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We would like to thank
everyone who made this 250 Weekend a success.
It takes a lot of people to make this thing work.
This year we had the challenge of Mother Nature
during the 250.
We want to thank all of the fans who waited patiently
during the rain delay.
And a huge thanks to our volunteer track drying
heroes. Without
your help the rain delay would have been really long.
With your help we were able to get the race completed in
a reasonable amount of time.
Thank you so much! |
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Jeff Taylor
Holds Off Bubba Pollard
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When the checkered flag finally waved over the
51st Bar Harbor Bank & Trust Oxford 250, it was
nine-time Oxford Plains Speedway track champion Jeff
Taylor standing tall next to his No. 88 in Victory Lane.
After battling 41 other competitors and enduring a
three-hour rain delay, Taylor won the Oxford Plains
Speedway’s prestigious race for the very first time in
28 attempts.
It was a reflective and slightly
shocked driver talking about his win afterwards.
“I honestly don’t know how we won,” the Farmington,
Maine native shared. “I can’t believe this, we don’t run
full-time like a lot of these other drivers. I can tell
you one thing, that rain delay really helped this car
out a lot.
“There are so many people who helped
us out. We just threw a team of volunteers together to
beat these other teams. It’s unbelievable, it really is
something.
In the closing laps, Taylor withstood
a fierce challenge from 2018 Oxford 250 winner Bubba
Pollard. Taylor successfully defended the bottom lane to
hold off Pollard for the win.
“We had the track
position, and I’ve watched Bubba Pollard race enough to
know I needed to just stay on the bottom. He had the
outside to pass me if he wanted.”
Pollard came up
one position short of repeating his 2018 Oxford 250
victory and appreciated how the race ended.
“It
was good. I don’t like running second, but I’m okay with
how it ended with Jeff winning.” Pollard said. “This is
big for him, his family and team.
“This is what
short track racing is all about. I love coming up here
to Oxford. There were a lot of people who helped me get
here this weekend, and I can’t thank them enough.”
The Oxford 250 starting line-up had 42 drivers
taking the green flag, which guaranteed all kinds of
action would take place around the 3/8-mile Oxford
Plains Speedway. Adding in pit stops, tire strategy,
race strategy and weather strategy made the event more
interesting.
Leading the field to green was Ryan
Kuhn and Joey Doiron in the front row. They took off and
battled for the lead in the early going with Doiron
taking the lead from Kuhn by lap six.
Negotiating
lap traffic by lap 21 slowed Doiron and Kuhn down just
enough to allow their competitors to close in. One
driver taking advantage of it was Derek Griffith,
running third at the time.
At the lap-50 mark,
Griffith worked his way to second and began closing in
on the leader of Doiron as they negotiated the slower
cars. The first caution of the night took place on lap
52 to rerack the field.
Multiple teams hit pit
road with some taking two and others four tires, while
checking tire pressures to improve handling.
Doiron and Griffith led the way on the Lap 53 restart
and quickly tried to separate themselves from the field.
Kuhn was in third with a hard-charging Bubba Pollard
working the high side.
After another restart on
Lap 56, Pollard really let the leaders know he was there
to race by taking over second place. After looking to
the outside and inside of the leader Kuhn, Pollard
powered his way past Kuhn with 181 laps to go.
From there, they raced side-by-side for multiple laps
battling for the lead until a caution three laps later
showing Doiron as the leader. With all eyes on the
Senoia, Georgia native of Pollard to the outside of
Berwick, Maine’s Doiron, the race resumed to see who
would lead next.
With 34 cars still on the lead
lap, Doiron continued to lead Pollard as Griffith now
joined the top three. Pollard surrendered second to
Griffith with 165 laps remaining, who then fell into the
clutches of DJ Shaw who took over third place on lap 89.
Under two more cautions, Pollard and many other
leaders hit pit road for tires, mostly two, and
adjustments. The phrase “cautions breed cautions” was in
full effect from laps 98 to 105.
