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SATURDAY, JULY 14th |
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BUDWEISER Oxford Championship Series
SLMs,
Street Stocks, Bandits, Figure 8s, & Rookies |
northeastministocktour.com |
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Rookie Ivan Kaffel First-Time
Super Late
Model Winner at OPS |
Oxford, Maine - Ivan Kaffel of Raymond drove to
his first career Super Late Model victory Saturday
night, topping the Budweiser Championship Series racing
card at Oxford Plains Speedway.
Kaffel, 16,
started seventh in the 50-lap race. He worked his way
into second position, well behind racelong leader Ryan
Deane of Winterport when the lone caution flag displayed
during the race appeared with just seven laps to go.
Deane and Kaffel showed that rubbin' is racing
almost 28 years to the day that classic racing movie
'Days of Thunder' was released, thrilling the crowd as
they swapped the lead several times in the closing laps,
with Kaffel getting to the checkered flag just
.068-seconds ahead of runner-up Deane.
Four-time
Oxford Plains Speedway track champion Timmy Brackett of
Buckfield, who also survived a paint-swapping battle
versus the eventual winner, nailed down a third-place
finish in what may have been the last ride for a tired
racecar. TJ Brackett, a two-time OPS titlist, stayed on
top of the championship standings with a fourth-place
run. Austin Teras of Gray rounded out the top five.
Matt Dufault of Turner showed the Allen's Coffee
Flavored Brandy Street Stock field that he is clearly
the man to beat for the championship, padding his lead
in the division's championship points standings with his
third victory of the season aboard the Rodney Williams
61.
Dufault wasted no time as the green flag
waved over his 30-lap test, coming from his eighth
starting position into second position in one lap,
gaining several positions while racing three-wide in the
far outside groove. Dufault needed a few laps to chase
down and pass early race leader Andrew Breton of Greene
before pulling away from the field.
Sparks flew
in a spirited battle for the second-place finishing
position, with Gray's Tyler King able to get by Rick
Spaulding of Lisbon on the final circuit to claim
runner-up honors. Spaulding, Breton and Greene's Zach
Bowie rounded out the top five.
Veteran
four-cylinder racing star Emerson Cayer of Contoocook,
New Hampshire nailed down his third North East Mini
Stock Tour victory of the season, outrunning a
competitive, 20-plus car field in that tour's first
appearance at OPS in a couple of years.
Cody
Leblanc, a Gorham, New Hampshire native battling Cayer
for the NEMST championship, drove to an impressive
second-place finish. Massachusetts invaders Michael
Viens and Jarod Soucy were third and fourth,
respectively. Rounding out the top five was Dublin, New
Hampshire's Devin Guy.
Kyle Hewins of Leeds won a
wild, hotly-contested 20-lap main event for the
four-cylinder Bandits division, literally smoking the
competition over the final lap. As the white flag waved
to indicate the start of the last lap, Hewins had the
engine erupt under the hood of his Honda. He kept his
right foot on the floorboard, leaving a thick trail of
smoke for his rivals to negotiate en route to the
checkered flag.
Shaun Hinkley of Oxford was the
best of the rest in the greasy wake left by Hewins'
winning mount, claiming runner-up honors ahead of
Waterford's Jamie Heath, who was closing in quickly as
the race ended. Dustin Salley of Poland maintained his
ranking atop the championship standings with a
fourth-place finish. Oxford's Jake Hall battled for the
race lead throughout the race before last-lap issues
dropped him to fifth spot.
Kyle Kilgore of South
Paris extended his lead atop the Figure 8 division's
championship standings, earning his fifth victory of the
year in the 20-lap race for the highly-entertaining
racing class. Kilgore had to chase down and pass
three-time winner Dale Lawrence of Lisbon, who later
lost out on runner-up honors to Poland's Larry Lizotte
after cutting a tire late in the race. Lawrence, Greg
Durgin of South Paris and Oxford's own Chachy Hall
filled out the top-five rundown.
Thomas Brackett
of Auburn won his eighth Rookie division race,
outrunning Waterford's Brady Heath to the checkered
flag. Newcomer Brady Childs of Leeds claimed the
third-place trophy.
The next event at Oxford
Plains Speedway is the Christmas In July spectacular on
Friday, July 20, with six divisions of Oxford
Acceleration Series competitors joined by the Motor
Mayhem events, including endure races, spectator drags
and ATV drags. Post time is 6:00 p.m. The Budweiser
Championship Series continues Saturday night, July 28 at
7:00 p.m. The Oxford Acceleration Series is in action
every Wednesday night through the end of August, with
racing action beginning at 7:00 p.m. Oxford Plains
Speedway is located at 877 Main Street, on State Route
26 in Oxford, Maine. For more information visit
oxfordplains.com or call (207) 539-8865.
