 20 as part of FairPoint Communications Night. The Montpelier native will be honored with a send-off ceremony as she prepares to begin training for the 2018 Winter Olympics in South Korea with the United States Women’s National Ice Hockey team.
Pelkey began her hockey career with the Barre Youth Sports Association and was a member of the Junior Women’s Hockey League throughout her high school years, first with the Boston Shamrocks of Massachusetts and later with the North American Hockey Academy of Stowe, Vt. She attended the University of Vermont (UVM) from 2011 to 2015 and holds all of the school’s women’s ice hockey scoring records.
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