Oct 25, 2012 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
24 Hours of Lemons, Hooptiefest kick off wild, wacky weekend at NHMS
LOUDON, N.H. (Oct. 25, 2012) – It’s time to make lemonade at New Hampshire Motor Speedway.
The 24 Hours of Lemons, a door-to-door, bumper-to-bumper endurance-race series that features cars that cost $500 or less, returns to “The Magic Mile” this weekend (Oct. 26-28). With over 10,000 participants spread across tracks coast to coast, no other event creates bigger, weirder, more hilariously crazy challenges than these weekend-long blowouts of intense and immensely fun competition between cars that are due for the scrapheap.
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Oct 5, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
Non-profits, SCC combine to raise over $275,000 in revenue
LOUDON, N.H. (October 5, 2012) – Denny Hamlin left “The Magic Mile” as the winner of the SYLVANIA 300. Thanks to the hard work of volunteers and generous contributions of fans, New Hampshire Motor Speedway’s September NASCAR weekend was also a huge victory for local non-profit groups across the Granite State and New England.
More than 50 organizations were represented at the speedway between Sept. 20-23, and with their time and commitment they were able to generate over $201,000 in revenue.
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Sep 24, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NASCAR K&N Series, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
Eddie MacDonald battled his way from deep in the field in both the K&N Pro Series East and American Canadian Tour events on Saturday as part of the big NASCAR Cup weekend at the Magic Mile. The three time winner fought an ill-handling car in the G-Oil 100 at the beginning of the race to post an impressive eighth place finish as the checkered flag flew. The Grimm Construction/ Hancock Electric Pontiac took the green flag in the 26th position due to the luck of the draw in the Bond Auto Parts ACT Invitational only to have the exciting run end in disappointment.
MacDonald started the 11th race in the K&N series in the 18th position with MacDonald saying, “It really was a surprise we didn’t qualify better. The car handled good but we just didn’t get it done to start where we wanted to be. But Rollie and I thought we would be okay for race, but obviously we had some problems right away.”
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Sep 23, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
NHMS family presents gift basket to Baby Katie
LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 23, 2012) – Shawna Arnold thought she had one lap to go, but the checkered flag fell early for the birth of her fourth daughter Baby Katie.
The Belmont mom returned to New Hampshire Motor Speedway on Sunday, site of the “Miracle at the Magic Mile.” Last week, Arnold delivered her baby girl in the backseat of the family sedan in the parking lot at NHMS.
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Sep 23, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
Laperle, Polewarczyk Battle to Second and Third
Loudon, NH – Tiverton, RI’s Ray Parent took his “feel good” story to another level with a payday worth over $6,000 on Saturday, September 22 at New Hampshire Motor Speedway, picking up his first-ever ACT victory in the 4th Annual Bond ACT Invitational. Parent upset Serie ACT Castrol Champion Patrick Laperle, and former Invitational winner Joey Polewarczyk, Jr. for the emotional win.
Two-time Invitational winner Eddie Macdonald demoralized the field in the early going, charging from the 26th starting position while ACT Rookie of the Year Jimmy Hebert flew to the front. Hebert had made it from sixth to third in the first lap, and by lap 12 had powered by Former Oxford Plains Speedway Champion Ricky Rolfe for the point. Hebert began to pull away until teen sensation Emily Packard heartbreakingly backed into the wall on lap 15, ending her day.
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Sep 23, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
Hudson, N.H. native Polewarczyk finishes in third
LOUDON, N.H. (Sept. 22, 2012) – With only one top-five to his name through the first seven races on the American-Canadian Tour this season, Ray Parent didn’t set his expectations very high as the series made its annual stop at New Hampshire Motor Speedway. But thanks to a hard-working crew and a smartly run race, Parent picked up one of the biggest victories of his career at Saturday’s fourth annual Bond Auto Parts ACT Invitational.
“I can’t say enough about how hard my guys work,” said Parent, a native of Tiverton, R.I. “This is just unbelievable. This feels so good and it’s so great to see all that hard work pay off with us standing here in Victory Lane at New Hampshire.”
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