Barre’s Nick Sweet earned the Booth Bros./H.P. Hood Pole award at Thunder Road International Speedbowl on Saturday, September 26. Sweet ran a lap of 13.110 on the ¼ mile speedbowl and will sit on the pole for the first segment of the 47th Annual Chittenden Milk Bowl on Sunday, September 27. Sweet earned $1000 from Booth Bros./H.P. Hood for his qualifying efforts.
Only four other times Milk Bowl history has a Barre driver claimed pole position. Chester T. Woods set the fast time in 1970, Dan Beede sat on the pole in 1991 and 1992 while brother Chuck Beede started at the front in 1996.
Joey “Pole” Polewarczyk, Jr. came up just short in his attempt for four straight pole awards. His fastest lap was just 54 one-thousandths of a second off of Sweet’s fast time. Pole had to settle for the outside pole position.
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Persistant Rain Forces Schedule Modifications
Martinsville, VA — Due to showers forecast throughout the afternoon Saturday, NASCAR and track officials have postponed practice and qualifying for the annual combination NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour at Martinsville Speedway.
Practice and qualifying will now be held early Sunday morning. Practice will be at 9 a.m. with qualifying scheduled for 11:45 a.m.
The NASCAR Whelen All-American Series Limited Late Model division will practice from 10-11 a.m. and will hold two qualifying races starting at 1 p.m.
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Weather Limits Practice At Martinsville
Martinsville, VA — Todd Szegedy led the field during an abbreviated practice for the Made In America Whelen 300 Saturday afternoon at Martinsville Speedway for the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour cars.
Szegedy took his No. 2 Wisk/Snuggle Ford around the demanding track during practice with a time of 19.133 seconds (97.841 mph). Donny Lia, driving his No. 4 Mystic Missile Dodge, was second with a time of 19.172 (97.642 mph). Glenn Tyler was fourth with Johnny Bush and Ronnie Silk completing the top five.
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Claims Camping World East crown at Dover as fellow rookie Moffitt wins season finale
Dover, DE — A pair of rookies took center stage Friday at Dover International Speedway: Brett Moffitt came away with the Sunoco 150 checkered flag and Ryan Truex earned the 2009 NASCAR Camping World Series East championship.
Truex, a 17-year-old development driver for Michael Waltrip Racing, finished eighth on Friday but it was the performance throughout the 11-race season that put him in the championship Winner’s Circle following the Sunoco 150. Truex finished his first season in NASCAR’s top development series with three wins and eight top 10s.
The main championship contender for Truex – Eddie MacDonald – finished one position behind Truex in the race and wound up 34 points out of the championship (1,719 – 1,685).
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The NASCAR Whelen Modified and Whelen Southern Modified Tours are in Martinsville (Va.) Speedway for the Made In America Whelen 300 weekend.
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Published at September 26, 2009
in Stafford.
Stafford Springs, CT — Stafford Motor Speedway returned to racing its Final Friday Night Shoot-Out on September 25th with a NASCAR Whelen All-American Series card of five racing divisions. Doug Coby took his first victory of the season in the 40-lap SK Modified® feature, Tom Ffearn took his second win of the season in the 30-lap Late Model feature, David Webb took down his second win of the season in the 20-lap SK Light Modified feature, Bill Davis took down his first victory of 2009 in the 20-lap Limited Late Model feature event, and Don Wood scored his second win of 2009 in the 15-lap DARE Stock feature.
The 40-lap SK Modified® feature took the green with Wade Mattesen holding the lead, but the action was stopped after the first lap for a spin by Nichole Morgillo.
As the field took the green, Doug Coby moved by Mattesen to take over the race lead. Several more cautions for spins by Jeff Rocco, Mike Christopher, and then both Rocco and Christopher, kept the action at a slow pace through the first 11 laps of the race. Coby was continuing to hold the race lead, but Richie Pallai, Jr. was hounding Coby for the top spot. Jeff Malave was third behind Pallai, with Woody Pitkat and Todd Owen making up the top-5.
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