Aug 29, 2011 | NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
LOUDON, N.H. (Aug. 29, 2011) -During the SYLVANIA 300 weekend New Hampshire Motor Speedway, the NASCAR Hall of Fame and Tommy Baldwin Racing are offering every modified fan’s dream, a Richie Evans ticket package to celebrate his induction into the Hall of Fame.
Evans is recognized as the “king” of modified racing. He captured nine NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championships in a 13-year span, which included eight consecutive championships from 1978-85. “The Rapid Roman” collected multiple track championships across the Northeast and hundreds of victories, including a 37-win season during a stretch of 60 modified races in 1979. He was also named one of NASCAR’s 50 Greatest Drivers in 1998.
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Aug 29, 2011 | Lee Speedway, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Lee, NH – Lee USA Speedway hosted another round of NASCAR Whelen
All-American Series action on Friday night, with the Benson Lumber and
Hardware Small Block Supermodified, Prime Storage Late Model Sportsman,
David’s Race Cars and Components Hobby Stock, and RE/MAX Ironman feature
events all paying double points.
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Aug 28, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News
Raymond “Hully” Bunn 1920-2011, Pioneer Stock Car Driver and Hall of Famer
BY MARK McKEON
BRISTOL, CT – Raymond “Hully” Bunn of Bristol died at age 91 on August 25 at Bristol Hospital after an illness. Bunn won more than a hundred Stock Car races in a career that lasted from 1949 to 1965 and was inducted into the New England Auto Racing Hall of Fame in 2001.
Bunn was motivated to get into racing by a medical diagnosis he received when he mustered out of the Armed Forces shortly after World War II. The examining physician took him aside and told him that he had a bad heart and needed to take it easy. “I thought, what the hell, if I’m going to die soon any way I might as well enjoy myself, so I started racing,” Bunn recalled.
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Aug 25, 2011 | Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, NHMS, Touring Series News
LOUDON, N.H. (Aug. 25, 2011) -Two-time NASCAR Sprint Cup Series champion and four-time New Hampshire Motor Speedway winner Tony Stewart “smoked” the competition today, racing go-karts at F1 Boston in preparations for the SYLVANIA 300, the second race in the Chase for the NASCAR Sprint Cup on Sept. 25.
Stewart, who pilots the No. 14 Office Depot/Mobil 1 Chevrolet in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, made a pit stop in Braintree, Mass. to mingle with local media members. The group then hit the thrilling track filled with sharp turns and rolling hills for some side-by-side karting action.
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Aug 25, 2011 | American Canadian Tour, Maine Racing News, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Barre, VT – The Thursday, August 25 race program at Thunder Road International Speedbowl presented by Aubuchon Hardware/Benjamin Moore Paints has been postponed due to rain. The event has been rescheduled for Friday, August 26 with post time remaining at 6:30pm.
The event will be the final point counting race for the Late Models. The “King of the Road” will be crowned following a special 100-lap feature. Dave Pembroke currently sits atop the standings and is trailed by John Donahue, Nick Sweet and Phil Scott.
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Aug 25, 2011 | American Canadian Tour, NE Racing News, Touring Series News
Nick Sweet: ACT Late Model Tour
Riverside Speedway Race Preview
THE STORY
Nick Sweet of Barre, Vt., makes his first visit to Riverside Speedway in St. Croix, Que., when the ACT Late Model Tour competes in the Can-Am 200 on Saturday, August 27. It will be the second turn in the RPM Motorsports No. 57 RPM Racing Engines Ford for Sweet, who finished 12th in his debut with the team last weekend at Oxford Plains Speedway. The race on the unique .625-mile odd-shaped oval is a combination event with the Canadian-based ACT Castrol Series.
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