Jan 25, 2008 | PASS
Canadian Champ plans PASS North, National Championship SLM Campaign
NAPLES ME – Multi-time Canadian late model champion John Fleming has announced his intentions to compete in the full schedule of Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Model races in 2008.
The Halifax Nova Scotia native has made annual PASS North appearances since the series' inception in 2001, but 2008 will mark his first all out assault on the east's fastest full bodied racing circuit. Fleming has relocated his race team to Buckfield Maine, where veteran PASS crew chief Seth Holbrook will oversee the preparation of Flemings' familiar number 97 Roofing Connection/Certainteed Building Products Dodge Chargers.
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Jan 24, 2008 | Touring Series News
Dale Earnhardt�s 2001 Participation In Rolex 24 At Daytona Reintroduced Sports Car Racing To NASCAR Fans, Competitors
As fast as the media could report it, word shot around the world in the fall of 2000 when Dale Earnhardt announced he would compete in the Rolex 24 At Daytona on Feb. 3-4, 2001, barely three months away on Daytona International Speedway�s 3.56-mile road course.
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Jan 24, 2008 | Touring Series News
Richard Childress Racing (RCR) and Howard Motorsports have joined forces as Childress-Howard Motorsports (CHM) to field a Daytona Prototype team for a limited number of events in the 2008 Grand-Am Rolex Sports Car Series.
The announcement was made and the No. 2 CHM Pontiac Crawford was unveiled this evening at the RCR facility during its stop on the NASCAR Media Tour. The team will utilize the driving talents of Andy Wallace and be powered by a Pontiac engine in a Crawford DPO3 chassis.
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Jan 23, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
WATERBURY, VT – The American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing organization has reached an agreement with RT Raceparts of Hudson, NH and Torco Racing Fuels to be the Official Fuel Supplier for all ACT Late Model racing in the United States and Canada, including Barre, VT’s Thunder Road, the ACT Late Model Tour, and the Série ACT Castrol, effective immediately. It is anticipated that other ACT-affiliated tracks in the region will become part of this program.
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Jan 23, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
-by Justin St. Louis
It may be the dead of a snowy, cold winter, but a handful of American-Canadian Tour racers are headed to the
track. With Florida’s, ahem, slightly warmer climate than the frigid northeast, no less than five drivers with
ties to ACT are headed to the south the get their off-season fix.
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Jan 22, 2008 | American Canadian Tour
EAST WINDSOR, CT – Vermont stock car racing legend Johnny Gammell of St. Johnsbury, VT will be inducted into the New England Auto Racers (NEAR) Hall of Fame at a ceremony in East Windsor, CT on Sunday, January 27. A former winner of the Don MacTavish Award (1970) and the Chittenden Milk Bowl at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road (1969), Gammell won countless feature races in northern New England and Canada during a career that spanned more than 30 years.
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