After each clinched a championship this season in the NASCAR Grand National Division, Joey Logano (No. 10 Joe Gibbs Driven Chevrolet) and Mike David (No. 2 Bennett Lane Winery Ford) have turned their attention to this year’s NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown.
David, who wrapped up the Grand National West Series title by a 114-point margin in the season finale on Sept. 15, is a series veteran making his fourth appearance in the prestigious post-season event.
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Daytona Beach, FL — Steve Carlson was pretty sure that he was in good shape. After all, he had been tracking the standings for the past several weeks. But it wasn’t until he got the call Wednesday afternoon from George Silbermann, NASCAR’s managing director of racing operations, that it became a reality.
Carlson is the 2007 NASCAR Whelen All-American Series champion.
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Tibbert, William F. Dec. 3, 1920 – Sept. 26, 2007
William F. “Billy” Tibbert, 86, Sarasota died Sept. 26, 2007. No services are planned at this time. National Cremation Society is in charge. Survivors include his wife, Evelyn; a son, William Jr. of Mansfield, Mass.; a daughter, Marcia Peach of Sandwich, Mass.; three grandchildren; seven great-grandchildren; and a great-great-grandchild.
He served in World War II Merchant Marines. He belongs to ACOT (Atlantic Coast Old Timers) and Living Legends of auto racing. He participated in an auto racing career starting in 1941, open wheel midget and stock car racing from Canada, New England to Florida Midwest. Graduated Brockton Business School and attended Bentley School of Accounting.
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Champion stock car racer Tracie Bellerose of Gorham, NH will team up with Graniteville, VT driver John Donahue, sponsor National Guard, and team owner Kendell Roberts at the American-Canadian Tour’s season-ending New England Dodge Dealers 150 at Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway on Saturday. Bellerose is a former Track Champion at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, and owns a pair of feature victories in weekly competition at Oxford.
“I’m really excited to have the opportunity to race with Kendell and John, and I love Oxford,” Bellerose said. “Kendell wanted to have both of his cars on the track this weekend, and he asked me if I’d be interested in driving. You can guess how long it took me to make a decision!”
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It seems as though Patrick Laperle’s name has taken up a lot of space in this column of late. Truth is, the Frenchman has been on rails since overcoming a severe illness this spring, and just keeps making headlines. In 17 combined starts between the Série ACT Castrol and the ACT Late Model Tour this year, Laperle has taken four victories, four runner-up finishes, three additional top-fives, and has just a single result outside the top-ten: Just days removed from his hospital stay, Laperle took one lap at Autodrome Montmagny in the Série ACT Castrol opener, finishing 23rd.On Sunday, he earned his second Chittenden Milk Bowl win in three years at Thunder Road in Barre, VT, kissing Harvest Hills Dickens, the beauty queen cow, and taking home a tick under $11,000 in the process. It was his third win in four ACTion Super Series races in 2007, giving him more than $23,000 earned in just those events alone.
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Five-time American-Canadian Tour (ACT) stock car racing champion Brian Hoar of Williston, VT is hunting after the victory that has eluded him all season long, as he returns to Maine’s Oxford Plains Speedway for the New England Dodge Dealers 150 on Saturday. Hoar rejoined the ACT Late Model Tour in 2007 after spending several seasons racing the NASCAR Busch East Series, and looked like a potential winner at Oxford in April before a failed rear end on his Goss Dodge Charger ended his day.
“Looking back, that was the most legitimate shot we’ve had to win a race all season,” Hoar recounted. “We could have won that race, but it’s been pretty up-and-down since. It would be fun to end the year strong at Oxford.”
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Daytona Beach, FL — After a six-month stretch of competition that has included close to 2,000 laps of intense racing action, the NASCAR Whelen Southern Modified Tour championship will be decided this Saturday night in the Southern Modified Tour 150 at Caraway Speedway.
There are only two Whelen Southern Modified Tour drivers – L.W. Miller and Tim Brown – that have a mathematical chance of winning the championship at the Asheboro, N.C. short track.
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Newburgh, NY (Oct. 2, 2007) Anthony Frissora (Shrewsbury,MA) won for the the fifth time this season in the NE Outdoor Furnace Fall Challange at Twin State Speedway in Claremont, NH. Second place went to Tayla Orleans (Wrentham, MA) who once again came from the back to the front in a matter of laps. Third place was Bobby Alberti (Carver, MA) who managed to stay clear of several cautions for another top five finish. Check back for a full rundown of this weekend events.
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