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THE COASTAL
AUTO PARTS 150 |
THE
OXFORD 150 |
50 LAPS |
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How "Sweet" It Is....Again |
Oxford, ME - Nick Sweet
slipped past early leader Corey Bubar
near the midpoint of the of the Coastal
Auto Parts Pro All Stars Series (PASS)
150 at Oxford Plains Speedway (OPS)
Sunday afternoon. The win is the fifth
career triumph for the Barre, Vermont
driver and the second in three races of
the PASS Tour in 2020. Center Conway, NH
driver DJ Shaw came home in the runner
up spot while Travis Benjamin rounded
out victory lane in a carbon copy top
three finish of the opening PASS race
earlier in the month. Sunday's race at
OPS was held without fans but was
broadcast by NSNsports out of Vermont.
Unlike his previous win where he
started on the front row, Sweet started
this contest back in the 11th position
of the 33 car starting field. Getting to
the front, however, was no easy task as
Sweet had to get by the likes of Eddie
MacDonald, Curtis Gerry and the
aforementioned Bubar.
"I had to
be very very disciplined with the car,"
Sweet said in post-race tech, " I didn't
have a lot of lateral grip so it was
easy to slip the tires. Once I got
myself to relax, it sort of came to me
and I was able to make my way to the
front." Once Sweet overtook the leaders,
he withstood a brief challenge from
Travis Benjamin before extending his
lead to just over 3 seconds by race
conclusion. "I thought I might have
something for him at first, but he just
drove right away from me," Benjamin said
following the race.
While Sweet
cruised away to victory, several intense
battles were waged in his rearview. DJ
Shaw was able to capitalize on lapped
traffic to close in and move to the
inside of the number 7 of Benjamin. The
Shaw/Benjamin side by side battle took
place over the last 10 laps with Shaw
narrowly edging Benjamin by less than
1/10 of a second at the line. "I didn't
have a second place car," Shaw
said, "but we got a couple breaks here
we are."
Behind the top three
another battle waged on between the 14
of Scott McDaniel and Massachusetts
driver Eddie MacDonald. While those two
competitors spent the last 20 lap's door
handle to door handle and sometimes
sideways, Jake Johnson closed in with a
handful of laps remaining to make it a 3
car battle. MacDonald slipped going into
turn one and allowed Johnson to squeeze
past them both to secure the 4th spot,
with MacDonald holding on to round out
the top five. The back half of the top
10 was led by Scott McDaniel, Ben Rowe,
Johnny Clark, Ryan Robbins who started
on the back row, and early leader Corey
Bubar.
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PASS N0RTH SLMs at OPS
OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS -
6-28-20 |
1) 40VT - Nick Sweet - 150 Laps
2) 60 - DJ Shaw - 150
3) 7b - Travis
Benjamin - 150
4) 15ma - Jake Johnson
- 150
5) 17ma - Eddie MacDonald - 150
6) 14 - Scott McDaniel - 150
7) 4 -
Ben Rowe - 150
8) 54 - Johnny Clark -
150
9) 36 - Ryan Robbins - 150
10)
12 - Corey Bubar - 150
11) 23 - Dave
Farrington Jr. - 150
12) 44 - Rusty
Poland - 150
13) 72 - Scott Robbins -
150
14) 81 - Dan Winter - 150
15)
9t - Alan Tardiff - 150
16) 94h -
Garrett Hall - 150
17) 60 - Tim
Brackett - 150 |
18) M3 - Brandon Barker - 150
19) 32 - Derek Ramstrom - 149
20) 29s
- Trevor Sanborn - 149
21) 50 - Jeff
White - 149
22) 47 - Gabe Brown - 149
23) 10 - Kate Re - 148
24) 99 - Ben
Ashline - 148
25) 80 - Andy Saunders
- 146
26) 24 - Mike Rowe - 139
27)
1 - Kyle Desouza - 123
28) 7g -
Curtis Gerry - 115
29) 3c - Josh
Childs - 106
30) 75 - Gary Smith - 87
31) 21 - Joey Doiron - 54
32) 15 -
Mike Hopkins - 50
33) 18 - Mike
Scorzelli - 44 |
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SLM ENTRY LIST - OPS - 6/28 |
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"King" is King....Again |
After a win and another Top 3 in the first two
races of 2020 across state lines in New
Hampshire, Tyler King was understandably excited
to be returning to his home track for race
number 3 of the PASS MODS Tour. However, the
famed 3/8 mile oval in Oxford Maine is also home
to many of his fellow competitors on the tour,
including point leader Justin Larson, and
defending champion Spencer Morse. Any worries he
may have had were all for not, as King stormed
from his 11th starting spot in the 18 car field
to score his second victory of the year.
