SHAW & LACHANCE HIGHLIGHT BUSY WEEKEND AT THE CENTER OF SPEED
Nobody could beat the weather Sunday afternoon, but DJ Shaw
managed to beat the field in a rain shortened main event at Wiscasset
Raceway to capture his first career PASS Super Late Model win. Rain
moved into the midcoast region at around 3:20pm just as the 31 car
field completed 98 laps in the Steel's Real Rod's and Customs 125 at
Maine's Center of Speed. With no end to the rain in sight and a
subsequent delay of nearly an hour, the race was called and Shaw
declared the winner. The 2007 Coastal 200 LMS champion and recent high
school graduate delivered on his goal to take home a win in his rookie
season on the PASS tour. The victory highlighted a busy double header
weekend at Wiscasset Raceway. Sunday's show included action from the
PASS Modifieds and PASS Sportsman series divisions as well as
Wiscasset's Keystone Automotive Strictly Streets. While the PASS Mods
had Troy Morse of Bridgeton take the 40 lap feature win, the 75 lap
PASS Sportsman feature and the 50 lap Strictly Street Nationals
Qualifier were lost to the rain and will be rescheduled at a later
date to be determined. With the threat of the inclement weather
heading toward the coast, PASS officials broke from the scheduled
program and moved the main event up in the running order. Just four
cautions slowed the action with the key twist coming on a lap 39
restart. Coming to the green, leader Kelly Moore would spin his tires
and turn the lead over to Scott Chubbuck. Just a lap later Moore got
into the back of Chubbuck's car heading into turn three, turning the
leader around and sending both contenders to the back of the pack.
Shaw would inheret the lead for the ensuing restart and hold it
through a long green flag run until a lap 89 caution. Shaw held of a
challenge from Cassius Clark and maintained his lead until the 5th and
final caution of the race came for the rain just a few minutes later.
Casius Clark worked the traffic to move into second by lap 41 but he
wasn't able to challenge Shaw for the win beyond the one restart
opportunity. Defending PASS Super Late Model champ Ben Rowe of Turner
made a late charge to capture the 3rd place trophy. Adam Bates, Travis
Benjamin, Gary Smith, Richie Dearborne, Scott Chubbuck, Steve Berry,
and Alan Wilson filled out the top ten. With the win Shaw has secured
himself a guaranteed starting spot in the $30,000 to win Toyota Tundra
250 to be held at Wiscasset Raceway Sunday August 17th. For more
information and the official finish of the PASS SLM race and PASS
Modified race, check the official PASS website at
www.proallstarsseries.com.
In weekly racing series action on Saturday night Cushing's Chuck
Lachance survived a battle of attrition in the 50 lap feature for the
Clark's Car Crushing Prostocks to pick up his first Wiscasset win in
nine years. Other winners in Saturday's action included Richmond's
Casey Nash in the Smith Construction Late Model Sportsmen; Mike Landry
of Oakland in the Unicel Super Street feature; Ed Pierpont of
Jefferson in the Keystone Automotive Strictly Streets; Shawn Kimball
of Pittston in the Aable Autoparts Mini Stocks; Chris Doucette of
Sebego in the White & Bradstreet Mini Trucks; and Jason Palmer of
Berlin, CT in the NELCAR Legends. Kimball's win in the 30 lap Mini
Stock main secured him a starting position in the 50 lap Pure Stock
Mini Stock Nationals in October. Kimball grabbed the lead from the
outside of the front row and ran wire to wire for the victory. Dan
Somes of Sidney chased him across the line a half straightaway behind
for the runner up finish and Union's Mac Hannan Jr completed the top
three. In the 50 lap Clark's Car Crushing Prostock feature Cushing's
Chuck Lanchance withstood several restart challenges thanks to nine
cautions, and a furious last lap duel with Ricky Morse to secure the
win, his first at Wiscasset since his five win season of 1999. Morse
raced his way to the second place finish and nearly passed Lachance on
the outside coming out of the final turn to the checkers. "Big" John
Phippen of Bar Harbor joined them with a third place finish.
