The Bob Valenti Auto Mall Speedway Bowling Tournament pitted Middletown’s Brad & Lisa Voglesong against Trumbull’s Duane Noll and Rick Whittle of Mystic. In the final tally, “Out Of Control” Duane Noll and “Sick Rick” Whittle proved to be consummate professionals in the sport of auto-bowling (a Speedbowl original), soundly defeating Team Volglesong in the final round.
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Waterford, CT — Two time champion and present point leader Kirk Alexander, Swanzey, NH; reached a milestone and roared to victory Saturday night in the “Town Fair Tire 100” True Value Modified Racing Series event at the famed Waterford, CT; Speedbowl. Alexander scored his fifth win of the season, his twenty fifth TVMRS career victory, and has now become the only driver to win a race at every track competed on by the traveling series, now in it’s fourth season.
Dale Evonsion, E.Hartland, CT; and Todd Patnode, Swanzey, NH; brought the 27 car field to green with Evonsion jumping into the lead and setting a fast pace early on. Jimmy Dolan, Bethel, CT; Patnode, Jack Bateman, Canaan, NH; and Alexander led lap one but by the fifth go around, Les Hinckley, Windsor Locks, CT; moved quickly toward the front. He was running second when the first of seven yellow flags slowed the race for a crash involving Brian Schofield, Monsen, MA. Schofield was not injured.
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Seekonk, MA — Swansea, MA’s Scott Cestodio continued his string of successful finishes in the 2007 Sunday Spectacular programs, winning his third 25-lap feature of the season before a crowd in excess of 10,000 spectators on September 2. The 24 year-old earned the pole via a random draw for starting spots, and led the 20-car field down to the green with fellow veteran Mark Boisvert.
The duo battled side-by-side for the lead for several laps, with both drivers taking a turn out front. By lap 6, however, Cestodio had cleared Boisvert, with Carlos Silva, Amy Arsenault, John A. Robidoux, Steve Cromwell, Bob Hinckley, George Correia, John Robidoux, and Charles Beal comprising the remainder of the top ten.
American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racer “Irish” John Donahue of Graniteville, VT scored an upset first career win in the $50,000 ACTion Super Series 29th Bond Auto Labor Day Classic 200 at Barre, VT’s Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl on Sunday afternoon. Donahue battled polesitter and race leader Scott Payea of Milton, VT for 94 laps before taking over for good and driving virtually uncontested to a victory worth more than $6,000.
“It seems like we couldn’t do anything wrong all day,” Donahue beamed in the winner’s circle. “We finally got a Tour win, and we did it at Thunder Road. Yes!”
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Martinsville, VA — Donny Lia is in the middle of a career-defining season. He got the victory of a lifetime Saturday night in the Made In American Whelen 300 at Martinsville Speedway.
“It’s the biggest one of my career so far,” said Lia. “It means a lot for me to win here.”
Lia held off Ted Christopher for the win in the race – the annual combination event between the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour. Not only did the victory further solidify Lia’s Whelen Modified Tour points lead, it comes two weeks after his friend and fellow driver John Blewett III passed away following a racing accident.
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Seekonk, MA — Rehoboth, MA’s David Darling inherited the lead when Todd Annarummo and Fred Astle, Jr. crashed while battling for the win on the white flag lap and held off David Hutchins in a green-white-checker finish to post his sixth victory of the season in the 40-lap Pro Stock feature at Seekonk Speedway Saturday night.
Scott Fournier led the initial go-around before rookie Matt Hudon rocketed into the top spot. Hudon opened a healthy lead over Fournier, Hutchins, Glenn Lawton, John Dabrowski and Annarummo in the initial laps before the second of four cautions waved after contact with another car sent Mike Brightman into the outside wall on lap 10. Dabrowski pitted under the caution, and Annarummo made quick work of Fournier when racing resumed, settling up a lengthy side-by-side battle between Annarummo and Hutchins for second that stretched into the second half of the event.
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