Sep 29, 2008 | Touring Series News
Lee, NH (September 29, 2008) – – It’s that time of year again as Lee USA Speedway, Route 125, Lee, NH, puts the wraps on their 2008 Season with it’s 23rd annual Oktoberfest, a three day race event that offers something for everyone. Fans can expect hayrides for those camping Saturday night, dancing and karaoke under the Big Top. Mac Tools Pit Stop Competition, Big Wheel Races for kids, 12 Divisions of racing highlighted by the crowning of the tracks 2008 Champions in pre-race festivities, and the return of the True Value Modified Racing Series for 100 laps of ground pounding action.
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Sep 28, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
Laperle Wins Dramatic Milk Bowl Finale
BARRE, VT – Stock car drivers Craig Bushey and Jason Corliss celebrated their first track championships at Barre’s Thunder Road on Sunday, as part of the 45th Annual Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl event. Bushey, of Cambridge, earned the NAPA Tiger Sportsman division title by just 13 points over Joey Laquerre, while Plainfield racer Corliss clinched the Allen Lumber Street Stock
championship by an even-narrower 1 point over Lloyd Blakely. Bushey’s 14th-place finish in the 30-lap Chittenden Bank finale was enough to secure the Sportsman crown, despite Laquerre’s
strong fifth-place run. Unofficially, the margin of victory was 978-965 points. Brendan Moodie of North Wolcott took his second victory of the season, with Bradford’s Derrick O’Donnell second and Thetford
Center rookie Dan Eastman third. Ricky Roberts of Websterville finished fourth ahead of Laquerre. Rookie Cody Blake finished sixth, unofficially, with Joel Hodgdon, Alex Perkins, Eric Badore, and rookie Chris Lacey completing the top ten finishers in order.
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Sep 28, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
Laperle Wins Milk Bowl, Steals ACT Championship
BARRE, VT – Patrick Laperle of Montreal had a career-defining day at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road, winning the 45th Annual
Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl stock car event, and stealing the American-Canadian Tour Late Model Championship from rival Scott Payea
of Milton, VT. Laperle took a narrow two-point Milk Bowl win over Eric Williams in the three-segment, cumulatively scored race,
and crept past Payea for the championship by just a single point, unofficially, for the season crown.
“(Today) was about the championship,” said the emotional Frenchman. “You race all year for a championship. The Milk Bowl
was like, how do you say it, the cherry on top of the ice cream.”
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Sep 27, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
BARRE, VT – Stock car driver Travis Hull of Graniteville won the 2008 Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior division track championship at Barre’s Thunder Road on Saturday afternoon. Hull finished third in the division’s 15-lap Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl finale on Booth Bros./H.P. Hood Qualifying Day, enough to secure the season crown over Wolcott’s Jamie Davis by 28 points, 1416-1388.
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Sep 27, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
BARRE, VT – Nineteen year-old stock car sensation Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. won his third consecutive Booth Bros./H.P. Hood Pole Award at the 45th Annual Chittenden Bank Milk Bowl at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road on Saturday afternoon. The Hudson, NH driver earned the $1,000 top prize after posting a single-lap time of 13.165 seconds around Thunder Road’s high-banked 1/4-mile oval, besting 56 other cars in attendance.
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Sep 27, 2008 | PASS
The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Super Late Models and Mods wrap up their 2008 campaigns At Wiscasset Raceway on Saturday October 4th, and the battle for their division championships couldn’t be much tighter.
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