Aug 2, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Eddie MacDonald returned home and came close to achieving his goal to win on
the track that began his racing career when he was sixteen years old on the
family owned Lee USA Speedway facility. While most drivers would be happy to
finish fourth in the K&N Pro Series East 125 at Lee, the run for the Grimm
Construction Chevy was bittersweet.
“Obviously we wanted to win at home in front of family and friends and the
car was certainly fast enough but finishing fourth was our best run this
season so we are happy about that,” said the Rowley, Mass. veteran. “For the
last part of the race, Truex and I had a great battle going and were running
each other real clean but I guess he should have been protecting the bottom
instead of pushing me up the track. Wallace made a real aggressive move on
the bottom and used twelve tires instead of four to hold the bottom.
Unfortunately we were four of those tires.”
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Aug 1, 2010 | PASS
Naples ME (8/1) Andy Shaw came back strong after an early race tangle to pass Scott McDaniel on a lap 25 restart and win his third Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Mod feature of 2010 at Groveton New Hampshire’s Riverside Speedway. The win was Shaw’s eighth feauture victory in the ultracompetitive PASS open wheel division.
The 40 lap go got off to a rough start with a pair of cautions that involved several of the front runners including Mike Mayberry, Wayne Whitten Jr., Kevin Douglass and Shaw. After a pair of restarts a race finally broke out with Rich Ferreira out front. Scott McDaniel charged past Alan Wilson for second and claimed the lead from Ferreira on lap six. McDaniel had the look of a winner as he took off from the pack, building up a sizeable lead over Wayne Whitten Jr. Meanwhile Shaw was rumbling through the field after his lap four dustup joining a great scrap for second with Whitten, Wilson, and Ferreira.
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Aug 1, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Ste-Eustache, QC – Terrebonne, QC’s Sylvain Lacombe earned his 14th career Serie ACT Castrol Edge win in the Ste-Eustache 100 at Autodrome Ste-Eustache on Saturday, July 31. Lacombe led the final nine laps of the event to take the win.
Jean-Francois Dery led the majority of the event and appeared to have the car to beat before Jonathan Urlin used the bump and run to get by him with nine laps to go. Urlin was black flagged for the move, giving Lacombe the lead as Dery fell back in the outside lane.
Lacombe was chased to the line by Patrick Laperle and rookie Martin Latulippe. Martin Lacombe came home fourth while Dery recovered to finish fifth. Jonathan Bouvrette, Philippe Jeannotte, Patrick Hamel, Claude Leclerc, and David Michaud completed the top ten.
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Aug 1, 2010 | PASS
Sanborn seals the deal at PASS Summerfest 150
NAPLES ME (8/31) Trevor Sanborn found a way to get by team mate Travis Benjamin on lap 83 of Saturday nights Pro All Stars Series (PASS) super late model feature at Groveton NH’s Riverside Speedway, earning his first career PASS North win. Sanborn and Benjamin gave the RMR team a sweep of the top two spots, a first for veteran car owner Richard Moody. Richie Dearborn crossed the line third.
Sanborn has been fast all season long, leading 262 laps prior to the Summerfest 150. But despite several podium finishes, the two time PASS South race winner had been unable to drive under the checkers first in the northern series until Saturday night.
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Aug 1, 2010 | NASCAR K&N Series
Kobyluck Rallies To Seventh Place Finish At Lee
Lee, N.H. (July 31, 2010): Matt Kobyluck and the Mohegan Sun Casino race team had their work cut out for them in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East 125 at Lee USA Speedway Friday night. After bottoming out in qualifying, the team knew they were going have to pit early and come up through from the back of the pack. Despite more than a handful of wrecks, Kobyluck was able to stay out of trouble and take home an impressive seventh place finish without a scratch on the No. 40 Mohegan Sun Casino Chevrolet.
“The car is in one piece, and I don’t think there’s one other car if you walk down this pit area that’s clean. We don’t have any bangs, no dents, no tore-up stuff,” said Kobyluck. “The car was really good right up through to the end. When the temperature got cooler we lost a little forward bite, and we had to hold on for what we could get.”
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Jul 31, 2010 | American Canadian Tour
Claremont, NH – Newport, NH’s Mark Hayward earned his first career ACT Late Model Tour win at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH on Friday, July 30. Hayward took the lead from Twin State regular Aaron Fellows, who led the first 52 laps of the 100 lap event. Hayward held off the likes of Ben Rowe, current ACT Tour point leader Brian Hoar and Randy Potter over the remaining 48 laps to take the win.
Rowe took second while Fellows finished third. Potter and Jeff Zuidema rounded out the top five. TJ Watson worked his way from his 20th starting position to take sixth followed by John Donahue, Hoar, last week’s Beech Ridge winner Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. and rookie Austin Theriault completing the top ten.
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