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SUNDAY, OCTOBER 20th, 2024 |
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3 x 100 Lap SLM Segments |
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10/20
SLM PROCEDURES & PURSES |
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RIPLEY - DOIRON - COOKSON |
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DJ SHAW #60 |
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Doiron Surges to PASS 400
Victory in
Final Segment
Joey Doiron finished just one
point ahead of Max Cookson
in the overall standings
for the PASS 400 to close out the
2024 Pro All Stars
Series season. |
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by Zach Evans of Racing America |
The PASS 400 came down to the narrowest of
margins at Oxford Plains Speedway, as Joey Doiron won
the three-segment event by one point over Max Cookson.
Despite nursing a broken foot, Doiron finished third
in the final two segments to push ahead of Cookson in
the final scoring. That one-point cushion nearly
disappeared on the final lap, as Doiron finished just
0.035 seconds ahead of Travis Stearns in a side-by-side
battle.
Cookson entered the final segment with a
seven-point advantage after finishing second and fourth
in the first two 100-lap segments. However, an incident
in the final segment put Cookson deep in the field,
giving Doiron the opportunity he needed to take the win.
"I knew we were going to need some unfortunate stuff
to happen to Max for us to have a good shot at it," said
Doiron. "He's been going good all day.
"We kind
of put ourselves in a hole in the first segment. My
radio broke, the battery broke in half when I pulled on
the track. Under the first caution, I pitted, and we had
to come from last in the first one. I think we got to
11th, then third [in the second segment]."
Doiron
had an opportunity to battle for the win in the final
segment, but knew the importance of protecting his spot
for the overall win.
"I don't know, I feel like I
had a chance to win this one, but the 09 [of Sylas
Ripley] was using the bottom really good. I couldn't
quite get in there. I knew I just needed to keep it in
one piece and think big picture for the overall."
Cookson cut down a tire after being collected in a
lap 83 incident in the final segment, dropping him from
the edge of the top 10 to 20th. While Cookson rallied to
a 12th place finish in the final segment, he needed two
more spots to win the overall PASS 400 title.
"Obviously, to finish second in this race, I'm real
happy about that," said Cookson. "It is hard to know how
good we were in the first segment, how good we were in
the second segment, and then the third segment, just
biding our time. I knew what the gap was to Joey and we
were fine if it stayed green there or we didn't get
smashed and blow a tire, come back out and get smashed
again.
"So close today, but I can't thank Tom
Abele, Sr., Tom Abele, Jr., all my guys today for
fighting hard for one last one. It sucks to come up so
short. I've also got to thank all my sponsors on my
personal race car for sticking with us this year through
a trying year. I was glad to come out today and really
have a really, really good race car.
"It sucks,
to say the least. We can't hang our head overly too
much. It's just one of those things where some days
you're the windshield and some days you're the bug. We
were just a little short today, but congrats to Joey and
his whole team. They've been really good here, just
missed the [Oxford] 250 for the sweep, so congrats to
those guys. Joey's great to race with, I've got a lot of
respect for him. It's a great day overall, just tough."
Unofficially finishing seventh in the overall
standings, D.J. Shaw wrapped up the season as both the
PASS North and PASS National Super Late Model champion.
Shaw was the runner-up in the second segment, but missed
out on the top 10 in the first and third segments.
Still, that was enough to secure the championships.
"It was a great season here for us," said Shaw. "The
odds were stacked against us today, and I feel like we
surprised ourselves a little bit with the run we had.
All in all, it was a great rebound day, good recovery
day for us."
Austin Teras appeared poised for a
dominant showing when the green flag dropped in Segment
One. Teras jumped to the lead from the front row and
lapped up to the top 10 before losing power and pulling
off the track with 23 laps to go.
Ripley, who
started on the pole for Segment One, inherited the lead
after Teras' misfortune and led the rest of the way to
score the first victory of the day. 2023 Oxford Plains
Speedway track champion Max Cookson finished second,
followed by Travis Stearns, Steve Chicoine and Cory
Hall.
The 25-car invert between segments placed
former ARCA Menards Series champion Austin Theriault on
the pole for Segment Two, with Scott Moore joining him
on the front row. Moore jumped out to the lead, losing
it briefly to Garrett Lamb before reclaiming the top
spot on lap 11.
Moore, along with Mike Hopkins,
broke away from the field as the front-runners from
Segment One charged through heavy traffic. Hopkins
finished 16th in the first segment but worked his way
from 10th to third within the first five laps of the
second segment.
