PASS North points race tight as series heads for White Mountain

PASS North points race tight as series heads for White Mountain

Naples ME (September 6 2008) – The Pro All Stars Series (PASS) North
super late model season is winding down, and the battle for the 2008
title is one of the best in the series' eight year history.

Travis Benjamin sits atop the point standings with 2,244 points. The
Morrill Maine racer and his family owned race team are enjoying their
best touring season ever with a breakthrough win in one of the biggest
races of the year, the Atlantic CAT 250 at Scotia Speedworld , and
nine top ten finishes in ten starts.

But the two drivers right behind Benjamin represent the last six PASS
North championships, and he'll have to take his game to yet another
level if he expects to keep Ben Rowe and Johnny Clark in his rear view
mirror.

Heading to the D-J Equipment 150 at North Woodstock New Hampshire's'
White Mountain Motorsports Park on Saturday September 13th ,Benjamin
has a fifteen point lead over Rowe in the standings; that's a swing of
just eight spots in the finishing order. White Mountain could easily
be called "The House that Rowe Built", a fast high banked quarter mile
where Rowe has won nearly half the PASS races run at the scenic
mountain oval. . It's an enviable statistic for certain. But 2008 has
been a year of breakthrough winners and first timers D.J. Shaw, Adam
Bates, Derek Ramstrom and Benjamin himself all have the potential to
add another victory to their win columns.

Then there's Johnny Clark, who has to have momentum on his side after
a $30,000.00 plus payday in the PASS North Toyota Tundra 250 at
Wiscasset Raceway. Clark sits third in the standings with 2218, just
twenty six behind Benjamin and eleven back from Rowe. Clark has the
most wins, laps led and money won in the season to date. He's scored
twice at Wiscasset Raceway and won at Riverside Speedway too. He gave
up the lead at All-Star with a flat in the late stages of the race and
battled Benjamin for the win at Scotia Speedworld. Clark's been fast
everywhere, especially in the second half of the season.

But when it's all said and done, statistics don't win races, drivers
and their race teams do. Travis Benjamin knows it; so do Ben Rowe and
Johnny Clark. Adam Bates and D.J. Shaw, the men that hold down fourth
and fifth in the current point standings, know it as well. There are
more than a dozen drivers that have ta shot at victory lane in the D-J
Equipment 150. Super Late Model ace Travis Kittleson will make the
trip from Florida to take on the PASS regulars at White Mountain in
Jay Cushman's familiar 29 Ford. And, there are always a few surprise
entrants as regular season racing throughout the region winds down.