Richmond's Casey Nash took the wire to wire victory in the 30 lap
Smith Construction Late Model feature. For Nash, Wiscasset's 1988
Charger champion, it was his first win since 2000. He was joined in
victory lane by TJ Watson of Harpswell and Josh St Clair of Liberty.
Mike Landry made an impressive move in the 25 lap Unicel Super Street
feature as he jumped from his 3rd position into the lead after the
pair of Jeremy Glasier and Nate Weston tangled in turn four following
a lap 16 restart. From there he held off Weston and Allen Moeller to
become the division's first repeat winner this season. In the 20 lap
feature for the Keystone Automotive Strictly Streets Jefferson's Ed
Peirpont held off his Team Big Iron teammate Dave Brannon to pick up
his first checkered flag of the season. They were joined by defending
champ Maurice Young who finished 3rd. The White & Bradstreet Mini
Truck 15 lap feature went to Sebego's Chris Doucette who led from
green to checkers.
Wiscasset Raceway returns to action Saturday June 28th at 5:00pm
with a full program of weekly racing series action. The show,
sponsored by Wiscasset Ford, will be highlighted by the first ever
appearance of the True Value Modified tour at Wiscasset's highbanked
oval. Wiscasset Ford will also hold a preview and party Friday June
27th at the dealership on route one from 8am to 4pm. Wiscasset weekly
competitors Bill & Jeremy Whorff will have their hauler and Prostock
race cars on display as well as the True Value Modified cars of David
Pinkham and Tony Ricci and a pair of 1/2 scale Super Mini Cup Cars.
Fans can also enter to win a pair of tickets to the Toyota Tundra 250.
In Saturday's program five weekly divisions will be in action
excluding the Clark's Car Crushing Prostocks who will have a scheduled
bye week. For more information, call the Wiscasset Raceway office at
(207) 882-4271 or check the track website at
www.wiscassetraceway.info.
OFFICIAL FINISH ORDER SATURDAY 6/21/08
CLARK'S CAR CRUSHING PROSTOCKS (50 LAPS)
1. Chuck Lachance - Cushing; 2. Ricky Morse - St Albans; 3. John
Phippen - Town Hill; 4. Bill Whorff Jr - Topsham; 5. Matt Lee -
Albion; 6. Jeff Burgess - E.Madison; 7. Jesse Smith - Bangor;
8. Scott King - Livemore Falls; 9. Dale Cullivan - Palermo; 10.
Randy Turner- Freedom; 11. Bryan Robbins - Montville; 12. Jeremy
Whorff - Topsham; 13. Ryan Deane - Winterport; 14. Chuck Colby -
Wiscasset; 15. Bill Penfold - Yarmouth; 16. Gene Hatch -
Winthrop; 17. Charlie Colby - Edgecomb; 18. Dave Farrington Jr -
Jay; 19. Tim Turner - Freedom; 20. Scott Moore - Anson; 21.