Hopkins took the lead from Moore
on lap 61 and stretched out a lead of nearly two seconds
before Cory Hall spun on the frontstretch to bring out
the caution. On lap 88, a multi-car incident collected
several cars, starting with contact with Ripley and
Scott McDaniel battling for 18th.
Hopkins held on
for the win in the second segment on the following
restart, with D.J. Shaw second and Joey Doiron third.
With a fourth-place finish in segment two, Cookson moved
into the overall lead for the PASS 400.
Dan
Winter and Mike Scorzelli started on the front row for
the final 100-lap segment, with Scorzelli using the
outside line to pull out front. Meanwhile, the
calculators were already out determining who was in the
lead for the overall title.
Ripley's poor finish
in the second segment gave him a seventh-place starting
position for the final race, offering prime track
position and putting drivers such as Cookson, Gabe
Brown, and Joey Doiron on the offensive.
The
yellow flag flew on lap 83 as Scott McDaniel spun while
checking up after contact between Ripley and Stearns
battling for second. Mike Rowe stumbled on the restart,
allowing Sylas Ripley to jump out front with Trevor
Sanborn moving to second.
Nick Jenkins also spun
to bring out the caution, and in the aftermath following
that Corey Bubar slid up the track into Chicoine who
also collected Cookson. Cookson cut down a left-front
tire as a result, dropping him to 19th.
Sanborn
challenged Ripley for the overall win on the ensuing
restart, with Doiron and Stearns closely following. The
caution flew again with 10 laps to go as Scorzelli and
Dennis Spencer spun in turns one and two.
In the
10-lap shootout to the finish, Ripley held on to score
his second segment win of the day, while Doiron held off
Stearns for third. This proved pivotal as Cookson had
raced his way back up to 12th in the closing laps
despite his own misfortunes.
Sanborn took fourth
place in the overall event standings, followed by
Stearns. Brown, Shaw, Bubar, Johnny Clark and Brandon
Barker rounded out the top 10. |
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Finish Order
Revision: the 29L was DQ'd |
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SLM SEGMENT 2 |
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2 x 50 Lap PASS MODS Segments
The PASS MODS
$2,000 100 Lap event will use the following format.
Event will be run in (2) 50 Lap Segments. Drivers will
receive points after each segment - 1st place
receiving 1 point, 2nd 2 points, and so on. The winner
of the event will be the driver that accumulates the
lowest number of points between the 2 segments. Top 10
will be inverted for the 2nd 50 Lap race. In the event
of a tie, position goes to the car that finishes highest
in the 2nd segment.
Competitors must run the same for
tires for heat and
both features unless the tire is
completely flat. |
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MORSE - BOWIE - HARRISON |
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DAN BROWN #83 |
PASS
MODS - OPS
OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS -
10-20-24 |
1) 6 - Zach Bowie
2)
85 - Chanler Harrison
3) 34 - Spenser Morse
4) 1v
- Brandon Varney
5) 64 - Matt Sanborn
6) 83 - Dan
Brown
7) 66 - Jacoby Maines
8) 99 - Scott Trask
9) 63 - Thomas Oliver
10) 33 - Dan Morris
11) 7 -
Spencer Vaughan |
12)
25 - Shawn Knight
13) 4 - Cody Macomber
14) 32 -
Jacob Heatcoat
15) 87 - Chuck Colby
16) 41 - Mike
Nichols
17) 17 - Jim Bolstridge
18) 46 - Chad
Harrington
19) 0 - Alex Smith
20) 1st - Adam
Chadborne
21) 09 - Ryan Ripley
22) 3 - Joe Bessey |
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OPS Mad Bombers
25 Lap
Sun.
Non-Winners Race
Competitor cannot have won a Mad
Bomber race or any
equivalent division or higher
division in the last 2 years.
The car must qualify
and compete in the
Saturday 10/19 80 lap Mad Bomber
event.
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FOSTER - MCINTIRE - CARON |
NON-WINNERS MAD BOMBERS - OPS
OFFICIAL RACE RESULTS -
10-20-24 |
1) 08m - Cole McIntire
2) 61 - Brandon Caron
3) 56 - Chris Foster
4) 66 -
Cam Weir
5) 11 - Ed Connolly
6) 6 - Mike Dekoning
7) 24 - Kenny Hoyt |
8) 31 - David Turner
9) 39 - Brad Wiseman
10) 85 - Jon Vargas
11) 3 -
Thomas Brackett
12) 7r - Phil Richardson
13) 53 -
Matt Wilson |
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