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10th
Anniversary PASS North
Banquet of Champions
Friday, January 14th |
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| SLM Champion -
Johnny Clark |
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PASS MODS
Champion - Andy Shaw |
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Sportsman
Champion - Dan McKeage |
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PASS North Celebrates 2010
at Banquet of
Champions |
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NAPLES ME (1/15) A full
house of PASS drivers, car owners, team members and fans
gathered Friday night to celebrate the 2010 season and
honor the racers who make the three PASS North touring
series some of the best short track racing in the east. |
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PASS SLM NORTH
2010
REWIND |
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| Johnny
Clark Completes his Drive for Five |
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Three consecutive PASS North
titles for the Farmingdale, Maine short track star |
Naples ME Johnny Clark’s 2010 season ended quietly
in the White Mountain Motorsports Park pit area, the
rear axle housing of his Clark’s Car Crushing/Port City
Race Cars Impala cocked to one side with a rear
suspension failure that ended his night early in the
PASS North super late model season finale. It was
supposed to be Clark’s night to celebrate an
unprecedented fifth Pro All Stars Series title, his
team’s third consecutive championship. But Clark didn’t
get to make a flashy burn out or receive congratulations
from his many fans in attendance.
While it wasn’t
the sort of celebration that a racer dreams of, the
facts remained the same. Clark’s five win season, with
10 top five and 12 top ten finishes, was one of the
strongest in the ten year history of the Pro All Stars
Series and further secured his status as one of
America’s top super late model racers.
Clark’s
year started off with a solid sixth at Beech Ridge, but
he was about to go on a tear. He followed up with a win
at White Mountain Motorsports Park, a track that Ben
Rowe and, more recently Richie Dearborn have owned and
Clark has tried to conquer for nearly twelve years. The
team went on to dominate the month of June with wins at
New Brunswick’s Speedway 660 and Maine’s Unity Raceway.
Only his perennial title nemesis Ben Rowe could foil
Clark’s shot at the consecutive win record when he
chased Rowe to the checkers at Canaan Fair Speedway.
Rowe and his new Mulkern Racing team made it
interesting during the heart of the schedule, winning at
Canaan and Thompson (CT) International Speedway. Clark
snared win number four in Caribou Maine at Spud Speedway
in late August but Rowe was still nipping at his heels.
The points were tight heading to Beech Ridge for the
PASS 300 and the title was far from decided, less than
20 markers separating the two PASS stars. But Rowe never
challenged and he was forced to park his Community
Pharmacies Chevy with engine woes. Clark drove the fifty
four to victory lane for the fifth and final time in
2010, collecting a ten thousand dollar pay day and
guaranteeing his team a fifth title when he took the
green at White Mountain.
A talented race team and
a slew of sponsors make the wheels turn for Johnny Clark
Motorsports. Bobby Clark, Robert Green, Tim Clark, Terry
Downes, John Clark, Paul Rice, Diane Clark, Craig
Smiley, Bill Marshall and Heidi Marshall are the ones
that make the wins and titles possible. Primary
sponsorship is provided by Clark’s Car Crushing, Port
City Race Cars,
ARBodies and DNK Select Used Cars;
associates include Bondos Garage, Cen-Pe-Co Oil, Yankee
Communications, KDT Towing & Repair and 54 Grafix.
Although the PASS North’s tenth anniversary campaign
has ended. Clark still has one more title to chase. The
PASS 300 was round four of the five race 2010 PASS
National Championship Series and Clark’s win catapulted
him to second in the National standings, just eleven
behind point leader Preston Peltier and twenty in front
of Jay Fogleman. Clark will make the trip south for the
Mason-Dixon Meltdown, the PASS South and National
finale set for Newport (TN) Speedway on Saturday October
16.
