Aug 27, 2012 | Granite State Series, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Veteran racer scores first career Granite State Pro Stock Series win
HUDSON, NH — Bobby Baillargeon was virtually untouchable as the veteran stock car racer led all 100 laps and claimed his first career Granite State Pro Stock Series win at Hudson Speedway in Hudson, NH in the Hudson Hugger 100.
The Kingston, NH driver drew the pole position in the top-eight redraw and set up his winning effort. Baillargeon was able to pull out to sizeable leads, but a late race restart on lap 94 put Granite State Pro Stock Series point leader Bobby Cabral to his outside.
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Aug 27, 2012 | NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
Ted Christopher Wins PASS 125 At Stafford
Veteran’s Home Track Advantage Pays Off For Mulkern Racing
STAFFORD, Conn. – Ted Christopher added to his eye-popping resume at Stafford Motor Speedway, leading every lap from the outside pole to win the inaugural PASS North Series 125 at his home track on Sunday afternoon.
The victory was the track-record 119th of Christopher’s career at the half-mile Stafford Motor Speedway, where he has a grandstand section named after him. In addition to 98 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series wins at the track in Modified competition, Christopher also has victories in the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour, NASCAR K&N Pro Series East and a half-dozen wins in weekly Pro Stock events there.
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Aug 26, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
AT Racing: ACT Late Model Tour
Circuit Riverside Speedway Race Report
SAINT CROIX, Quebec – Austin Theriault of Fort Kent, Maine, rallied back from deep in the field with handling issues to finish sixth in the ACT Late Model Tour Can-Am 200 at Circuit Riverside Speedway in Saint Croix, Quebec, on Saturday, August 25. After contact in his qualifying race left the AT Racing No. 57 Pelletier Ford Ford Fusion with damage, the crew repaired it and Theriault drove from a 20th-place starting position for his eighth Top-10 finish in as many ACT starts this season. Theriault was in danger of going one lap down before pitting on Lap 114 for fresh tires, after which he made his march through the field and finished the race in a battle for fifth-place.
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Aug 26, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
St-Croix, QC – Eight-time American Canadian Tour Champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT outdueled Quebec’s Jean-François Déry for his third straight Can-Am 200 win at Circuit Riverside Speedway on Saturday, August 25. Hoar and Déry ran nose to tail with Déry out front for the majority of the event as the two lapped all but the top nine cars. As the ten laps to go signal was given, Hoar turned up the pressure and began his assault for the lead.
The two swapped the lead several times over the next three laps, but Déry held the lead each time at the line. Hoar completed an incredible inside-out move in turn one on lap 192 to complete the pass for the win, his third of the season. Déry was followed to the line by defending Série ACT Castrol Champion Patrick Laperle and Donald Theetge in third and fourth respectively.
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Aug 22, 2012 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, PASS, Touring Series News
PASS North travels to Stafford Motor Speedway Sunday
Three PASS North touring series tackle the famed speedway for the first time
The long awaited Pro All Stars Series appearance at Stafford Motor Speedway is just a few days away and competitors in all three PASS North touring series are scrambling to prepare for their first ever trip to the Connecticut oval.
The PASS stars and cars have appeared at many of the Northeast United States and Canada’s oval tracks during the series twelve year history, but only a few of the traveling pros have ever taken a lap around the historic speedway.
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Aug 21, 2012 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Waterbury, VT – In 2012, Barre’s own Nick Sweet has been busy with one of the most successful Thunder Road Late Model seasons in recent memory, but when the dust settles at the end of the month in Thunder Road’s Late Model division, his focus will turn to the race he owned in 2011: The Bond Auto Labor Day Classic.
Last year, Sweet lost the championship to Middlesex’s Dave Pembroke in late August, but was offered the seat of the RPM #57 car, teammate to eight-time Champion Brian Hoar, for the Labor Day Classic. Sweet flew to his first victory in the event, etching his name once more in the granite stones at Thunder Road.
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