The neon yellow number 11 was able to take
advantage of some early race mishaps to move
quickly into the top 5 even before lap 7.
However, the Gray, Maine driver didn't have it
so easy after that point. "I honestly didn't
think I had enough to get here," he said in
post-race tech, "I really burned off my right
rear trying to get into the top 3." King was
able to slip under Colby Benjamin for second and
then early race leader Tyler Fiscus on lap 21 to
get to the front. "I got a couple of lucky
breaks, I think those guys slipped a little and
let me under. I don't know if I could have
gotten around them."
Once out front,
King survived several restarts and challenges
from a number of drivers including second place
finisher Bobby Nadeau and third place Justin
Larson to secure his victory. Early race leader,
and rookie, Tyler Fiscus nailed down the fourth
spot, while a pair of wily racing veterans with
nearly 50 years of racing experience, but also
battling for rookie of the year honors Gary
Dwinal and Kevin Durgin rounded out the top 6.
Seventh through 10th was Colby Benjamin, Tracey
Gordon, Bill Dixon, and Chanler Harrison.
The Pro All Stars Series heads back to White
Mountain Motorsports Park next Friday, July 3rd
for round 4 of the 2020 PASS Tour. Oxford Plains
Speedway will be back in action next Saturday
with divisions from both the OAS and OCS at 5pm
sharp.
For technical information
concerning all PASS divisions, and for media or
marketing questions, please contact
passracing@roadrunner.com. Don't forget to
"Like" the Pro All Stars Series on Facebook or
follow on Twitter @PASSSLM14 to keep up with
breaking news as it happens.
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PASS MODS
at OPS
OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS - 6-28-20 |
1) 11 - Tyler King
2) 35 - Bobby
Nadeau
3) 18 - Justin Larson
4) 53 - Tyler
Fiscus
5) 55 - Gary Dwinal
6) 12 - Kevin
Durgin
7) 52 - Colby Benjamin
8) 41 -
Tracy Gordon
9) 33 - Bill Dixon |
10) 6 - Chanler Harrison
11) 7 -
Spencer Vaughan
12) 4 - Milo Washer
13) 2
- Ajay Cates
14) 64 - Matt Sanborn
15) 66
- Jake Madore
16) 34 - Spencer Morse
17)
24 - Mark Proctor
18) 44 - Ashley Beyea |
The Northeast Sports Network (NSN) will stream online
via pay-per-view. Visit
NSNSports.net
for more information or to purchase the pay-per-view.
Pay-Per-View - Sat. $15 Sun: $25 |
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THE OXFORD 150
www.acttour.com |
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Helliwell Takes Advantage
of
Late Tangle for Oxford Win |
Oxford, ME - Dover, NH's Wayne
Helliwell Jr. took full advantage of a late incident
involving then-leader Joey Polewarczyk to snag the
American-Canadian Tour (ACT) victory in the Oxford 150
at Maine's Oxford Plains Speedway on Sunday, June 28. It
was the 13th career point-counting ACT win for the
three-time champion and continued his strong start after
a runner-up in the season opener.
Helliwell was
inside Hudson, NH's Polewarczyk for the lead with seven
laps to go as both were attempting to get around
defending ACT Champion Rich Dubeau, who was fighting to
stay on the lead lap while running in the sixth spot.
With Polewarczyk going to the outside entering turn
three and Helliwell looking inside, Dubeau lost grip and
slid up the track into the leader.
The contact
sent Polewarczyk for a spin to bring out the sixth and
final caution. Helliwell inherited the top spot with
several lapped cars between him and second-place D.J.
Shaw, allowing him to cruise to the win as seen
worldwide on Northeast Sports Network.
Prior to
the late tangle, Polewarczyk had been in his own area
code for much of the event. The 2014 ACT Champion
started on the front row and hounded polesitter Stephen
Donahue for the first 20 laps. When the race's second
caution came out on lap 20 for Walter Sutcliffe's spin,
Polewarczyk got the jump over Donahue on the restart.
As Polewarczyk ran away and hid from the field,
Helliwell and Bryan Kruczek both got around Donahue as
well and began going back-and-forth for the second spot.
The duo swapped the position multiple times over a span
of nearly 50 laps before Kruczek fell off the pace with
a broken axle and eventually spun to bring out the
fourth caution on lap 84.
One circuit later,
Donahue and the lapped car of Tyler Tomassi got together
entering turn 3, collecting Dillon Moltz as well for
another yellow. Helliwell was at Polewarczyk's door for
the restart, but "Joey Pole" easily got away on the
restart and maintained a steady lead during another long
green-flag run.
