Sep 9, 2010 | North East Mini Stock Tour
The North East Mini Stock Tour is geared up and ready to show what they have got at one of the biggest racing weekends in Maine. The Pro All Stars Series Beech Ridge 300 lap national event will be held Sunday along with NEMST heats and features as well as PASS sportsman and PASS mods. This will be the largest crowd the NEMST has ever performed in front of, with fierce battles all year long the competition is guaranteed to be at its best. The four days of racing kicks off Thursday with the local midweek heroes waging for battle. Friday will be practice for all the premier divisions and Saturday will hold support division features and qualifying. While the big show all gets underway on Sunday.
A 50 green flag lap feature event will be in store for the touring minis of the NEMST as well as 10 lap heats rolling off at 12:00 PM sharp. The largest ever NEMST field is expected with cars coming from 6 New England states. Many new faces will join the tour regulars of Cayer, Melcher, and Boyle all trying to knock off standout rookie Chris McKinstry. The aforementioned McKinstry is out to 108 point lead, and four wins, in the series standings after second place and defending champion Emerson Cayer had engine troubles at White Mountain Motorsports Park. From second on back to the eighth spot in points the battles get closer and closer with less than 100 points separating all drivers.
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Sep 7, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) has announced another round of invited teams who have been invited to participate in the second ACT Invitational to be held at the regions largest sporting complex, the New Hampshire Motor Speedway (NHMS) on Saturday, September 18, 2010. The event will be held as one of three preliminary events leading to the Sunday, September 19th first ‘Chase’ for the NASCAR Sprint Cup Championship. The ACT teams will join the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the Camping World Truck Series in a spectacular triple-header event on Saturday, September 18.
The first group of ACT teams, selected a week ago, represented the winners of 2010 championship events and track champion candidates with a few ‘at large’ selections. This announcement is primarily teams from an ‘at large’ pool who participated in a test and tune session last month at the Speedway. “This group represents sixteen (16) more teams in the selection process. This has been one of the most difficult jobs I have had in the racing business. We had 71 teams test and they all did a great job. They really are all deserving of being part of the 43 team starting grid. That is the problem; there are only 43 spots for 71 worthy teams,” said Tom Curley, President of the American Canadian Tour.
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Sep 6, 2010 | PASS
Naples ME (9/6) Their racing divisions have the best names in the sport;; Mad Bombers, Mighty Trucks, Outlaws, Varsity, Runnin’ Rebels, Beetle Bugs and a whole bunch more. They’re the Mid Week Warriors that take little more than a street car (or truck), add the required safety equipment and go racing. For many competitors they are in their first race car ever, and for others the mid week racing wars are just perfect for their budget. It takes cubic inches and talent to win at this level, not cubic dollars.
Maine’s midweek racers put on some of the most competitive and exciting racing out there and they will be in the spotlight Thursday September 9th when they kick off PASS 400 weekend ay Scarborough Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Depending on car count there’s up to fifty laps of racing and five hundred dollars on the line for the winners. That payday is more than most of these guys and gals can earn in a season, so there’s plenty of incentive to win this one. The back gate at Beech Ridge swings open at noon and practice gets underway at 2:00 PM.
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Sep 6, 2010 | PASS
14-Year-Old Georgia Racer Puts His Name in the Record Books 14 Years after Last Major Event at the Historic North Carolina Track
The PASS South Super Late Models headed to the historic North Wilkesboro Speedway in North Wilkesboro, North Carolina, for “The Labor Day Classic 200” event at the track on Saturday, September 4th, 2010 – the first major racing event at the facility since Jeff Gordon won in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series back in 1996. After Andy Loden set a new track record during qualifying 14-year-old Chase Elliott, son of legendary NASCAR racer Bill Elliott, drove his #9 machine to victory lane as the first major touring series winner in the past 14 years at the track, a place where his father ran strong but never claimed a victory.
“This is pretty cool,” said Chase Elliott in victory lane. “For them (his father’s NASCAR race team) to not get a win here was big because they dominated back in those years. It is really cool to be a part of the names that won here.”
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Sep 6, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Barre, VT – St-Denis, Quebec’s Patrick Laperle held off a late charging Phil Scott to claim the ACT Late Model Tour win in the 32nd running of the Bond Auto Labor Day Classic at Thunder Road International Speedbowl in Barre, VT on Sunday, September 5. Laperle led the final 14 laps of the 200 lap event after getting around Dave Pembroke.
Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. and current ACT Late Model Tour point leader Brian Hoar battled for the first 160 laps of the event. They swapped the lead eight times amongst themselves before Pembroke joined the mix with fresher tires on lap 160. Pembroke would hold the lead until lap 187 when Laperle took over also on fresher tires.
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Sep 5, 2010 | PASS
Story by Evan Beaulieu
After 16 races in the Amsoil Nelcar Legends Tour season, the tour was back at Maine’s toughest track, Unity Raceway. With just three point’s races remaining going into the race, Bob Weymouth held a slim 30 point lead over second place Evan Beaulieu for the championship, which is just 20 points after the throwaway. Both drivers had good runs at Unity, with Weymouth scoring a win earlier in the year, and with the championship so close, every position would be more crucial than usual. The fans packed into the stands, and were treated to a great night of racing by some of the best Legends Cars drivers in New England.
For the first heat race, it was the 29 of Tyler Jordan on the pole with the 10 of Ed Getty on the outside. When the green flag flew, the two drove side by side for a few laps before Getty was able to vault ahead using the preferred outside groove. With the rookie, Mathew Bourgoine in the 38 breathing down his neck and three wide racing for third behind them, Getty was able to hold on and score the heat win. Bourgoine fought hard but finished second, while Terry Kirk in the 17 got third in the three wide battle.
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