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SATURDAY, MAY 25th |
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BUDWEISER Oxford Championship Series |
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SLMs, Street Stocks, Bandits, Figure 8s & Rookies |
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Ryan Robbins 0utruns
SLM Field |
Oxford, ME - Ryan Robbins of Dixfield nailed
down his first victory of the season Saturday night in
Budweiser Championship Series Super Late Model
competition at Oxford Plains Speedway. The race, run
under threatening skies, went caution-free, the third
50-lapper to do so this season in five races contested,
to date.
Robbins, the only two-time winner in
weekly 50-lap main event action last season, jumped out
front early and led every lap, easily outrunning
two-time track champion TJ Brackett of Buckfield to the
checkered flag.
Brackett, the championship
runner-up in the two most recent racing campaigns at
OPS, was almost five seconds ahead of third-place
finisher Curtis Gerry of Waterboro, who got caught up in
traffic more than once after starting in 10th spot.
Windham's Rusty Poland earned his fourth-place finish,
while Ryan Deane of Winterport was fifith, earning a
fifth consecutive top-five finish.
Kurt Hewins of
Leeds won his second consecutive Allen's Coffee Flavored
Brandy Street Stock feature event, this time in
spectacular fashion to win by inches over reigning
division champion and current points leader Matt Dufault
of Turner.
The long Hewins/Dufaut battle
seemingly went on for half of the 30-lap affair, set up
when the winner's brother, Kyle Hewins, was helped from
the lead by Norway's Jordan Russell and both were sent
to the rear of the lineup on an ensuing restart. The
eventual winner then inherited the lead and waged an
epic side-by-side battle with the champ on his outside,
hanging on to earn victory just about sideways across
the finish line by less than a foot.
Hewins and
Dufault were joined on the podium by Lisbon's Rick
Spaulding. Russell bounced back from his altercation and
penalty to finish up in fourth position, with Oxford's
David Whittier filling out the Street Stock division's
top-five rundown.
Rookie Alex Mowatt of Norway
raced to an impressive victory in the 20-lap main event
for four-cylinder Bandits racers. Mowatt spent most of
the race fending off challenges from apparent runner-up
Brian Hiscock of Turner, who lost a second-place finish
in post-race technical inspection. That moved defending
division champion Dustin Salley of Mechanic Falls up to
second-place in the final rundown, with the Tornado.
Travis Verrill, third after inspection. Caleb Proctor of
Casco and Oxford's Doug Degroat rounded out the top
five.
Oxford's own Charlie 'Chachy' Hall
prevailed in an uncharacteristically-sloppy 20 lap race
for the Figure 8 competitors. Hall held off reigning
division champion Kyle Kilgore of South Paris, snapping
the division kingpin's two-race winning streak. Poland's
Larry Lizotte was third, followed by Minot's Dale
Lawrence and Kyle Glover of Oxford. Glover led about
half of the race before he was turned around on a
restart.
Norway's Maddy Herrick won her
first-ever Rookie division feature race, holding off
three-time winner Brady Childs of Leeds to earn her trip
to victory lane. First-time OPS racer Cole Binette was
the third-place finisher. Sophie Green of South Paris
led much of the race before finishing fourth, ahead of
the previous week's winner, Owen Stuart of Naples, who
was hampered by a long pit stop after a mid-race
collision.
Results from the Saturday, May 25, 2019 Budweiser
Championship Series program at Oxford Plains Speedway
showing finishing position, car number, driver's name,
driver's hometown:
Super Late Model (50 Laps)
1 36 Ryan Robbins, Dixfield; 2 61 TJ Brackett,
Buckfield; 3 7 Curtis Gerry, Waterboro; 4 44 Rusty
Poland, Windham; 5 54 Ryan Deane, Winterport; 6 7 Glen
Luce, Turner; 7 8 Calvin Rose, Jr., Turner; 8 41 Tracy
Gordon, Strong; 9 81 Dan Winter, Windham, NH; 10 20
Richie Brown, Wentworth, NH; 11 60 Timmy Brackett,
Buckfield; 12 53 Alan Wilson, Hebron; 13 11 Tyler King,
Gray; DNS 88 Jeff Taylor, Farmington.
Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy
Street Stock (30 laps) 1 55 Kurt Hewins,
Leeds; 2 61 Matt Dufault, Turner; 3 36 Richard
Spaulding, Lisbon; 4 4 Jordan Russell, Norway; 5 58
David Whittier, Oxford; 6 64 Skip Stanley, Oxford; 7 27
Patrick Thorne, Standish; 8 99 George Haskell, Casco; 9
09 Mark Turner, Norway; 10 6 Brian Dolloff, Jr., Jay; 11
25 Shawn Knight, South Paris; 12 95 Conrad Childs,
Auburn; 13 51 Kyle Hewins, Oxford; 14 67 Michael Haynes,
Livermore Falls.
Bandit (20
laps) 1 11 Alex Mowatt, Norway; 2 18 Dustin
Salley, Mechanic Falls; 3 24 Travis 'Tornado' Verrill,
South Paris; 4 04 Caleb Proctor, Casco; 5 84 Doug
Degroat, Oxford; 6 26 Tyler Green, Turner; 7 44 Jeff
Libby, Poland; 8 53 Todd Hallett, Hallowell; 9 9 Joshua
Dube, Auburn; 10 34 Grady Doherty, Casco; 11 52 Chad
Wills, Oxford; DQ 20 Brian Hiscock, Turner.
Figure 8 (20
laps) 1 12 Charlie 'Chachy'
Hall, Oxford; 2 4 Kyle Kilgore, South Paris; 3 00 Larry
Lizotte, Poland; 4 2 Dale Lawrence, Minot; 5 07 Kyle
Glover, Oxford; 6 41 Greg Durgin, South Paris; 7 97 Eric
Hodgkins, Minot.
Rookie (15 laps)
1 95 Maddy Herrick, Norway; 2 1 Brady Childs, Leeds; 3
96 Cole Binette, Arundel; 4 29 Sophie Green, South
Paris; 5 8 Owen, Stuart, Naples. |
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