Sep 16, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
St-Eustache, QC – St-Denis, Quebec’s Patrick Laperle claimed his second straight Série ACT Castrol Championship with his fourth win of the season in the St-Eustache 300 at Autodrome St-Eustache on Sunday, September 16. Laperle cruised to the win leading the final 50 laps of the event after getting by Jonathan Bouvrette who held on for second. Karl Allard climbed his way back to third after bringing out a caution on lap 277 and restarting at the rear. Dany Trepanier and Patrick Hamel completed the top five.
Rookie Etienne Cliche finished sixth as the final car on the lead lap. Martin Goulet, Jr., Simon Roussin, David Michaud and Jacques Poulin completed the top ten. Second place point man Jean-Franoiçois Déry was involved in an early caution and spent an extended period of time on pit road changing a radiator and making front end repairs, which ended his title hopes. He finished fourteenth, thirty laps down.
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Sep 16, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Dragon Wins Vermont 100 in Dramatic Fashion
West Haven, VT – Milton, VT’s Brent Dragon proved himself as one of the greats in the most dramatic race of the year at the Vermont State Championship Series finale at Devil’s Bowl Speedway on Sunday, September 16. Chip Grenier finished a heart-breaking second, and the Mad River Valley’s Brooks Clark stole third in the closing laps.
Grenier shot to the lead in the early going, working around pole sitter Clark to gain the lead on the third lap of the event, but third-place point man Dragon stole it away from him on the eleventh circuit. Dragon’s lead was short lived when 7-time American Canadian Tour Champion Jean Paul Cyr worked to the front, where the pair survived 7 of the first 9 cautions on the front row together. While Dragon fought for the lead, tied point leaders Sweet and Pembroke struggled.
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Sep 15, 2012 | Beech Ridge, Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Mulkern Racing Right At Home This Weekend
PASS 300 At Beech Ridge A Highlight For Mulkern, Sommerville
FALMOUTH, Maine – If there’s one win that Mulkern Racing would really like to have for themselves, it’s a victory in the longest and most prestigious race on the PASS North Series schedule.
Team owner Scott Mulkern of Falmouth finished second in the SouthernMaineMotors.com 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway last season, and he and Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, will both take aim at the checkered flag in the event this time around on Sunday, September 16. Qualifying for the longest race on the schedule begins at 12:15 p.m. on Saturday, with the main event slated for approximately 3 p.m. on Sunday.
Both Mulkern Racing entries have victories at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on their respective resumes, most recently Sommerville who took the PASS 150 at the track in July of 2011 with the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet.
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Sep 15, 2012 | Beech Ridge, Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Joey Doiron Eyes Another Beech Ridge Win
Doiron Views SouthernMaineMotors.com 300 As An Opportunity
BERWICK, Maine – Joey Doiron has seen both ends of the spectrum at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway this season, and he’s hoping for another dose of success when the PASS North Series returns to the track this weekend.
After winning the PASS North Series season opener at Beech Ridge in May, Doiron struggled in the series’ return date in early July. He’s hoping the season’s longest and most lucrative regular-season race – this weekend’s SouthernMaineMotors.com 300 on Sunday afternoon – will help him close out 2012 the way it began.
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Sep 15, 2012 | NASCAR K&N Series, Touring Series News
Grimes, Iowa – Brett Moffitt, driver of the Hattori Racing Enterprises (HRE) #11 Toyota, will carry a 20 point lead in the championship point standings into the next race at New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Saturday, September 22nd, for the G-Oil 100. Moffitt has a total of 9 wins, 7 poles, 28 top fives, and 34 top 10s in his 43 career starts in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East. With only 4 races remaining on the 2012 schedule, HRE will also maintain its 20 point lead in the owner point standings.
Even a championship caliber race team can not field quality cars without adequate sponsorship dollars, and the competition for sponsors is as intense today as it has ever been in the world of stock car racing. In recent years, the economy has forced many race teams to cut back, and after the rain out at Greenville-Pickens on Labor Day, it began to look as though the #11 HRE Toyota might become one of the growing list of casualties.
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Sep 15, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, Touring Series News
NO TRANSLATION NEEDED: Trepanier Wins Showdown
Crazy Horse Driver Stamps Mark On ACT Castrol Series With Victory
SAINT EDOUARD, Quebec – Dany Trepanier visited Mitch Green before the start of the 2011 ACT Castrol Series season and promised him one thing.
“I will be annoying,” Trepanier told the owner of Crazy Horse Racing.
Trepanier was coming off a rookie season in the ACT Castrol Series, and the veteran of the Sportsman ranks and an eight-year go-karting career needed some help. He works with a small crew on the No. 19 Trepanier Motorsports Ford Fusion – including himself as both crew chief and driver – and wanted somebody to help him find more speed.
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