The Benjamin Motorsports team start the 2011 season at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway this past weekend. The team started the qualifying race in 6th. On the last lap of the heat the number 17 car would take the lead and win the heat.
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For the first event under the new Texas Roadhouse nameplate the North East Mini Stock Tour had a full field racing n front of a packed grandstand on the nicest weather weekend in northern New England so far this year.
Twenty mini stock cars from five New England states showed up at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine early Saturday morning for the Texas Roadhouse NEMST season opener. It was clear early in the first practice session that a close field of cars had arrived with eight drivers within .2 of a second lap times.
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Scott Mulkern: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report
SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, finished 15th in the PASS North Series season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. In less than 20 laps, Mulkern had gone from 15th starting spot all the way up to ninth. The car started to show signs of ill-handling in the second half of the race, though, and contact with another car in the late stages of the event broke something in the car’s steering as he held on for his final finishing position. The other Mulkern Racing entry, the No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders Chevrolet for Lonnie Sommerville, finished fourth in its PASS North Series debut.
WHO: Scott Mulkern, Falmouth, Maine
TEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 84 Community Pharmacies/Southern Maine Motors Chevrolet
WHAT: PASS North Series PASS 150
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 15th
FINISHED: 15th
LAPS LED: 0 times for 0 laps
PASS North Series
NEXT RACE: May 14, PASS 150, Star Speedway, Epping, N.H. (.25-mile oval)
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Lonnie Sommerville: PASS North Series
Beech Ridge Motor Speedway Race Report
SCARBOROUGH, Maine – Lonnie Sommerville of Saint John, New Brunswick, opened the 2011 PASS North Series season with a 4th-place finish in the PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough, Maine, on Saturday, April 30. The Mulkern Racing driver started mid-pack in the 31-car field but spent the final 30 laps of the event battling hard for third, fourth and fifth spots in a tight pack of five cars. Sommerville’s fourth-place run marked his best career PASS North Series finish in his first series race with Mulkern Racing.
WHO: Lonnie Sommerville, Saint John, New Brunswick
TEAM: Mulkern Racing No. 48 A.E. McKay Builders Chevrolet
WHAT: PASS North Series PASS 150
WHERE: Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval)
STARTED: 16th
FINISHED: 4th
LAPS LED: 0 times for 0 laps
PASS North Series
NEXT RACE: May 14, PASS 150, Star Speedway, Epping, N.H. (.25-mile oval)
CURRENT POINTS POSITION: 4th
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Winchester, N.H. – “You would be hard pressed to find a better race,” said one long-
time race observer, “By far the best race in the history of the series and I’ve seen them all,” said another. Fan reactions to a hotly contested race Saturday night, April 30, at Monadnock Speedway, Winchester, (NH). The Valenti Modified Racing Series was in town for the “Spring Dash 100” and when the checkered flag was displayed, the crowd was buzzing and so was a tired and slightly weary winner, Les Hinckley III, of Windsor Locks, (CT).
Constant side-by-side racing often with five to seven car battles took place throughout
the race with a couple of three-wide showdowns thrown in for good measure.
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Andy Shaw and Shane Tatro PASS Mod, Sportsman winners
Scarborough ME (4/30) Johnny Clark reclaimed the lead on lap 120 of Saturday’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North season opener at Scarborough Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway and the defending super late model champ survived several late race cautions to nab the 150 lap feature over a charging Donnie Whitten. Ben Rowe, Lonnie Sommerville and Shawn Turple rounded out the top five.
Clark led the most laps from his pole position start but the win was by no means easy. There were plenty of challengers up front. Travis Benjamin dogged the leader early on until mechanical issues sent him to the pit area. Benjamin returned to finish ninth. Derek Ramstrom was on fire too, taking the lead away from the defending series champ on lap 113.But problems sidelined Ramstrom too, possibly the result of contact with Clark on one of several tooth and nail restarts as the pair battled for the top spot. Ramstrom’s troubles gave Trevor Sanborn a shot at the lead and he took advantage, taking over the point for several laps before Clark powered by on a lap 120 restart.
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