OXFORD, ME – Home track stock car favorite Ricky Rolfe of Albany Twp., ME held off a fast-closing Jean-Paul Cyr to win the American-Canadian Tour (ACT) New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday. Cyr’s late charge was enough to bring him alongside Rolfe’s Race Basics/Swasey Excavation #51 Ford with less than ten laps remaining, but the former track champion won by about two car lengths.
OXFORD, ME – Champion stock car driver Travis Adams will lead his home-track contingent to the American-Canadian Tour’s New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday, April 26. Adams, of Canton, ME won the last ACT Late Model Tour event held at the fast 3/8-mile oval in October, and has captured three of the last five Late Model Track Championships there.
Naples ME – (April 24, 2008) The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South super late models are poised and ready to bring their own brand of circle track thunder to Cordele Georgia's Watermelon Capitol Speedway for the Watermelon 125 this Saturday, and the PASS office phones have been ringing off the hook with calls from competitors anxious to enter the fray.
Mitch Cobb has a little bit longer commute to work than most of us. He has gotten use to the nearly 2,000-mile journey he takes during the race season from the small western Colorado town where he resides to all of his planned events for 2008. Usually stopping in airports such as Denver or Dallas before arriving into Atlanta or Pensacola. This weekends Pro All Star Series race in Cordele, Georgia will be no different. A Thursday flight into Atlanta will start the weekend as Mitch and his crew at Bill Elliott Racing will put the finishing touches on the car Friday before it is loaded and sent down I-75 to the Watermelon Capital Speedway for the PASS race on April 26th. It will be Mitch’s first race at Cordele and the second time Mitch has competed with PASS this year.
Harrisburg, NC – NASCAR announced today that the #44 Chevrolet driven by Peyton Sellers would earn 30th place points and forfeit it’s season-opening win in the Kevin Whitaker Chevrolet 150 at Greenville Pickens Speedway due to a rules infraction. Per NASCAR, this decision can not be appealed.
ACTion News – Wednesday, April 23, 2008
-by Justin St. Louis
Last July, it was only a proverbial “matter of time” before young Joey Polewarczyk won his first American-Canadian
Tour Late Model stock car race. Many saw the potential for the rising star, and he delivered at Seekonk Speedway
in August. Now he’s up to two ACT wins, having dominated Sunday’s 100-lap New Hampshire Governor’s Cup race. The
18 year-old Hudson, NH driver passed Lee USA Speedway legend Larry Gelinas for the lead on lap 10 and never looked
back. At times before the race’s final caution period on lap 66, Polewarczyk more than a full straightaway lead.
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