Waterford, CT – Ryan Morgan won the 30-lap Legends feature on Wednesday evening at the Waterford Speedbowl, while it was Billy Gerstch Jr. claiming the X-Modified 50-lap Summer Sizzler as presented by Prestige Properties. The program marked the final installment of the season for the popular mid-week series.
Other feature winners were Greg Moran Sr. (Super-X Car), Curt D`Addario Sr. (X-Car), and Scott Foster (Outlaw Stocks).
Teenage Legends sensation Ryan Morgan passed early leader Glen Billings for the lead on lap-twenty, going on to snare his fourth feature victory of the season. Behind him a battled waged between 2008 Wednesday Legends champion Jason Palmer and Shaun Buffington. At the stripe, Palmer narrowly edged-out Buffington to finish ahead of Max Zachem and Glen Billings.
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Published at September 3, 2008
in NEMA.
Six time Northeastern Midget Association champion Dave Humphrey has been elected to the National Midget Hall of Fame. He will be inducted with Phil Walters (aka Ted Tappett), Jeff Gordon and Kevin Doty.
The introduction will be Jan. 10 as part of the pre-race ceremonies at the Chili Bowl Nationals in Tulsa, OK. The Midget Hall of Fame is located at Angell Park Speedway in Sun Prairie, WI.
Humphrey, a member of the New England Auto Racers Hall of Fame, ranks second in all-time NEMA victories with 72. Driving for, among others, Bob Pascale, Mike Scrivani and John McCarthy, he was a NEMA standout for over two decades. Prior to NEMA, he was successful in stock cars and sprint cars.
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Erick Rudolph of Ransomville and the DeLange Racing team were on the road again last weekend. On Saturday they traveled east on NY Route 104 to Oswego Speedway for a Race of Champions Dart Asphalt Modified Tour 125-lap race, a part of the 52nd edition of the famed International Classic Weekend. A strong field of Modifieds was on hand. Rudolph qualified the #45 Original Pizza Logs/PrimeTyme Motorsports//Brigham Concrete Modified through his heat race and lined up 12th on the starting grid for the feature event.
In the early laps the crafty teenager ran a conservative pace, biding time and conserving his tires. He worked his way into the top-ten and then settled there. He was ninth when a lap 66 caution brought most of the field onto pit road for service. The DeLange pit crew made up of Jason Kerrigan, Joe Zahno, Chris Murphy and Joe Mihalics did an outstanding job and got their car out ahead of the other cars that pitted, giving them a distinct advantage by not having to pass those cars on the track at racing speed. That effort did not go unnoticed.
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Lee, NH – The Northeastern Midget Association will run its 900th feature Friday night, Sept. 13th at Lee USA Speedway. The milestone comes in the club’s 57th season.
It will be the 13th feature of the season and the second at Lee.
NEMA, born in the late winter of 1953 in the Thompson Speedway clubhouse, will “properly acknowledge” the milestone. The first race was at Seekonk Speedway on May 30, 1953. Fred Meeker, in the Kernan #17, beat Al Pillion and Cliff Riggot.
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Edgar, WI — Promoters must replace their over-reliance on traveling race fans with a focus on local race fans to succeed in today’s market, according to Racing Promotion Monthly, the national trade newsletter for auto racing promoters, and drawing local fans will be the focus of this winter’s 36th RPM Promoters Series. Humpy Wheeler, recently retired promoter of Lowe’s Motor Speedway will deliver keynote remarks at the Speedweek Workshop, the popular promoter returning to the Workshops podium for the first time in a decade. Roger Slack, most recently Wheeler’s vice-president of events at Lowe’s, will make opening remarks at the Reno Workshop. Seventeen additional sessions, covering the breadth of weekly race track operation, emphasizing practical ideas adaptable to any short track, complete the agenda.
The Thirty-Sixth Annual RPM Promoters Workshops Series, where promoters will meet friends they can talk with and gather ideas they can use, begins December 4 in Reno, NV, and concludes during Speedweek, February 9-11, 2009, in Lake Mary, FL. The Workshops, produced by Racing Promotion Monthly and presented by K&K Insurance and Hoosier Racing Tire, return this Winter to the Eldorado Hotel Casino, Reno, and the Orlando Marriott Lake Mary, Lake Mary, FL.
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