Ben Rowe: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

Ben Rowe: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

4-time PASS North Series champion Ben Rowe of Turner, Maine, finished 3rd in the season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 1. He led on one occasion for a total of nine laps in the Mulkern Racing Community Pharmacies No. 48 Chevrolet, his PASS North debut with his new team and crew chief Seth Holbrook. Team owner Scott Mulkern finished 20th in a second Mulkern Racing car in the event.

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Joey Doiron: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

Joey Doiron: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

PASS North Series Rookie of the Year candidate Joey Doiron posted a 4th-place finish in the season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 1. It was Doiron’s best career finish in three PASS North attempts. He was the highest-finishing rookie in the race.

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Trevor Sanborn: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

Trevor Sanborn: PASS North Series – Beech Ridge Motor Speedway

Former PASS North Series regular Trevor Sanborn returned to his home track and dominated the season-opening PASS 150 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway on Saturday, May 1. Sanborn started from the pole and led a race-high 99 laps before fading to a 5th-place finish due to a faulty bleeder valve on his right front tire. Sanborn will compete weekly in Beech Ridge’s NASCAR Whelen All-American Series this season.

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Adam Norton Races from Back to Front in Beech Ridge Thriller

Adam Norton Races from Back to Front in Beech Ridge Thriller

Scarborough, ME – May 1, 2010 – The RF Logic / Bot-L-Gas Pro Four Modifieds of New England successfully completed their second race of the season this Saturday as part of Beech Ridge Motor Speedway’s Pro All-Stars Series opener event. The special 35 lap main event was preceded by two qualifying heat events, where #25 of Tyler Anderson and #01 of Adam Norton took the checkers.

Stan Mertz of Whitinsville, Ma and Phil Lausier of Hudson, NH lead the field to the initial green of the feature. Lausier stayed in the high grove to make the pass on the green while fourth place starter, Anderson, followed in line. Rob Richardi, Jr. quickly jumped in line and also made the pass.

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Nick Sweet Earns First Career ACT Win in Merchants Bank 150

Barre, VT – Barre’s own Nick Sweet earned his first career American Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car win in the 12th Annual Merchants Bank 150 at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Sunday, May 2. Sweet started from the 12th position after qualifying through a consi. He battled his way to the front, driving around Patrick Laperle and then Dave Pembroke for the lead. Sweet held off six-time and defending ACT Late Model Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston late in the event. Hoar took second followed by Laperle in third.

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ACT 2010 POST SEASON AWARDS TOP $100,000

Waterbury, VT – The American Canadian Tour (ACT) will celebrate twenty-five years of sanctioning and managing stock car races in 2010, and the quarter century old sanctioning body will award its race teams with over $100,000.00 in post-season awards. This will mark the first season the various point funds have topped the century mark.

“Our Late Model program has grown significantly over the past decade. ACT has tried to maintain the balance between keeping this division cost-effective, whether it is weekly racing or Tour racing. Most of our Tour competitors, and those weekly racers that have supported the ACT Late Model rules formula, are primarily focused on winning championships, which is the way it should be. It is still great that we can reward the teams with some financial awards at the end of a long season of racing,” said Darla Hartt, Vice President of the American Canadian Tour.

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