Apr 18, 2013 | Maine Racing News, PASS
PASS North Series: Reid Lanpher
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
MANCHESTER, Maine – Reid Lanpher of Manchester, Maine, makes his PASS North Series debut when the series opens its 2013 season in the Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Sunday, April 21. The 14-year-old JR Motorsports development driver competed in a handful of Granite State Pro Stock Series events last summer, but this weekend’s race marks his first full-blow Super Late Model effort after running primarily Late Model Stocks in the south and Legend cars here in the northeast. Lanpher posted a pair of Top-10 runs in GSPSS efforts last summer while also winning the open-competition “Fall Brawl” Pro Stock event at Wiscasset Speedway in October in a Ricci Race Car prepared by Tony Ricci of Westbrook, Maine. It’s the same car that Lanpher will bring to Oxford, where four-time NASCAR K&N Pro Series East champion Andy Santerre – a former competition director at both Rev Racing and Hattori Racing Enterprises – will serve as crew chief. Lanpher has never competed in a race event at Oxford Plains Speedway. (more…)
Apr 17, 2013 | PASS
PASS North Series: Austin Theriault
Oxford Plains Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
FORT KENT, Maine – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, returns to the site of his first career Super Late Model victory when the PASS North Series opens its 2013 season with the Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway in Oxford, Maine, on Sunday, April 21. Theriault won the series’ season finale at Oxford last October, and he’s bringing the same family-owned No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion to the track this weekend. The Brad Keselowski Racing development driver won a PASS South Series event at Dillon Motor Speedway in Dillon, S.C., last month and has finished in the Top-6 in each of his last four PASS-sanctioned starts heading into the weekend at Oxford Plains.
THE FACTS
WHO: Austin Theriault, Fort Kent, Maine
TEAM: AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion
CREW CHIEF: Mickey Green, South Paris, Maine
BEST CAREER OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY FINISH: 1st (October 2012)
LAST RACE AT OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY: 1st (October 2012)
WHAT: PASS North Series Ripley & Fletcher Ford 150
WHERE: Oxford Plains Speedway, Oxford, Maine (.375-mile oval)
WHEN: Saturday, April 20 – 11 a.m., practice; Sunday, April 21 – 10 a.m., practice; 2 p.m., qualifying; 4:30 p.m., race
PASS North Series
NEXT RACE: May 4, Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 150, Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, Maine (.333-mile oval) (more…)
Apr 17, 2013 | PASS, Touring Series News
NAPLES, ME (April 17) – After what seemed to be a never ending off season, Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North competitors in the Super Late Model, Modified, and Sportsman divisions will begin the 2013 season this Sunday afternoon at Oxford Plains Speedway. This weekend’s Ripley and Fletcher 150 will take on added importance for the PASS North Super Late Models since they will head back to Oxford on July 21st for the 40th Annual TD Bank 250. A fact not lost on 6-Time PASS North Champion Johnny Clark.
“There will be a lot of heavy hitters and all the teams will be raring to go at Oxford,” said Clark. “Everyone wants to make a statement that they’re ready for the 250. I can’t think of a better way to kick off the season then rolling into victory lane at OPS.”
The 2012 season was a bit of disappointment for Johnny Clark. Finishing fourth in points with two wins would be a great year for most drivers, but not for the man trying to stake his claim as one of the greatest racers New England has ever seen. (more…)
Apr 11, 2013 | Maine Race Tracks, Oxford Plains Speedway, PASS
NAPLES, ME (April 10) – Entries from all across North America are pouring in as team’s start looking forward to the 40th Annual TD Bank 250 on July 21st at Oxford Plains Speedway. This year one of short track racing’s most historic event will be contested by the popular Pro All Stars Series Super Late Models for the first time since 2006. The list of winners reads like a “who’s who” in stock car racing and includes such names as Lindley, Bodine, Hanley, Craven, Rowe, Harvick, and Busch. And, with the richest single-day purse in motorsports, the TD Bank 250 at Oxford is once again attracting the best short tracks racers in the world, all competing for the $25,000 winner’s share. With $25,000 in additional lap leader money, this year’s TD Bank 250 winner could take home upwards of $50,000 in total.
“We knew the response would be big when we announced the PASS Super Late Models would headline the 40th Annual TD Bank 250, but we’re overwhelmingly pleased with the way racers and fans have responded to this event,” said PASS President and Oxford Plains Speedway owner Tom Mayberry. “The TD Bank 250 really is an event to behold. Fans will start camping out a week in advance of the race. With the list of talent we have coming growing by the day, I believe this year’s race truly will be bigger and better than ever.” (more…)
Apr 11, 2013 | PASS
CHARLOTTE, NC (April 10) – As the thermometer rises, so does the excitement level of Eastern North Carolina race fans as the “Big Boys With The Bad Fast Toys” head back to Southern National Raceway Park in Kenly, NC. This weekend’s Dogwood Blossom 150 marks the return of the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Models to Southern National for the first time since 2009. It will only be the third time PASS South has ever raced at Kenly. To show how tough the high-banked, 4/10 mile speedway is look no further than the record books and who came away with those checkered flags, Freddie Query in 2006 and Ben Rowe in 2009, two of the best to ever race Super Late Models.
In the late 1990’s and early 2000’s, Nashville, NC’s John Batten was the man to beat when it came to Super Late Model racing at Southern National. Race wins were commonplace to the driver of the #48 Batten Ceramic Tile/Digital Repair/Hutson Insurance Chevrolet, who also won back-to-back Southern National titles in 2004 and 2005. Batten has been a regular with PASS South since the series started in 2006, finishing in the top 10 in points each of the last six seasons. But, despite being one of PASS South’s most consistent drivers, Batten has yet to go to victory lane. And, 2013 has not started the way the veteran had hoped, finishing no better than 14th at Dillon and failing to make the Easter Bunny 150 at Hickory due to a blown engine in practice. The veteran hopes his luck can change this weekend at the site of much of his early racing success. (more…)
Apr 11, 2013 | PASS
Organization To Back PASS North, Beech Ridge Teams This Season
FALMOUTH, Maine – For the second time in as many seasons, Mulkern Racing have representation in both the PASS North Series and in weekly NASCAR Whelen All-American Series competition at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in 2013.
Veteran pilot Scott Mulkern of Falmouth, Maine, will make his return to full-time PASS racing for the first time in a decade after several seasons of part-time efforts, while Bobby Timmons III of Windham, Maine, will return to the seat at Beech Ridge where he was a rookie in 2012.
“I can say ‘thank you’ over and over again, but it doesn’t really truly show how appreciative we are – me, my father and my team – of what everybody at Mulkern Racing is doing for us,” Timmons said. “It’s everybody at Mulkern Racing that’s part of this. They help us out and give us everything we need.
“I think we’ll be forever indebted.” (more…)
