NEWRY — Early Saturday morning, Sam and Gracie Drown awakened their parents in their Augusta home. The children were eager to make the two-hour trip to Sunday River Ski Resort to see and greet their favorite New England Forest Rally drivers at the 7:30 a.m. Parc Expose session. After that, the drivers and navigators would […]
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TD Bank 250: Good draws, bad draws lead to place in the show
OXFORD — Forty summers have changed countless elements of the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. With an exception or two when it was a NASCAR Nationwide Series race in the early 1990s, one thing that hasn’t changed is the vaunted draw. It’s the pull-a-number-from-a-bucket lottery that determines your starting position in the all-important, […]
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TD Bank 250: It’s all about Benjamin
OXFORD — In his days as a basketball point guard at Belfast Area High School, Travis Benjamin showed the requisite knack for thinking two or three moves ahead of the competition and finding daylight. As he ran side-by-side with Joey Doiron late in the TD Bank 250 Sunday night, with lapped traffic jockeying in that […]
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TD Bank 250: Pennink pockets Valenti victory in Dunkin’ Donuts 100
OXFORD — Starting deep in the Valenti Modified Racing Series field Saturday night, Rowan Pennink was persuaded to take it easy and conserve his car for much of the Dunkin’ Donuts 100 at Oxford Plains Speedway. Go time was show time for the driver from Huntington Valley, Pennsylvania. Five other drivers led early, but it […]
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The Hot Corner: Forty looks super on this little, big race
Turning 40 gets a bad rap. I’ve been there, and now, as of Sunday evening, so has the TD Bank 250 at Oxford Plains Speedway. When approaching that milestone, we often read about the dreaded midlife crisis. Hey, I changed the left digit of my age together with the right one eight months ago, and […]
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Racer proposed to at Sunday River’s Tough Mountain Challenge
NEWRY — It’s not every day you get engaged on a water slide. But Allison Smith said “yes” Saturday in the most unlikely of places. As Smith came to the end of the Tough Mountain Challenge course at Sunday River, she was looking forward to the water slide, one of the final obstacles of the […]
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TD Bank 250: Martin dominates Sun Journal 75 to launch weekend
OXFORD — With chain lightning providing the not-too-distant backdrop, Carey Martin thundered to victory Friday night in the Sun Journal 75 Pro All Stars Series Sportsman race at Oxford Plains Speedway. Martin, who was a five-time champion when the Limited Sportsman cars competed at OPS on a weekly basis, scored his 45th win at OPS, […]
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TD Bank 250: Another decade, another chance for ‘King’ of Oxford
Short track legends have been known to age gracefully, if grace is defined by winning races against competitors young enough to be their grandchildren. Sometimes all it takes is a little extra motivation to turn back the clock even farther and faster. Mike Rowe got a double dose of that fire in his belly this […]
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TD Bank 250 Notebook: School project puts Sessions back on track
It’s a time and a social climate in which school teachers, administrators and communities have never been forced to exercise more creativity in their quest to reach and teach students. With their brainstorm two years ago, Oxford Hills Middle School principal Troy Eastman and Crazy Horse Racing owner Mitch Green put themselves at the front […]
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TD Bank 250: Clark hopes to overcome Franklin County jinx
Whether you’re reading the Bible or the Baseball Encyclopedia, human lore is littered with talk of generational curses and luckless cities that couldn’t seem to get out of their own way long enough to embrace prosperity. Yes, it’s even true in auto racing. Cassius Clark can’t help but acknowledge that he might be battling forces […]