PASS ready to rock Beech Ridge Saturday

 

Naples ME (4/26) PASS North’s tenth anniversary season gets underway on Saturday afternoon May 1st at Scarborough Maine’s Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, and racers and race fans from throughout the region are ready for the long awaited opening day.

There’s a healthy list of pre-entries in the headlining PASS super late model division. Adam Bates, Johnny Clark, Ben Rowe, Kelly Moore and Richie Dearborn all have to be considered threats for the opening day win. Travis Benjamin, Scott Chubbuck, Matt Frahm and Joey Doiron all run strong at the Ridge. Gary Smith, Donnie Whitten, Scott Alexander, Chuck Colby and John Higgins are all pre-entered plus fans can expect to see a number of Beech Ridge Pro Series regulars attempt to steal the touring pros’ thunder.

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ST. CLAIR BROTHERS TAKE 95 CHECKERS

Josh and Ryan St. Clair both earned victories at Speedway 95 Sunday afternoon, but each took a different path to reach victory lane as a large opening day crowd watched under sunny skies. In the Late Model division, Josh shot past pole sitter Brenton Parritt of Steuben at the drop of the green flag and held the lead all the way to the checkers in the caution free 35 lap feature even. Parritt, who had earned the pole position by winning the qualifying heat, looked at St. Clair’s bumper from about 6 feet away for the entire distance, and finished the race in second place. Hometown racer Dale Swoboda of Hermon brought his Impala home third, with Oakland’s Mike Landry finishing in fourth. Orrington’s John Kalel Jr. finished his first Late Model feature in the fifth spot.

In the Super Streets, Ryan St. Clair drove past Lamoine’s Derek Mingo by using the inside groove in the closing laps to put his car in the second spot at the finish. In the post race inspection, Ryan’s run up the inside proved to be the winning move of the race when first place finisher Steve Moulton of Holden was disqualified for running an illegal spacer plate on his engine. Also disqualified in the post race inspection was third place finisher Doug Sinclair of Hermon, who was found to have illegal shock absorbers installed on his car. This brought the finishing order to 1. Ryan S. Clair, Liberty, 2. Derek Mingo, Lamoine, 3. J.R. Robinson, Steuben, 4. Meghan Allen, Winterport and 5. Mike Overlock, Franklin. Moulton was the winner of the qualifying heat.

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Peltier paces PASS South at Orange County

Peltier paces PASS South at Orange County

Rougemont NC (4/25) Preston Peltier used the bottom groove to work his way past Ryan Moore on lap 112 of the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Orange Blossom Special to claim his second consecutive PASS South super late model win of 2010. It was also Peltiers’ second consecutive PASS Orange Blossom Special victory at the Rougemont North Carolina speed plant.

Daniel Hemric made his PASS debut a successful one with a strong second after a brief stint in the lead, and fast timer Joey Gase raced home third. 2007 PASS South Champion Ryan Lawler was fourth and Andy Loden came home fifth. Moore faded to sixth at the finish followed by Ryan Blaney, Evan Jackson, Tim Nooner and early race leader Devin Jones. Moore led the most laps (24-112) before relinquishing the lead to Peltier.

Peltier is now tied with Corey Williams and Ben Rowe atop the PASS South career win column with five.

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