Daytona Beach, FL — In a change that further cements the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown as the ‘Daytona 500 of short-track racing,’ NASCAR announced today that the sixth edition of the postseason special event will be held Jan. 23-24, 2009 at the Toyota Speedway at Irwindale.
In its five-year history, the NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown – held at one of NASCAR’s premier racing facilities – has quickly become a showcase of top short-track racing.
The race includes protected starting spots for the champions of each of the NASCAR Developmental Series. The move of the race from the Fall to January allows for increased preparation and provides greater exposure for the teams and drivers.
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Daytona Beach, FL — Millions tuned in Sunday for the Daytona 500 to watch drivers like Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex Jr. and David Gilliland – all of whom used the…
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Harrisburg, NC — Peyton Sellers and ASM Motorsports announced today they will combine their talents and contend for a NASCAR Grand National Division, Camping World East Series title for the 2008 season with Casella Waste Systems. The powerful union now pairs the top returning driver with the number one team.
2007 was an impressive season for Peyton Sellers in the Camping World East Series. He finished third overall working out of his family’s shop and running a single car all season. Santerre identified with Sellers’ situation and was impressed with his accomplishments, having raced and won his first championship under similar circumstances. Santerre hand-picked Sellers to drive the #44 for ASM and Casella Waste Systems because he felt he deserved the opportunity, and knew he could get the job done.
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Successful Legends Car Racer Signs With Eddie Sharp Racing For 2008 Season
Concord, NC — In the Legends Car world, Craig Goess is a name everyone fears at the track. The three-time National Pro Division champion is known for being the best of the best. With a 98%-win ratio and Legends feature wins at 24 tracks across the country while beating some of today’s top NASCAR stars like Reed Sorenson, Kyle Busch and David Ragan, Goess is no stranger to racing hard and winning big.
Now, after years of success in the smaller cars, Goess has decided to make the move up the ranks in racing by driving the #2 Greenville Toyota / ESR Development Toyota in the 2008 NASCAR Camping World East Series season under the Eddie Sharp Racing banner.
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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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NEAR Banquet Tickets on Sale
The annual New England Antique Racers Hall of Fame Banquet is slated to take place on Sunday, January 27th at the LaRenaissance Banquet Hall in East Windsor, CT. Tickets can be ordered by downloading the order form from the NEAR web site. The Class of 2008 includes car owners, drivers and members of the media. Dave Alkas, Dave Darveau, Dick Bathchelder, the late Howie Brown are all a part of the class. Car owners Joe Brady and the late Mike Scrivani, Sr. along with the multi-talented Dick Berggren and writer Pete Zanardi will also be inducted at the NEAR banquet in January. Veterans committee choices were to Johnny Gammell, George Lombardo, and Fred Luchesi.
Oktoberfest Date Set for Lee USA Speedway
The 3/8-mile Lee USA Speedway has finalized the date for its annual Oktoberfest season finale. The date for Oktoberfest is the weekend of October 4th and 5th, 2008. The popular True Value Modified Racing Series will hold their penultimate race at Lee USA. Along with the regular variety of open competition races for Late Models and Strictly Stocks that welcome drivers from similar tracks like Seekonk or Twin State. Drivers with home tracks as far away as Unity, Maine and Waterford, CT were among the winners last fall.
A quick look at the local racing docket for that weekend presents a conflict as the Waterford Speedbowl hosts its finale with the NEMA Midgets, Allison Legacy North cars, and the All Star Race Trucks joining the card with their regular divisions.
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Daytona Beach, FL — NASCAR unveiled today the new official series logo for the NASCAR Camping World Series. Last Saturday, NASCAR announced that beginning in 2008, Camping World, the country’s largest RV and outdoor retailer, will entitle the long-standing Grand National Division, East and West Series.
The NASCAR Camping World Series features cars similar in design and appearance to those cars competing in the NASCAR Nationwide Series. The East Series races in key markets in the northeast, along the Atlantic seaboard, and as far west as Iowa. The West Series features events along the Pacific coast, and several western states, reaching as far east as Iowa, where the two separate series meet for a combined event in May. Both series run at a challenging combination of short tracks, intermediates, road courses, and speedways, with a number of races held in combination with NASCAR Sprint Cup Series events.