Unofficial results from the
Saturday, July 14 Budweiser Championship Series racing
card at Oxford Plains Speedway; Oxford, Maine; showing
finishing position, car number, driver's name, driver's
hometown:
Budweiser
Super Late Model (50 laps) 1 78 Ivan Kaffel,
Raymond; 2 54 Ryan Deane, Winterport; 3 60 Tim Brackett,
Buckfield; 4 61 TJ Brackett, Buckfield; 5 29 Austin
Teras, Gray; 6 4 Brad Babb, Windham; 7 36 Ryan Robbins,
Dixfield; 8 47 Gabe Brown, Center Conway, NH; 9 94 Shawn
Martin, Turner; 10 8 Calvin Rose, Jr., Turner; 11 03
Scott Moore, Anson; 12 47 Kelly Moore, Scarborough; 13 1
Evan Hallstrom, Northfield, VT; 14 09 Jeremy Davis,
Tamworth, NH; 15 63 John Salemi, Nashua, NH; 16 21 Shane
Clark, Winterport; 17 25 Shawn Knight, South Paris; 18
57 Travis Stearns, Auburn; 19 9 Alan Tardiff, Goodwins
Mills; 20 50 Jeff White, Winthrop; 21 72 Scott Robbins,
Dixfield; 22 18 Wayne Parritt, Steuben; 23 77 Bryce
Mains, Bridgton; 24 01 Andy Saunders, Ellsworth.
Allen's Coffee Flavored Brandy
Street Stock (30 laps) 1 61 Matt Dufault,
Turner; 2 11 Tyler King, Gray; 3 36 Rick Spaulding,
Lisbon; 4 33 Andrew Breton, Greene; 5 21 Zach Bowie,
Greene; 6 4 Jordan Russell, Norway; 7 12 John White,
Auburn; 8 52 Mike Nichols, Livermore Falls; 9 67 Michael
Haynes, Livermore Falls; 10 27 Patrick Thorne, Standish;
11 56 Addie McDaniel, Bridgton; 12 99 George Haskell,
Casco; 13 09 Mark Turner, Norway.
North East Mini Stock Tour (50
laps) 1 88 Emerson Cayer, Contoocook, NH; 2
7 Cody Leblanc, Waterville; 3 85 Michael Viens, Seekonk,
MA; 4 42 Jarod Soucy, Marlborough, MA; 5 23 Devin Guy,
Dublin, NH; 6 10 Jimmy Childs, Leeds; 7 04 Justin
Faford, Westminster, MA; 8 71 Matt Boucher, Andover, NH;
9 20 Matt Glidden, Sidney; 10 90 Desmond Skillings,
Antrim, NH; 11 52 Jeremy Carter, East Andover, NH; 12 34
Nate Taylor, Preston, CT; 13 36 Kodi Sabens, Windsor,
VT; 14 76 Garrett Labounty, Irasburg, VT; 15 4 Joe
Katula, Auburn; 16 2 Butch Keene, Turner; 17 18 Elwin
Chambers, Williamstown, VT; 18 43 Dana Shepard; Putney,
VT; 19 84 William Schoeler, Warwick, RI; 20 18 Jacob
Rheaume, Rochester, NH; DNS 50 Matthew Kimball,
Bennington, NH.
Bandits (20
laps) 1 54 Kyle Hewins, Leeds; 2 2 Shaun
Hinkley, Oxford; 3 91 Jamie Heath, Waterford; 4 18
Dustin Salley, Poland; 5 5 Jake Hall, Oxford; 6 69 Cam
Childs, Leeds; 7 12 Adam Sanborn, West Paris; 8 52 Chad
Wills, Buckfield; 9 08 08 Mike McKinney, Berlin, NH; 10
77 Rob Crepeau, Minot; 11 53 Eric Parlin, Mechanic
Falls; 12 44 Jeff Libby, Auburn; 13 74 Arthur 'Junior'
Goldrup, Oakland; 14 68 Mike Rand, Bridgton; 15 55 Dean
Jordan, Jay; 16 88 John Leonard, Oxford; 17 24 Travis
Verrill, South Paris; 18 42 Nick Ogden, Mechanic Falls.
Figure 8 (20 laps)
1 4 Kyle Kilgore, South Paris; 2 00 Larry Lizotte,
Poland; 3 2 Dale Lawrence, Lisbon; 4 41 Greg Durgin,
South Paris; 5 3 Chachy Hall, Oxford; 6 40 Robertt
Morey, Lisbon; 7 07 Kyle Glover, Oxford.
Rookie (10 laps) 1 3
Thomas Brackett, Auburn; 2 91 Brady Heath, Waterford, 3
1 Brady Childs, Leeds. |
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