Aug 7, 2014 | NE Racing News, North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
History was made multiple times in central New Hampshire
Sunday for the Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour presented by Twisted Tea. The largest starting field ever for the young series assembled in the infield of New Hampshire Motor Speedway over the course of the weekend. As cars arrived they went through a vigorous safety inspection to make sure the cars were prepared for the up to 130 MPH speeds they were going to run.
Sunday morning the cars rolled from pit road and began to pace around the one mile NASCAR oval housed within the NHMS facility. After 3-4 pace laps the cars were allowed to turn up the speed and start laying down fast laps. During the 30 minute practice session multiple cars pit to make adjustments and go back out to try again. The cars were running an average speed of 110 MPH around the 12* banked track.
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Aug 1, 2014 | NE Racing News, NHMS, North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
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Sunday August 3rd will set records for the young North East Mini Stock Tour. The highly publicized event will highlight a blockbuster year for the ever growing series on the New Hampshire Motor Speedway 1 mile NASCAR oval. This event will produce the highest car count to date for the series in its 6th season and also be held on the largest oval track in New England.
“Being offered the opportunity to race on the oval at NHMS is legendary. It shows that hard work does pay off and fulfills the dreams of many NEMST competitors. I owe a ton of thanks to everyone from the staff at NHMS to all of the drivers, teams, and fans.” Said NEMST Founder and Promoter Bob Guptill.
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Jul 21, 2014 | Maine Racing News, North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
The Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour kicked off the 2
nd half of its 2014 season at Star Speedway in Epping, NH
on Saturday with the tour hosting its highest car count ever at Star. 26 of the Twisted Tea touring mini stocks rolled into the paddock area and prepared their cars for a 50 lap feature and the first under a new $100 Bounty put on current point leader Toby Wells.
Emerson Cayer, Justin King, and Toby Wells all won their respective heats with great battles throughout each field exciting the crowd for the main event of the evening. Cayer drew an invert chip of 4 rows to set the field for the feature with Trombley and Helliwell set to lead the field to green. Cayer and Wells would start 11th and 12th due to NEMST rules not allowing current year winners to start within the top 10.
The initial green was short lived as Nick Maniatis pushed it 3 wide into turn one and was clipped and collected by Mike Viens and Justin King, King would be done for the evening following his excellent heat race performance. The field was reset and returned to a clean green, Trombley broke out to the early lead with Helliwell, Maniatis, and Larsen quickly following in tow.
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Jun 27, 2014 | Maine Race Tracks, Maine Racing News, North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News, Wiscasset Speedway
photo by Peter Taylor
By Lisa Maguire
It was a beautiful day last Saturday at the Wiscasset Speedway. The sun was shining, and fans gathered to watch the group two division of races including Thunder 4’s, Strictly Street, Mini Trucks, and Late Model Sportsman. The flex race of the week was a New England Pro 4 Tour feature. The tour visited the track last year, and Bryan Lancaster from Skowhegan was last year’s winner
First on the track was the spotlighted race of the week, a 35 lap Strictly Street feature. Starting on the pole was the #36 of Richard Spaulding. The # 32 of Tasha Dyer, and Gerry Freve of the #39 were behind him.
Freve passed Dyer during lap two on turn one for second. Freve and Dyer battled for second. Dyer was able to claim second back after a caution during lap seven caused a restart. Dyer passed Freve on the inside of turn one when racing action resumed. Back in the pack was Corey Morgan of the #26. Morgan was weaving through lap traffic, and had moved to fourth position from his thirteenth place start by lap six. Morgan also used the caution to his advantage and passed Freve for third on the inside of the backstretch.
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Jun 24, 2014 | North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
Photo provided by NEMST
Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour presented by Twisted Tea
An action filled day began early for Texas Roadhouse North East Mini Stock Tour teams and competitors. NEMST competitors filtered into Legion Speedway and had a look at the brown clay surface, a surface many of them had never seen before let alone compete on it. 16 of the best mini stock drivers across New England took to the clay in their asphalt machines.
The paddock area was vibrant after the practice session with drivers making slight adjustments to have their vehicles a little better in the heats. In the first heat Rookie of the Year sensation Justin Larsen and Toby Wells battled hard with Wells gaining the edge and taking home the win in the first heat that had 0 cautions. In the second heat Mitch Bombard broke out to the early lead but his hood flew up entering turn 3 on lap 1. Bombard continued to lead the event into lap 4 when the caution flew for the spinning car of Tim Martin. Chad Baxter, Desmond Skillings, and Louis Maher all led the heat race with Maher losing control in turn 4 of the last lap handing the win to Baxter.
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Jun 19, 2014 | North East Mini Stock Tour, Touring Series News
New Faces Fill Top 5 In $1000 To Win Event
The highest winner’s purse of the 2014 season was offered this past weekend at Riverside Speedway in Groveton, NH. $1000 was up for grabs for the car that was leading at the end of the 75 lap event, the most of any race this season. Practice problems plagued teams including Cris King and Jake Rheaume that had engine problems.
Eighteen cars were entered for the heat race qualifying. Justin Larsen and Toby Wells took home the heat race wins. Both heats went green to checker with no issues, Larsen drew an invert of 5 rows. The final lineup was set with NEMST veteran Nic Skillings, driving his brothers back-up car after a hard consolation race wreck at Waterford two weeks prior, and hometown favorite Aaron Poulin. Point leaders Wells and Cayer would start 11th and 12th following NEMST lineup procedure.
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