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Waterford, CT — NDRA again is presenting a SINGLE DAY EVENT on Sunday, November 11th. Saturday’s cold, damp, windy, inclement weather forced all activities to be moved to Sunday.
Featured will be all types of street legal cars, from highly modified Street Rods, Pro-Streets, front wheel drive muscle cars, to completely stock everyday vehicles. All cars will be running for trophies. In addition, there will be a “Mustang Shootout”; an event for street legal Mustangs, also running for trophies.
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Waterford, CT — SK-Modified champion Rob Janovic Jr. will share center stage at the January 12 ’07 Awards Banquet (at the Groton Inn and Suites) with four other champions Bruce Thomas Jr. (Late Models), Dwayne Dorr (Sportsman), Ken Cassidy Jr. (Mini Stock) and Michael Gervais Jr. (Legends).
One of three “first time” champions, Janovic took the lead at midseason and that fought off a determined effort by Dennis Gada, the 2006 king who was seeking a record seventh championship. Janovic, who won three times, was never out of the top 10 in 23 starts.
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According to SPEED Channel’s Ray Dunlap, the #59 Harris Trucking Toyota will have a new driver during the 2008 season. He mentioned Donny Lia as the new driver of the Jim Harris owned machine with a sponsorship announcement coming soon.
Lia, a Jericho, New York native won 6 races this season on route to his first NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour championship in Bob Garbarino’s #4 Mystic Missile. He also competed in his first Craftsman Truck Series race earlier this year at New Hampshire International Speedway. He brought Bill Davis’ #36 home in 20th place.
Sources: SPEED Channel NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series broadcast - Casino Arizona 150
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Las Vegas, NV — Steve Carlson leaned back against the seat and exhaled.“Man, I feel like I just finished a 300-lap race,” Carlson said.
The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series champion spent Friday morning at Nellis Air Force Base as a guest of the U.S. Air Force. Carlson was treated to a ride in an F-16 that is part of the Air Force’s world-famous Thunderbirds.
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Mototown Speedway just had the long awaited first practice! We have race dates!!!
The Dirt Oval Track is getting broken in for the upcoming car races on these practice dates: November 25th, 29th, and 30th.
The Bud Light 12-pack Race Series will kick off with a cash race on December 16. January has three races on the 6th, 13th and 27th. February 3rd, 17th and 24th will host racing as well. March 2nd, 9th and 16th will all see racing action as well. The series closes out on April 6th and 20th.
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Atlantic City, NJ — With the first Promoter’s Summit still more than two months away there are already promoters from thirteen states that have registered to be part of the two day event that will be part of the 22nd annual Motorsports 2008 presented by VP Racing Fuels Race Car Show.
The three day show, January 18-20, featuring the two day Promoter’s Summit will take place at the huge Atlantic City Convention Hall. The Summit is designed to bring promoters from the Northeast and Mid-Atlantic States together to share ideas and be part of the information filled seminars on a variety of subjects.
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Las Vegas, NV — Philip Morris’ hopes for back-to-back championships were dashed by early-season misfortune. But that wasn’t enough to keep the Ruckersville, Va. driver from earning a trip back to the NASCAR Whelen All-American Series championship festivities this weekend at the Mandalay Bay Resort.
A year after winning a regional championship, Woody Pitkat improved to second in the nation. While he missed out on the championship by just six points, the Stafford, Conn. driver is as proud as Morris is that he is making a return trip to Las Vegas.
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Concord, NC – At various points in the year, scores of race teams come to Concord, North Carolina. Depending on the date and the track, those teams might compete in one of NASCAR’s big three divisions, on dirt with the World of Outlaws Sprint Car or Late Model tours or they could be asphalt short track racers.
On November 16th-17th, the asphalt short track warriors will be the circus that is coming to town. They will be filling hotel rooms and heading up and down Highway 601 with their haulers. That is when the second annual Mason-Dixon Meltdown will take place at Concord Motorsport Park – with teams hailing from as far away as Maine, Michigan and Texas to race Pro All Star Series (PASS) South Super Late Models, PASS Modifieds, Rolling Thunder Modifieds, Legends cars, Bandoleros, Allison Legacy cars and Thunder Roadsters.
