This week we start the show off with Beech Ridge, then we travel to Star Speedway in Epping, NH… then we head up to SPUD Speedway. Needless to say, we racked some miles up.
From the monthly archives: "May 2012"
LOUDON, N.H. (May 30, 2012) – It wasn’t that long ago that A.J. Allmendinger was turning his first laps in NASCAR at New Hampshire Motor Speedway in the Camping World Truck Series. A little over five years later, the Californian is a full-fledged star in the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, and in July he will return to “The Magic Mile” to take part in the annual WOKQ FanFest on Thursday, July 12.
Allmendinger will answer questions from Mark and 2K of WOKQ’s Morning Waking Crew, then will hang around to sign autographs for a few lucky fans. During the day, the first 100 fans to buy Allmendinger merchandise will receive a wristband that will allow them access to the autograph session at his souvenir trailer in the Broadway Midway.
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NickSweet-AveryMurphy.jpg – Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic Winner Nick Sweet looks on as Race to Read winner Avery Murphy signs his car.
Barre, VT – This past Sunday, May 27 at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, Nick Sweet won the 50th Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic. It completed a dream for the former champion, etching his name into the final spot of the granite block that lists the 50 Memorial Day Classic winners, but his dreams were not the only ones to come true.
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NAPLES ME (5/30) The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) takes its racing road show to northern New Hampshire on Sunday June 3 when all three PASS North touring series tackle the tough quarter mile known as Riverside Speedway.
The Groveton speed plant will host the touring pros after a one year hiatus and fans of the Super Late Model, Mod and Sportsman series are anxiously anticipating their return to the Connecticut river valley oval.
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Cassius Clark made an early outside charge in Saturday nights Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North 150 to capture the lead and score the super late model feature win at White Mountain Motorsports Park. Joey Polewarczyk earned the second spot with defending series champion Johnny Clark third, DJ Shaw fourth and Travis Benjamin fifth.
The win was Clark’s first PASS North checker since the 2009 season and the fourteenth of his PASS North career.
Gary Smith and Travis Benjamin led the twenty six car field to the green and it was Benjamin jumping out to the lead with Joey Pole, Derek Ramstrom, Smith and Ben Rowe in tow. Clark was coming from his eighth starting spot and as the field strung out he rambled up the outside groove, putting his Hight Chevrolet out front on lap eighteen.
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story by Chris Roy
For the men and women who served, and for the families of fallen heroes Memorial Day is more than just a holiday. It a way to pay respect for those who gave their all. One tradition on Memorial Day to honor our fallen service men and women is the 21 gun salute, which is the highest honor that can be bestowed on a fallen veteran and, is presented during military funerals and times of remembrance.
Pete Cannell is one of the Marine Corps Veterans racing this Memorial Day weekend in the Amsoil NELCAR Series, at Star Speedway in Epping NH. What Memorial Day means to him is, “Memorial Day to me means, remembering friends who went into combat and returned in body bags. Thinking of friends who went and still suffer from physical and emotional wounds. Remembering a Government who sold us out when we had the enemy defeated and on its knees. Despising American traitors, Jane Fonda, John Kerry, John Murtha, et al, who stuck the knife in our backs.”
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story by Chris Roy
Two weeks ago Allison Ferland, driving the number 88, took the checkered flag and got her first go kart win, at Richmond Karting Speedway. I asked Allison, what it was like to get her first kart win, she summed it all up in one word, “Exciting”!
This past Memorial Day weekend RKS kicked off its first night race of the season. And if you ask Allison, to which is her favorite, racing during the day or racing under the lights, she will tell you with a big smile “Night Racing, I can’t wait its really fun.”
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Charlotte, NC 5/27/12- In what was arguably the best race so far in 2012 for the PASS South Series, Kyle Grissom managed to hold off a pack of hungry drivers in a green-white-checker finish to pick up his second career win at the Concord Speedway winning the CV Products 125. Veteran racer Jay Fogleman matched a season best finish of second, while local racer Bobby Measmer rounded out the podium after leading seventy-nine laps of the 125 lap event.
The 125 lap event that has quickly grown in popularity throughout the area’s “Race Weeks” got off to a surprising start in qualifying with Kyle Beattie setting fast time in his first super late model start of the year after racing all year in the new PASS/CCS Super Limited Series support division. After the series redraw of the top ten qualifiers Ryan Blaney, who qualified ninth, took the number one starting spot with Clay Rogers driving for Brad Keselowski to his outside in second.
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Brian Whitney of Burnham completed a weekend sweep of Late Model competition Sunday at Unity Raceway, leading all 34 laps in the Butch Burgess Memorial Race, honoring the late racer and race car fabricator from Oakland.
Whitney won the first heat race, earning the pole starting position alongside second heat race winner Jeff Burgess, son of the race’s namesake. Unfortunately for Burgess, the Unity Raceway reigning champion and point leader, he was in a borrowed mount seeing action for just the second time, his regular ride sidelined by engine woes. Whitney jumped into the lead, built a healthy margin, and led the entire distance in a caution free feature event.
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Photos from the Coca-Cola 600 at Chralotte
Kasey Kahne continued his emphatic turnaround Sunday night at Charlotte Motor Speedway, handily winning the Coca-Cola 600 for the third time.
In his 300th NASCAR Sprint Cup start, Kahne posted his first victory of the season, his first since joining Hendrick Motorsports and the 13th of his career. The win was Kahne’s fourth at Charlotte.
Kahne beat runner-up Denny Hamlin to the finish line by 4.295 seconds. Kyle Busch ran third, followed by Greg Biffle, Brad Keselowski and Dale Earnhardt Jr., as nine cars finished on the lead lap at the 1.5-mile track.
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The Amsoil Nelcar Legends Tour returned to Star Speedway this past weekend. With the biggest field of the season, totaling 26 cars, and with the competition as tight as its been all season, there were several drivers looking for a big day in the series first run at Star. Last season when the Tour went to Star for the first time ever for an exhibition race, it was won in dominating fashion by Nick Ladyga in the 3 car. He was looking to make it two in a row at the tough quarter mile.
Barre, VT – In a race that had eluded his prestigious racing career, Barre, VT’s Nick Sweet methodically worked his way to the victory in the 50th Mekkelsen RV Memorial Day Classic at Thunder Road in Barre, VT on Sunday, May 27, 2012. The Memorial Day Classic was the first of four events in the Vermont State Late Model Championship series. Sweet held off Lt. Governor Phil Scott and Brent Dragon, who flew through the field from the 12th and 16th starting positions to finish second and third.
The race began with pole sitter and former Oxford Plains Speedway Champion Ricky Rolfe showing the way early, only to engage with a heated back and forth struggle with Milton’s Scott Payea. Rolfe and Payea traded the lead back and forth, side by side for more than half of the race. Scott and Sweet trailed the pair for the majority of the exchange as the top four ran in a tight battle for the point. Scott took over on the outside lane for 12 laps only to see Nick Sweet steal it away for good on a lap 68 restart.
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WINCHESTER, NH — Mike O’Sullivan etched his name into the Granite State Pro Stock Series record book by winning the David’s House 106 presented by Fenton Family Dealerships, the first race in the series inaugural season. O’Sullivan took home a $3,000 check for his effort.
O’Sullivan led a race high 33 laps from his tenth place starting position, seeing the lead for a two lap stint on lap 43 before he took the lead for good on lap 76. O’Sullivan benefitted from a rare mistake by veteran racer Bobby Cabral on a lap 75 restart, when Cabral spun his tires and lost control of his automobile.
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