Jul 24, 2017 | Lee Speedway, NE Racing News
photo by Rich Hayes
Lee, NH – The Valenti Modified Racing Series rolled into the Lee USA Speedway for a pair of 50-lap events on Friday night, the second appearance of the year for the tour at “New Hampshire’s Center of Speed“. It was a memorable night for the two VMRS feature winners as both Dan Meservey, Jr. of Brewster, MA and Troy Talman of Oxford, MA picked up their first-ever series victories in the doubleheader.
Polesitter Dylan Rock of Enfield led the opening 46 laps of the first 50-lap run, but a late-race restart gave Meservey the shot he needed, and he made the best of it. Meservey slipped past Rock to take the point on lap 47, and led the field to John Spence Jr.‘s checkered flag three laps later to collect the win.
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Jul 23, 2017 | GSPSS, NE Racing News, Touring Series News, White Mountain
Todd Stone WMMP 100 Winner (Lin Mat Photos)
Woodstock, NH – Todd Stone of Middlebury, VT. took the checkers at the White Mountain 100 on Saturday night. In practice and the scuff sessions, veteran to the track, DJ Shaw of Center Conway, NH posted the fastest times. Wayne Helliwell Jr. of Dover, NH who has run well in the ACT Series posted some of the fastest times as well.
The feature saw Helliwell Jr. on the poll, and Luke Hinkley of Claremont, NH started on the outside to start the race. The early part of the race saw Helliwell take an early lead for the first twenty laps of the race. Eventually Shaw would take the lead and hold it until lap 40 when the caution flew. Shaw and Hinkley made contact on the backstretch sending the 31NH car up the pit road in a wild ride with the car ending up on thp of the pit wall, ending his night early.
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Jul 21, 2017 | NE Racing News, Seekonk Speedway
Photo by Leif Tillotson
By: Dick Casey
Eddie MacDonald returned to Seekonk Speedway on Wednesday, July 19 after a one week rain delay to score a fourth place finish in the $10,000 to win U.S. Pro Stock/SLM National Championship. The Rowley, Mass. driver had the taste of a win only to be denied when the right front tire began to lose pressure with 25 laps to go in the 200 lap feature.
“We were so close to winning the race and I could really feel we had a great chance,” said the frustrated driver after the race. “We battled for the top spot in the first half of the race and through the second 100 laps. The car was really fast and it handled great. It was exciting and knew we had a shot at the win but with about 25 laps the handling started to go away. I thought I had a flat and it got worse as the laps ran down and I was really loose. I was running second but there was no way I could get to the front. I almost got spun out from behind with 20 to go and all I could do was to just hang on and hope the tire stayed up until the checkers.”
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Jul 21, 2017 | GSPSS, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
WALPOLE, N.H. – With six races down and six races to go, the Granite State Pro Stock Series will get the second half of the season underway on Saturday night as the championship chase heats up. The White Mt. Motorsports Park, located in North Woodstock, N.H., will play host to the seventh race of the season, a 100 lap main event.
PLACE: White Mt. Motorsports Park, North Woodstock, N.H.
DATE: Saturday, July 22
TIME: 6 p.m. post time
GSPSS Twitter: @GSProStocks
GSPSS Contact: Mike Parks, mparks@gspss.net
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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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