Visit the 2010 PASS super late model
champions at
www.johnnyclarkmotorsports.com . |
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| Joey Doiron Wins
PASS North Series Rookie Of The Year |
BERWICK, Maine -- When
the PASS North Series season rolled to an end last weekend at
White Mountain Motorsports Park in North Woodstock, N.H., there
was one celebration nobody witnessed in front of the main
grandstands.
That celebration took place in a tiny corner
of the tiny track's sprawling pit area.
Joey Doiron
completed his season as the series' Rookie of the Year.
"It feels pretty good," Doiron said. "For going into this season
having only run these (Super Late Model) cars a couple of times
ever in my life, I think it was a pretty good accomplishment for
us."
Doiron posted one Top-5 and four Top-10 finishes in
12 starts this season, and he finished ninth overall in the
final PASS North standings. With his efforts, he was able to
check off two of his biggest goals heading into the season --
winning Rookie of the Year and finishing in the Top-10 in the
standings.
It marked Doiron's second straight Rookie of
the Year award in a major touring series, having done the same
in 2009 while competing on the ACT Late Model Tour.
"The
hardest thing was that we didn't have a lot of information on so
many tracks I'd never been to before," said the 19-year-old
Doiron. "We were good at Spud Speedway, Speedway 660 (in New
Brunswick) and Seekonk Speedway.
"There was really only
one place that we struggled badly, and that was at (Riverside
Speedway) -- but we found out after that race that we'd bent the
front end. Really, we can't be upset about that."
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obvious goal, Doiron said, missing from his wish list was a trip
to Victory Lane.
"We've got to get better at running our
new car with the (built) motor," said Doiron, who switched from
an older car with a crate engine to a newer chassis with the
built engine midway through the season. "We learned a lot in the
last two races with that car. It's important to learn how to
drive that car without burning up the tires too early, because
it's a big asset to have that big power with that car."
With his Top-10 points finish, Doiron laid the foundation for a
good start to the 2011 season -- both literally and
figuratively. The Top-10 in the PASS North and PASS South
standings this season are guaranteed starting spots in the
lucrative 300-lap event scheduled for next April a North
Wilkesboro (N.C.) Speedway.
"That's a big deal," said
Doiron, who plans to compete full-time in PASS North again next
year, while also attempting some of the bigger PASS South Series
events, including any PASS National Championshp races.
Having experience with the cars and tracks should help Doiron
going forward.
"We ran a lot better than what our stats
show from this year," he said. "But you can't change luck, per
se. You can only make your own luck for so long." |
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| Friday,
September 17th |
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WMMP Top Three: L to R -
Travis Benjamin #17, 2nd;
Winner Richie Dearborn
#33; & Cassius Clark #8, 3rd. |
Dearborn Ends His Season on a
High Note
with WMMP PASS North Win
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Johnny Clark Claims Unprecedented
Fifth PASS North Championship
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Naples ME
–Hollis Maine’s Richie Dearborn got the better of Travis
Benjamin on a late race restart to capture Friday
night’s 150 lap Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North super
late model feature at White Mountain Motorsports Park in
North Woodstock New Hampshire. Travis Benjamin, who had
led from the green flag, held off Cassius Clark to
finish second, .743 seconds behind the winner.
The victory was Dearborn’s first since PASS visited
White Mountain in the fall of 2009 and his fifth in PASS
super late model competition. It was the third time
Dearborn and his Chadwick-BaRoss/Dayton Sand and Gravel
team earned the win in the fall PASS visit to the fast
quarter mile nestled at the foot of Franconia Notch. |
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| Cassius
Clark, Johnny Clark, & Bill Rodgers |
| Johnny
Clark Scores PASS 300 |
Scarborough ME
(9/12) Johnny Clark got his shot at the lead late in
Sunday’s Pro All Stars Series (PASS) 300 at Beech Ridge
Motor Speedway and he led when it counted to earn his
second win in PASS North’s longest and richest super
late model race. Clark passed Bill Rogers with forty to
go and held off Cassius Clark by less than three tenths
of a second to earn 2010 victory number five for the
Clark’s Car Crushing team.
