Thompson, CT — Jason Chicolas added his name to this season’s win column in the Limited Sportsman division during Thompson Thursday Night Thunder. Other winners in NASCAR Whelen All American Series action included Keith Rocco in the Sunoco Modified division, Tommy O’Sullivan in the Late Models, and Mike O’Sullivan in a special 50-lap Super Late Model race. Jay Sundeen won an exciting contest with John Lowinski-Loh, Jr. that resulted in both drivers coming across the finish line sideways in the Thompson Modified feature. Cam McDermott and Dave Trudeau were winners in their divisions.
Keith Rocco earned his second victory of the season after taking the lead from Kerry Malone on a restart at lap five. Malone took the early lead with Rocco and Dennis Perry on his bumper. Malone had just pulled away when the first caution of the night flew for Perry, who lost the right front on his machine. Malone and Rocco brought the field back to green on the restart with Rocco taking the lead out of turn one. Malone, Ryan Preece, and Ted Christopher rounded out the top-four as they all pulled away from the rest of the field. On lap eight, Preece dove to the bottom groove heading into turn one and drove by Malone, who was left to fend with the challenges of Christopher. Preece set his sights on Rocco, who had pulled ahead to a comfortable five-car length lead as Christopher drove by Malone for the third spot. Rocco greeted lapped traffic at the halfway mark with Preece closing up some of Rocco’s lead, but it was still all Rocco up front. The race went caution-free as Rocco drove to the checkers unchallenged.
Tommy O’Sullivan continued his dominance of the Late Model division by earning his seventh season victory and his fourth straight in as many weeks. John Falconi was challenged at the start by Randy Tucker as they started a side-by-side battle that lasted the entire first lap. Falconi came out on top heading into turn one with Tommy O’Sullivan taking up real estate on the outside groove to challenge Tucker for the second spot. The two fought door-to-door with O’Sullivan taking the position by a nose at the line. Mike Scorzelli got into the mix when he passed Tucker for the third spot on lap five in turn two. Tucker spun in turn four bringing out the first caution of the night. On the restart, Falconi jumped ahead of O’Sullivan, but O’Sullivan fought back on the outside line and reclaimed the lead by a nose. O’Sullivan continued to get pressure from Falconi on the inside, but the intimidation wasn’t slowing him down. On lap nine, the two started banging doors, but they continued to race for the lead with Falconi taking over the top spot at the completion of lap 12. Once out front, Falconi was able to get some breathing room and settled comfortably in the lead. As Falconi approached a lapped car on lap 16 in turn four, O’Sullivan closed in and dove to the inside to make a challenge. Falconi held his ground, but O’Sullivan got the momentum to get up alongside the No. 10 machine and reclaim the lead as they completed 18 laps. Meanwhile, Damon Tinio passed Mike Scorzelli for the third position and was reeling in the top two cars. O’Sullivan held off Falconi at the finish with Tinio rounding out the top three.
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Stafford Springs, CT — When big races come up on the schedule, top drivers usually raise their game to take home the honor and the glory that goes with winning a prestigious race. With Stafford Speedway hosting the 9th Annual CARQUEST SK 150, SK Modified® drivers, including current points leader Ted Christopher, will be looking to step their game up in order to take home a piece of the over $25,000 in total posted awards in the biggest race of the season.
“I’m looking forward to it, it should be a pretty interesting format,” said Christopher. “It’s different to what we’ve run before and 75-laps is definitely I think just the right amount. We usually run 40-laps, so we’re talking almost twice the distance and then we have to do it again. I’m looking forward to it and I’m glad they changed it around a bit. I think it will be good with this format.”
Christopher is Stafford Speedway’s winningest driver with 117 overall feature victories. Of those 117 wins, 97 have come in the SK Modified® division, far and away the most of any driver in Stafford’s history. Christopher heads into the CARQUEST SK 150 fresh off of his 97th career SK modified win last Friday night and he is closing in on his personal goal of 100 wins in the SK Modified® division.
Continue reading ‘Ted Christopher Hoping to Add to All-Time Best SK Modified® Win Total in CARQUEST SK 150 Twin 75′s at Stafford’
Stafford Springs, CT — For SK Modified® driver Michael Gervais, Jr., the 2012 season has been a coming out party. After winning the 2009 track championship in Stafford’s SK Light division, Gervais moved into the SK Modified® division for the 2010 season. Gervais struggled through his rookie season, finishing 21st in the points standings. After finishing 10th in the SK Modified points last season, Gervais has picked up his first win at Stafford this season and he led the points for several weeks. After several weeks of bad luck, including a blown engine, Gervais has fallen back to fifth place in the points standings, but he and his #22 NJK Automotive team are looking to bring back their early season form beginning in this Friday night’s CARQUEST SK 150 Twin 75 lap feature events.
“We’re excited for it, but we wish we had our other motor to race with,” said Gervais. “We blew our motor a couple weeks ago in the 100 lapper, it’s also a spec motor, but the motor we lost definitely felt a little better than the one we have in the car now. The car has been handling better so that has helped it along, but we’re definitely not as quick as we were the first couple of weeks when we were leading the points. But the car shouldn’t be too bad, as long as we keep out of trouble, we should be able to get a good finish in those races. We’ve definitely learned a lot as a team and with Mike Paquette helping us out with setting up the car has helped out a lot and the good power we have this year. The combination of those two things has definitely made us a lot stronger this year.”
For the past 8 CARQUEST SK 150 events, the race has been run as a 150-lap feature event. This year’s event brings a new twist in that the race will be split into two 75-lap feature events, which is sure to provide the drivers with the challenge of setting their car up for two separate races that are each almost twice as long as their normal 40-lap distance.
Continue reading ‘Michael Gervais, Jr. and Team Look to Get Back to Early Season Form in CARQUEST SK 150 Twin 75′s at Stafford’
Brockton, MA — The Northeastern Midget Association returns to Star Speedway Saturday night. Although it is NEMA’s first visit since 2007, it will be NEMA’s 138th race at Star, clearly a standard. It will be the first-ever visit to the quarter mile for the NEMA Lites.
Point leader John Zych Jr, looking for a fourth straight top five finish, and Adam Cantor, coming off a dominating performance at Lee USA Speedway, lead NEMA into Star. In addition to Zych and Cantor, Greg Stoehr and Mike Horn hope to become NEMA’s first 2012 double winner.
Carl Medeiros Jr., a double winner at Lee a week ago, holds the Lites’ spotlight. There has never been a three-straight streak in Lites history.
The legendary Dave Humphrey won NEMA’s first visit to Star back in 1968.
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Waterford, CT — Inclement weather and the threat of severe storms forced Waterford Speedbowl to postpone its scheduled Wild ‘n Wacky Wednesday race program for July 18.
The Legend Cars were scheduled for an extra-distance 30-lap feature race, however that event will be rescheduled to Wednesday, July 25. That event will join twin 20-lap features for the Bandolero division plus 20-lap races for the X-Cars and Super X-Cars, in addition to the weekly Wacky Race.
The Speedbowl returns to action on Friday evening with its popular “Sho & Go at the ‘Bowl” with spectator drags and car cruise, highlighted by free grandstands admission for spectators of all ages. On Saturday evening, NASCAR Whelen All-American Series racing returns at the shoreline oval
with six divisions of racing. The SK Modifieds®, SK Light Modifieds, Street Stocks and Mini Stocks will be joined by the Saturday series for the Legend Cars and X-Car divisions.
For more information and a detailed schedule of events, visit the all new Speedbowl.com.
Sources:Waterford Speedbowl PR