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Historic Tracks Highlight Calendar For Top Developmental Series
Daytona Beach, FL — Several new tracks join a list of historic venues that will make up the 2008 NASCAR Camping World Series schedule, as the top developmental series in NASCAR presents a stronger, more geographically diverse mixture of short tracks, speedways and road courses across the United States. Also today, NASCAR announced that beginning in 2008, Camping World would be the new title sponsor for the sport’s long-standing Grand National Division, East and West Series.
The NASCAR Camping World Series calendar will run on 23 tracks in 16 states, including a return trip to Iowa Speedway for a combination race between the East and West on the 7/8-mile tri-oval in Newton, Iowa. Last year’s event drew almost 25,000 fans that witnessed an epic battle in which 17-year-old Joey Logano, the eventual 2007 East champion, outdueled 2007 Daytona 500 winner Kevin Harvick to claim the victory.
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NASCAR Welcomes Camping World As News Series Sponsor
Daytona Beach, FL — The National Association for Stock Car Auto Racing (NASCAR) announced today that Camping World, the country’s largest RV and outdoor retailer, will become the title sponsor for NASCAR Camping World Series beginning in 2008, entitling NASCAR’s top developmental series – the long-standing Grand National Division, East and West Series.
Over the years, this series has helped launch the careers of many future NASCAR stars, including current NASCAR Sprint Cup Series standouts Kevin Harvick, Martin Truex, Jr., and David Gilliland, along with two-time championship crew chief Greg Zipadelli. As the new title sponsor, Camping World looks to continue the tradition of developing talented young drivers that aspire to go on and excel in the highest levels of NASCAR racing. Recent enhancements to the series included a schedule with an expanded geographic reach, new competition and cost-containment initiatives such as the new “spec engine” and composite body, and a lowered age-limit to 16 for drivers.
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Uncasville, CT — Teenage NASCAR phenom Joey Logano returned to his home state to be honored as the 2007 NASCAR Grand National Division, Busch East Series at the series’ awards ceremony at the Mohegan Sun Resort in Uncasville, Conn. Saturday night.
The 17-year-old rookie driver from Middletown, Conn., was presented the championship trophy and postseason team awards. Logano’s winnings, bonus awards, and point fund earnings pushed his season total to $233,978. The championship celebration culminated with NASCAR Managing Director of Racing Operations George Silbermann presenting Logano with the prestigious NASCAR championship ring.
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Las Vegas, NV — Garage Equipment Supply (GES), a global full service tool and equipment distributor, will be the primary sponsor of Andy Santerre Motorsports’ (ASM) No. 3 Chevrolet driven by Austin Dillon as the third-generation driver competes for rookie of the year honors in the 2008 NASCAR Grand National Division, Busch East Series.
Dillon, 17, is the son of former NASCAR driver Mike Dillon and the grandson of NASCAR Team Owner Richard Childress.
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Hampton, GA — Joey Logano, the 2007 NASCAR Busch East Series champion and winner of the Oct. 20 NASCAR Toyota All-Star Showdown at Irwindale (Calif.) Speedway, revealed today at Atlanta Motor Speedway that he’ll make his debut in the NASCAR Nationwide Series May 31 at Dover (Del.) International Speedway. The Joe Gibbs Racing driver will make his first career Nationwide Series start just one week after turning 18, the minimum age required by NASCAR to compete in the stepping-stone division to the NASCAR Sprint Cup Series. The NASCAR Nationwide Series is the No. 2 form of motorsports in the U.S.
Joining Logano was Mark Dyer, president and CEO of Motorsports Authentics (MA), the leader in the design, promotion, marketing and distribution of licensed motorsports merchandise. Dyer announced that as part of Logano’s rapid ascent toward the pinnacle of NASCAR racing, MA had created a licensing program for the 17-year-old from Middletown, Conn., a first for a driver not in one of NASCAR’s top-three series (NASCAR Sprint Cup Series, NASCAR Nationwide Series and the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series).
