Defending champion Kirk Alexander, Swanzey, NH., jumped into the lead on lap three and roared to victory in the” Governors Cup 100″ modified race Sunday afternoon at Lee USA Speedway, Lee NH. The win was Alexander’s 27th career victory with the touring series.
Despite early race pressure from Ted Christopher, Plainville, CT, and then David Pinkham, Buxton, ME, the three-time champion survived a caution plagued race that was once stopped for an overheating racer that sprayed water on the racing surface resulting in six cars retired to the pit area. Pinkham settled for second followed by E.Hartland CT’s Dale Evonsion, Madison,CT.,veteran Mike Holdridge, and Jon McKennedy, Chelmsford, MA. making up the top five.
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Eighteen year-old stock car racing sensation Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. blistered the American-Canadian Tour field at Lee USA Speedway on Sunday, taking his second career victory at the New Hampshire Governor’s Cup 100. The Hudson, NH ace took the lead from polesitter Larry Gelinas after starting third, and dominated the balance of the event to take the win in just over 46 minutes. Polewarczyk said that for 2008, his team is “all business.”
“We’re focused on winning the ACT Late Model Tour title,” he said. “We had a checkered flag design on the car last year, and we decided to leave it off this year, just black, nothing else. We’re all business.”
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Waterford, CT — Defending champion Rob Janovic Jr. returned to victory lane at the Waterford Speedbowl Saturday evening with a convincing win in the 35-lap SK Modified feature. The victory came after what could only be deemed a disappointing performance during the season-opening Budweiser Modified Nationals of the week before. It was, according to Janovic, “a night of redemption”.
Other feature winners were Bruce Thomas Jr. (Late Model), Jack Aquilina (Sportsman), and, Randy Churchill Jr. (Mini Stocks).
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Scarborough ME — Mike Rowe, Ben Rowe and Travis Benjamin staged a short track battle royal in the Pro All Stars (PASS) North super late model opener at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway, and when the dust settled Mike Rowe was in victory lane by one-one hundredth of a second . Ben Rowe came up inches short for second with Benjamin half a car length back in third. PASS Sophomore Adam Bates scored a career best fourth place finish and Beech Ridge master Bub Bilodeau rounded out the top five.
Cassius Clark and Benjamin were out front early on, swapping the lead several times per lap and battling side by side on restarts. Ben Rowe was next to challenge Benjamin and he held the top spot for laps 59 to 73 before Benjamin took over once again. At the crossed flags it was Benjamin out front with Ben Rowe second, Steve Berry third, Richie Dearborn fourth and Cassius Clark fifth.
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Waterford, CT — Veteran Sportsman racer John Puglisi had a terrible weekend at the Budweiser Modified Nationals. After only a few laps in his heat, he found himself ino the wall, virtually destroying the new car he’d built and worked-on right up until Saturday morning.
Now it’s Monday, and adding insult to injury, he’s come down with a stomach virus. It couldn’t get any worse, right? Think again.
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