Cassius Clark took his
EJ Prescott mount to the front several times throughout
the event and looked like the man to beat, but a long
battle over third with Richie Dearborn delayed him from
catching the front pair until the day’s final restart
with nineteen to go. Cassius got to Johnny’s rear bumper
cover but the second generation Farmington Flyer raced
the leader hard and clean to the checkers, settling for
second.
Long stretches of green flag racing and
plenty of lead changes highlighted the afternoon.
Seekonk Speedway regular Tom Scully led from the pole to
lap 30 when Cassius Clark took over and ran off to a
straightaway lead. Scully took back the top spot on a
restart and then it was Scott Chubbuck using the outside
line to take a turn up front. Beech Ridge regular David
Oliver led next, putting defending and three time race
winner Mike Rowe a lap down just before the 100 lap
mark. |
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www.spud-speedway.com |
SPUD
SPEEDWAY
Caribou, ME
Saturday
August 21st |
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Top Three SLM at Spud: L to R - Trevor Sanborn
#44, 2nd,
Winner Johnny Clark #54; and Scott
Chubbuck #77, 3rd. |
JOHNNY CLARK BEST AT INAGURAL
PASS SLM RACE
AT SPUD SPEEDWAY |
Limestone, Maine – Farmingdale, Maine’s Johnny
Clark took another step toward winning his fifth Pro All
Stars Series North Super Late Model championship with
his victory in the first-ever trip to Spud Speedway for
PASS racers last Saturday night, August 21st.
Clark’s step toward the title was a small one, as his
chief rival for the 2010 title, Ben Rowe of Turner,
Maine, finished in fifth position after winning his heat
race. Clark suffered a flat tire in his qualifier and
finished in sixth position aboard his Clark’s Car
Crushing/Port City Race Cars #54. |
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| SATURDAY,
AUGUST 14TH |
L to R:
Derek Ramstrom, Dave Darling, and Trevor Sanborn
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Darling‘s the PASS North Kingpin at Seekonk |
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ME – (8/15) Seekonk Speedway regular David
Darling took over the lead from Derek Ramstrom
on lap 107 of Saturday night’s Pro All Stars
Series (PASS) 150 at Seekonk Speedway and fought
back a challenge from Trevor Sanborn to defend
his home turf and join the list of PASS Super
Late Model feature winners. Trevor Sanborn was
three car lengths back at the finish, followed
by Ramstrom, Ben Rowe and Johnny Clark. |
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PASS SLM TOP THREE AT
RIVERSIDE SPEEDWAY ON 7/31: L to R - Richie
Dearborn #33, 3rd; Winner Trevor Sanborn #44; and
Travis Benjamin #17, 2nd. |
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Sanborn Seals the Deal at PASS
Summerfest 150 |
NAPLES ME (8/31) Trevor Sanborn found a way to
get by team mate Travis Benjamin on lap 83 of Saturday
nights Pro All Stars Series (PASS) super late model
feature at Groveton NH’s Riverside Speedway, earning his
first career PASS North win. Sanborn and Benjamin gave
the Richard Moody Racing team a sweep of the top two
spots. Richie Dearborn crossed the line third.
Sanborn has been fast all season long, leading 262 laps
prior to the Summerfest 150. But despite several podium
finishes, the two time PASS South race winner had been
unable to drive under the checkers first in the northern
series until Saturday night. |
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SLM TOP THREE - L TO R:
Preston Peltier #26, 2nd;
Winner Ben Rowe #48; and Johnny Clark #54, 3rd. |
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Ben Rowe Rumbles to
PASS Win at Thompson
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NAPLES
ME (7/23) Ben Rowe found a way to get around
Preston Peltier with four laps to go in Thursday
night’s Thompson (CT) International Speedway Pro
All Stars Series (PASS) North super late model
feature to capture the victory in race number
three of the 2010 PASS National Championship
Series.