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Stafford, CT — The 2007 season has been an unforgettable one for Woody Pitkat. If there was a race somewhere along the Eastern Seaboard, chances are Pitkat was behind the…
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Loudon, NH — Joey Logano of Middletown, Conn. has won the 2007 Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves Track Championship at New Hampshire International Speedway (NHIS) in the NASCAR Grand National Division, Busch East Series.
Driving the No. 20 Joe Gibbs Driven Chevrolet, Joey won from the pole at the New England 125 in June and completed his “sweep” by winning the Aubuchon Hardware 125 presented by HardwareStore.com in September. He has also captured the 2007 NASCAR Grand National Division, Busch East Series Championship. At age 17, Logano is the youngest driver ever to win a Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves Track Championship at NHIS.
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Dover, DE — The 2007 NASCAR Busch East Series, Grand National Division season ended on a high note for newcomer Maxime Dumarey of Gent, Belgium. Dumarey, driving the #16 BODYCOACH.NET Chevrolet, posted his second career top-10 finish at the series’ most challenging track – Dover International Speedway.
“I’m very proud of this team,” said Dumarey. “They worked really hard and put a great car under me. We scraped the wall in practice and the guys worked on this car until the garage closed Thursday night, and then were back here first thing Friday morning. It’s pretty exciting to come out of here with a top-10, but it proves that we’re become contenders. I think we’ve come a long way since our first race together at South Boston.”
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Dover, DE — Joey Logano (No. 20 Joe Gibbs Driven Chevrolet) finished second but became the NASCAR Busch East Series’ first rookie champion in the Sunoco 150 at Dover International Speedway Friday afternoon.
Sean Caisse (No. 44 Casella Waste Systems Chevrolet) took the race lead from Logano with just eight laps to go, and then withstood a final charge by Logano to win by a car length.
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Mooresville, NC — Steve Park, one of only eighteen winners in all three top divisions in NASCAR, will once again be behind the wheel for the Dover Busch East event, piloting the #53 Waste Management machine for NDS Motorsports.
“Last year I had the opportunity to race for NDS Motorsports and Waste Management, and we brought home a second place finish. It was a blast to get back up here to the North East and run for such an excellent organization. I think we can bring home a strong finish, hopefully a win this time around,” Park said.
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Loudon, NH — Brad Leighton made a late-race rally to finish the Aubuchon Hardware 125 at New Hampshire International Speedway in the seventh position. Leighton’s No. 55 Irving Oil Chevrolet was overheating in the final laps of the event, but it didn’t stop the master of the ‘Magic Mile’ from posting a top-10 finish.
“We were tight all day long,” said Leighton. “We pitted for tires and made an adjustment and we gave it all we had. We were running 280 degrees the last 12 laps so that isn’t good. I didn’t want to push it too hard because I didn’t want to destroy the motor for seventh place. We had a top-10 car today, but we really had to work for it.”
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Rain has forced the cancellation of time trials for today’s NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series race at New Hampshire International Speedway. The 36 truck field was set by NASCAR owners points. Of local interest, NASCAR Whelen Modified Tour driver Donny Lia will make his series debut in Bill Davis’ #36. Unfortunately, Sean Caisse of Pelham, NH, a frontrunner in the NASCAR Busch East Series, did not qualify in a Germain Racing entry.
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Joey Logano took the checkered flag at the Aubuchon Hardware 125 presented by HardwareStore.com to sweep both NASCAR Grand National Division races at “The Magic Mile”. Logano’s win unofficially clinches the 2007 NHIS Lincoln Electric/Merriam-Graves Track Championship Standings.
Unofficial Results
1. No. 20, Joey Logano
2. No. 44, Sean Caisse
3. No. 03, Rogelio Lopez
4. No. 83, Peyton Sellers
5. No. 52, Jamie Hayes
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Racer Sean Caisse is fairly well known in the Northeast. The Pelham, N.H., native began racing in the region in 1997 and is now in his third year of competition in NASCAR’s Busch East Series. In his full-time Busch East effort, Caisse drive’s for Andy Santerre Motorsports. This season, he’s collected three wins and five pole awards, which goes along with his 2005 Busch East Rookie of the Year title and the four wins, seven poles, eleven top-five finishes and 17 top-ten finishes he’d collected before the start of this racing season. Caisse’s success has him curious about how he will perform when stacked against the next level of NASCAR competition. In the #03 Casella Waste Systems Toyota Tundra, he’ll drive 200 laps against some of the best competition in NASCAR to see where his next career move should take him.
