PASS 150 SLM -
White Mountain - Fri., Sept. 18th
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WMMP
Top Three: Kelly Moore, 3rd; Winner Richie Dearborn; and Ben
Rowe, 2nd. |
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The Dearborn Team |
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PASS North Super Late Model Champions :.
Johnny Clark and the Clark Motorsports Team |
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Dearborn Dominates PASS North Finale
Johnny Clark Finishes Fifth, Earns
Fourth
PASS North Super Late Model Championship |
Naples ME (9/19/09)
Richie Dearborn started on pole in Friday's Pro All Stars Series
(PASS) North Night of Champions 150 at White Mountain Motorsports
Park and never looked back to win the PASS super late model feature.
Dearborn led every lap and was never really challenged, despite the
best efforts of Ben Rowe (second) and Kelly Moore (third). The
victory was the fourth Pro All Stars Series win for Dick and Deb
Dearborn's family race team, moving the Hollis Maine veteran up to
sixth in the career win column. His last feature win came during the
2007 season at Hermon Maine's Speedway 95. Dearborn is the tenth
different PASS North feature winner of 2009.
Travis Benjamin crossed the finish line fourth and Johnny Clark
claimed fifth, enough to earn the Farmingdale Maine speed merchant a
fourth (and second consecutive) PASS North Championship. Clark
topped the ultra-completive super late model series stats with three
wins, eight top fives and twelve top tens in thirteen starts. His
unofficial margin of victory over Rowe for the title is 32 points.
Kelly Moore will finish the season third in the standings, while
Dearborn will move ahead of Adam Bates for the fourth spot with
Bates fifth in the final tally.
Clark led 199 laps on his way to the championship. With the 2009
title Clark moves into a tie with Ben Rowe at four for most PASS
championships earned.
Thirty cars attempted to qualify for the 25 car field, with a number
of invaders on hand to challenge the series regulars. Tracy Gordon
was back in the saddle, driving DJ Howard's ride. The Strong Maine
veteran parked early, finishing 24th. Former White Mountain late
model ace Mark Patten ran second early on until his race car gave
up. Mike Rowe was back, this time behind the wheel of his familiar
PT Watts ride, but the PASS 300 winner didn't have enough car to
challenge for the win and crossed the line eighth. Alan Wilson
(11th) and Unity PASS winner Randy Turner (12th) both had solid
runs.
Matt Frahm earned his 3rd top ten finish of 2009 with a strong sixth
and PASS rookie Steve Legendre returned to the track where his stock
racing career began to finish seventh.
The race pace was fast and furious. Super late models tour the
banked quarter mile in the low twelve second range and just two
minor cautions slowed the field. Eleven cars finished on the lead
lap; twenty of the twenty-five starters were running at the finish.
Mike Rowe, Cassius Clark and Johnny Clark each claimed a qualifying
race; Scott Alexander won the consolation round.
There's plenty of PASS Super Late Model racing left in 2009 as the
PASS South and Nation al Championship series head down the home
stretch. Saturday September 26 is round two of the PASS National
series at Southern National Raceway Park in Kenly North Carolina,
and then it's on to South Boston on Saturday October 17 for the
Mason-Dixon Meltdown, the final round in the PASS National
Championship. One week later the PASS South Champion will be crowned
at Greenville-Pickens Speedway when the PASS South season wraps up
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Official Finish
- PASS 150 SLM - White Mountain - Fri., Sept. 18th
1) 33 - Richie Dearborn - Hollis NH
2) 4N - Ben Rowe - Turner ME
3) 47 - Kelly Moore - Scarborough ME
4) 17 - Travis Benjamin - Morrill ME
5) 54 - Johnny Clark Hallowell ME
6) 14m - Matt Frahm - Salem NH
7) 20 - Steve Legendre - St. Johnsbury VT
8) 2x - Mike Rowe - Turner ME
9) 98 - Adam Bates - Warner NH
10) 21 - Donnie Lashua -Meridith, NH
11) 53 - Alan Wilson - Hebron ME
12) 1 - Randy Turner - Readfield, ME
13) 85 - Nick Ribbe - Kingston, MA |
14) 17A - Scott Alexander - Orrington ME
15) 7 - Donnie Whitten - Biddeford ME
16) 12 - John Dabrowski - W. Bridgewater MA
17) 4x - Bradley Babb - Windham, ME
18) 71 - Corey Robert - Canaan, NH
19) 09 - Jeremy Davis - Tamworth, NH
20) 0 - Bill Whorff Jr. - Bath ME
21) 97h - Walt Hammond - Orange, NH
22) 8 - Cassius Clark - Farmington ME
23) 01 - Joe Decker - Chesterville, ME
24) 14h - Tracy Gordon - Strong, ME
25) 07 - Mark Patten - Belmont, NH |
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