The longest dry spell of Johnny Clark’s career as a super late model racer is over. Clark, the six-time Pro All Stars Series North champion from Farmingdale, won the Southern Maine Chrysler Dodge Jeep 300 at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway in Scarborough for the fourth time on Sunday. It was the first win of the […]
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Local Racing: Big wins for Wyatt Alexander, Johnny and Cassius Clark, Brad Babb and Jeremy Davis
Wyatt Alexander, a 15-year-old rookie at Wiscasset Speedway, made the first Pro Stock victory of his career a big one Saturday night. Alexander took advantage of the three early leaders’ late misfortune and ran away with the Boss Hogg 100. The victory was worth more than $3,000 to Alexander, who ascended to the top division […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Bryan Kruczek wins PASS 150 at Oxford
Bryan Kruczek of Newmarket, N.H., scored his second Pro All Stars Series North win of the season Sunday afternoon in the H.P. Hood 150 at Oxford Plains Speedway. Kruczek, who also won at Beech Ridge in the spring, took the lead from Mike Hopkins of Hermon on a lap 90 restart and pulled away impressively […]
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RSU 9 budget passes by 107 votes
FARMINGTON — Regional School Unit 9 voters narrowly approved a $32 million budget Tuesday by 999-892 in a referendum vote in each of the 10 towns. It was the second attempt for the district to pass a budget. Six towns favored the budget, and four towns opposed it. The closest vote came in Temple, which […]
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Around the Track: Travis Stearns riding ACT roller coaster this season
AUBURN — On the Vermont-based American-Canadian Tour (ACT), there are over a dozen seasoned race teams with the equipment, experience and adequate talent behind the wheel to win races. Just ask 30-year-old Travis Stearns of Auburn, a series veteran who is fighting his way through a tumultuous, up-and-down season in 2015. In the first eight starts […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Joey Doiron (PASS), Nick Sweet (ACT) win at International 500
Joey Doiron of Berwick dominated the Pro All Stars Series portion of the International 500 at Airborne Raceway in Plattsburgh, N.Y., leading 149 of 200 laps en route to the win Sunday afternoon. The race ended just in time for Doiron, who had a left front tire going down on the final lap. He held […]
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Local Racing Roundup: Joey Doiron wins Beech Ridge 125
Joey Doiron took advantage of a restart with five laps to go Saturday night, winning the final battle of a race-long duel with Trevor Sanborn to claim the checkers in the 125-lap main event for the NASCAR Pro Series at Beech Ridge Motor Speedway. Doiron, one of the top competitors in Pro All Stars Series […]
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Auto racing: Manchester’s Reid Lanpher hitting full throttle
Another example of Maine’s rich short track racing talent pool is hitting his stride in 2015. Just south of the Capitol city in Manchester, there’s a young man lighting up the radar and building his own fan base. When 17-year-old Reid Lanpher won a 50-lap Super Late Model feature at Oxford on May 16, it […]
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Auto racing: PASS North teams set for debut at Vermont’s famed Thunder Road
It’s known by fans as one of the most successful short tracks in the country, and by drivers from around the Northeast as one of the toughest bullrings to conquer. This week, several Maine-based teams in the Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North Super Late Model tour are gearing up to tackle its famed, steeply […]
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Historic Twin 150s kick off new season at Oxford
OXFORD — After a long and often harsh winter, race teams and fans throughout central and western Maine are about to witness a first-of-its-kind doubleheader Saturday at Oxford Plains Speedway. While most thought racing of any kind (other than with snowmobiles) would be impossible in mid-April this year, the 2015 season gets under way with […]