Published at April 8, 2010
in NHMS.
Helps Manchester South Little League Repair Precourt Park Vandalism
Loudon, NH — The New Hampshire Motor Speedway Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities has stepped up to the plate to help the Manchester South Little League repair the recent vandalism at Precourt Park.
A check for $2,000 from the local chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities will be presented to league officials by Jerry Gappens, executive vice president and general manager of New Hampshire Motor Speedway, at Precourt Park on Saturday, April 10 at noon to cover the estimated damage done by vandals.
“Youth programs, especially Little League baseball, are the fabric of what is pure and whole in our communities,” said Gappens, who also serves as the board president of the New Hampshire Chapter of Speedway Children’s Charities.
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Daytona Beach, FL — By the narrowest of margins, the media placed Ryan Preece one point ahead of Ted Christopher as the championship favorite in the 2010 NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour Preseason Poll.
Preece, a 19-year-old driver from Berlin, Conn., earned 142 points in the Whelen Modified Tour Preseason Poll, and was the recipient of the most first-place votes with five. The championship runner-up in 2009 in just his third season in the Whelen Modified Tour, Preece compiled 10 top-five finishes in 13 starts and recorded wins at Riverhead (N.Y.) Raceway and Stafford (Conn.) Motor Speedway. He finished 16 points behind champion Donny Lia, which marked the fourth-closest championship race in Tour history.
Christopher, from Plainville, Conn., received 141 points and three first-place votes in preseason balloting. The 2008 Whelen Modified Tour titlist, Christopher made a strong effort to defend his championship a year ago, but was passed in the standings by Lia with one race left on the schedule. Christopher’s third win of the year in the season finale at Thompson (Conn.) Speedway was not enough to regain the lead, and despite those three wins and 10 top 10s, he finished third in the standings. The winningest driver of the past decade, the 51-year-old Christopher’s 34 career triumphs are one short of Tony Hirschman, who ranks third on the Tour’s all-time list.
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The 2010 American Canadian Tour (ACT) Rookie of the Year (ROTY) battle is shaping up to be one of the best in recent history. ACT will see six drivers competing for the 2010 ROTY honors, including four teenagers with a combined three career ACT starts.
The eldest of the teenage group is 18 year old Dave Farrington, Jr. of Jay, ME. Farrington, a Mechanical Engineering student at the University of Maine-Orono, finished 8th in the Pro Stock standings at Wiscasset (ME) Speedway, but has never made an ACT Tour start.
Brad Babb of Windham, ME has the best career ACT Tour finish of the ROTY contenders after finishing 6th in the 2009 season finale at Oxford Plains Speedway (Oxford, ME). It is the only ACT start for the 17 year old to date. Babb earned the 2009 Beech Ridge Motor Speedway (BRMS) Rookie of the Year title and finished sixth in the final Pro Series point standings. He also has the advantage of looking to his father, Bobby, who is a muli-time BRMS track champion.
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