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Agawam, MA — Gary J. Michnovetz, 65, died suddenly on Tuesday. He was born in West Spring-field, son of the late John and Mafalda Mich-novetz and graduated from West Springfield High School Class of 1962. He resided in West Springfield and Agawam all his life. Gary worked for many years at Germano Auto Sales before owning Gary’s Service Center in Agawam, which he sold two years ago. He was currently employed at Boardwalk Auto Sales in South Windsor, CT.
He was an avid race car fan, a member of NASCAR. He started his interest in racing with Leo Matte at Riverside Park with the likes of George Lombardo, Ed Patnode and Labbee Brothers Racing. Later years were with Tom Rosati, Rene Charland, Bob Polverari, Reggie Ruggerio and Jerry Marquis. He was part of a championship crew with Barry Kuhnel, Bill Pelley and Bob Polverari in the 80’s and 90’s. He later was a crew member with Bill Pelley and Reggie Ruggerio before moving on to 44 racing with Jerry Marquis and Mari Fiore and was part of their National Modified Championship of 2000.
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We spend many hours of our life preoccupied by things. Thoughts fill our mind and we dwell on them. When we take the time to really analyze them we find that most times we are worrying about nothing. Try to use this standard, if it is going to matter in 300 years worry about it, if not don’t sweat it. Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
Race day is filled with things to do. The schedule is posted in everyone’s trailer. We all live by it. We all plan our activity around driver’s meeting, tech line opening, on line for qualifying, on line for the race. On race day these are some of the important things we have to keep track of. For some, chapel also falls into that category. Of course, I think it should have a higher priority but I understand.
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Concord, NC — Back in the mid-1760s, Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon surveyed land to settle a border dispute between British colonies in Colonial America. What they were not aware of then was how famous their “Mason-Dixon” line was going to become to describe the separation between cultures from the North and South. They also didn’t realize they started then a tradition of rival racing in America.
In 2006, the first “Mason-Dixon Meltdown” took place at South Boston Speedway (VA). From the PASS Super Late Models to Pro Challenge racers, drivers flocked to the track to take part of the inaugural event, which also included Legends Car racing action.
Continue reading ‘The North Looks To Steal The “Mason-Dixon Meltdown” Legends Honors From The South’
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In May of 1940, Louis J. D’Amore of Dedham, MA found himself with a new challenge. The young racecar owner was excited about the opening of a brand new race track in Thompson, CT. The land on which the track was built had been transformed from a dairy farm into a speedway following the farm’s destruction at the hands of the infamous 1938 hurricane.
D’Amore had been watching races on dirt and board tracks since he was a kid in the early 1930s, but this May 26th opening of the Thompson Speedway was to be something new and exciting. Property owner John Hoenig had constructed the largest race track in the northeast and had bucked conventional wisdom by making the racing surface out of macadam instead of the traditional dirt, clay or wood that topped most tracks of the day. Hoenig had built the first ‘asphalt’ race track in the United States. Racers of the day could not wait to test the all-new, high banked speedway. None had ever raced on a surface like the one Hoenig had used, but that did not keep them or race fans away. A full field of racecars and the huge grandstands were filled to capacity for this grand opening.
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Concord, NC — The Mason-Dixon Meltdown is a Super Late Model version of a racing civil war. Although it is a Pro All Stars Series (PASS) South Super Late Model race, the event attracted scores of PASS North regulars when it was held at South Boston Speedway (VA) in 2006.
Maine’s Cassius Clark led a charge to victory by his homestate’s contingent of Johnny Clark, Ben Rowe, Mike Rowe and others last season. But it wasn’t before a number of strong Southern racers, including Travis Kittleson and Jason Hogan, put up a good fight.
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Jack will be in the hospital for awhile.
Send cards and letters to: Jack Glockner 34 Lawrence Rd., Halifax, MA 02338.
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Just a couple of quick notes this week, as it’s time to look back at the 2007 American-Canadian Tour/Thunder Road/Série ACT Castrol racing season by the numbers.
First, we’re hearing that youngster Brooks Clark has a new chassis under construction at Jeff Taylor’s Distance Race Chassis shops in Maine. Clark, one of the young lions of Thunder Road’s Thursday night Late Model division, has designs on racing the full slate of events in 2008. The Fayston, VT driver attempted about 75% of the Thunder Road schedule, and was impressive on a number of occasions, including a pair 8th-place runs midway through the year and a 14th at the “regular season” opener in May. He drove the #68 A.W. Clark, Jr. & Son, Inc./Lackey’s Sunoco Chevrolet in 2007.
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