Dylan Turner - Freedom
SMITH CONSTRUCTION LATE MODEL SPORTSMAN (30 LAPS)
1. Casey Nash - Richmond; 2. T.J. Watson - Harpswell; 3. Josh St
Clair - Liberty; 4. Mike Orr - Wiscasset; 5. Adam Chadbourne -
Woolwich; 6. Daren Ripley - Appleton; 7. Jason Whitts - Dixmont;
8. Danny Smart - Buxton; 9. Scott Pooler - Vassalboro; 10. Nick
Reno - West Bath; 11. Seth Raven - Waldo; 12. Nick Hinkley -
Wiscasset; 13. Richard Jordan - Kingfield; 14. Duane Love - West
Gardiner; 15. Bill Pinkham - Wiscasset; 16. Bill Whorff Jr -
Topsham; 17. Steve Reno - West Bath; 18. Chris Thorne - Sidney;
19. Will Collins - Appleton; 20. Tyler Robbins- Monteville;
21. Ajay Piccard - Palmyra; 22. Chuck Colby - Wiscasset; DQ
Steve Reny - Boothbay
UNICEL SUPER STREETS (25 LAPS)
1. Mike Landry - Oakland; 2. Nate Weston - Madison; 3. Allen
Moeller Sr - Dresden; 4. R.J. Austin - Smithfield; 5. James
Osmond - Gardiner; 6. Jason Gaboury - Readfield; 7. Shawn Austin
- Norridgewock; 8. Brian Fortin - South China; 9. Josh Bailey -
Wiscasset; 10. Zachary Hatch - Winthrop; 11. Frank Brown -
Pittson; 12. Gene Hatch - Winthrop; 13. Jeremy Glasier -
Appleton; 14. Ryan St Clair - Liberty; 15. Kevin Douglass -
Sidney
KEYSTONE AUTOMOTIVE STRICTLY STREETS (20 LAPS)
1. Ed Peirpont - Jefferson; 2. Dave Brannon - Lisbon; 3. Maurice
Young - Windsor; 4. Steve Peirpont - Cushing; 5. Gerry Burgess -
Buckfield; 6. Bobby Mesimer - Wiscasset; 7. Jeff Merrill -
Mexico; 8. Ian Bresnahan - Bath; 9. Jamie Henderson - Litchfield;
10. Josh Beckard - n/a; 11. Mike St Germain - Auburn; 12. Matt
Stuart - Pittston; 13. Chris Mosher - Litchfield; 14. Zac
Creamer - Bath; 15. Dustin Hubbard - Unity
AABLE AUTOPARTS MINI STOCKS (20 LAPS)
1. Shawn Kimball - Pittston; 2. Dan Somes - Sidney; 3. Mac Hannan
Jr - Union; 4. Kevin Douglass - Sidney; 5. Pete McCollat -
Readfield; 6. Ryan Ripley - Thomaston; 7. Dylan Lancaster -
Skowhegan; 8. Natasha Dyer - Arrowsic; 9. Rob Greenleaf - West
Bath; 10. Mike Dulaney - Richmond; 11. Scott Theriault - China;
12. Ryan Hayes - Jefferson; 13. Chelsea Young - Winterport; 14.
Molly Feeney - Knox; 15. Alex Cromwell - Woolwich; 16. Tom True
- Wiscasset; 17. Steve Howard - Thomaston; 18. Shane Smith -
Sidney
WHITE & BRADSTREET MINI TRUCKS (15 LAPS)
1. Chris Doucette - Sebego; 2. Russ Anderson - Portsmouth, NH;
3. James Howland - Rye, NH; 4. John Lizzotte - Mechanic Falls;
5. Jason Giggey - Unity; 6. Josh Kaufman - Unity; 7. Don Giggey
- Athens; 8. Jessica Norris - Portsmouth, NH; 9. Peter Bourque -
Portsmouth, NH; 10. Josh Harjula - Boothbay; 11. Rick Sirois -
Norridgewock; 12. James Swan Jr - Clinton; 13. Kevin Oliver -
Gray; 14. Miranda Power - n/a
NELCAR LEGENDS (20 LAPS)
1. Jason Palmer - Berlin, CT; 2. Max Zachem - Preston, CT; 3.
Bob Weymouth - Topsham; 4. Terry Kirk - Durham; 5. Kevin
Hutchens - E Waterboro; 6. Alan Smith - Lincoln; 7. Marc
Fuchswanz - Vassalboro; 8. Anthony Pagliarulo - Groveland, MA; 9.
Evan Beaulieu - Durham; 10. Ed Getty - Gray; 11. Charlie Buxton
- Windham; 12. Patrick Stewart - Beverly, MA
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