PASS South
and National point leader Peltier settled for
second after leading most of the seventy five
lap sprint and PASS North point leader Johnny
Clark claimed third.
Jay Fogleman and Lonnie Sommerville raced home
fourth and fifth. |
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SLM
TOP THREE - L TO R: Cassius Clark #8, 2nd;
Winner
Bill Rodgers #53; and Trevor Sanborn #44, DQ.
With
the DQ of #44, Scott Mulkern #84 moves to 3rd. |
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Rodgers Rocks PASS Regulars at
Beech Ridge |
NAPLES ME (7/18) Beech
Ridge Pro Series racer Bill Rodgers took advantage of a
green-white-checker finish to beat Trevor Sanborn in
Saturday night’s PASS 150 at Scarborough Maine’s Beech
Ridge Motor Speedway . Cassius Clark, Scott Mulkern and
Johnny Clark chased Rodgers and Sanborn to the checkers.
Update: With
the DQ of #44, Scott Mulkern #84 moves to 3rd.
FULL RACE PAGE with SLM RESULTS/PHOTOS
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SLM TOP THREE - L TO R:
Johnny Clark #54, 2nd;
Winner Mike Rowe #2;
and Ben
Rowe #48, 3rd. |
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Mike Rowe Captures PASS Bastille 200 |
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Naples ME (7/14/10)
Mike Rowe stole the lead from Johnny Clark on a restart
with twelve laps to go to capture the Pro ALL Stars
Series (PASS) Bastille 200 at Lee (NH) USA Speedway
Tuesday night. Clark had to settle for second; Ben Rowe
raced under the checkers third. DJ Shaw and Richie
Dearborn completed the top five. |
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PASS SLM TOP THREE - L TO R:
RICHIE DEARBORN #33, 3RD;
WINNER BEN ROWE, #48; & JOHNNY CLARK #54,
2ND
with BRAXTON ROWE |
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PASS North: Ben Rowe Reigns,
Breaks Johnny Clark’s Skein
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Naples ME (7/3/10) Ben Rowe has run up front in all four
Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North races to date and
Saturday night the four time series champ took Scott
Mulkern’s Community Pharmacies 48 to victory lane, a
first in the win column for the new team led by
journeyman crew chief Seth Holbrook. |
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FULL RACE PAGE with SLM RESULTS/PHOTOS
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| SUNDAY,
JUNE 20th |
| SUPER LATE
MODELS, PASS MODS, & SPORTSMAN |
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THREE IN A ROW FOR JOHNNY CLARK |
SLM TOP THREE - L TO R: Trevor Sanborn #44, 2nd;
Winner Johnny Clark #54; and Ben Rowe #48, 3rd. |
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PASS North Hat Trick for Johnny Clark
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Johnny Clark returned to home turf Sunday for
the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) Fathers� Day 150
at Unity (ME) Raceway and he wasted little time
getting to the front of the field to earn his
third PASS North Super Late Model victory in a
row. Starting 11th on the gird, Clark took the
lead on lap 36 and kept the pack in his rear
view mirror the rest of the way. |
FULL RACE PAGE with SLM RESULTS/PHOTOS
HERE
2010 Points HERE |
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200
Laps for the Super Late Models
on Saturday, June 12th |
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Top Three at
660: L to R - Lonnie Sommerville #23,
3rd;
Winner Johnny
Clark #54, and Cassius Clark #8, 2nd. |
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Johnny Clark
PASS North Winner at Speedway 660 |
Naples ME
(6/14) Johnny Clark to advantage of a
lap 61 restart to power past Cassius
Clark for the lead in Saturday night's
Pro All Stars Series 200 and the
defending series champ stayed there all
the way to the checkers to score his
second win of the young season.
Cassius Clark led
a big chunk of the race from the pole
but had to settle for second, his best
result of 2010. Saint John New
Brunswick's Lonnie Sommerville was the
top Canadian with a strong run to third.