The duo easily sliced through the
rest of the field, eventually putting all but six cars
at least one lap in arrears. As Polewarczyk began
working on the sixth-place car of Dubeau with the laps
winding down, Helliwell mustered one final charge,
getting to Polwarczyk's inside and setting up the final
dramatic confrontation that put Helliwell in front for
the first time.
Center Conway, NH's Shaw, a
multi-time Pro All Stars Series champion, was solid all
day and ended up with a second-place finish for car
owner Arnie Hill. Opening day winner Jimmy Hebert
steadily worked his way forward from the 17th starting
position to end the day in third.
Polewarczyk
recovered from his heartbreaking tangle to take fourth
while defending ACT Rookie of the Year Ryan Kuhn rounded
out the top-5. Dubeau, Moltz, Marcel J. Gravel, Dylan
Payea, and rookie Derek Gluchacki finished sixth through
10th.
The ACT Late Model Tour has a weekend off
before returning to action at Groveton, NH's Riverside
Speedway on Saturday, July 11 for the Gardiner & June
Leavitt Memorial 150. Post time is 6:00pm.
For
more information, contact the ACT offices at (802)
244-6963,
media@acttour.com, or visit
www.acttour.com.
You can also get updates on
Facebook
and Twitter at
@ACTTour.
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ACT LATE MODEL TOUR -
JUNE 28, 2020
OXFORD PLAINS SPEEDWAY - THE
OXFORD 150
UNOFFICIAL RESULTS |
Pos., Start Pos., Driver, Car #, Hometown, Laps
1. (
5 ) Wayne Helliwell Jr. ( 27NH ) , Dover, NH , 150 Laps
2. ( 4 ) D.J. Shaw ( 04VT ) , Center Conway, NH , 150
Laps
3. ( 17 ) Jimmy Hebert ( 58VT ) , Williamstown,
VT , 150 Laps
4. ( 2 ) Joey Polewarczyk ( 97NH ) ,
Hudson, NH , 150 Laps
5. ( 10 ) Ryan Kuhn ( 72MA ) ,
E.Bridgewater, MA , 150 Laps
6. ( 9 ) Rich Dubeau (
30NH ) , Plainfield, NH , 150 Laps
7. ( 12 ) Dillon
Moltz ( 5ME ) , New Sharon, ME , 149 Laps
8. ( 8 )
Marcel J. Gravel ( 86VT ) , Wolcott, VT , 149 Laps
9.
( 14 ) Dylan Payea ( 7NH ) , Milton, VT , 149 Laps
10. ( 21 ) #Derek Gluchacki ( 03MA ) , Dartmouth, MA ,
149 Laps
11. ( 13 ) Alby Ovitt ( 35NH ) , Candia, NH
, 148 Laps
12. ( 11 ) Jesse Switser ( 25NH ) , W.
Burke, VT , 148 Laps
13. ( 16 ) #Tom Carey III ( 5MA
) , New Salem, MA , 148 Laps
14. ( 19 ) Bobby
Therrien ( 5VT ) , Hinesburg, VT , 148 Laps
15. ( 3 )
Christopher Pelkey ( 64VT ) , Graniteville, VT , 148
Laps
16. ( 15 ) Trenton Goodrow ( 31MA ) , Carver, MA
, 148 Laps
17. ( 6 ) Ryan Olsen ( 61NH ) , N.
Haverhill, NH , 148 Laps
18. ( 24 ) #Tyler Tomassi (
76RI ) , W. Greenwich, MA , 147 Laps
19. ( 23 ) Matt
Anderson ( 49NH ) , Andover, NH , 147 Laps
20. ( 22 )
Walter Sutcliffe ( 78CT ) , East Haven, CT , 146 Laps
21. ( 26 ) #David MacDonald ( 69ME ) , New Gloucester,
ME , 141 Laps
22. ( 1 ) Stephen Donahue ( 2VT ) ,
Graniteville, VT , 138 Laps
23. ( 20 ) Jimmy Renfrew
Jr. ( 00NH ) , Candia, NH , 132 Laps
24. ( 7 ) Bryan
Kruczek ( 19NH ) , Newmarket, NH , 84 Laps
25. ( 18 )
Joey Laquerre ( 15VT ) , E. Montpelier, VT , 79 Laps
26. ( 25 ) Reilly Lanphear ( 21VT ) , Waterbury, VT , 1
Laps
Lap Leaders: Stephen Donahue, 1-20; Joey
Polewarczk, 21-143; Wayne Helliwell Jr., 144-150. (2
lead changes among 3 drivers)
Time of Race:
1:08:14 Margin of Victory: 2.786 seconds
Cautions: 6 (laps 1, 20, 32, 84, 85, 143)
Heat
Winners: Marcel J. Gravel, Bryan Kruczek, Rich Dubeau
Consi Winner: Trenton Goodrow |
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