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SUNDAY, APRIL 17th |
THE SPEEDWAY
HOMES PASS SLM 150
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THE DAVE'S SMALL ENGINE REPAIR /
HUSQVARNA ACT 100 |
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SHOCK (SPEEDWAY HOMES) - B. ROWE |
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DAVE'S SMALL ENGINES - THERRIEN |
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PASS SUPER LATE MODELS - THREE WIDE OFF TURN
FOUR ON THE LAST LAP - Inside - #60 of DJ Shaw;, Middle
- #4 of Ben Rowe; Outisde - #54 of Johnny Clark. Clark
brushes the main straight wall and falls back slightly.
Rowe holds the slight lead over Shaw and takes the win
by .023 seconds. |
Ben Rowe breaks dry spell at Oxford Plains
Speedway in PASS Super Late Models,
Bobby Therrien
tops ACT Late Models |
Oxford, Maine -- Ben Rowe of Turner edged DJ
Shaw of Center Conway, New Hampshire by a razor-thin
margin of .023-seconds in a wild, and
wildly-competitive, Speedway Homes 150 for Pro All Stars
Series Super Late Models on Sunday at Oxford Plains
Speedway.
“I’ve got to thank (new crew chief)
Mickey Green for coming on board,” Rowe said in victory
lane, greeted by a decidedly mixed reaction from a very
vocal crowd after the race. “I haven’t had a top ten
finish here in about five years – it was in the paper –
and Mickey and his guys got us back on the right track,
and my spotter (Steve Tapley) did a great job today.”
Rowe started 27th, and had methodically worked his
way into third position behind Bryan Kruczek of
Newmarket, New Hampshire and Dan McKeage of Gorham after
McKeage had led almost the entire race to that point.
Rowe found an opening under Kruczek as they headed into
turn one on a restart, and contact between the two as
Kruczek tried to close the hole saw him bounce into
McKeage, who was forced three-wide to the outside,
costing him several positions.
Kruczek, who had
led briefly earlier in the race only to be taken out of
the spot by a competitor who was penalized for the move,
was unable to complete the race, while McKeage clearly
deserved a far better fate than his eventual tenth-place
finish.
Rowe, a four-time PASS North Super Late
Model champion, nearly lost the race in the same fashion
that he gained the race lead on a green-white-checkered
finish when he went wide to fend off the challenge of
Farmingdale’s Johnny Clark, who nearly won the race
after starting from 33rd on the pre-race grid. That move
opened the door for 2014 series titlist Shaw to charge
up on Rowe’s inside, nearly stealing the checkered flag.
Rowe, Shaw and Clark were next chased across the
stripe by Colchester, Vermont’s Brent Dragon, who raced
up front throughout the 150-lap test to earn a
fourth-place finish in the Shaw 49, with 24th-place
starter, and reigning series champion Mike Rowe of
Turner rounding out the top five in his new ride, a team
car to his son’s winning Richard Moody Racing, Hancock
Lumber-sponsored car.
Mike Hopkins of Hermon,
Adam Polvinen of Auburn, Glen Luce of Turner, Dave
Farrington, Jr. of Jay and McKeage rounded out the top
ten. Shaw, McKeage, Dragon and Matt Matheson of
Oromocto, New Brunswick won Super Late Model heat races.
Jeremy Davis of Tamworth, New Hampshire and Joey Doiron
of Berwick took the last-chance consolation race
qualifiers.
Bobby Therrien of Hinesburg,
Vermont cruised to a comfortable victory in the
Husqvarna 100 presented by Dave’s Small Engines for the
American-Canadian Tour Late Models. Therrien started
sixth, and had to get by reigning ACT Late Model Tour
champion Wayne Helliwell, Jr. of Dover, New Hampshire to
claim a race lead that he would not relinquish.
Steuben’s JR “Rockin” Robinson posted a career-high
runner-up finish, holding off multi-time HP Hood Oxford
250 champion Eddie MacDonald of Rowley, Massachusetts
through the closing laps and a couple of late-race
restarts. MacDonald crossed the line in third position.
Helliwell ended up with a fourth-place finish. Scott
Dragon of Milton, Vermont filled out the top five.
Ryan Robbins of Dixfield, the 2015 OPS Mods
champion, turned back the challenges of the touring
series invaders in the 40-lap PASS Modified main event.
Robbins grabbed the lead from popular Westbrook racer
Matty Sanborn, who was soon sidelined by mechanical
woes.
Multi-time PASS Mods champion Andy Shaw of
Center Conway, New Hampshire challenged Robbins in the
late stages of the race, finishing second. Robbins and
Shaw were joined on the podium by North Waterboro
veteran Billy Dixon, who prevailed in a three-car battle
for the spot, ahead of Evan Armington of Lovell and New
Gloucester’s Ben Tinker. Sanborn and Robbins won the
heat races.
Trevor Sanborn of East Parsonsfield
was triumphant in the 25-lap Legends Cars main event.
The winner’s semi-teammate, 13-year-old Austin Teras of
Windham, led much of the race before settling for
runner-up honors. Jarrett Butcher of Dartmouth, Nova
Scotia nailed down a third-place finish in front of
Buckfield’s Chris Burgess and Peter Craig of Poland.
Teras and Burgess won heat races.
Drivers from
seven different states and five Canadian Provinces
participated in the giant, opening day racing program.