On the ensuing
restarts, Doiron worked the wheel holding off Griffith,
Shaw and Sanborn. Behind them, their fellow competitors
were racing two and three wide to gain positions.
After a long-green flag run, and just nine laps from
the halfway point of the race, Mother Nature showed up
as rain forced the field onto pit road.
After the
three-hour rain delay, the 34 remaining cars tried to
get a feel for the freshly washed surface. Doiron and
Griffith set the pace from the front row when the green
flag waved.
Behind them, a three-car pile-up
happened on the frontstretch with them all coming to
rest under the flag stand.
On Lap 122, a light
rain started again bringing out the caution. This time,
cars remained out to keep some heat in the track to
continue racing sooner.
Once the Oxford 250
restarted, a 10-car wreck took place on Lap 124 in Turn
1 sending several cars pit side and done for the night.
Until this point, the leader of Doiron had still not
been to pit road.
Race strategy for his team was
paramount as to when he would pit, and how many tires
he’d take. Other teams were also paying attention,
because the second-place car of Griffith had been passed
and was back to fourth.
Garrett Hall and Mike
Hopkins were now in second and third, respectively, and
chasing down the leader of Doiron. With 113 laps
remaining, the caution came out and this was when Doiron
hit pit road taking four tires, fuel and adjustments.
Hall and Hopkins also came to the attention of their
crew to take four tires. Griffith decided to remain out
and take over the lead, Moltz would line up second for
the restart.
Griffin would be passed for the lead
by DJ Shaw with 95 laps remaining, who overtook him on
the outside and quickly separated himself from the
second to seventh positions.
On lap 175, Shaw had
a 4.1-second lead over Griffith, Moltz and Pollard, who
had returned to the top five running order after an
earlier pit stop put him back to 28th place. Five laps
later, Pollard had moved to second and was on the
charge.
A caution 10 laps later allowed Griffith
to finally pit for tires, but problems changing the left
front cost him valuable track position. Also pitting was
Pollard, giving up second place.
Shaw and Gabe
Brown showed the way for the restart, which was followed
by another caution. The pace of the race picked up with
a long green flag run that included Pollard breaking
back into the top five, Taylor taking over second, Brown
to third and Pollard fourth.
With 43 to go,
Pollard raced his way to third with the leader of Shaw
working his way through lap traffic. Taylor started
looking to the outside of Shaw with 35 laps remaining as
Pollard closed in on them both.
The scoreboard
showed 30 laps remaining when Shaw, Taylor and Pollard
were running within .1 seconds of each other battling
for position. Taylor took the lead five laps later, but
now lap traffic was becoming a factor as Pollard leaped
into second.
Pollard was filling the rearview
mirror of Taylor as he chased him around the track.
Looking to the inside and outside of the leader, Pollard
was looking for a way to take the lead.
Taylor
was looking for his first Oxford 250 victory, Pollard
his second as he kept trying to the outside. That didn’t
work, so Pollard backed off a bit to cool his tires.
Five laps remained when Taylor started to pull away
from Pollard with a three-car length lead. When the
checkered flag waved, Taylor took the win and his very
first Oxford 250.
Pollard was second and Shaw
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Gluchacki Redoubles ACT Championship Chase
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Race Move to Secure Big Oxford Victory on
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Oxford, ME — With
beautiful weather over Eastern Maine, forty-three teams
entered Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday with the
American-Canadian Tour faithful running door-to-door in
the Oxford 125 as part of the 51st annual Oxford 250
weekend. ACT officials confirmed all forty-three teams
would start Saturday’s feature event and Derry, New
Hampshire’s Erick Sands took the pole position by virtue
of a +5 handicap earned in heat race Plus/Minus
qualifying events.
Sands took off under the green
flag with Legend car standout Devin Deshaies following
close behind in his American-Canadian Tour debut. Flying
in from a top-ten start, Cam Huntress and Gabe Brown
looked to join the early sprint while D.J. Shaw battled
hard on the outside lane farther back to join the
top-ten. By lap 28, Sands also began to fight the
outside groove around lapped traffic with Brown bearing
down behind him. A pair of caution flag periods around
lap 50 proved again and again that Sands had the
dominate car on the preferred lower groove.
