Barre, Vermont -
Joey Doiron of Berwick,
Maine held off a
hard-charging Jeremy Davis
to score an historic 150-lap
AIM PASS North Super Late
Model victory at the famed
1/4-mile Thunder Road
International Speedbowl in
Barre, Vermont on Sunday
afternoon (May 24).
For Doiron it was a
homecoming of sorts, as he
made his first appearance at
the track in some six years,
moving on to the Super Late
Model ranks after winning
the ACT Late Model Rookie of
the Year award in his only
full season of Late Model;
competition.
While
Doiron started the 150-lap
headline event at Thunder
Road's annual Mekklesen RV
Memorial Day Classic he had
plenty of competition, as he
chased fellow former ACT
stars Glen Luce and Wayne
Helliwell, Jr. through most
of the first one-third of
the event.
Luce, of
Turner, Maine, looked
dominant in his turn at the
front of the pack, but after
the event's final restart he
faded back to fifth position
before retiring from the
race with apparent
mechanical woes.
Helliwell, a former ACT
champion now residing in
Dover, New Hampshire, then
looked to be the dominant
car, but after running a
notably different line
around the tricky oval the
Bernhardt 27 appeared to run
out of rubber and he dropped
back to finish ninth.
Davis, of Tamworth, New
Hampshire, kept the pressure
on Doiron over the final 50
laps or so, steering a car
purchased from the winning
driver about a year ago.
Defending PASS North
Super Late Model champion DJ
Shaw of Center Conway, New
Hampshire was third under
the checkered flag, with any
disappointment tempered by
the fact that he had a hand
in building all of the cars
finishing in the top four at
the family business, Dale
Shaw Race Cars.
Thunder Road veterans
rounded out the top five,
with Bobby Therrien of
Hinesburg crossing the line
in fourth position, just
ahead of eight-time ACT Late
Model champion Brian Hoar of
Georgia.
Two-time
2015 PASS North SLM winner
Mike Rowe, who won the ACT
Super Late Model title back
in 1994, also winning a race
at Thunder Road that season,
ended up with a sixth-place
finish after an altercation
with six-time series
champion Johnny Clark of
Farmingdale, Maine dropped
him to the back of the pack
early in the race.
Travis Benjamin of Morrill,
Maine ended up in seventh
position, with Middlesex,
Vermont racer Dave Pembroke
close behind in eighth.
Helliwell and four-time
series champion Ben Rowe of
Turner, Maine rounded out
the top ten.
Doiron,
Bradley Babb of Windham,
Maine and Johnny Clark
earned victories in 15-lap
heat races, setting the grid
for the 150-lap finale.
The next AIM Recycling
USA Pro All Stars Series
North Super Late Model event
is set for Sunday, June 14
at Speedway 95 in Hermon,
Maine. |
1) 73 - Joey Doiron
- 150 Laps
2) 09 - Jeremy
Davis - 150
3) 60 - DJ
Shaw - 150
4) 5x - Bobby
Therrien - 150
5) 37vt -
Brian Hoar - 150
6) 7 -
Mike Rowe - 150
7) 17 -
Travis Benjamin - 150
8)
44 - Dave Pembroke - 150
9) 27nh - Wayne Helliwell
Jr. - 150
10) 4n - Ben
Rowe - 150
11) 55vt -
Brent Dragon - 150
12) 21
- David Oliver - 149
13)
33 - Richie Dearborn - 149 |
14) 77 - Cassius
Clark - 149
15) 16 -
Travis Stearns - 149
16)
14x - Brad Babb - 148
17)
00 - Bryan Kruczek - 148
18) 75 - Gary Smith - 147
19) 12 - Derek Griffith -
119
20) 14 - Scott
McDaniel - 106
21) 7L -
Glen Luce - 104
22) 88 -
Kyle DeSouza - 79
23) 54
- Johnny Clark - 71
24)
71 - Raphael Lessard - 70
25) 97nh - Joey Polewarczyk
- 68 |
