Mansfield, MA — Dusty Young, 73, of Mansfield died on Thursday January 10, 2008 at home surrounded by the care of his loving family. He was the beloved husband of Beverly A. (Richards) Young to whom he was wed to on October 11, 1959.
Born in Boston, MA on June 29, 1934 he was a son of the late Lyman D. and Gertrude L. (Brown) Young.
He grew up in Melrose and Boston and served in the United States Air Force. Mr. Young was a retired truck driver and had worked for Fibertec in West Bridgewater for over 20 years. Following retirement he had worked part time for Clair Acura in Walpole and at Carlier Auto Sales in North Attleboro.
An avid NASCAR fan, Dusty began his racing career at Norwood Arena and was the owner of the Team 99 Race Car at Seekonk Speedway. His family also shared his enthusiasm for auto racing. He also enjoyed his daily trips to Honey-Dew Donuts and to Tedeschi’s Market both in Mansfield.
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Joey Logano
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Seventeen-year-old racing sensation Joey Logano, the most highly-touted driver to hit the NASCAR ranks in a decade, is dying for a chance to take a spin in Jeg Coughlin Jr.’s Jegs.com Chevrolet Cobalt after a visit to team owner Victor Cagnazzi’s race shop in Mooresville, N.C.
Logano and Coughlin met at last weekend’s Geoff Bodine Bobsled Challenge charity race in Lake Placid, N.Y., and became fast friends while competing on the Olympic course. In between runs, they naturally talked about their respective forms of racing and Coughlin suggested Logano stop by VCR shop, which is near Logano’s adopted hometown, to familiarize himself with straight-line racing.
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Atlantic City, NJ — NASCAR, considered the premier sanctioning organization in motorsports, will have a major presence in the huge Motorsports 2008 Race Car Show presented by VP Racing Fuels. The show, filling close to 300,000 square feet of the Atlantic City Convention Center, opens at noon on January 18th and continues through until 5 pm Sunday, January 20th.
The NASCAR display will cover 3,000 square feet of the show. It is the first time in a number of years that the Daytona Beach, Florida based sanctioning organization has been part of the show and it is the first time that they have taken a major role in the 23 year history of the show.
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Jean-Paul Cyr
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A total point fund exceeding $50,000 will be awarded to top stock car drivers at the 2007 American-Canadian Tour/Thunder Road Banquet of Champions on Saturday night at the Sheraton-Burlington Hotel & Conference Center in South Burlington, VT. Jean-Paul Cyr of Milton, VT will be feted for winning his seventh ACT Late Model Tour Championship, while his car owner, Rick Paya, will collect a check for nearly $10,000 in point fund monies.
The Top 10 drivers from the ACT Late Model Tour, as well as the Top 10 drivers in each of the four racing divisions at Thunder Road Int’l Speedbowl, a ¼-mile high-banked oval track in Barre, VT, will be recognized. Thunder Road Late Model “King of the Road” Track Champion Dave Pembroke of Montpelier, VT will receive a check for $5,000 for his winning efforts. Thunder Road’s NAPA Tiger Sportsman Champion, Nick Sweet of Barre, VT, will receive a check for $1,000, while Allen Lumber Street Stock Champion Bobby Therrien of Hinesburg, VT earns a $500 bonus. Bunker Hodgdon of Hardwick, VT was the Power Shift Online Junkyard Warrior Champion at Thunder Road in 2007.
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NASCAR Modified Champion Takes Part in Bodine Bobsled Challenge
Huntington, NY — Donny Lia has raced just about everything at least once in his career. He’s won championships as diverse as on the NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour and in R/C Car racing. He has driven in the ARCA RE/MAX Series, NASCAR Busch East Series, USAR Pro Cup Series and even the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series as well.
But recently, Lia got into a machine that he had probably never ever dreamed of competing in. This time, the Long Island racer got into a bobsled at Lake Placid, New York as part of Third Annual Chevy Bodine Bobsled Challenge presented by Whelen Engineering. Lia ranked fifth out of 15 drivers in the three-day event.
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The votes are all in, and it’s now time to close out the “Top 25 ACT Drivers of 2007” by honoring the top five, as named by members of the regional media. Before we look back at drivers 25 through 6, we’d like to thank the following folks for their expertise and participation in this poll: Alan Ward, photographer and columnist for the Racin’ Paper; Dave Moody, Thunder Road announcer and MRN Radio personality; Gene Gagne, photographer and operator of OutsideGroove.com; Lee Kittell, host of WDEV Radio’s “Score!” sports talk show; Marc Patrick Roy, Série ACT Castrol reporter for Speed51.com; Mark Thomas, Racin’ Paper Editor; Mike McGill, WCAX Channel 3 Sports; Pete Hartt, Sports Editor at the Barre-Montpelier (VT) Times Argus; Travis Barrett of the Kennebec Journal and Central Maine Morning Sentinel; and die-hard race fans Andy Boright and Bethany Bell.
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Wasn’t it just a few years ago when the Y2K scare had us all wondering what the New Year would bring? Now eight years later it seems just a distant memory. Time flies when you are having fun. What does the New Year have in store for you? Greetings in the name of our Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ.
With the the change on the calendar comes the opportunity to begin fresh. We look at the clean slate that 2008 presents and wonder what the new year holds for us. We all have hopes and dreams, wants and needs, desires and wishes. We want to accomplish everything. We see unlimited potential.
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