“I have a good network of people that give me the right advice on what to do to further my racing career,” said Caisse. “A lot of people told me to run a Truck Series race – that it would give me the experience I was looking for on radial tires, in tough competition. The team that was on the top of the list when I asked who to call was Germain Racing. Casella Waste Systems, my sponsor in the Busch East Series, was on board and we’re very happy to put this together for my Truck Series debut in the New Hampshire 200.”
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Fast Facts
SYLVANIA 300
Location
New Hampshire International Speedway, Loudon, N.H.
Date
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Time
2:00 p.m. (EDT)
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Mooresville, NC — John Freeman is a little bit racing. Driving various race cars throughout his young career, he is considered one of the most talented up-and-coming drivers racing in the NASCAR Busch East Series.
Steve Harwell is a little bit rock and roll. As the vocalist and front man in the ultra-popular rock band Smash Mouth, Harwell has been successful over the years and known as one of the best entertainers in the mainstream music world.
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Mansfield, OH — Sean Caisse scored his third NASCAR Busch East Series win of the season Saturday afternoon in the Mansfield 150 at Mansfield (Ohio) Motorsports Park.
The 21-year-old Caisse outran the constant pressure from the previous week’s winner Matt Kobyluck, right through the race’s final restart with three laps to go, and the looming threat of rain.
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Agawam, MA — This event marks the tenth annual appearance of the NASCAR Busch North Series at Riverside Park Speedway.
Bobby Dragon of Milton, Vt. won the first NASCAR Busch North Series event at Riverside Park Speedway on August 29, 1988. Second place finisher Chuck Bown of Portland, Ore. now drives on the NASCAR Craftsman Truck Series while third place finisher Dale Shaw of Center Conway, N.H. recently moved to the NASCAR Busch Series.
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Lakeville, CT — Mohegan Sun Chevrolet driver Matt Kobyluck of Uncasville, Conn., muscled his way to a spectacular victory in the Mohegan Sun 200 at Lime Rock Park, the NASCAR Busch East Series’ only road course race of the season Saturday afternoon.
The 82-lap, 125.46-mile event was a short-track style affair was action packed with five full course cautions and intermittent “local” caution periods.
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Daytona Beach, FL — The NASCAR Grand National Division, Busch East Series makes its only road course appearance at Lime Rock Park in Lakeville, Conn., this week with the Mohegan Sun NASCAR Busch East 200 Saturday, August 18.
This year’s edition of the 82 lap, 200 kilometer (125.45 miles) event marks the 15th annual appearance by the series at the 1.53-mile course.
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N. Haverhill, NH — NASCAR Busch East Series, Grand National Division two-time champion Mike Olsen vividly remembers the day his sponsorship with “Little Trees” became official. Then just 27 years old, Olsen was excited that he could go racing with a solid supporter behind him. Fadden Racing, his grandfather’s race team, announced the deal at a press conference at New Hampshire International Speedway in September of 1995. Neither Car-Freshner Corporation nor Olsen realized the impact they would have on the series at that time.
On August 18th at Lime Rock Park, Olsen will celebrate his 200th regular season start behind the wheel of the very familiar #61 Chevrolet’s. The start not only extends Olsen’s record of having the most consecutive starts in the NASCAR Busch East Series, but it also marks the longest running non-family sponsorship in the history of the series – a series only 362 races old.
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Beaver Falls, NY — When the NASCAR Busch East Series took the green flag in the Edge Hotel 150 at Adirondack International Speedway, Max Dumarey, driver of the No. 16 BODYCOACH.NET Chevrolet was confident the team had given him a car capable of finishing in the top-10. But when a car spun on lap 32, Dumarey had nowhere to go and made contact. The team spent the rest of the day playing catch-up and settled for a 17th place finish.
“The car was great in the beginning of the race. After just a few laps we were 14th and I was just cruising around. I’m sure we had a top-10 or even better. The 30 spun and I couldn’t avoid it. That hit messed up the front geometry on the car, and it was never the same for the rest of the race.”
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