For more information call (207) 539-8865 or visit
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Results from the April 17, 2016
stock car racing card at Oxford Plains Speedway; Oxford,
Maine, showing finishing order, car number, driver’s
name, driver’s hometown:
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ROWE - JEFF SHOCK (SPEEDWAY HOMES) - CLARK |
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Speedway Homes 150 for Pro All
Stars Series Super Late Models (150 laps, unofficial)
1 4 Ben Rowe, Turner; 2 60 DJ Shaw, Center Conway, NH; 3
54 Johnny Clark, Farmingdale; 4 49 Brent Dragon,
Colchester, VT; 5 24 Mike Rowe, Turner; 6 15 Mike
Hopkins, Hermon; 7 73 Adam Polvinen, Auburn; 8 7 Glen
Luce, Turner; 9 23 Dave Farrington, Jr., Jay; 10 40 Dan
McKeage, Gorham; 11 94 Shawn Martin, Turner; 12 37 Larry
Gelinas, Bxuton; 13 96 Wyatt Alexander, Ellsworth; 14 73
Joey Doiron, Berwick; 15 41 Tracy Gordon, Strong; 16 48
Bobby Timmons, Windham; 17 94 Garrett Hall, Scarborough;
18 12 Derek Griffith, Hudson, NH; 19 2 Matt Matheson,
Oromocto, NB; 20 44 Don Colpritt, Jr., Scarborough; 21
22 Scott Farington; 22 7 Travis Benjamin, Morrill; 23 00
Bryan Kruczek, Newmarket, NH; 24 2 Nick Cusack,
Scarborough; 25 20 Michael Landry; Oakland; 26 42 Corey
Bubar, Windham; 27 61 TJ Brackett, Buckfield; 28 75 Gary
Smith, Bangor; 29 84 Scott Mulkern, Falmouth; 30 53 Cole
Butcher, Dartmouth, NS; 31 21 David Oliver, Standish; 32
1x Todd Stone, Middlebury, VT; 33 36 Scott Robbins,
Dixfield; 34 60 Tim Brackett, Buckfield; 35 09 Jeremy
Davis, Tamowrth, NH.
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| MACDONALD
- THERRIEN - ROBINSON |
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Husqvarna 100 presented by
Dave’s Small Engines of Oxford and Cumberland
American-Canadian Tour Late Model (100 laps, unofficial)
1 5 Bobby Therrien, Hinesburg, VT; 2 28 Rowland
Robinson, Jr., Steuben; 3 17 Eddie MacDonald, Rowley,
MA; 4 27 Wayne Helliwell, Jr., Dover, NH; 5 16 Scott
Dragon, Milton, VT; 6 58 Jimmy Hebert, Williamstown, VT;
7 78 Quinny Welch, Lancaster, NH; 8 93 Raymond
Christian, Norwich, CT; 9 15 Brad Babb, Windham; 10 4
Brandon Atkins, AuSable Forks, NY; 11 40 Nick Sweet,
Barre, VT; 12 5 Dillon Moltz, Waterford, CT; 13 9 Emily
Packard, East Montpelier, VT; 14 9 Kyle Welch, Newport,
NH; 15 1 Corey Mason, Groveton, NH; 16 30 Rich Dubeau,
Lebanon, NH; 17 12 Bobby Pelland, Cranston, RI; 18 49
Matt Anderson, Franklin, NH; 19 37 Scott Payea, Milton,
VT; 20 04 Shawn Swallow, Stark, NH; 21 11 Claude
Leclerc, Lanoraie, QC; 22 19 Dany Trepanier, St.Edouard,
QC; 23 54 Mike Ziter, Barre, VT; 24 22 Mark Jenison,
Warwick, RI; 25 21 Oren Remick, Warner, NH; 26 61 Ryan
Olsen, North Haverhill, NH; 27 10 Bryan Mason, Stark,
NH; 28 82 Mark Hudson, Norton, MA; 29 1 Devin O’Connell,
Madison, CT; 30 41 Jonathan Bouvrette, Blainville, QC;
31 13 Boomer Morris, Barre, VT; 32 0 Miles Chipman,
Nottingham, NH; 33 23 Dave Farington, Jr., Jay.
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| DIXON -
ROBBINS - SHAW |
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PASS Mods (40 laps,
unofficial) 1 36 Ryan Robbins, Dixfield; 2 0 Andy
Shaw, Center Conway, NH; 3 33 Billy Dixon, North
Waterboro; 4 9 Evan Armington, Lovell; 5 19 Ben Tinker,
New Gloucester; 6 05 Ron Henry, New Gloucester; 7 21
Mike Carignan, Lebanon; 8 60 Dana Reed, Shapleigh; 9 25
Bruce Helmuth, Wales; 10 6 Tommy Ricker, Poland; 11 64
Matty Sanborn, Westbrook; 12 66 Tony Ricci, Westbrook;
13 4 Nik Coates, Turner.
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INEX Legends Cars (25 laps,
unofficial) 1 129 Trevor Sanborn, East
Parsonsfield; 2 29 Austin Teras, Windham; 3 53 Jarrett
Butcher, Dartmouth, Nova Scotia; 4 47 Chris Burgess,
Buckfield; 5 4 Peter Craig, Poland; 6 48 Waylon Farrell,
St. Johns, Newfoundland; 7 27 Roger Edgecomb, Hiram; 8
17 Jake Johnson, Rehoboth, MA; 9 3 Justin Stacey, Hiram;
10 7 Kayla King, Buxton; 11 21 Mike Humphrey, Cornish;
12 80 Dylan Varney, Windham; 13 18 Parker Varney,
Windham. |
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