Scott Chubbuck and defending race winner
Ben Rowe came home fourth and fifth. |
FULL RACE PAGE with SLM RESULTS/PHOTOS
HERE
2010 Points HERE |
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WMMP 150 |
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150 Laps for the Super Late
Models
Saturday, MAY 22nd - 4 PM
No. Woodstock, NH
Top Three: L to R - Louies
Mchalides # 80. 2nd; Winner Johnny Clark #54;
and
Trevor Sanborn #44, 3rd; with Braxton Rowe.
| Johnny Clark Conquers White
Mountain |
(Naples ME 5/24/10)
Johnny Clark charged from deep in the field and
made his way past race leader Richie Dearborn on
lap 111 to capture the win in Saturday night's
Pro All Stars Series 150 at North Woodstock New
Hampshire's White Mountain Motorsports Park. The
defending series champion started the event in
17th and did a masterful job of working his way
to the front without much help from the caution
flag. It was Clark's first ever win at White
Mountain, a track that he has tried to conquer
for twelve seasons.
Louie
Mechalides made a successful return to PASS with
a second place run and early leader Trevor
Sanborn had to settle for third. Mike and Ben
Rowe were fourth and fifth respectively.
FULL RACE PAGE with SLM RESULTS/PHOTOS HERE
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Points HERE |
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MAY 1ST |
Ben Rowe, 3rd; Winner
Mike Rowe, & Adam Bates, 2nd |
Mike Rowe Scores
Back-to-Front
PASS North Win at Beech Ridge |
Mike Rowe didn't look
like a winner during qualifying for Saturdays Pro All
Stars Series (PASS) North opening day at Beech Ridge
Motor Speedway. Rowe started the 150 lap super late
model feature in the 28th position, but the defending
Pro Series Champion at the immaculate Scarborough Maine
oval picked his way through the field to put his PT
Watts Chevrolet on race leader Trevor Sanborn's back
bumper at the half way mark..
Sanborn kept Rowe at bay for nearly 50 laps, but
the Maine motorsports legend found an opening under
Sanborn on lap 120 and led the final thirty circuits to
capture his sixteenth PASS North Super Late Model
feature and two in a row at Beech Ridge. Rowe's margin
of victory was .526 seconds. |
FULL RACE PAGE with
SLM, MODS, & SPORTSMAN RESULTS/PHOTOS HERE
PASS NORTH POINTS STANDINGS |
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Sunoco Signs
Multi-year Agreement
with the
Pro All Stars Series |
Naples ME (3/4/2010) Pro All Stars Series (PASS)
President Tom Mayberry and Sunoco Race Fuels have
announced a multi-year agreement making Sunoco Supreme
and Standard racing gasoline the official spec fuel for
all five PASS touring series through 2010 and beyond.
The Pro All Stars Series sanctions and promotes five
racing series in the eastern United States and Canada.
2010 marks the series' tenth anniversary.
"Sunoco has been with us from day one," said Mayberry in
making the announcement. "Mike Joy, John Holland,
Charlie Holland and the entire crew at New England Race
Fuels have played a major role in the growth of our
organization from a single northern New England based
tour to five individual series with races from Florida
to Maritime Canada. As we expanded to the southeast we
have had tremendous support from Sunoco distributors
such as Hank Thomas Performance, and the fact that most
every race track where we compete pumps Sunoco Race Fuel
makes it a perfect partnership, one that we hope will
continue for many years to come."
The Pro All Stars kick off their southern Super Late
Model season on Friday and Saturday March 12 and 13 with
the South Carolina Clash at Dillon (SC) Motor Speedway.
