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SATURDAY,
AUGUST 4th |
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PASS SLM at
Seekonk Top Three: L to R -
Ben Rowe #4, 3rd;
Winner
DJ Shaw #60; and Travis
Benjamin #17, 2nd. |
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DJ Shaw PASS
North
Winner at Seekonk |
SEEKONK MA ( 8/4) DJ
Shaw put his Precision JLM
Toyota out front on lap 104
of Saturday night's Pro All
Stars Series (PASS) 150 to
earn his first super late
model feature win of 2012.
Travis Benjamin raced home
in second and Ben Rowe was
third.
The victory
was Shaw's first PASS
feature victory since
September of 2011 when he
checkered at White Mountain
Motorsports Park. The Center
Conway New Hampshire racer,
who builds the race cars he
drives for Julio and Rita
Miglioli, now has four PASS
North career wins. He joins
Cassius Clark, Travis
Benjamin,Johnny Clark, Derek
Ramstrom, Joey Doiron and
Scott Dragon on the 2012
PASS North winner's list.
Seekonk Speedway is the
birthplace of Pro Stock (now
Super Late Model) racing and
the tracks' weekly
competitors have proven that
they can compete with the
best PASS has to offer.
Until tonight Johnny Clark
was the only PASS regular to
defeat the home town racers
and when qualifying was over
the top ten was peppered
with local boys including
Ryan Vanasse on the pole and
Fred Astle in the third
spot. Vanasse and Ben Rowe
brought the 27 car field to
the initial green and
Vanasse led the first 32
stanzas until multi time
Seekonk champ Fred Astle
took over briefly. Derek
Ramstrom took it to Astle on
a lap 35 restart and he
looked strong, maintaining
his lead through the half
way mark with Travis
Benjamin, Austin Theriault,
Vanasse and DJ Shaw the top
five at the crossed flags.
Benjamin and Ramstrom
swapped the lead on two
restarts, but the pair got
together on the next one and
Ramstrom went for a ride,
spinning from the lead. The
incident put Benjamin out
front but Shaw was now
second with Lonnie
Sommerville, Rowe and
Vanasse all chasing the top
two. Shaw made the winning
move when the green flew,
and Benjamin barely survived
Ben Rowe's three wide move
on the final lap to keep the
runner up spot.
Shaw's margin of victory was
.419 seconds; fourteen
drivers completed all 150
laps. Seven cautions slowed
the pace. Heat race winners
were Vanasse, Rowe and
Astle.
PASS heads to
the White Mountains of New
Hampshire this Sunday August
12th when The PASS North
Super Late Models, PASS Mods
and Sportsman will all be in
action at White Mountain
Motorsports Park in North
Woodstock. Race time is 2:00
PM. |
OFFICIAL PASS NORTH SLM
RESULTS
Seekonk Speedway
- 8/4/12 |
1) 60 - DJ Shaw -
150 laps
2) 17 - Travis
Benjamin - 150
3) 4 - Ben
Rowe - 150
4) 54 - Johnny
Clark - 150
5) 48 -
Lonnie Sommerville - 150
6) 18 - Austin Theriault -
150
7) 14 - Rick Martin -
150
8) 77 - Cassius Clark
- 150
9) 35 - Derek
Ramstrom - 150
10) 90 -
Craig Weinstein - 150
11)
3 - Tom Scully Sr. - 150
12) 52 - David Darling - 150
13) 87 - Matt Harris - 150
14) 11 - Ryan Vanesse - 150 |
15)
2 - Matt Matheson - 149
16)
27 - Mike Brightman - 148
17)
12 - Bobby Pellond - 148
18)
75 - Gary Smith - 147
19)
92 - Billy Brady - 145
20)
88 - Kyle Desouza - 141
21)
7 - Donnie Whitten - 103
22)
2x - Tom Scully Jr. - 96
23)
15 - Joey Pole - 78
24)
30 - Fred Astle - 65
25)
73 - Joey Doiron - 63
26)
44 - Austin Brehio - 21
27)
91 - Charlie Rose - 15 |
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Entries Received - Seekonk -
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PASS
North Regulars Out to Even
the
Seekonk Score Saturday |
NAPLES ME (7/31)
It's no easy deal racing
against the Northeast's
Super Late Model super
stars. They have the team,
the talent and the equipment
to take on any speedway's
home town heroes and leave
with the checkered flag and
the big trophy. But there's
always an exception to any
rule, and when the Pro All
Stars Series (PASS) North
race teams roll into Seekonk
(MA) Speedway for a short
track Saturday night the
drivers that follow the
traveling race show all over
the Northeast will be out to
even the score.
Seekonk has a talent laden
field of Pro Stocks (the
forerunner to today's Super
Late Models) and they know
every inch of asphalt at the
historic short track.
They're hard to beat on
their home turf; Tom Scully
Jr. and Dave Darling are
living proof. They've both
prevailed over the PASS
North regulars at Seekonk.
In fact it took three trips
to the Action Track of the
East before six time PASS
North Champion Johnny Clark
could break the locals'
strangle hold on victory
lane.
So the
scoreboard reads home boys
2, PASS regulars 1 and
Saturday's edition could go
either way. Early entries
include defending race
winner Johnny Clark, series
point leader Cassius Clark,
Travis Benjamin, Gary Smith,
Derek Ramstrom, Joey Doiron
and Canadian Maritimers
Lonnie Sommerville, Matt
Matheson and Matt Harris.
Kyle DeSouza has won in
almost every division they
race at Seekonk and the 2011
PASS North Co-Rookie of the
Year has proven he is ready
to win in a PASS super late
model. DJ Shaw, Tom Scully
Sr. and Jr., Austin Brehio,
Austin Theriault, Billy
Brady and Donnie Whitten are
all pre-entered and you can
be sure that there will be
plenty of post entries, many
of them capable of taking
down the win.
It all
goes green on Saturday
August 4th at 6:00 PM.
Seekonk Speedway's web
address is
www.seekonkspeedway.com
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