Derek
Gluchacki began to enter the picture in the fight around
lapped traffic, battling hard with Tom Carey III to take
over third place just prior to the lap 81 caution that
saw Bobby Therrien spin sideways off turn four.
Following another another green flag run the last
caution flag would fall on lap 115 to set up the move of
the race. The final restart saw Sands and Brown
white-knuckle their wheels side-by-side one final time
under the return to green. Moving up slightly entering
turn three, Gluchacki jumped down and took the open lane
in a three-wide dash around the Oxford oval with
Gluchacki sliding away the lead.
Over the final
laps, Sands pulled up to Gluchacki’s rear-bumper again
and again in the corners, but Gluchacki put the power
down on the straightaways and held on for his second win
of the season on the American-Canadian Tour, the first
repeat winner for the international circuit this summer!
Erick Sands matched his career-best finish for the
second time this summer in runner-up spot while
Alexendre ‘Fireball’ Tardif earning the popular
third-place run among the Quebec fans in force at Oxford
Plains. Gabe Brown held on for fourth with a
strong-running Marcel Gravel taking fifth.
Jesse
Switser came back from an early caution to take sixth,
Rowland Robinson, Jr. kept it clean to earn seventh and
rookie Jeremy Sorel nabbed eighth. Cam Huntress
held onto a top-10
finish for ninth with D.J. Shaw taking tenth. |
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When the checkered flags fell, it was Austin Teras and
his No. 29 team in Victory Lane with a big smile, trophy
and $10,000 richer. And, they earned it by leading every
lap while lapping every driver in the field, some of
them twice.
Separating this race from other SLM
events was the “open” factor. Teams were allowed to make
certain modifications to their cars, such as spoilers,
while remaining within the rules set prior to the race.
Also, teams could only take a maximum of two tires per
pit stop.
“It was just cruise control for the
whole race,” Teras said. “We played with some of the
aero body rules, and I’m an aero guy, so we had a little
fun with it tonight.
“I guess I know a little bit
about it. We can’t do this without everyone who helps
us. I don’t know if we’ll do it (win) like this again on
Sunday, but I sure hope so.
“I didn’t think I
would lap the whole field here. But, we put some tires
on it and I could see Joey (Doiron). I knew if we
trapped him down a lap it would be beneficial because
Joey is the man to beat here. It worked, we put tires on
early and didn’t get it another caution, so it worked
out.”
Taking the initial green flag was the No.
29 of Austin Teras and Matt Dow in the No. 84 SLM. They
remained the top-two drivers until the first caution
waved on lap 187 when Pete Rondeau in the No. 60S and
Rusty Poland in the No. 44 car got together.
While some drivers were settling in for the long race,
Bubba Pollard did what he does no matter where he races.
The native of Senoia, GA mashed the gas picking off
positions in a charge to the front.
He broke into
the top five ranks within 20 laps and into fourth by lap
30. During this time, side-by-side and three-wide
battles were taking place in mid pack.
Meanwhile,
Teras was on a tear passing everything but a law while
lapping his way to fifth by lap 67. It was Pollard he
passed and by lap 69, the Georgia driver retired to the
pits and done for the night.
On the 84th circuit,
Teras lapped the third-place car of Dow. By the halfway
point, he had started lapping top-10 cars for the second
time further showing he had his sights on the $10,000
prize.
Rondeau spun in Turn 3 on lap 107 to bring
out the second caution, with only Teras and Doiron on
the lead lap. During the yellow, they and several other
cars hit pit road for tires, fuel and adjustments.
Before the race could restart, Hall had to bring his No.
4 back down pit road with sparks coming from the
left-front tire area.
This also put Dow back on
the lead circuit for the Lap-110 restart with Jimmy
Renfrew, Jr. in the No. 00, who did not pit. From there,
the remaining laps were incident free allowing Teras to
continue his domination enroute to victory.
Rounding out the top-five finishers were Doiron,
Renfrew, Dow and Hall. |
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