All three PASS North Series will go green for the first
time in 2010 at Speedway 95 in Hermon Maine on Sunday
April 18. |
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Ford Racing and
Pro All Stars Series
Announce 2010
Contingency Program |
Dearborn, Michigan - Ford Racing has announced a posting
of $8,250 in contingencies for the PASS North and Pass
South Super Late Model race programs for the 2010 race
season. The contingency is posted for use of any Ford
Racing Sealed Racing Engine, engine block or cylinder
heads. Race winners using Ford Racing engine components
will earn $200 for a race win. Each of the PASS North
and PASS South Super Late Model points champions will be
eligible for a $1,000 contingency award as well. Ford
Racing will also have a bonus posting for the PASS 400
Weekend event with a $500 to win, $250 for second and
$100 for third.
"The PASS North and South Super Late Model rules package
has struck a competitive balance between built and
Sealed Racing Engines and makes it one of the most
exciting asphalt short track series from Florida to
Maine. There is a place for a Ford Racing engine or
engine components no matter what type of engine program
the PASS Race Team likes best," said Mike Delahanty,
Program Manager-Sportsman Circle Track Racing for the
Ford Racing.
PASS President Tom Mayberry welcomed Ford Racing to the
series. "PASS is very pleased to have Ford Racing on
board with their contingency program for our race teams.
We look forward to building a long term relationship."
PASS approved the Ford Racing D347SR Sealed Racing
Engine for competition this year, increasing the Ford
engine choices available to short track racers that want
to run Blue Oval power. Vermont native Steven Legendre
was one of the first PASS racers to make the switch to
Blue Oval Power and will be competing in the PASS North
and South Series with a D347SR Sealed Racing engine.
Ford Racers are should sign up for the Ford Racing
contingency online at
www.fordracingparts.com/Register/Contingency.asp
For more information on the Ford Racing Short Track
racing Programs, log into
www.fordracingparts.com/circletrack |
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PASS
Teams Out in Full Force for Racin' Preview 2010 |
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Naples ME - Florida
racing has come and gone and
that means it's time to kick off the 2010 northern New England
racing season in earnest at
Racin' Preview 2010,
scheduled for Friday and
Saturday February 19-20 at the Portland (ME) Expo. The popular show
always fills every square inch of the floor with every sort of race car
imaginable, and the Pro All Stars Series will once again be well
represented.
Johnny Clark's Super Late Model and Sally Grave's immaculate PASS
Sportsman racer are but two of the many PASS touring series race cars
scheduled to be on display, and the four time Champ will meet and greet
his fans on Friday evening from 6:00 PM until 8:00 PM.
Clark got his 2010 season off to a solid start at
PASS Florida Winterfest, leading the most laps before chasing race
winner Brad Leighton to the line in round one of the 2010 PASS National
Championship series.
Doors at the Portland Expo open at 4:00 PM on
Friday, February 19, with several autograph opportunities and other
activities ongoing through 10:00 PM. Saturday s show hours are 9:00 AM
until 9:00 PM.
Along with today's racers and their machines, an
excellent display of Maine's racing past will be presented by the Maine
Vintage Race Car Association, with a salute to late NEAR and MVRCA Hall
of Famer Homer Drew featured.
The PASS South Super Late Models get their season underway in just under
a month when the South Carolina Clash returns to Dillon (SC) Motor
Speedway on March 12 and 13. All three PASS North divisions will be in
action at Speedway 95 in Hermon Maine on April 17 and 18.
For further information on Racin' Preview 2010,
please call (603) 447-4251 or email
racinpaper@racinpaper.com
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On display in the PASS booth at the Augusta Northeast
Motorsports EXPO were the #54 SLM of Johnny Clark and the PASS Sportman
racers of David Vaughn #00 and Billy Childs Jr. #60. Ben Rowe received
one of the 1st Annual "Mainely's" for Driver of the Year in a Touring
Series in 2009. The "Mainely's" were presented from Mainely Motorsports
TV by the show's co-host Amanda Leach. For more photos
from the Northeast Motorsports Expo, visit their web site
www.northeastmotorsports.net. |
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