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Melissa Fifield is getting ready for the 2013 Valenti Modified Race season. This will be her 2nd season racing the #07, “I learned how to drive the car and how it handles at the different tracks. The team learned about the car and how to make changes to the car. We spent a lot of time learning gear selection and the set up.”
The 2013 VMRS kicks off their race season April 6th & 7th at Waterford Speedbowl in Connecticut. This will be the 1st race of a 18 race at 10 different tracks this year. “The schedule is 3 races longer this year. I enjoy how we will be back racing in Maine at Oxford and Beech Ridge. With motor improvements I’m looking forward running better at Thompson and Stafford.”
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Lee, NH – The Laticrete Port City 100 for the Valenti Auto Mall Modified Racing Series took center stage at Lee USA Speedway Friday night, and there was plenty more feature event action on tap due to the rain that interrupted the last NASCAR Whelen All-American Series show a week earlier.
The 100-lap race went caution free well past halfway, with Jon McKennedy (1-5), Chris Pasteryak (6-17), and Rowan Pennink (18-82) leading laps before the real action started. McKennedy got back to the lead on lap 83, but he was knocked out of contention when Tommy Barrett tried to grab the lead.
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Offers season long awards to participating Granite State Pro Stock Series drivers
CANAAN, NH — Granite State Pro Stock Series racers will have a little extra incentive to race for in their inaugural racing season. The Granite State Pro Stock Series has announced a partnership with two of New England’s most recognizable brands in stock car racing: New England Racing Fuels and Bond Auto Parts.
New England Racing Fuels and Sunoco will become the official fuel of the Granite State Pro Stock Series in 2012. New England Racing Fuels will sponsor the hard chargers award to the driver that improves their position the most during the feature event. The driver who is named the New England Racing Fuels Hard Charger at each event will awarded 15 gallons of racing fuel. New England Racing Fuels will also award a 55-gallon drum of fuel to the hard charger of the year at the 2012 Granite State Pro Stock Series awards banquet.
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Story by Chris Roy
This year Melissa Fifield has made the change from Allison cars to Modifieds. I asked her what made her decide to race Modifieds rather than PASS Super Late Models or the ACT Late Models? Her response, “I have always loved Modifieds and dreamed about racing in the Valenti Modified Racing Series.”
There is approximately 17 modified races this season all across New England, and the Pine Knoll race team is hoping to make them all. “I really like the amount of races but, wish there was a race in Maine. I am looking forward to running at tracks that I’ve never been to.” Though the one race Melissa is most looking forward to is in Lee. “My favorite track is Lee USA Speedway since it is my home track and it’s a great racing facility.” The VMRS returns to Lee Speedway on June 29th.
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Lee, NH – 2011 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Small Block Supermodified champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. couldn’t close out the season with a feature win on Oktoberfest weekend, but he won every other race he entered, taking down the checkers in both the Pro Stocks on Saturday night, and the Late Models on Sunday afternoon.
An impressive field of 34 Pro Stock/Super Late Models assembled for the final round of the Six-Pack Shootout, but several contenders, including ME veteran Mike Rowe and PASS race winner Gary Smith, were eliminated in a series of tangles that slowed the action repeatedly over the first half of the race.
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Lee, N.H. — Rowan Pennink of Huntingdon Valley, PA., started ninth in a 24 field, took the lead on lap 61, and went on to win the “Oktoberfest 100” Valenti Modified Racing Series event, Sunday afternoon, at Lee USA Speedway, Lee, NH.
The win was Pennink’s second this season and his fourth career VMRS victory. Pennink also becomes the seventh different driver in seven seasons to win the fall finale.
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Lee, N.H. — The 2011 season for the Valenti Modified Racing Series will draw to a close this weekend, October 22 & 23, when the New England based touring division travels to Lee USA Speedway, Lee, NH., for the 25th annual “Oktoberfest” weekend.
The season ending event will decide the series championship between title contenders, Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT., and Les Hinckley III, of Windsor Locks, CT. 27 points separate the two drivers.
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Seekonk, MA– Mike Holdridge of Madison, CT., started 22nd in a 29 car field, took the lead on lap 65, and went on to win the Valenti Modified Racing Series, 100-lap, “DAV Fall Classic” race Sunday afternoon at Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, MA.
The win was the second of the season for the second-generation driver. Holdridge also becomes the eighth different driver to win the eighth annual event.
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Canaan, N.H. – -Two traditional race events, popular with fans and competitors alike, will determine the 2011 Valenti Modified Racing Series championship.
As in past years, the run to the title could be claimed this weekend, Oct 8 and 9, at Seekonk Speedway. Seekonk, MA., at the annual “DAV Fall Classic,” or Oct 22, and 23 at New Hampshire’s Lee USA Speedway as part of that track’s 25th annual “Oktoberfest” weekend.
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Stafford Springs (CT) — For 35 years, the Pasteryak family has been trying to get to victory lane at the famed Stafford Springs (CT) Motor Speedway. Friday night, September 9, it finally happened.
With his Father Charlie, and Uncle Carl, watching from pit road, Chris Pasteryak, of Lisbon, CT., started third in a 25-car field, took the lead on lap two, and went on to win the Valenti Modified Racing Series “Shark Cycle 80” for his third victory of the 2011 season.
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Seekonk, MA – Les Hinckley, of Windsor Locks, CT., passed
race leader Dwight Jarvis, of Ascutney, VT., on lap 78, to go
on and win the Valenti Modified Racing Series “Seekonk 100”
Saturday night at Seekonk Speedway, Seekonk, MA
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(Waterford, CT) – Retired race driver Jerry Marquis of Broad Brook, Connecticut., dusted off his racing helmet Saturday night and won the 100-lap Valenti Modified Racing Series feature at Waterford, (CT) Speedbowl. The win came on a night when the track presented the fourth annual “Wings & Wheels” program
in front of a large crowd of open-wheel race fans.
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Scarborough, ME — Two weeks after Joe Doucette scored a popular
first time win at Oxford, ME., veteran Mike Holdridge, of Madison,
CT., took his turn in victory lane after capturing the Valenti Modified
Racing Series sanctioned, “Beech Ridge 100,” Saturday night, August 6, at the historic Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, Scarborough, ME.
Les Hinckley, of Windsor Locks, CT., and local favorite, David Pinkham,
Buxton, ME., swapped the lead back and forth in the early going with Pinkham taking the top spot leading laps 16 through 41.
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